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(Approved: BFC 2/19/08, 12/1/09)
Since the publication and dissemination of research and other scholarly and creative activity is a fundamental academic responsibility, appropriate recognition of credit for these activities is a significant concern to the University community. For the purpose of these guidelines the terms author and authorship refer to the production of scholarly works of any sort including, but not limited to; journal articles, books and book chapters, works of art, and performances. Indiana University cannot define rules for attribution for such works but the following guidelines are widely accepted:
- • Credit for authorship is generally based on 1) substantial contributions to conception, design or execution of a work, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the manuscript or revising a work critically for important intellectual content; and 3) final approval of the version published or otherwise disseminated. All authors should meet two or more of these conditions.
- • All persons associated with a work who qualify for credit for it as described above should be publicly identified as an author of the work.
- • Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of it.
- • When a large, multi-center group has conducted the work, the group should identify the individuals who accept direct responsibility for it. These individuals should fully meet the criteria for authorship defined above and be listed as authors.
The order in which authors are listed should be jointly decided by all co-authors in accordance with accepted practices in each field or discipline, which may include assessment of the relative contribution of each person. The best way to avoid disputes is to discuss this issue at an early stage of collaboration and to review those understandings as the project develops. While not required, schools and departments are highly encouraged to adopt and disseminate policies or guidelines on authorship that address the accepted norms for credit in their areas.
Policy for Dispute Resolution [Bloomington campus]
When co-authors cannot resolve disagreements about credit themselves, department chairs and/or center directors should intervene to mediate. If the chair or director claims co-authorship of the work, mediation may be delegated to an associate chair or senior faculty member within the department agreeable to the parties involved. If no resolution can be reached at this level, the matter should be forwarded to the dean(s) of the appropriate school(s) for mediation. Students may seek advice from the Student Advocates Office. If agreement cannot be reached, the matter will be referred to the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs for a final decision.
The Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs may choose to arbitrate the disagreement through separate or collective discussions with the parties involved in the dispute. Alternatively, the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs may select a committee of no fewer than three faculty members to arbitrate the dispute. If one of the parties in the dispute is a student or holds a non-faculty rank, the committee shall include no fewer than two students or non-faculty members, respectively. The majority of the committee shall be comprised of faculty who are actively engaged in research or creative activity, at least one of whom is outside the discipline(s) or area(s) of the co-authors in the dispute, and may include non-tenure-track faculty or administrators, as deemed appropriate by the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs. This committee may receive written representations from all who claim to be co-authors in the dispute, and may elect to hear oral representations, but in that case all who claim to be co-authors must be given the opportunity to present their case. A majority decision of the committee will be reported to the parties through the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs and stand as the final decision in the matter.
*** This statement shall not supersede any contract or negotiated agreement on behalf of the University, or other professional society requirements.
The occurrence of all disputes reaching the level of the school's Dean or the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs shall be reported to the Research Affairs Committee of the BFC, which shall provide an annual report to the Agenda Committee of the BFC.


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District To Teach Bus Safety
ST. MARYS — A local school district is joining others throughout the nation in reminding students and residents about the importance of school bus safety.
The St. Marys City School District is participating in National School Bus Safety Week beginning Monday. This year's theme, "Be aware — know the danger zone," stresses the importance of students being cautious any time they must cross the street.
"Ensuring the safety of students as they enter and exit the school bus is crucial," Transportation Supervisor Dan Grothause said. "We are training our bus drivers to be cautious, but we need help from motorists to make sure they watch for school buses stopped to load and unload children. No issue is so urgent that motorists cannot wait for a school bus."
St. Marys bus drivers will be stressing to younger students the importance of safety during activities and drills this week.
"Tuesday and Thursday we are doing bus evacuation drills," Grothause said.
First up is St. Marys Primary School, who will be practicing drills on Tuesday, with St. Marys Intermediate School practicing on Thursday.
"The drivers will go through and review with the students on how the emergency windows work and how the roof latches work," Grothause said. "They will then do the drills — there are three. They can either all go out the back door of the bus, all go out the front door or do what's called a split drill, where half the students go out the front and half go out the back."
Because of time constraints, Grothause noted the high school and middle school students will practice their drills later in the year when the younger students are out of school for teacher conferences.
"Because this is bus safety week, we want to focus on the younger kids," he said. "This way, we can get everybody in the classrooms like we're supposed to without adjusting the schedule as much as possible."
When the bus drivers do the drills, Grothause noted he will be on site observing. In the past, the fire department has been present, as well.
"The fire department has come in the past," he said. "October is fire safety month, and they do a lot of activities in October."
He noted bus safety week focuses more on the educational standpoint.
"It's amazing what the kids will remember what they have to do in an emergency," Grothause said.
He noted the Ohio State Highway Patrol will also be out for National School Bus Safety Week.
"Throughout the week, the state highway patrol is going to do an increased presence throughout the state — they may pick up a bus and follow it or an inspector may actually ride along," he said. "If we have a specific area where there are lot of people who are not stopping for the red lights, they may have a trooper in the area to slow people down or catch violators."
Wednesday, Grothause noted, will be the day they will be monitoring red light violators.
"We will be counting the number of people running the red lights — the red lights on the bus when the bus is unloading or picking up kids," he said.
"This is the second time this year we've been asked to do that. We're required to turn in the count over to law enforcement, and they will make the determination whether it was a violation or not. Our local people are great at helping."
Grothause stressed the students remembering their safety tips and drivers be on the lookout.
"The worst thing when you're a bus driver is when a kid crosses the street and someone is speeding down the street and doesn't stop," he said. "That's why students need to be in eye contact with the driver and follow their signals."
Some of those tips include the students being at least 10 steps away from the bus "danger zone" and following the bus driver's directions.
"If something blows away, never go after it," Grothause added. "Let the driver know. A piece of paper can be replaced, a child can't."

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R1 Revisited: Four Years in the Trenches
In 1980, Digital Equipment Corporation began to use a rule-based system called R1 by some and XCON by others to configure VAX-11 computer systems. In the intervening years, R1's knowledge has increased substantially and its usefulness to Digital continues to grow. This article describes what is involved in extending R1's performance during the four year period.
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Wicklow is known as the 'Garden of Ireland', and one look at the place will tell you why. Nothing but lush green fields, wooded hills, and delightful small villages make up this county. To boot, it also boasts the magnificent glacial valley and monastic settlement of Glendalough, the stunning Wicklow Mountains that just beg to be hiked through, and the charming woodland village of Avoca, whos small shop of handicrafts now has branches all over Ireland.
Known as the 'rebel county', Cork is the largest county in Ireland and has some of the biggest attractions outside of Dublin; Blarney Castle, where you can earn the gift of eloquence by kissing the Blarney Stone, the seaside town of Cobh where the Titanic left for her maiden voyage, the untamed and unspoiled scenery of West Cork, and of course, the English Market, which the Queen of England herself saw fit to visit in 2011.
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Known as 'the Kingdom', Kerry is the heart of ancient Ireland and still the most stunning spot on the island. From quaint seaside villages like Dingle (where a dolphin voluntarily puts on a show for the boats every afternoon) to the busy tourist spot of Killarney, not to mention one of the most breathtaking road trips in Europe, the Ring of Kerry, and the simply astounding Killarney National Park a visit to Kerry is unforgettable.
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From the out of this world limestone plains of the Burren and the misty, magical Cliffs of Moher to the golden beaches and buzzing towns and villages, Clare is a county not to be missed on your Ireland holiday. Whether you want to relax and enjoy the fresh sea breeze in bustling Kilkee or Ballyvaughan or explore the spooky underworld of the Aillwee Caves and other hair-rising activities, Clare really does have it all.
