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Boy George on trial for false imprisonment
Singer alleged to have handcuffed male escort to wallLONDON -- Singer Boy George handcuffed a male escort to a wall in his London home after accusing him of hacking into his computer, a court heard Monday at the start of his trial on false-imprisonment charges.
The former Culture Club frontman, being tried under his real name George O'Dowd, made contact with Audun Carlsen over the Internet, and the pair arranged to meet for a pornographic photo shoot, the Press Association reported.
Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London heard how the meeting appeared to be going well until O'Dowd began to suspect Carlsen, 29, of hacking into his computer. But they parted on good terms, and the singer paid the younger man 300 of the 400 pounds ($596) on which they had agreed.
During the next few weeks, they exchanged e-mails in which O'Dowd accused Carlsen of breaking into his computer system. The pair also disagreed over the naked pictures.
In later e-mails, though, the singer said he would like to see Carlsen naked, and they agreed to meet a second time.
It was during this encounter that O'Dowd appeared to "take matters into his own hands," prosecuting lawyer Heather Norton said, and chained up the younger man.
Carlsen told the court a second man helped hold him down while O'Dowd beat him.
"George was slapping me and beating me and punching me and screaming things," he said.
Carlsen said he managed to escape after unscrewing a hook from the wall, and the court was shown photographs of red welts on his head and injuries to his arm which he said had been inflicted during the attack.
O'Dowd denies the charges against him. The case continues.


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Funnyman Robin Williams has opened up about his honeymoon in Paris, France last month (Oct11), calling the romantic break with his new bride "wonderful".
The Mrs. Doubtfire star married graphic designer Susan Schneider in an intimate ceremony in St. Helena, California on 23 October (11) and the couple flew to Europe for a vacation following the nuptials.
Williams tells U.K. chat show host Graham Norton, "I was just there (France) for my honeymoon. It was wonderful... it was lovely, so great to be there."
The actor was also impressed by the paparazzi he encountered on the trip, as all they wanted were pictures of the star kissing his new wife. He adds, "They're French, it's like animal photography - they go, 'Kiss her!'"


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Below is the text of Mr Major's speech in Downing Street, London, on Friday 14th July 1995.
Can I firstly welcome you here. Gathered here this morning are many of the people who really matter in terms of making sure that this initiative works. We have people, not just some of the great icons of British sport, whom I'm delighted to see here, the role models that I hope our kids will follow, but we have representatives of the Teachers Unions and it is going to be vital that we can actually resurrect, provide a proper renaissance for sport in schools. We have got many people who are administrators, the Sports Council Chairmen are here, and many others.
The first point I would like to make about this initiative is that this is not just an initiative for elite sport and for the best of our sportsmen, either male or female. It is a question of expanding sport for everyone -
Let me try and just give you a little background to where we find ourselves today. What I found most depressing a few years ago was what seemed to me to be a self-
And it was because that applied not just to sport, but also to arts and the heritage and other areas, that I conceived the idea of the national lottery. We needed legislation for the national lottery. I think I can tell you in the privacy and seclusion of this meeting, it did not meet with universal support across the opinion formers in Parliament or in Whitehall. But it has now come into being, the legislation has been passed and the lottery has been established.
And what we can now see, as it comes into full flood, as it will in a couple of years or so, is that the lottery is going to provide, net of prizes and other disbursements, something in the region of 1.5 -
What that means for sport is that the probability is, as it comes into full flow, that in addition to existing funding, sport will probably receive from the national lottery, to be disbursed through the Sports Councils, something in excess of 300 million pounds a year for as far ahead as we can see.
Now one only has to contemplate for a second what all of us in this garden this morning could have done with 3 billion pounds on sport over the last 10 years to see what the prospects are for the future. And it is against that background that we found it possible to begin to discuss within the Department of National Heritage, and with the Sports Council, and with a number of other individuals who are here who paid in many cases visit after visit to Downing Street to talk to me or to Nick True, or to Iain Sproat, we began to discuss the Raising the Game Sports Initiative that we are formally publishing this morning.
Let me just try and outline bits of it, starting from the grass roots upwards. Where, in your judgment, have we lost most in terms of sporting endeavour over the last quarter of a century? I would suggest that we have lost most by the diminution of the importance of sport to our young people and its availability within schools. So the initiative starts there and I am delighted at the support that we have had from the representatives of the teachers, the Teachers Unions and many teachers also that we have spoken to to ensure that this initiative begins to take place.
It is not a single one-
What we propose in schools at the beginning is to ensure firstly that competitive team games get a much higher profile in the national curriculum than they had previously; that there will be a minimum of 2 hours formally, but another 4 hours a week informally, outside school hours with the help of teachers who will earn performance points on pay, with the help of teachers who will have special training and extra resources for that training; with amendments to the Teacher Training Colleges and the Teacher Training syllabuses to provide many more teachers who are willing and able to have a skill in teaching a mainstream winter game and a mainstream summer game to the youngsters in their schools. I know from talking to many of the teachers that they are enthusiastic about this and we must provide them with the help and assistance to carry that enthusiasm into being.