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Galway is the wild west of Ireland at its best. Rugged coastlines, dramatic hills and valleys, isolated islands, emerald fields and towns filled with traditional music, dancing, and language. Galway city is a tangle of cobbled streets, cosy pubs and mouth watering restaurants, the magnificent Connemara landscape is just a short drive away and the traditional Gaelic community of the Aran Islands are reachable with a quick boat trip too, although they both seem a world away.
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County Meath was considered to be the centre of ancient and Celtic Ireland, and was even its own kingdom at one stage. Within its borders are the ancient passage tomb of Newgrange, still completely intact after 5000 years, the Hill of Tara the political, economic, and spiritual centre of Ireland for the Celts, and more recently, the opulent Slane Castle and Gardens, still inhabited by descendants of the original owners, namely Henry Mount Charles and family.
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Derik Rich came to Tompkins Cortland Community College to play baseball and study photography. But, as Derik learned, sometimes the most valuable thing you can learn in college is what you don't want to do. "I still love photography, it's still something I want to do and will continue to do. But I had to really delve into to it to find out it wasn't for me. Now I know where my passion really is." Even if photography is relegated to a hobby for Derik, he's using it to document his passion for all things outdoors. Even with the change in course, he graduated from Tompkins Cortland and is off to pursue a career outdoors.
"Meg (a counselor at the College) is one of the main reasons I'm able to graduate. She helped me in everything I went through – the entire experience of finding myself, finding my niche."
This spring will find Derik in Montana and Wyoming, acting as a guide for various outdoors trips. He already attended guide school last summer, having driven himself West and back home in time for the semester start.
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My Ghoul Friday
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Recent Moans from the Minions...
Yetch decided he wanted one of my little pumpkins from the batch I made for tomorrow's show. I left this little fella on his own while I packed up everyone else, and he just looked so forlorn (and a little desperate) by himself, perched so precariously. I quickly got him inside the curio cabinet with the other little pumpkins I've kept in the past.
I'm almost all packed up for tomorrow morning, which is good since all of Toronto is one big gridlock at the moment. Highway closures abound, and of course everywhere I need to be in the next 24 hours is on the other side of the city.
First stop is a late night showing of Fulci's Zombie (I won two tickets through Fangoria Magazine, which is pretty cool). But Yetch seems to finally be coming down with whatever virus has had me pinned to the mat all month, so I'm not sure if he's going to be up for it. It's one thing to get him into the car but another to ask him to travel to the other side of the city via transit and then walk a couple blocks when he's feeling poorly.
And tomorrow should be interesting since I have to drive across the city to get my wares to the Bazaar of the Bizarre and the highway I need to take will still be closed.
So by the end of tomorrow I'll either be happy from all the Halloween goodness I was able to attend, or ready to climb up on the edge with my sad little pumpkin.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Here she is!
Isn't she perty?
Finally got to finish her today and I've written up the second part of the how-to with some close up images for you to get a good look at the subtle changes that make a huge effect.
I can't wait to get her dressed up for Halloween.
No time for proper introductions, but here's the minion brood ready for Sunday's show in Toronto.
Teaser for Project 3 (of 4) in my buycostumes.com adventure stars this 5 foot posable skeleton. Doesn't she look nice and rested?
I'm about halfway through her transformation process, and will spend the next hour or so typing up the start of the how-to. Stay tuned!
Update: It only took me 3 hours or so, but here's part one of a two part how-to, and the first step of this skeleton's journey into a new character.
Have I mentioned that I have a show on Sunday in Toronto?
I've been working like a mad woman, trying to get everything ready.
It's going to be tight.
I still have Halloween props to work on.
And sleep. Sleep is important, especially if I want to ditch this bug once and for all. I was sick on Halloween last year, and don't care for a repeat of that.
So much to do, so little time!
This will probably be my last show for the year, so if you live in the area and are hoping to pick up some of my items for Halloween or Christmas, be sure to come see me at the Bazaar of the Bizarre!
On that note, I'll leave you with a set of images of items that will be for sale on Sunday.
Vintage picture of a kid in a Creature From The Black Lagoon costume.
Many more photographs to be seen on Swapatorium's Halloween flickr set.
(via Frankenstein's Fun House)
SPEAKING of vintage Halloween pictures, I added a few from my childhood at the very bottom of the About page. Yes, that's me with the balloons in her hair. And the woman in the other picture with balloons on her head is my mother.
AND many of you have heard the story about me spray painting the tombstone on the wall for my Grade 4 Halloween party. Well now you can see a picture of that too (the link is in my bio on the About page).
From Scar Stuff, an iPhone/Hipstamatic stop motion video featuring the beloved "Halloween" song by Kay Lande and Wade Denning.
Before I did my Rip Van Winkle routine and dropped into slumber for days as my body wrestled with a virus, I had time (and energy) to work on another piece from buycostumes.com. This time it was a radio.
I liked the old fashioned shape of it, and the idea that a skull presses out against the black screen of the speaker.
While not for me, some people might like the feature that when you turn it on, lights flash red and blue. The skull moves forward, pressing against the screen, and then there is a recording of a voice speaking spooky sayings.
For my display, I turned the radio off just when the skull was sticking out the furthest, freezing him in place.
The drawback to the radio is it comes in a light milk chocolate colour, almost like toffee (see images below).
The colour draws attention to the fact it's made of plastic, and since there is no contrasting colour on the main body of the piece, you can't see all the great grain detailing on the face of the radio.
The brass look of the buttons are fine, and the colour of the mesh at the top half of the radio is perfect.
I grabbed black, white and brown acrylics, and a can of black spray paint.
I think we should replace the spirits and traditional monsters who are referenced in scary stories with the change-of-season virus. It's much more terrifying.
On Sunday, I thought I was just about free of the festering fingertips of whatever cold had me in its grip.
But when I spent 19 hours on Tuesday unconscious, or wishing I was unconscious, I had my doubts regarding recovery.
I've tried to reason with the bug. I've weakly pointed toward unfinished projects, unmailed items, and important dates on the calendar, but it hasn't made much of a difference.
This morning I made noises like the Tasmanian Devil as my body tried to clear my lungs and air passage. Instead of being saddened by this new state of phlegminess, I was encouraged. If it's finally in my chest, it means my body might actually be purging it from the system instead of letting it hide behind my kidney or whatever spot it's been lurking the last few months (where you always feel like you're about to get sick, then don't).
Macula has offered up some free paper toys with Halloween themes.
And there's quite a lot of them!
Witches, pumpkins, Frankenstein monsters, vampires, zombies, cyclops, unicorns...any scary creature you can imagine.
They are all posted at the top of the page. Simply scroll through the images, click the one you like, and download.
Get out your trusty-dusty scissors, a bit of glue (or tape) and get going!
I think it's a great way to spend a Thanksgiving weekend. Sadly, unlike most of my Canadian counterparts, I have to work.
Have a Happy Gobble Gobble Day, everyone!
The best place to find current art and WIPs is Instagram
I'm also on Twitter but be prepared for political commentary
My self-published book is still available!
Craving more Halloween goodness?
Here are some sites to satisfy the hunger.
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In 1680 the Colony of Connecticut was concerned that its charter would be taken away by the British Government, and that the "Western Lands" (now most of Litchfield County) might be lost. Consequently the entire northwest corner of Connecticut was given to the Hartford and Windsor plantations for safekeeping. When the threat passed the General Assembly asked to have the land back. Hartford and Windsor refused and they claimed ownership based on the fact that the land was given to them. More
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Culture Japan Season 2
Culture Japan is the TV show that brings Japanese Culture to the world! The show is broadcast on Tokyo MX TV in Japan and across the world on various cable, terrestrial and online networks including Animax Asia, Mnet in America and Crunchyroll.
Culture Japan is directed, and produced by myself where I not only cover Japanese Pop Culture, I also introduce more of the traditional aspects of Japan too. Prepare for a menu of Otaku, Anime, Traditional, Food, Travel, Fashion and Technology. But why do I do all of this? This is why.