What will be crucial will be two other things! firstly, improving the facilities in schools and making those facilities increasingly available to the community as well; and secondly, to build up much closer, more formal links between clubs, not necessarily professional clubs but sporting clubs and institutions and schools in every part of the United Kingdom.
We propose to join with the sports councils and try and invite clubs to adopt a school. One of the problems there often has been is youngsters have gone through school is they leave school and there is no natural avenue to go at 16, 17 or 18, to go to a club, to actually improve and enjoy, and enhance their sporting skills. I don't have any doubts from the discussions we have had with clubs that they will be willing and eager to do so, some of the great professional clubs do so in remarkable fashion already -
We move on to the clubs where many of the things I have had to say could be replicated. Simply let me say that already, when you look at the early disbursements from the national lottery, you see a whole range of facilities available to cricket clubs, rugby clubs, athletic clubs, soccer clubs and minority sports as well; let me make the point that this is not just for the mainstream sports, minority sports can benefit also and I hope they will continue to do so.
We move on through the pyramid to the top level of sport. I don't know if you feel about it as I do but although sport is primarily an enjoyment, I don't have any doubt that it has its own impact on the national emotions when any of our great sporting icons succeed and beat the rest the world. I will spare the blushes of many who are here and speak perhaps of a minority sport and two people who are not here but it seemed to me that most of this country came to a stop when Christopher Dean and Jane Torvill were beating the world into second place in competition after competition; people who had never taken an interest in ice skating did so; you couldn't get into the ice skating rinks that exist around the country as youngsters wanted to become the next Torvill and Dean and that icon impact, that role model impact, that delight that spreads right the way through the country when we can show sporting excellence at its best and beat the world is something without being excessively nationalistic that I would like to see. I remember the crowd chanting at White City at the great Chataway/Kuts race when they said that Kuts would win and thank God Chataway did and the whole country rejoiced, If I can embarrass someone here, I doubt there were many people who failed to enjoy Rob Andrews' dropped goal against the Australians or Devon Malcolm whom I will never forgive for taking nine wickets while I was flying back to watch the last day of the Oval test match and missed it all! These are great sporting occasions so we want to encourage excellence in sport.
There are some sporting academies already -
What I envisage by this is a very large new development probably costing in capital terms something in the region of £90/100 million so far as we can cost it at the moment. we are looking at the development of facilities on a large green-
We are looking at the development of the best sporting facilities and coaching along a number of mainstream sports. It won't be able to go right across the sporting agenda but it will be pretty widespread and will cover all our mainstream sports. Some of it will be residential; some people perhaps will be there for two or three years, others will be there for short courses, others will just pay brief visits, others who are residential may even attend local schools while they are there and one other addition to it which I think has long been necessary will be the development of specialist medical facilities for sporting injuries. There are a number of our great sportsmen over recent years who have had to go abroad to get the best specialist treatment for their particular injuries as a result of their sporting activities. That isn't good enough and so those medical facilities will also be developed at this British Academy of Sport.
What we propose to do is to invite people to tender with their own ideas but it is going to be quite the largest single development in the move towards sporting excellence that we have seen possibly at any stage in our long sporting history. I hope we are going to get plans for it by the middle of next year, I hope we will be able to proceed with it very speedily. We will learn the lessons from the Australian Academy though it won't be a direct replica of that, we will have our own ideas and we will build on their ideas and I hope do something better but right at the top it will improve and enhance excellence in sport and it has always been my judgement that excellence in sport at the top will ripple down as people seek to emulate and improve upon the best that they have seen elsewhere right across the range of sporting interests.
That, broadly, is a sketchy outline of what is in today's "Raising the Game" document. I will launch it more formally with more detail at Millwall -
There are one or two other oddments that I just might add. If we are going to raise sporting endeavour in schools they need pitches and grounds. One of the initiatives that will come in the Sports White Paper this morning is to maintain the minimum standards that are necessary that schools must have but also for the first time to give the sports councils a statutory right to he consulted and block the sale where appropriate of school playing facilities. That is a change from previous policy, I think it is a change that is right. There may be occasions when it is appropriate because there is a huge excess of sporting facilities to be sold but that is not generally the case. The sports councils will have a statutory right to consult and in those circumstances the sale of the grounds would not proceed and I think that would be worthwhile.
The second ambition that we have is to ensure that by the end of this decade every school in the land will have access to green-
We will be relying on help from many other people. You can't prescribe this by diktat, you can't write it into legislation. We will need the help and support first and foremost of teachers and volunteers who will help us with, our initiatives in and around schools; we will need the Support of the clubs and we will need the support which I have no doubt will be forthcoming of many of our leading sporting figures to set an example about what actually can be done.