The show is presented by myself Danny Choo and my mascot character Mirai Suenaga. Sponsors for the show are Good Smile Company and Bushiroad. The show is directed in a way that both folks inside and outside of Japan can enjoy the show - the challenge is creating a show that introduces Japanese culture but make it interesting enough for Japanese folks to enjoy too. The second season in particular gained much popularity in Japan and even started to trend on Twitter Japan after each episode.
At the moment, Culture Japan is in its second season with a third season in the planning. The second season recently started to air across Asia on Animax Asia in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Due to some broadcasting regulations and timeslot differences however, the versions broadcast outside of Japan have been edited slightly - the Asia broadcast has been de-oppai-fied.
For folks in other parts of the world where Culture Japan has not reached yet - I thought I'd make all uncut episodes available to you on YouTube in 720p HD on my Channel. A simplified version of this post is available at Pinterest.
Do note that the episode order here may be different to the ones broadcast in your region.
Episode 1 - Tohoku and the Tsunami
Danny travels with the volunteer group 'Peace Boat' to the city of Ishinomaki which was one of the hardest hit by the tsunami on 11th March 2011. There he covers some of the relief efforts that the group are providing in the affected areas.
Photos taken during the filming can be found in the Ishinomaki Tsunami, Onagawa Tsunami and Japan Relief Efforts posts.
Episode 2 – Wonderfestival with Good Smile Company
Danny chats with Good Smile Company's Mikatan and Akiyama before taking a look at the festivities of the Wonder Festival, as well as the live broadcast from Tokyo Tower that took place after the event. Photos taken during the filming can be found in the Carnival Phantasm post and everything listed below.
- Hobby Maker Show Winter 2014 Others
- Hobby Maker Show Winter 2014 GSC
- Culture Japan Wonder Festival
- Wonfes 2014 Winter Corporate Booth
- WF2013 Summer Dolls
- WF2013 Summer Dealer Booth
- Powered Jacket
- WF2013 Summer Corporate Booth
- WF2013 Summer Kotobukiya
- WF2013 Summer Good Smile Company
- View more
Episode 3 – Japanese Festivals
Danny has some more discussions with his guests Mikatan and Akiyama at the Good Smile Company Cafe. We then take a look at various Japanese festivals which include the Tanabata in Sendai, Nebuta in Aomori, Obon Odori in Osaka and Omikoshi in Tokyo.
Episode 4 – Worldwide Anime Events
Danny has a discussion with Sekai no YUMI from Amiami, and then takes a look at anime events all over the world - including Anime Expo in America, Japan Expo in France and CharaHobby in Hong Kong. Photos from the events that Danny attended are tagged Anime Expo and C3HK. The footage from Japan Expo in France was taken by Studio Sushi.
Episode 5 – Discover Otaroad with Suzuko Mimori - Part 1
Danny joins up with voice actress Suzuko Mimori to explore the otaku wonderland found in Osaka known as 'Otaroad'. They visit various anime stores and even stop by a maid cafe for a bite to eat where Danny is shouted at by a tsundere maid. Photos taken during filming are in the Otaroad and Gamers posts.
Episode 6 – Discover Otaroad with Suzuko Mimori - Part 2
Continuing from the previous episode, Danny continues his exploration of the otaku wonderland found in Osaka known as 'Otaroad' with Suzuko Mimori. This time around they visit the cosplay store, 'Lovepop Studio' and then try out some rumors that all Osaka locals will react when cut with an invisible sword. Finally, Danny goes to watch Suzuko and the other Milky Holmes girls perform live.
Episode 7 – The Return to Edo Wonderland with Elly Otoguro
Danny returns to his Master in Edo Wonderland along with Elly Otoguro, hoping that Elly can also be trained as a ninja just as he did. They learn how to throw ninja stars, how to run like a ninja, how to navigate through a maze, how to use a kaginawa and finally some sword techniques. The show ends with a boss battle.
Will Elly be accepted as a true ninja as Danny did before her?
Photos taken during the filming can be found in the How to Become a Ninja Girl post.
Episode 8 – Discovering Edo Wonderland with Elly Otoguro
Danny and Elly are still in Edo Wonderland, and ready to wander around and enjoy life in the Edo Period. They take a look at various attractions at the historical theme park, and learn about some of Japan's history in the process.
Episode 9 – How Anime is Made at JC Staff
Danny once again has Amiami's 'Sekai no YUMI' in his office as a special guest for some interesting discussions. Danny then visits the JC Staff offices to find out exactly how anime is made - from the drawing and coloring of the frames down to the final check of the episode. Our mascot Mirai Suenaga was in the anime title Twin Angel and we look at how she went from a sketch to animation.
Episode 10 - Asia's Biggest Anime Event - "Anime Festival Asia" Part 1
Danny shows footage from Singapore's Anime Festival Asia 2011, including the various booths at the event, some of the live events on stage and even a look at some of the cosplay at the event. Guests include LiSA, Milky Holmes, Mizuki Ichiro, Flow and more. Danny is joined in the studio by guest Yoshimi.
All photos taken at the event are tagged AFA listed below.
- AFA 2014 Day 3
- 2014/12/09 Update
- AFA 2014 Day 1
- AFA 2014 Day 0
- AFA 13 Culture Japan Booth
- AFA13 Day 1
- AFAID 13 Culture Japan Booth
- AFA 12 Stage
- AFA 12 Exhibition Hall
- Tokyo Arrival 8
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Episode 11 - Asia's Biggest Anime Event - "Anime Festival Asia" Part 2
Continuing from the previous episode, we take a look at more of Singapore's Anime Festival Asia. This time we take a look at the Good Smile Company booth, some of the fan-made works at the event, and more of the stage events. We then take a look at Culture Japan Night that took place in Singapore's AKB48 cafe - photos taken on the night in this post.
Episode 12 - Discovering Asakusa
Danny meets up with 'Sekai no YUMI' in Asakusa to enjoy the traditional charm in the area. They first take a ride on the boat 'Himeko' designed by Leiji Matsumoto. They then visit the Edokomachi Retro store to dress up in traditional style to visit the Kaminari Gate and Sensouji Temple. Photos taken during the day in the Tokyo Tours post. Photos of the boat Himiko in the Himiko Tokyo Boat Cruise post.
Episode 13 - The Making of Culture Japan
We start off by taking a look at the 2011 Amiami figure rankings. Danny then goes on to explain the origin and creation of Culture Japan. We also take a look at Cybernoids, a company that brings 2D illustrations to life.
Culture Japan Opening Theme
And finally, here is the Mirai Millenium Opening Theme adapted for Culture Japan, created by Mirai Fusion and JC Staff.
And here are the commercials that are running across Asia for Culture Japan - the English, Cantonese and Chinese versions.
Which was your favorite episode?
Posts related to the filming of Culture Japan are listed up below.


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That was me on Saturday. "This will be fun!" quickly turned into, "Holy moly, this is going to take me forever. What was I thinking?"
I ended up with a mirror that I really love, and thank goodness because it took me about seven hours of work!
Here it is, my $7 DIY Rope Mirror!
Ok, let's start at the beginning. I was inspired by these two Pinterest projects (#1 and #2) to spruce up this vintage mirror from the thrift store.
I checked a few hardware stores for different types of rope, but I thought its thickness might hide the great lines of the mirror. I ended up in the craft/jewelry section at WalMart, where I bought this roll of natural polished hemp. One of the reasons I liked it so much was because it had a nice weathered grey color that I'm totally attracted to, as opposed to some of the generic beige or white ropes colors I was finding at other stores.