That is what we are about. I think this is an initiative that is long overdue but it isn't an initiative that could possibly have been carried through until and unless we had access to the sort of funding that has been unleashed by the successful establishment of the national lottery. That is established, it looks secure, the resources look certain, we have started to lay the plans down.
There is just one other thing that I wish to say. I said a moment ago that this isn't a one-
That is what we plan. I should offer you lain Sproat's apologies for not being here. He has been one of the main architects of this policy and the only reason he is not here is that ill luck being what it is, Iain is actually on the floor of the House of Commons at the moment piloting through the Olympic Rings Bill and very probably listening to speeches that need not be made offering support for a policy that is undoubtedly right when I am sure in his heart he would rather have rolled up that business and be here with us. I hope he will soon be able to join us.
Can I just finally thank you for being here. Everyone here in their own way, whether a sports administrator, a sportsman, a representative of the teacher unions, someone from the voluntary sector or our colleagues from journalism has a special role to play. I hope what we are seeking to do will get the widest possible publicity. I hope so for this reason above all: we need the help of literally thousands upon thousands of people who are out there who love sport who I believe will offer their help if they believe there is something that will come out at the other end of it. I believe we have something that will come out at the other end. We need the publicity to bring forward the help.
Thank you for being here this morning. Please feel in no hurry to leave. You are very welcome to stay for -


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12-year-old gets into college while still in primary school
Huang Sihan, a 5th grade student from Anhui Province in China got admitted to the Anhui Professional College of Art after sitting for an independent entrance exam. Huang spent several years studying Hui Opera and was encouraged by her teacher to apply for the five-year opera performance program.
The 12-year-old is currently attending a primary school dedicated to promoting traditional culture and developing talented children. Huang only started Hui Opera about four years ago and emerged as a truly gifted student. She is pictured below dancing elegantly with her fellow schoolmates:
She will be the first graduates of her primary school to enter the program, and with free admission, offered by the Anhui Professional College of Art!


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MSA Architects' project, City of Blue Ash, Ohio – Government Summit Park was awarded the 2016 "Excellence in Masonry Design" by Tri-State Masonry Institute. This is the highest commendation awarded by the institute and we are truly honored and excited to win!
If you're in the Blue Ash area, make sure to check out this incredible project!


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Spice rub:
4 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon ground thyme
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
cayenne pepper to taste
1 whole chicken
It can also be done in the crock pot, but I haven't tried that yet. If you make yours in the crock pot, please let me know how it works!
Happily posted to Tasty Tuesday, Tempt My Tummy Tuesday and Crock Pot Wednesday.


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Connecting You With
Your Audience
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Find and amplify the stories of your brand, your mission, your community and your life.
If you were standing here in 1903, you would be in our company's newest factory, surrounded by immense steel rollers, hydraulic presses and a giant cooker...
— history wall, corporate headquarters
Paul's dad was an expert fisherman. When Paul was a kid, he used to watch his dad tie elaborate Dropper knots in his line just above the sinker. Paul remembers thinking, "I'll never be able to tie one of those..."
— creative brief for employee video
It was New Year's Eve. Pat was reading a book and sipping champagne when she felt a twinge in her breast, then found a lump. She just knew...
— fundraising letter
One of my absolutely favorite things to do in Minneapolis is to run by St. Anthony Main, past all the historic buildings, and wonder how many footsteps have preceded me...
—neighborhood mobile history tour
Present your best self in informal talks, business presentations, keynote speeches and media interviews.
Capture the hearts and minds of your nonprofit, consumer or business audiences.
A sampling of projects and new offerings.
Founded by John Capecci and Timothy Cage, Living Proof Advocacy helps people tell their personal stories with confidence, heart, focus ... and impact. John and Tim have helped thousands of advocates and hundreds of organizations share their stories to increase awareness, educate others, create change or raise funds. www.livingproofadvocacy.com
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Since 2001, my team of trainers and I have had the honor of preparing 750+ WomenHeart Champions, the "boots on the ground" army of advocates telling their personal stories and fighting heart disease in women.
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Stop re-inventing the wheel with each new communication. I'll help you create a message platform that can inform all your organization's communications: web copy, targeted campaigns, presentations, videos and tweets.
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YONECO, located in Zomba, Malawi, provides a "net" to catch the country's most vulnerable—youth, children and women. Together, we built a messaging platform to convey the importance of their work to their various audiences—from funders and government agencies to village leaders and children.
One of the joys of being a communication trainer: everyone appreciates becoming a better, more confident speaker, no matter the vocation or avocation.
Give me an hour and we'll craft the basic design of your presentation, talk, pitch or keynote.
"In the area of speaking, you've made me a much better 'me.'"
The lobby of Valspar's Applied Science and Technology Center uses color, text, sculpture and space to tell stories of the company's innovations. It includes this wall, which captures 200 years in word, image and artifact. I helped develop the stories and content as part of the team from Star.
"We rely on John as our subject matter expert when it comes to organizing stories and content."