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Universal Health Coverage should be top of to-do list for new WHO boss
Oxfam congratulated Dr Tedros on his appointment as new Director-General of the World Health Organization today and warned that determined leadership was needed to tackle health inequalities around the world
European Financial Transaction Tax must be agreed without delay, says Oxfam
As EU nations announce that a decision on a long-awaited European Financial Transaction Tax has been postponed, Oxfam calls for European leaders to agree the tax without delay.
New EU development framework: self-interest trumps solidarity
EU governments have today furthered the recent trend of using development aid to advance their own short-sighted interests. They have adopted a new framework for the European Union's development policy that neither listens to EU citizens nor focuses on eradicating poverty.
Oxfam-Amnesty refugee and migrant solidarity project awarded in Greece
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- Yield:Makes about 4 cups
- Active time: 20 minutes
- Total time:2 hours 20 minutes
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In a large skillet, heat lard, bacon drippings, or oil until shimmering, or butter until foaming, over medium-high heat. Add minced onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until translucent and lightly golden, about 7 minutes. Stir in beans and cook for 2 minutes. Add 1 cup of reserved bean-cooking liquid. Using bean masher, potato masher, or back of a wooden spoon, smash the beans to form a chunky purée; alternatively, use a stick blender to make a smoother purée. Reduce heat to medium and cook, stirring, until desired consistency is reached; if refried beans are too dry, add more bean-cooking liquid, 1 tablespoon at a time, as needed. Season with salt and serve.
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Hope for the Irish church on St. Patrick's Day?
By guest blogger Rory Fitzgerald
It has been a long, dark winter here in Ireland.
The church has been a rock for the Irish people for sixteen centuries. Ireland's economy has spectacularly collapsed. Now, people say that the ancient Irish church is collapsing.
The Dublin Report was published last November, just as the worst floods in recorded history submerged major Irish cities, followed by the coldest winter in years.
Patsy McGarry, the Religious Affairs Editor of the Irish Times puts matters like this: "The Catholic Church in Ireland, as we have known it, is seriously damaged and probably beyond repair. It is sinking and sinking fast. And, as indicated from recent revelations on the European continent, the Irish Catholic Church may have company on that journey down."
How different to the situation in the United States where Father Benedict Groeschel of Sunday Night Live on EWTN, when I spoke to him last week, confidently predicted a resurgence in the American Catholic Church.
The tenor of the debate in Ireland has changed. Ambivalence to the church has given way to open hostility. People could accept that there were some bad eggs in the church. They cannot forgive a cover up by senior clergy, and that is the core finding of the Dublin Report.
The bishops seem blinded in the headlamps as they stumble from disaster to catastrophe. Only the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, has resonated with the people with his humble and open contrition. He seems lonely and embattled, a quietly heroic figure.
The few remaining pro-Catholic media commentators now seem like Horatio, trying to keep the bridge against a relentless onslaught. Even they see the possibility of collapse. David Quinn has said: "Thermonuclear war has been declared on the church by its critics. If it's going to go down, it may as well go down with its flags flying at full mast."
Like St. John of the Cross, Ireland is deep in a "dark night of the soul." Yet for St. John, the pains of darkness brought purification. Might it be the same for Ireland?
Father Gregory Collins O.S.B., says so: "Irish Catholicism seems to have one foot firmly in the grave. Yet, if it has, then maybe renewal can begin." (U.K. Tablet subscription required for link.)
He asks: "Why should a thinking Christian mourn the demise of such a culture with its legacy of abuse and institutional duplicity? Is today's church stripped, broken and humiliated? Well and good! ... Perhaps this is a wake up call to rise with Christ and remake our church"
Despite all the despair, or perhaps because of it, Mass attendance is on the increase, the Irish Times reports.
I was walking in the woods the other day. The small birds were busy, shafts of sunlight penetrated the gloom and buds were forming on the trees.
In Ireland, we can only hope that a bright spring will follow this darkest of winters.
Guest blogger Rory Fitzgerald is an Irish journalist who specializes in legal, political and religious affairs. His website ishttp://www.roryfitzgerald.com.
Guest blog posts express the views of the author. They do not necessarily reflect the views of U.S. Catholic, its editors, or the Claretians.


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Where'd Wheatland go?
We pull up to the Wheatland Ferry slip and await our turn. The sun warms our car and I daydream.
I daydream of what I would have seen here in the 1800s: the bustling town of Wheatland, a site that was an important shipping port, had numerous businesses including two hotels, said to offer better accommodations than could be found at any other river hamlet between Salem and Oregon City.
Wheatland Ferry "sprouted" that town.
Here to this southeast corner of present Yamhill County, in the Great Migration of 1843, came 50-year-old Capt. Daniel Matheny, bringing wife and seven children. And on the banks of this Willamette — a name newcomers could neither pronounce nor spell — Matheny bought squatter's rights to a land claim of James A. O'Neal. He also bought a ferry that O'Neal had ordered.
By 1844, Matheny Ferry was in operation. At the time, it was the only ferry on the Willamette that could carry a wagon and team. This first Wheatland ferry was a wooden raft, powered by men with wooden poles. Although numerous ferries of different structures have followed, its original name has remained.
In addition to this historical happening, the Wheatland area was the site of other important events. Across the river from Matheny's ferry site was the Willamette Methodist Mission, established in 1834, and headed by Rev. Jason Lee — the first of the missionaries to come to the Oregon Indians. Tents furnished shelter until housing could be erected, as well as, at a later date, a granary and hospital. And in 1837, to the Willamette Mission came the first white women in the valley.
But by 1842, the mission was moved to north Salem and the site abandoned. In the disastrous flood of 1861, all buildings except the granary and hospital were washed away.
Other historic developments happened locally. A sailor-pioneer, George Kirby Gay, settled on a claim near Wheatland, and in 1841-42 built the first brick house in Oregon — in fact, the first brick house west of the Rocky Mountains. Barefooted Indians tramped the native clay that was formed and burned as bricks at the site.
And what a house it was: 32-by-22 feet, 14 feet high, featuring large fireplaces at both ends of the great room with hand-carved and dressed woodwork.
When Oregon's Provisional Government designated Yamhill County boundaries on July 5, 1843, the George Gay House was a point in the description, reading, "South along the coast of the Pacific Ocean to a point due south of George Gray's (sic) house, hence due east to the middle channel of the Willamette River." The brick house became a popular stopping place for government officials and territorial visitors.
As settlement of the Willamette Valley grew and business activities increased, so did use of the Matheny Ferry. Wheat was a favored crop in the Willamette Valley, and early settlers were said to often plant it within a few weeks of taking up a claim. Abundant crops resulted and at the height of the harvest, long lines of wagons encamped at the ferry site, awaiting their turn on the ferry, bringing wheat to market.
Entrepreneur Matheny then envisioned a town to accommodate that activity. In 1847, he staked out a settlement at the ferry site and named the town "Atcheson," but that name did not take. It was forever to be known as Wheatland. Matheny placed ads for the town in the Oregon City Spectator — and the lots sold.
Activity increased as river transportation progressed to steam power. Warehouses, stores and homes were built, as well as two hotels: The Occidental, owned and operated by James T. Isham, and The Wheatland, owned by F.M. Adair.
By 1867, Wheatland had a post office where M. B. Hendrick distributed the mail. A.J. Smith operated a blacksmith shop. John Smith and John Fowler had a harness and saddle shop. Al Zieber, an early Wheatland merchant, opened a store, and a Mr. Drury began manufacturing grain cleaners.
The first school at the ferry site was a private subscription school, but by 1867, pupils attended school in a log building, with D.P. Mason as teacher. About 1878, a "lumber" schoolhouse was built — a capacious structure: 24-by-36 feet. The Wheatland Church next became the public school building. New desks were bought for the 50 pupils, and Maude Williamson was the teacher.