They dreamt of a place where no one faces cancer alone. Working with Brandspeak and Bev Bachel, we helped make that dream reality by coaching advocates, creating videos, and writing fundraising appeals and web copy that helped Gilda's Club open their red doors in the Twin Cities.
"You helped us find our voice. Our messaging moved from 'blah, blah, blah' to being worth a half a million dollars (in one night!)."
Learn to tell the core story can draw upon whenever you need to convince someone of the importance of what you do—the basis of your elevator pitch, informal talk, appeal to supporters or keynote address. How do you talk about what you do?
"We came away empowered and enriched."
Working with the Walker's development department and its education and community programs, I helped tell their donors' stories, train sculpture garden guides and dream up taglines for events like their After Hours parties.
"You help us tell our story in fresh, engaging ways."
Minneapolis' oldest neighborhood is now one of its most vibrant—thanks, in part, to the work we've done with Bev Bachel and the MHNA: a website about living near your work, promotional materials, funding proposals and a mobile history tour app that won a 2014 Heritage Preservation Award from AIA-MN.
"John can distill a clamor of voices into one clear vision."
An employee-education campaign, delivered as a spoof of a satirical newspaper, including original fake content, horoscopes, comics and crossword puzzles. Dreamed up with the creative minds at The Electric Studio.
"John is always our first choice for high-priority projects ... like fake newspapers."
Why do you want to connect with your audience and how do you plan to do it? That's the question I help answer. Ever since pivoting from a career as a communication studies professor and launching my business in 1996, my goal has been to help clients do award-winning work that turns heads and touches hearts. Whether I'm working on my own or collaborating with talented individuals and agencies, my goal always is to apply creativity and strategy to clients' challenges.
I train, coach, consult, strategize, speak and write. I'm also co-author of Living Proof: Telling Your Story to Make a Difference and proud to support the changemakers of the world. For more of the story, see work samples below.
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Sheridan, Wyoming Area Attractions near Our Family Dude Ranch
Sheridan, Wyoming is a friendly, western town of about 15,000 people. It is only a half-hour drive from our family dude ranch and the Ranch car goes into town daily. Sheridan provides excellent shops, doctors, dentists and most other professional services. Sheridan is also the site of the Sheridan WYO Rodeo in July and the Sheridan County Rodeo in August.
King's Saddlery and King's Museum
Sheridan, Wyoming (30 min.)
Bozeman Trail Gallery
Sheridan, Wyoming (30 min)
Buffalo Bill and Whitney Gallery of Western Art
Cody, Wyoming (3 hrs.)
Battle of the Little Big Horn
Crow Agency, Montana (1.5 hrs.)
Bradford Brinton Memorial Museum and Gallery
Big Horn, Wyoming (40 min.)
Trail End State Historic Site – Kendrick Mansion
Sheridan, Wyoming (30 min.)
Sheridan Inn
Sheridan, Wyoming (30 min.)
Kleiber Museum
Dayton, Wyoming (20 min.)
Fort Phil Kearny
Story, Wyoming (1 hr.)
And others…
Tours of nearby attractions can be arranged when you arrive at the Ranch for an additional charge.


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Scientists who went to war
Like necessity, war breeds invention, so it is not surprising that many great scientists and engineers have made significant contributions to warfare. Our gallery shows how conflict has sparked innovation – and sometimes regret. Caroline Morley
Painting, sculpture and architecture were not the only things flourishing in Renaissance Italy. Warring city states made it a hotbed for the art of war, too, and Leonardo da Vinci applied his creative talents to designing war machines for his patron, the duke of Milan. Very few of his military inventions were ever realised in his lifetime, but they included a giant crossbow and a scythed chariot, as well as precursors to the tank and the machine gun. Here is a scale model of his multi-gun war machine.
(Image: Mimmo Frassineti/Rex Features)
Not all scientists have been proud of the contribution they made to the war effort. In 1933 Albert Einstein emigrated to the US in response to the Nazi party's rise to power in Germany and implementation of laws that prevented Jews holding official and academic posts. Although other European scientists had warned the US about the threat of atomic bombs being developed in Germany, it is thought that a letter signed by Einstein prompted the US president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, to initiate the Manhattan project.
In 1954, Einstein said to his old friend and fellow Nobel prizewinner, Linus Pauling: "I made one great mistake in my life – when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification – the danger that the Germans would make them…"
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The Manhattan project gave nuclear physicists the opportunity to explore the experimental side of what had previously been largely a theoretical science. Here is Robert Oppenheimer, who headed up the project at Los Alamos in New Mexico and is often called the "father of the atomic bomb".
After the war, he became chief adviser to the US Atomic Energy Commission and lobbied for the international control of nuclear power.
(Image: CSU Archives/Everett Collection/Rex Features)
Working for the British air ministry in the lead-up to the second world war, Robert Watson-Watt led the development of a radio-based system to detect enemy aircraft. The resultant radar stations on the coast of England played a key role during the Battle of Britain.