Sunday church services continued in the building until 1906, but it also was the schoolhouse until a smaller replacement building served that purpose. Wheatland School was consolidated with Hopewell in 1945, and the newer, smaller structure was moved to Hopewell to serve as gym and community hall.
Because of increased trade resulting from the advent of steam power, Wheatland had developed into an important shipping point and was one of the better equipped ports.
But then, the beautiful Willamette that had nurtured Wheatland turned nasty. The 1861 flood washed out the lower portion of the town's shipping facilities. It devastated Zieber's business and wiped out the local warehouse where 7,000 bushels of wheat were stored.
And fire in 1872 burned Hendrick's great mill, although he rebuilt and added a merchandising business, continuing his milling and warehouse business until the 1890s.
In 1881, Wheatland's population was 319. The town had at least 15 businesses.
But the shipping port was challenged by the coming of the railroads. Shipping dramatically declined. The mighty Willamette knuckled down to the rails. The hotels closed. In 1903, the post office was discontinued.
The 1915 Oregon Almanac listed Wheatland's population as 85.
Today, sitting in the car, awaiting our turn for river crossing, I visualize this site of Wheatland in its heyday: shipments of wheat departing, more wagons arriving, important visitors checking in at the hotels, businesses humming.
Today, the Methodist Mission across the river from the Matheny Ferry site is gone. Gay's brick house has crumbled. An entire town has disappeared. All that remains today is Wheatland Ferry — after 170 years.
And I am reminded: Time is the great obliterator of all things — except, to date, the Wheatland Ferry.
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The murder suspect accused in the death of a Fowler businessman will have to continue to wear an ankle monitor a judge declared Monday. Anthony Wright, 42, of Canon City, was supposed to be arraigned in Otero County Court Monday. Instead, District Judge Mark Macdonnell heard arguments for and against bond reduction, including removing the GPS monitoring device. Wright, a former Florence funeral home director, was arrested on first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder charges in connection with the death of Byron Griffy. Griffy, 77, was found with a gunshot wound to the back of his head in October 2012 at a farmhouse he owned near Fowler. Griffy was a longtime funeral home director in Southeastern Colorado. Monday, Griffy's daughters argued against the removal of the ankle monitor, stating they feared for their family's safety. Daughters Linette Griffy, Amy Griffy and Lindalin Dockter said it would be an injustice to Byron's family, as well as society, to allow Wright to "roam free." "My biggest fear is the safety of my family," Linette Griffy said. "Consider my family, Byron's grandchildren." Dockter said she believed Wright is a flight risk and also offered to pay for the costs associated with the GPS monitoring if it meant he would have to continue to wear the device. Macdonnell said the court had previously agreed to a reduction in bond with the imposed GPS monitoring condition which he would uphold and denied the defense's motion to modify bond. In a separate matter, both sides asked for additional time concerning discovery and arraignment. Macdonnell set a hearing on discovery and arraignment for May 1.


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It's not a surprise that Microsoft's plan to effectively make enabling Do Not Track (DNT) an opt-out decision instead of an opt-in decision when setting up Internet Explorer 10 is not going over well with players in the digital advertising industry.
Online ads are a multi-billion dollar industry and while most would agree that changes resulting from consumer privacy concerns are inevitable, Microsoft's approach to Do Not Track goes further than it should.
Now, the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), a group that counts the largest media and marketing associations in the United States as members, is speaking out. In an Adweek op-ed, DAA managing director Lou Mastria calls DNT "a poor policy for the long-term health of the ad-supported Internet" and argues that Microsoft's plans do exactly the opposite of what Microsoft intends. In responding to an op-ed in Adweek by Microsoft VP Rik van der Kooi, Mastria writes:
Microsoft claims that its DNT decision is designed to further educate consumers about the value exchange that comes with online advertising. We shouldn't debate turning DNT on or off, van der Kooi says, but instead "redouble our efforts as an industry and educate consumers about how advertising pays for the free Web experience we all now enjoy[.]" But how can that be? Advertisers want smart ads, and the Internet helps deliver that; a default DNT would seem to shut that possibility down at the start. Furthermore, the education effort should be aimed at calming fears about privacy while delivering value to brands and consumers, not fanning the flames of the debate.
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DNT, the way Microsoft is pursuing it, also fails to advance van der Kooi's stated goal of bringing brands and consumers closer together. Rather, this is a piece of technology acting as a wedge between brands and consumers, and no one benefits when resulting ads are wasted and off the mark. We believe, as we hope Microsoft and other tech companies believe, that technology should empower brand and consumer engagement in an increasingly customer-centric world, not disrupt it.
The solution? According to Mastria, self-regulation is working, and it's the only way to advance the relationship between advertisers and consumers. That's not a surprising position given that Mastria's DAA is behind a Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising, but it's obviously one that many would take issue with.
It all boils down to the economics of ad-supported businesses
But the issue here isn't whether self-regulation is viable or not. The real issue is whether ad-supported businesses can survive and thrive if advertisers are forced to operate in an ecosystem that they believe is offering less and less.
In other words, if, as a result of DNT and other initiatives and regulations yet to be implemented, advertisers feel that they're less able able to deliver ads to consumers online in a targeted fashion, it stands to reason that online ads lose some of their luster and thus become less valuable. That, in turn, may make it more difficult for publishers to monetize their eyeballs.
Obviously, advertisers won't abandon digital; but if they pay less for ads that are less-capable, the grand bargain between publishers and consumers -- your attention for content and functionality -- may become more difficult for many publishers to maintain.
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Surely the biggest problem here is that opt in or opt out, the vast majority of consumers have absolutely no understanding of how cookies work and what they should or shouldn't set in terms of their browser settings.
Ultimately, in the same way as the vast majority of the 38 million car drivers in the UK have absolutely no idea of the ins and outs of how their engine works, the vast majority of the 52 million internet users in the UK have no idea whatsoever as to how their browser works.
On this, there is also the problem that most of them really don't care - in the same way as car engine parts have changed radically in the past 30 years (and yet very few people enter a showroom requesting a specific cylinder or piston) so too, has the web developed and yet unless it is hindering a users ability to search / view content and complete tasks online... the majority really don't care.
As a reuslt, the situation is a lot more complicated than either Microsoft or the DAA are willing to give it credit for!
@Matt, you are absolutely correct - and I like the car engine analogy.
So, given that the average user knows as much about the inside of their engine as the inside of their browser, surely the digital industry needs to act in the same responsible way as the car makers have...
In the auto-world, collapsible steering columns and air-bags are delivered as standard - and in the digital space it makes sense for the brands and sites we use to similarly (automatically) take care of the user, their preferences and their privacy.
So Do-Not-Track support was something we decided to implement back in 2011, alongside existing opt-in/out/anonymous functions, as we think these are the kind of features responsible brands need to use to protect their public image and act responsibly.
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It seems to me that Microsoft's decision, assuming that DNT requests will be honoured, will force the ad-industry into educating people about their benefits - in an attempt to encourage users to choose to allow tracking.
With the current model - there is no incentive for them to do so. The DAA's argument is therefore fundamentally flawed.
What they are worried about really is that they won't be able to make that case to people, the reason being that consumers feel they have been taken advantage of and are lacking trust.
Malcolm is right - this is about brands being seen to be reponsible. They may in fact be the ones who could effect the greatest change - by wielding their budgets in a way that ensures the largely anonymous ad and data tracking companies act in a way that the brands would want to be seen to support.
@ Malcolm - I'm going to have to agree and disagree with you here.
In the same way as the car industry has introduced safety aspects to cars as standard, I completely agree that there is a need for those involved in the digital space to same an active effort to protect customers. I also feel that in a lot of scenarios this has happened - Email providers actively remove junk email while both Search Engines and Email solutions run virus checks on pages and downloads before allowing you to extract potentially harmful content.
The complication for me however comes down to the DNT support. Ultimately, this technology isn't designed to improve the user's experience but simply prohibit one part of the web (and something that is actually in a lot of ways beneficial to them). Given that even with the best efforts of the industry, people are inherently lazy, I'm not sure a blanket introduction of DNT will solve anything.
@ Richard - Your assumption is that education will result in users deactivating DNT. I would argue that is incredibly naive as reports from microsoft, mozilla and safari have shown in the past that the process of editing your settings is too complicated and time consuming for most users to actually change anything.
As such, the enforcement of DNT by a browser isn't actually achieving what it claims to set out to do. I guess the one encouraging thing is that IE's domination of web broswers has now diminished to such an extent, even if IE10 does introduce this, it will have limited effect!
Good to see a nice debate developing.
@Matt - I am fully aware that most people do not play around with their browser settings. That is why the ad industry feels so threatened by Microsoft's move.
My point is that the current status quo provides no incentive to educate people to change - because no change benefits the industry. Ergo education in the issue is usually poor, and results in little behavioural change.
DNT=1 as the first installation express setting changes this dynamic radically. By adopting a 'Privacy First' approach Microsoft is creating a scenario where suddenly there is a significant incentive in the industry to persuade users of the benefits of switching DNT off. I would not be surprised to see considerable education and incentive programs designed to do this. Which is absolutely fine - as it makes the choice for the consumer much clearer - and this has to be a good thing.
On your assertion that DNT is not achieving what it sets out to do - that is nothing to do with Microsoft's decision - but it is about the decision of the industry whether or not to honour the DNT request.
The industry has been working towards this for some time - and the DAA said prior to the Microsoft announcement that they would do so, albeit within a very narrow definition of what that request means.
They made that promise in an environment where they felt it would cost them little. Now Microsoft - which is also a big player in online advertising of course - has changed the game - and suddenly honouring DNT is going to have a potentially bigger impact on the industry.
The DAA is desparate to find a way to blame Microsoft for changing the game, perhaps because they now need a way to go back on the previous agreement which is looking more costly than it did a few months ago.
However they can't just do that openly because it would look churlish and expose them to much greater criticism.
Both Matt and Richard make great points, and there are ones I agree and disagree with on both sides. Any data that can be tied to a real person in any way should not be collected without that person's explicit consent. However, it is hard to see how anonymous, aggregate data violates this principle - and if we go down that road, we should be looking at CCTV cameras before anonymous user tracking...
My main practical concern is that if DNT becomes popular, significance of data will diminish - namely, it will not be as representative of the whole user population of an ad network, or a website, as it is today. The problem I see is similar to doing online surveys - we only know the anonymous behavior and opinions of those who decide to opt in. The practical problems this can create are several: it forces the online businesses to develop their service only for those whose behavior they can track, therefore possibly forcing them to ignore a large amount of their customers, it diminishes the accuracy of ROI calculations, and it makes it more difficult for both websites and advertisers to plan for how to best use their money to attract just the right people (and bother everybody else as little as possible).
I believe that in an ideal world, every digital message should be personally relevant and interesting for those that view it. If DNT becomes wide-spread, I fear it will make this so much harder to achieve.
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Now I've played Shen now a lot and very often and out of all the build this one is the most fun and brings a lot of extra DPS most tanks don't bring.
Boots 3x Health potions is the best start for Shen in ANY build in my opinion
It is geared way more towards physical DPS enemies though I did add the Warmongers and Spirit Visage at the end if you make enough money or the game last long enough to get them.
The 3 Sunfire capes total vs most Magic Defence about 90 dps and in team fights that's a lot of AoE in one Taunt ~2 seconds vs 3-5 people that's 540-900 damage in 2 seconds! If they have roughly low Magic Res
But like I said this build focus on Anti physical DPS So Ashe, Jax, AD Teemo, AD Sion. Those are some of the ones that come to mind
But take this as one players opinion to another Shen is one of my favorite tanks to play and his items can go many ways this way just plays against physical DPS as they tend to be glass cannons and the extra DPS help bring an entire team down while your Allies Dps them down to dead
I would also like to add if 2 capes is working the 3 is not needed and you can move on to your Warmongers and so on
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When discussing 'Father John Misty', Tillman paraphrases Philip Roth: 'It's all of me and none of me, if you can't see that, you won't get it'. What I call it is totally arbitrary, but I like the name. You've got to have a name. I never got to choose mine."
He goes on, "'People who make records are afforded this assumption by the culture that their music is coming from an exclusively personal place, but more often than not what you hear are actually the affectations of an 'alter-ego' or a cartoon of an emotionally heightened persona," says Josh Tillman, who has been recording/releasing solo albums since 2003 and who recently left Seattle's Fleet Foxes after playing drums from 2008-2011. "That kind of emotional quotient isn't sustainable if your concern is portraying a human-being made up of more than just chest-beating pathos. I see a lot of rampant, sexless, male-fantasy everywhere in the music around me. I didn't want any alter-egos, any vagaries, fantasy, escapism, any over-wrought sentimentality. I like humour and sex and mischief. So when you think about it, it's kind of mischievous to write about yourself in a plain-spoken, kind of explicitly obvious way and call it something like 'Misty'. I mean, I may as well have called it 'Steve'". Musically, "Fear Fun" consists of such disparate elements as Waylon Jennings, Harry Nilsson, Arthur Russell, 'All Things Must Pass', and 'Physical Graffiti', often within the same song. Tillman's voice has never been better and often sounds like Roy Orbison, "The Caruso of Rock", at his most joyous, while the music maintains a dark, mysterious and yet conversely playful, almost Dionysian quality. Lyrically, his absurdist fever dreams of pain and pleasure elicit, in equal measures, the blunt descriptive power of Bukowski or Braughtigan, the hedonistic philosophy of Oscar Wilde and the dried-out wit of Loudon Wainwright III.
The album began gestating during what Tillman describes as an "immobilizing period of depression", in his former Seattle home. "Songwriting for me had always only been interesting and necessary because I saw it as this vehicle for truth, but I had this realization that all I had really done with it was lick my wounds for years and years, and become more and more isolated from people and experiences. I don't even like wound-licking music, I want to listen to someone rip their arm off and beat themselves with it. I don't believe that until now I've ever put anything at risk in my music. I was hell-bent on putting my preciousness at stake in order to find something worth singing about." He continues, "I lost all interest in writing music, or identifying as a 'songwriter'. I got into my van with enough mushrooms to choke a horse and started driving down the coast with nowhere to go. After a few weeks, I was writing a novel, which is where I finally found my narrative voice. The voice that is actually useful."
"It was a while before that voice started manifesting in a musical way, but once I settled in the Laurel Canyon spider-shack where I'm living now, I spent months demoing all these weird-ass songs about weird-ass experiences almost in real-time, and kind of had this musical 'Oh-there-I-am' moment, identical to how I felt when I was writing the book. It was unbelievably liberating. I knew there was never any going back to the place I was writing from before, which was a huge relief. The monkey got banished off my back."
Tillman brought the demos to LA producer/songwriter/pal Jonathan Wilson, and in February 2011 began recording at his home-studio in Echo Park. "Initially, the idea was to just kind of recreate the demos with me playing everything, since they were pretty fleshed out and sounded cool, but a place like LA affords you a different wealth of talent, potential, etc than just about anywhere else. I realized what was possible between Jonathan's abilities, and the caliber of musicians that are just hanging around LA, pretty quickly. People were coming in and out of the studio all day sometimes, and other days, it would just be Jonathan and I holed up, getting stoned, and doing everything.
"I was honest with myself about what music actually excites my joy-glands when I was considering the arrangements and instrumentation," says Tillman. "As opposed to what's been enjoyable to me in the past - namely, alienating people or making choices based what I think people won't like or understand. Pretty narcissistic stuff."