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Frank Whittle first came up with his idea for a turbojet engine in 1922, as a cadet in the Royal Air Force. His invention didn't come into service until 1944, with the Gloster Meteor, but jet engines are now the leading source of thrust for commercial airliners.
(Image: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Alan Turing was just one of several prominent mathematicians stationed at the UK government's cryptography unit in Bletchley Park during the second world war, along with crossword aficionados and engineers. After working on cracking the Germans' Enigma code, Turing created a new cryptography system called Delilah.
Read more: "Instant Expert: Alan Turing's legacy"
(Image: SSPL/Getty Images)
Wernher von Braun designed long-range rockets for his native Germany during the second world war: his greatest wartime achievement was the V2 rocket. After the war, he moved to the US to oversee its military and space rocketry programmes, culminating in the huge Saturn V rockets that launched the Apollo missions to the moon.
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Big day for me...I've not done any teaching of art classes in schools for a couple of years. But thanks to the invitation if my friend Helen Homes, I spent the day with the children in year one at Saint George's Roman Catholic School in Derby. I had two classes each of 25 children. One class in the morning and the second for the afternoon. We explored the reasons why I have chosen my particular medium of art and then went on to produce some drawings. Hearing a whole class of 6 year olds frantically dotting away with their pencils was rather like being in a caravan which is being attacked by a huge flock of hungry woodpeckers in a hail storm!!
After the break we tried painting which is rather a suicidal move by anyone ho doesn't have a biohazzard suit, a voice akin to a Regimental Sargent Major and the leadership skills to match. but was actually a brilliant time! I'm sorry I don't have any photos to show you, there's all sorts of red tape and child protection issues to address for that.
The level of anxiety I felt in the run up to the day was certainly outweighed by being part of introducing some lovely young people to a way of seeing things and helping them to share the wonder with which I often look at this world with.
Back to the day job tomorrow!
Thursday, March 31, 2011
A day at Saint George's.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
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I spent around five hours dotting today..got achey shoulders...a very long way to go with this, but I'm enjoying the locomotive as the background.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Tables - 18
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Monday, March 28, 2011
Tables - 17
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Friday, March 25, 2011
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Cyn asked me what 'Tables' means...I wondered when someone would ask! Well it has two meanings...one is that my pictures are made up of fairly well known individual characters/objects...when multiplied together you get a bigger sum...(I'm not a mathematician obviously!)...The other meaning means you have to consider the influence my childhood has on these pictures. My Mother is significant in that she was an alcoholic for some time and behaved irrationally...i loved her then and would still love her today if she was still alive. One day she threw a large coffee table at me...I remember it in almost slow motion tumbling through the air towards me ...miraculously I held my hands up in time and deflected it away. As an incident, it has remained with me and I've meant to address it in my work at some point. I will no doubt refer to it again some day in a more literal way..But for now...this giant symbolic riddle will continue for some time!
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
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Making this decision will be tough because I've always thought of 'Tables' as a large piece. I'm going to have a beer, a good long think and see which direction my sketchbook takes me during this eveningg. It's one of the benefits of my particular style of working in that I have plenty of time to change my mind and alter my plans!
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
DreamPlay - Publicity Finished.
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
DreamPlay - Publicity 2
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Monday, March 21, 2011
DreamPlay - Publicity.
I thought you might like to see the process I go through when I'm producing a piece for a customer. I've been asked to work on an image that will be applied to hand bills and posters advertising a children's theatre production. The client provided me with a title, and asked for the image to include a boy and a girl waving at the moon in a star lit sky. So I had a little think and scribbled out my initial ideas which you can see below. I envisioned the children being seen either from behind in silhouette, or from the side with their faces picked out by the moon light.
I then set about making some slightly neater drawings with added colour.
I would then provide the client with these images as a starting point for discussions as to what they would prefer.
The client preferred the above image but wanted me to darken the sky and render the children almost black. thus I set about doing this in the image below. However, it quickly became obvious that although the ideas for the window and figures seemed to be working..the rest of the composition was too plane....and when posted on a notice board in a school or nursery it would blend in with all the other notices. so I decided to add some surrounding shade and colour.
Below you can see the further developed image with a sort of faded wallpaper background...it was also suggested that stars be placed in the corners to add a little more sparkle. After more discussion with the client,it was suggested that the stars be glowing rather than in black. It was at this point I was given the go ahead to produce the final version. I had to bear in mind the various versions of text that would be added to the artwork when it has been stored on the computer.
So below is the first stage of drawing which is the mapping out of the geometrical lines and figures in pencil.
Below I have inked over the lines and erased the pencil. the image is now ready for colour which will (I've not fully decided yet !) will either be ink wash with pencil crayon over it, or purely pencil crayon. this I will decide on tomorrow morning when I can work in daylight. hopefully you will be able to see the finished piece when I next post!
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Friday, March 18, 2011
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Thursday, March 17, 2011
Tables - 13 Doing something funny for money - Comic Relief.