When asked about Laurel Canyon, where he eventually ended up living in the aforementioned tree-house with a family of spiders, Tillman says, "My attitude about it all is pretty explicit in the record. Given my pretty adversarial personal attitude about the music and aesthetic that comes from that place, it's kind of a huge joke that I live in a former hippie-fantasy land. I have a really morbid sense of humour." Phil Ek (who everyone knows has worked with Fleet Foxes, Built To Spill, Modest Mouse, Band of Horses) heard the rough versions of the album in May 2011 and offered his services to mix. "Phil and I have known each other for a while by virtue of Fleet Foxes, so he was familiar with my music, but we had never discussed working together. I think he immediately recognized the shift in my writing and singing from a producer and friend's standpoint. His excitement is really evident in mixes, I think."
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|04 April 2005
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Linda Bergkvist
Painting an eye (tutorial/exercise)
I've finally put together the tutorial that I did some time ago. I thought it would be a nifty thing to add to this our first week of the Art Discussion forum.
Painting an Eye
The eye is probably the most catching thing about the human face. It's where we're looking when we're talking to people. It's where tears emerge from, it's where we indicate what we're looking at and often what we're thinking about what we see. If you're doing a painting and you do everything beautifully but you make the eyes look dead... then that's it, you've not painted a human, you've painted a mannequin. A dead thing.
Instructions: Let us start with a blank piece of paper, only make it flesh coloured instead. Picking a good first colour for skin usually has some impact on all the other colours one will pick thereafter - for this reason, it's always pretty vital to start off in a good way. Not too pink, not too orange, and not too saturated.
Common mistakes: Using a colour that is too saturated or too grey. A colour that is too orange or too pink. Try to find the middle ground, it will affect the rest of the painting.
Instructions: Secondly, sketching a really, really simple eye. There are some things here that people tend to forget. The first one is that there is a lid below the eye as well as above it. Without this lid, the eye will sit very unnaturally in the face. Secondly, we have the corner of the eye - you know, that small bit where the eye starts, where all the tears come from? Leaving these things out are among the most common mistakes when it comes to painting eyes.
Let's keep these 'sketch lines' on an entirely separate layer, on top of everything else.
Common mistakes: Forgetting the lower lid. Forgetting the corner of the eye.
Instructions: Next, we try to get the feel for the shape of the eye. If we shade the bottom eyelid, and highlight the upper one, we suddenly see something emerge. A flat eyeball will mess the entire eye up, so it is very important that we get the roundness through. But the truth of the matter is that the area surrounding the eye should be showing the shape of the eyeball itself. The eyeball is white and you won't be able to show much of its roundness because most of it is hidden, but by shading the lids you'll give the same message without making the eye look like it is bulging. I'm using a warm pink here to highlight, and a desaturated brown for the shadow. This will all change though.
Try to imagine that there are lines running across your face, showing the shape of it - it's sometimes hard to tell how the structure lies by just looking at something. Better yet, if you are ever inclined, paint straight lines running down your face and take a photo of it. You'll see that the lines look everything but straight when you look in a mirror - in fact, you might discover an entirely new way of looking at your own features (I once did this, believe it or not: it took a while to wash all the makeup off afterwards).
When you shade, keep these lines in mind. Don't paint them in unless you feel you absolutely have to (and if so, on a separate layer), but try to imagine them while you shade.
Common mistakes: Imagining the eyeball not as round, but as elliptic. Shading the surrounding area as well as the eyeball as if it is the shape and size of what shows, not what is hidden behind lid and flesh.
Instructions:So, first I'll build the area around the eye up. I do this by picking a highlight (in this case, the same one that I used for the eyelid) and I figure out where the light would fall.
People have different shapes of eyes, but a rule of thumb is that you'll have a soft, pillowed area just below the eyebrow (along the entire length, actually, though I've only highlighted part of it here - the other part 'pops' out because I've shaded below and above), one upon the cheekbone and then it'll always help to make the area just around the corner of the eye look a little less flat. Close your eye and gently trace the shape with your fingertips. You'll have the swell of the eyelid, the area below the eyebrow and then the cheekbone, right? Remember that an area like this is likely to leave a shadow below.
The problem here, of course, is that we're not painting the entire face - it's easier to fit an eye in when there is something to fit it into.
Common mistakes: Too stark shading. Using pure black or even lines to show edges.
Instructions: After this (watch the animation for, perhaps, a few more visuals on exactly what happens between these two stages), we need to define the areas that I only very quickly blurred in on the previous stage. I'm working with soft edged brushes here, all along. In some places, I'll shift to a custom brush that is round but has slightly torn edges.
Pick warmer, more saturated colours. You can highlight and shade by using colours alone. Work shadows into the eyebrow, but more importantly accentuate the eye itself by shading the lower lid more and also adding some shape to the upper lid. Again, touch your own eyelid (now carefully, keep your eye open), it sticks out a little but not too much. A common mistake is to make the upper eyelid look huge, and to forget the crease that shows that while you've got your eye open, the lid is slightly folded back.
Now, we're going to be tricksy. Instead of just shadowing with dark colours underneath the eye and accomplish a look like an alcoholic that hasn't slept for five days, we're going to find the shapes with a combination of highlights and shadows. Never forget that across the planes and curves of a face, the values will be flowing. You'll have light reflecting differently on the different types of skin (often oilier below the eyes, around the nose, moist on the lips). You'll have a few sharper creases (like upper eyelid) and then creases that soften out (like the one on the lower eyelid, which smoothens as it reaches the corner of the eye). A face does not consist only of highlighted cheekbones, nose, lips and chin - it has all kinds of hills and valleys, and however good you become at painting, it will always look flat, false, and fake until you understand these shapes.
Common mistakes: Accentuating all the creases and folds only with shadows instead of highlights.
Instructions: Trying to find shapes with a combination of highlights and shadows isn't always easy, but it's far more effective (to me, anyway) than trying to find it by using lines. For the most part, I won't even have the sketch lines here, they're merely here to demonstrate the shape of the eye as I build the face up around it.
Once more, accentuating the curves, planes and folds with a combination of lighter and darker areas. We're using no black, we're using no white. All variations of the same skin tone. Now - if you're clever, the highlighted area underneath the eye will have a slightly more bluish tone (as the skin here is extremely thin and the vessels underneath have a tendency of showing colour though), and use warmer highlights for the other parts of the face. If you pick the colours directly off this demonstration, you'll see that when I say 'bluish', I don't mean actually blue.
Taking a look, you'll see that in spite of the eyeball itself not having been drawn in, the eye already has shape!
Instructions: Having just said that the face has shape even without the eyeball, that doesn't mean we can skip it altogether, does it now?
Let's sketch it in. Don't use white, use a mix of pale grey-beige and then brush over with the skin tone - I've found that this combination very closely resembles the actual colour of an eyeball (the skin tone is generally reflected on the highly glossy surface). Do not add highlights to this eyeball yet. It's a waste to work in the glossiness at this point - it'll be painted over by the iris and pupil anyway.
What's more important, though, is that the eyeball's shape is consistent with the shading you've done on the eyelids. If you've been thinking right, it should fit right in. If you've messed up, the eyeball will look like a golf ball pushed into an ill fitting hole. Keep imagining the round shape of it, and if it helps, sketch the outlines of the round shape on a separate layer and then shadow the eye below it accordingly.
Common Mistakes: Pure white for the eyeball.
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Instructions: The iris is completely round. For the most part, some of it will be hidden by the eyelid - if you hide only a little, the eye will look widened, shocked and staring (such as in the example I'm painting here), while hiding half or more will give the eye another expression altogether: perhaps indolent, seductive, sly.
Like the eyeball, never cease to imagine the iris as a round thing. To make absolutely sure, always paint the full round thing on a separate layer and then simply erase the bit that would be hidden by the eyelid. Like previously mentioned, we see the eyes, and we definitely see if something's messed up. A non-round iris will make it look alien and crooked - a neat thing if that's what you intended, but not so neat if you are aiming for a natural look.