Comic Relief is a British based charity set up in 1988 by some of the countries best known comedians and writers. It's aim is to support projects in the Africa to aid communities have better lives by providing mosquito nets, safe drinking water, better medical and educational facilities. Help for those suffering the effects of AIDS, Malaria, homelessness, malnutrition and exploitation.Also here in the UK, charity groups are supported to help those suffering domestic violence, the effects of poverty, illness and age related issues.The main charity event is in March every two years and features a host of comedians doing something funny for money. the public also help raise funds by buying merchandise and initiating events that bring in money.the last Comic Relief event held in 2009 raised over £61 Million.
funding by comic relief is distributed directly to projects here and abroad. Small grants are issued as well as more substantial amounts. Comic Relief does not give the money to large administration companies , but ensure that all the money you give goes straight to the relevant places. This year, Annie and I are having what we call our 'EXTREME EDIBLE HAMSTER STASH CHALLENGE' We aim to see how many things we can safely stash in our mouths. We're having a Marshmallow stuff, Malteser munch, Pringle pinch and Pickled Onion Packing. The four events will be declared a success if we can each hold 10 or more of each sweet/food in our mouths without fallout! I hope to photograph and video it as we do it.
Please would you consider donating via our comic Relief giving Page? All funds are donatable via PayPal or credit card and go direct to Comic Relief. you can give any amount from £1 upwards....interested? Then all you have to do is have a look at out page and follow the instructions. thanks you, and keep your eyes peeled for events happening near you if you live here in the UK.
Click here for : Niall and Annies Comic Relief giving Page.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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OK..Ok..so I'm probably the last person to go and see 'the King's Speech', but I did so today. Very impressive movie which seemed to be over very soon after it began, and left me feeling quite tearful but happy..an emotional experience.An amazing performance by all the cast, but obviously Colin Firth as lead deserved his Academy Award for best actor after a convincing and powerful performance. Jan is always reminding me that she was in a film with Mr. Firth a couple of years back. Jan was an extra in a film called 'when did you last see your father?'...scenes were shot in the Derby crematorium near Markeaton Park. Jan also likes to remind me that he spoke to her and said "Hello".
I've spent some time working today..i've completed the hands and the crow. I have also added more to the creases in the robes. I now have to work on another mock up of the artwork for the theatre poster...I shall hopefully produce the final version tomorrow.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
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It really is an odd experience to sit day to day working on these images. I've been doing so now for six years and three months. and I've barely gone a few days without working on something or other.If you'd like to gain some idea as to the progress I've made, you should click on the link to 'finished Pictures' which will take you right back to September 2006 and the beginning of this blog.Doing this always excites me, because the difference in subject matter and the intensity of my work has developed...and I can only imagine how much more I will progress in another six years.
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Monday, March 14, 2011
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Ah! Such fun...i love playing dressing up. so today gave me the chance to do just that. Having been given two sets of clerical Vestments last year, it was only a matter of getting them down from the loft..applying a hot iron and setting the self timer on my camera to gain some important photos to work from. Above you might be able to see the lines drawn in for the creases in the Vicar's Surplus. this I was able to do easily from the photos I took (see below) and the shadows were in exactly the right place!
Please, feel free to laugh...there's nothing great about these photos..and my hair is all old mannish at the moment...I've decided to grow it long and enjoy it before it all falls out!
My leg is higher than required for the picture, but my leg was not the subject. however I did want to see how the clothing fell around it. One thing I found out is that it's impossible to have that much leg exposure without having to open the Cassock and lift the Surplus.What does that mean for my subject?...perhaps it relates to his arrogance..I guess for many years members of the clergy who had abused their place of trust within the community had escaped the law because of their profession.
So bless you for reading...see you tomorrow!
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Sunday, March 13, 2011
The robes.
Tomorrow I shall set about taking the photos. I also have a commercial commission to attend to, details of which I'll tell you about tomorrow.
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Friday, March 11, 2011
Tables - 10
My heart, thoughts and prayers have been wrapped up in concern for the people of Japan today as the terrible news and images were shown on our TVs as the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and subsequent Tsunami caused death and destruction in it's wake. I could not believe my eyes as events unfolded live. Gripped by an almost unbreakable compulsion to watch and reach out with my thoughts, it was as if by giving all my time and not missing the coverage, I could somehow help and be involved with protecting those who were suffering.
And then as if reminding me how small a planet we now live on, a Face Book friend in California voiced her fears over the safety of her two sons living down on the coast. the tsunami was expected to make landfall there hours after the initial earthquake. I have not heard back from my friend yet.
So once again, I'm making a habit of putting in less than the required hours each day I prefer to work. In fact it seemed stupid to occupy myself with such ridiculous notions as fetish boots and Neanderthal skulls. but you know...life has to go on. One cannot (despite being thousands of miles away) be any use apart from carrying on...we do what we do...and we do it to the best of our ability. Weather you make cars, sell bread, manage hedge funds, clean toilets or care for the sick. we do it..we do it because that is life.
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Thursday, March 10, 2011
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Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Tables - 8
So far I have spent just short of 30 hours dotting with probably the equivalent time on sketches beforehand. ..and it's got me thinking. Originally I have intended for a group of figures to the left..the Cello Girls..a Cancan girl and the Airman from a previous picture called 'Anyway'. I've considered limiting the picture to just this scene you see above. I'm not certain yet, but you'll know soon enough.
there's also one other thing I wanted to tell you about which has changed the way I work. Last September I went for my regular eye test...I go yearly because my Father suffered from Glaucoma, and it's hereditary. The tests has shown no sign of it but I was alarmed when my Optician informed me that he detected the beginnings of Dry Macular Deterioration...that's where the part of the retina which is directly opposite the lens is damaged and loses the ability to convey stimulus to the optic nerve.Sufferers lose their sight for things immediately central in their vision but retain peripheral vision.
I'm a long way from the full blown effects, but I just wanted to warn you so that you don't suffer the same damage.I have worked at my desk for the last six years in a south facing window...the sun blasts down upon where I work and reflects off the page. This is the reason for the damage to my retinas. I now have to work behind closed curtains if the sun is out...and wear sunglasses when I go out in strong sunshine. If I'm careful, the damage need not get any worse.
Look after your eyes...get them checked if you haven't been in a while..and get them checked if any of your close relatives have suffered Glaucoma or diabetes.
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Tuesday, March 08, 2011
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Just about completed the wing apart from a few touch ups...I'll work on the rest of the bird tomorrow then I'll probably work down the column of the lectern. I've not been up in the loft yet to retrieve the Vicar's robes..or 'Vestments' I think they're usually referred to as.The more I think about it, the Vicar would not have accidentally exposed his leg to that degree...he would therefore have purposefully done so. I'll not know for sure until I try it for myself!
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Monday, March 07, 2011
Tables - 6
Wings...there's more to wings than meets the eye! Around four and a half hours work for these few feathers, that's what!
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Sunday, March 06, 2011
Tables - 5
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Saturday, March 05, 2011
Tables - 4
started work on the Crow Lectern.Had to redraw the wings and head a couple of times...ended up looking very similar to what it looked like before I reworked it.
On a different note, it's not often my daughter and I like the same music, but we've both decided we like Jessie J...though probably for different reasons. She's a wonderfully stylish young lady who delight in her own designs. A singer song writer of enormous potential, she is currently wowing the public with her chart topping song 'Price tag' Below are a few selected images which will give you some idea as to why I like her.(non of the photographs are mine and if you are the copyright holder, I will remove the images if you need me to)
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Thursday, March 03, 2011
Tables - 3
My next major job is to go up into my attic and find the Vicar's robes we have...I need to photograph myself wearing them so I can see how the folds work...I also want to work on the Crow Lectern.
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Wednesday, March 02, 2011
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I'm quite jealous of who See's my work at this stage. whilst I'm oddly happy to share my work online here and on Facebook, I'm not happy to show the actual piece to visitors to my house. I can't explain the reason why. I suppose because usually those who come to my house are my close friends and very few of them actually follow my work online. Revealing a partially created picture to someone who is not familiar with the concept behind it's formation is rather like exposing myself..it feels as if it should remain a private matter until all the components are in place.
I know that those who understand art , understand the 'work in progress' and are able not to judge the piece whilst incomplete. But many don't....and I often feel that I myself am being judged....and I'm not prepared to argue my case until all my evidence is in place....I know what I mean, i hope you do too...I'm beginning to get a little self absorbed here so I'll end. See you tomorrow!
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Tuesday, March 01, 2011
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Below as I promised, is a photo of the entire area I intend to cover...I will publish a photo like this each time.
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Will team Charming be able to save Henry? Will they get his heart back from Pan and escape Neverland? Why does Jafar need Alice's Father? What happened to Jafar as a child? Will Alice be able to save her father? All this and more as Jose and Larissa return after a long hiatus to catch up on Once!
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Sat, 7 December 2013
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- Development of an attorney and senior administrative manager evaluation process to review and recognize the contributions made by our attorneys and department chairs to advance the Firm's efforts to fulfill our commitment to diversity and inclusion.
- Emphasis of the Firm's long standing policy that encourages reporting of any discrimination or harassment based on sex, race, national origin or other protected status.
- Participation in opportunities outside the Firm to explore diversity and inclusion initiatives underway with clients, community organizations, bar associations and minority organizations that share this common objective.
- Strong efforts toward recruiting of excellent minority and women attorneys and law students.
- Emphasis on retention and advancement of minority and women attorneys.
The Diversity and Inclusion Committee works closely with the Executive Committee, Recruiting Committee and Associates Committee to carry out these and other initiatives to help strengthen diversity and inclusion throughout the Firm.