So, pick a dark, random colour (nothing too extreme) and paint in the iris. Then on top of that, paint a lighter colour that will leave a slightly darker edge. Not all eyes have this darker edge at the outskirts of the iris, but we're settling for it this time around.
Similarly, the pupil is COMPLETELY round, no doubt about it. Paint in a round, dark circle in the middle of the iris. Just for the feeling's sake, dab a blotch of white on top of the iris and pupil, just to see how it would feel. There's the eye, suddenly a little glossy.
Common Mistakes: As previously mentioned, there is a tendency to make the iris less than round.
Instructions: There are no dark sketch-lines in a face, so it's time to get rid of them. There are two easy ways to do this - either you simply delete the layer, or you do as I did here: paint over them. I've found that painting over something rather than simply deleting it occasionally helps the liveliness of a picture. So for the sake of this exercise, paint over, don't delete.
What we have after we've done that is an eye that likely looks slightly messed up. We've used the lines as crutches, forgetting to shade the folds instead of letting simple lines do the talking. So the next mission is to do the highlighting and shading in the areas that are now looking stupid. For this, I use a brush that is either just a hard edged round one, or something similar to this:
(I've found that this brush is excellent to blend colours with, either as just painting, or as smudging)
Do not forget the fact that the bottom eyelid sticks out a little. It doesn't fit flat agains the eyeball - we need a little 'rim' to show that there's a shape to it and it's not just pasted in place. Paint this 'rim' (just above the lashes) with a vague pink colour slightly lighter than the skintone below.
Also, it might be a good thing to scribble the eyebrow in at this point, because once the lines are removed, chances are it looked like a dark blur. We'll fix it up more later.
Common mistakes: Leaving the lines in or mimicking them once they're removed.
Instructions: At this point, pick up a mirror. Look at the eye in the mirror, and notice that the white of the eye becomes pinker as it reaches the corner of the eye, and that the pink isn't entirely flat in shape right before the corner. We need a little glossiness here, a little colour to make it believable. A tint of blue added to the eyeball colour, and then some very soft, smooth touches of a round soft brush to pick out little highlights here and there. Most important here - be careful, chances are you'll overdo this area and end up with an eyeball that looks textured. This isn't the point. Point is, adding little touches of realism.
Also, redefining the shape of the eye at this point, and adding more detail to the eyebrow and the corner of the eye is almost a must. I've found that the realism is sometimes helped by further enhancing the shape of the corner of the eye by highlighting around it (take a look to the immediate left of it, you'll find a little highlight there). Try to work in more colours. Try to find little oranges, blues, reds and purples to discreetly add here and there for a more skinlike 'feel' to the area surrounding the eye.
This is where we start thinking about the iris, as well. The iris is a textured, wonderfully intricate thing and usually what makes an eye 'fly'. The first step to defining it would be just adding a very sloppy dark shadow at the top of it (from the eyelid, remember that it sticks out a little.
Common Mistakes: Forgetting to define the corner of the eye, or even leaving out that area altogether.
Do a new layer. Set new layer to 'soft light', and paint with a dark, ruddy colour to emphasise the skin tone. This will make more difference than you know. Paying special attention to the eyelids (the lower one in particular) and the area underneath the eyebrow. There is a vast difference now that the skintones are picked up. This sort of alteration goes for any kind of detail in a face, especially the bottom of a nose, around the nostrils and the eyes, but also the corners of the mouth and the side of the nostrils.
In this step and the one before, I've smudged the eyebrows a little with the brush I previously showed.
Common Mistakes: Forgetting about skin tone variation. A face and all its details looks dead and flat without such small devices.
Instructions: Continuing on the skin tone variations around the eye, make yet another layer above the first one, and now add textures. Use a small brush with pressure set to opacity and shape and just scribble away. The eye in the example is slightly exaggerated, but the practice is the same. Skin is NOT just a smooth, polished-stone texture. It's not porcelain. Do not forget to at least hint at the texture and the pores, sometimes only with little skin tone variations. I'll happily say that I learned this from the 3D art forums - watching all these marvellous artists work on the skin textures, and then in the end asking myself: why didn't I think of that?
The good thing about keeping the texture layer separate is that you can use a soft eraser to make some patches more transparent and others more opaque, giving a lively, 'real' look to it. Add a few birth marks while you're at it.
Common Mistakes: Leaving the texture out altogether. Big no-no.
Instructions: Paint the lashes in by using a hard edged little brush with pressure set to size. Keep them just a little bit scraggly, and don't paint them too long. Keep them on a separate layer. (A good thing to keep in mind is that the lashes rarely sweep out towards the outer corner of the eye, as they are often depicted to. Most of them will be curving downwards quite naturally).
After this has been done, use a combination of a tiny smudge brush and the eraser to soften the sharpness of the lashes. Rinse and repeat for the upper eyelid, but in this case remember not to point the lashes straight up, as this has a tendency to look unnatural.
Common Mistakes: Painting eyelashes as unnaturally long, and forgetting to taper them off at the end. Even worse, forgetting about the eyelashes altogether for a creepy-eyed look.
Instructions: We're getting there! The iris is a plethora of textures. If you pick a mirror up and stare at your own eye really closely, you'll see that it's not even just the diamond shaped textures radiating from the pupil, but that they're layered. Layer upon layer of delicate little coloured shapes. Not an easy thing to mimic. We'll try, though, by painting little soft strokes of colour upon one another, not erasing if we make a mistake but just keeping to paint over, paint over, paint over for that right textured, deep look.
In the end, I decided to break the highlight up as well, just to make it look a little more realistic. It's a good thing to think about the light conditions of a picture before deciding where to place the highlight and what shape it should be, but in this case, I just smudged it a little and added the faintest possible touch of blue to it (I doubt you can even see there's blue there, but there is).
Common Mistakes: Making the iris look flat by painting only one layer of texture and using only one colour with different brightness.
Instructions: There's not a lot to say. For the final step, look the picture over for some things you might want to change or do differently - in this case, adding some more shading and shadowing to the eyeball itself as well as adding a touch of gloss to the iris.
I hope the tutorial has been helpful. It's only been posted on CGtalk so far, but it should be going up on my page soon enough. Best of luck with your eye-painting.
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|04 April 2005
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very cool, thanks for all that info! im gonna go try now...cheers!
|04 April 2005
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hey thanks a lot, it's a very good one. Nice animated gif too
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Philip Hartmann
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WHAAA!Great TUTORIAL enayla!THX
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|04 April 2005
Aly Fell
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One excellent tutorial Linda! Ta muchly!
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Madison Lee
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^_^ Picture says it all, brilliant stuff mate. Well done.
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Mack Chater
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Very special tutorial. I've learned a lot! Only problem now is, I have to go and repaint the 'cyborg-like' eyes I've character I've been painting for 2 weeks!
At least the eyes will look good now though!
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|04 April 2005
Jason Adank
3D Artist
Portland, USA
Hi Enayla,
Thats a very beautiful looking eye, and its really neat to see someone's painting workflow. A great tutorial and very informative. Thanks for sharing!
|04 April 2005
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VERY well done Linda, I like how you compiled it into nice little steps and summerize the common mistakes for that step. It's all very clear and one does not look focus.
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Enayla - Thanks muchly.
I'm inspired and looking forward to having a go with your suggestions later this evening.
|04 April 2005
David Ortner
Vienna, Austria
thanks a lot. did i mention you're brilliant?
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Thank you very much!.
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thanks a bunch Linda!
|04 April 2005
Pierre bixquert
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Hello , thank you for his course for instruction, I admire much
his work, thank you still, I would like to be a paper sheet to marry
me with his talent.
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