In addition to our internal diversity and inclusion initiatives, the Firm and our attorneys are committed to supporting diversity in the legal community:
- In the Fall of 2014, Murtha Cullina became the new host office for Lawyers Collaborative for Diversity (LCD). Click here to learn more about LCD.
- Murtha Cullina was one of the first Connecticut firms to subscribe to the CT Bar Association's Pledge of Gender Equity.
- We are an MA member of the Boston Lawyers Group, a collaboration of law firms supporting diversity, and one of our attorneys holds a leadership position.
- We are a founding member of The Connecticut Alliance for Business Opportunities (CABO), the state's first and only Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) Chamber of Commerce.
Our attorneys are also members of the:
- Connecticut Black Bar Association
- Connecticut Hispanic Bar Association
- Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford Legal and Tax Panel
- South Asian Bar Association
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EVESHAM TWP., N.J. - March 11, 2013 --Two people were found dead at a Burlington County apartment complex.
The Evesham Police Department responded to the Weston Club senior living community on the 300 block of Hailey Drive for a report of two unconscious residents.
Officers located a male and female unconscious inside the apartment.
The male and female were later pronounced dead on the scene.
Police say evidence found at the scene leads investigators to believe the deaths were self-inflicted.
The case is still under investigation and the official cause of death will be determined at a later date.


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Voice Description
My voice is loud and clear,announcer style.(M.Buffer)It can be sexy and alluring.Very good english.Presentable and smooth.
Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform
• Middle Age Male
• Senior Male
Language(s) of Which I Am a Native Speaker:
• English - USA and Canada
I Offer my Services for these Recording Purposes
• Commercials
• Promos
• IVR, voicemail, phone systems, and on-hold messages
• Training, business presentations, sales, and web sites
• Audiobooks
• Videogames
• Documentaries
• TV shows and movies
• Movie and game trailers
• Podcasts
• Adult content
• Songs
• Others (on-camera, infomercials, live announcers, spokespersons)
Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)
• Non-Union Jobs
• Jobs for SAG-AFTRA (US) signatories
My Union Affiliations and Memberships
My Recording and Delivery Capabilities
• I will go to any designated studio in my area
• I can record and then deliver the audio files via Email
• I can record and then upload the audio files via FTP
• I can record and then deliver the files by regular mail
Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer
• I can deliver edited and finished voice tracks
• I offer radio ad production services
• I have a music library and can add music to any project
My Home Base
, Arkansas, United States
Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects
I do an impersonation of Ted Williams.I have a Chicago Bulls line up announcement,that I practice,As well as Jimmy Kimmel's announcer.I have been told that I am the best announcer Crowley's Ridge College has ever had.I announce for the men's and women's basketball team's.I also do announcing for the Maynard Tiger team's in Maynard Ar.And I also practice radio announcing on a daily schedule.
My Voice Experience
I haven't done any voice work for money.All the announcing has been charitable. Crowleys Ridge College Paragould, Ar. Maynard High School Maynard,Ar.
My Training
I completed 11th grade and later recieved G.E.D.
My Studio Equipment
Unknown - Click here to ask Jeff Skudlark Sr.
Additional Skills
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Payment Methods Accepted
• PayPal
• Credit cards
• Personal checks, cashier's checks, or money orders in my local currency
• Wire transfers
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Every Time You Play
Always give your bow hair a few long swipes of rosin whenever you take your instrument out of the case. If you don't use rosin, your bow will be slick, and you will get a poor, weak sound. Don't overdo the rosin either. Too many swipes will give you a scratchy or whistling sound and will deposit more rosin dust on your violin. If the rosin starts to build up on your hair and become a little
gooey, you can use a clean toothbrush to remove the build-up. Buy a good cake of rosin. It will last for years and provide a consistent resistance to create a beautiful sound. Rub a new cake of rosin with a little fine sandpaper; do not scrape with a hard utensil/tool, and especially NOT with the screw of the bow. Don't lend your rosin to someone else. Nine times out of 10, you will end up needing to replace it!
Tighten your bow to the correct tension. Generally, for all bows except a German bass bow, the distance between the bow and the hair at the middle of the stick should be the same as the thickness of the bow stick. There should be a curve in the middle of the stick towards the hair. If you tighten your bow more than this, your bow will be too straight and will lose some of its performance, and it will be more difficult to play some strokes, such as spiccato, which require the bow to bounce.
When you are finished playing and are ready to put your instrument in its case, loosen the hair, so that there is no tension on it. This will help keep your bow from warping. Also, wipe any rosin dust off your instrument, strings, and bow stick with a soft cloth before you put them in the case. If you don't, the sticky rosin dust will build up into a crust that will harm your sound and damage the varnish.
If you must put your instrument down, always put it in its case. Never leave your instrument on a chair, a table, a couch, the floor, or hanging by its scroll from a stand. We have seen a number of accidents that easily could have been prevented by putting up an instrument in its case. Don't let someone
try your instrument. No one is ever as careful as you are with your own instrument.