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In The Locker Room
by CARL DICKSON
Does your mother know you're reading this shit?
Warning: This story is PORNO. I have tried my hand at friction, now I'm trying fiction. This story contains vivid descriptions of sexual activity between teen boys. It contains no truth, partial truth, or half truth. What it does contain is stroking material. If this kind of story turns you off, please find something else.
The author does not encourage or condone sex between adults and underage children.
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This story is copyrighted, ©2005. It is therefore illegal to copy or use any part of this story without my written permission.
There he was again. Strutting around the locker room, naked as the day he was born, letting his stuff show to anyone that wanted to look. I mean, what's with that? I have to cover up, quickly. I am embarrassed for anyone to see me naked. Really, I have much more to offer than he does but he's the one showing it.
Well alright, I'll fill you in. I'm Jason, J. to my friends, Jace to my family. I'm fourteen and in the ninth grade. It sucks being a freshman. All the older kids pick on you and talk down to you. I really hate it when the girls do the baby talk routine. I am so gonna get even one of these days.
Yeah, yeah, I know you want the sleazy stuff or else you wouldn't be reading at this porno site, fucking perverts. I wish some pervert would do me. I am virgin and horrrnnnyyyy. I stand five foot four. I weigh one hundred and ten pounds. I am pretty buff. I have a real nice chest with a strong dividing line that goes all the way down to my belly. I have a little diamond shape indentation right in the middle, under my pillowy pecs. I have a pretty good start on a six pack and I am trying for an eight. Yeah, I work out. I go to the weight room after school because they have a few machines that work my special areas. The coach is usually there and he watches me real close. I have caught him with a hard on so many times. I wish he would show it to me.
Anyway, I have a huge weight pile in the garage at home. My dad was big on work outs. He used to have these big hunks of men over and they would work out, in the nude. That embarrassed me so dad made them wear this really small string type pouch that hid their stuff. I started working out when I was seven. Dad put me on a routine that would help me develop but wouldn't stunt my growth. He used to tell me that I couldn't do some of the really neat routines until I was well into puberty or it could hurt me for the rest of my life.
Dad had this one teenager that I really liked watching work out. He would face me and we would do our routines while looking at each other. He would nearly always get an erection. That puppy was huge. He was uncut and his man stick came up over his navel to the middle of his ripped abs. It was thicker than my wrist. I got real close sometimes so I could see. He is the only guy I have ever seen erect but I know from reading these porno stories that he was one big boy. I am almost sure that he wanted my little body and I would have given it to him on a dime. Dad came out one time and caught him facing me with his stuff all stiff. Dad walked up to him and stroked him. He pulled the skin back and showed the most perfect purple top in the world as he and the boy kissed. I watched dad's hand all over that beautiful head and then the boy started to cum. It was shooting on the two of them and running down their bodies to drip on the floor. The boy was shaking as dad held him close and continued to kiss him.
Dad turned and looked at me and smiled. His whole front was covered in cum. He told us he had to hose off before the anchor saw him. He turned to the door and my mom was standing there. "Anchor, huh. Get your shit, take your boyfriend and get the fuck out." She grabbed me and pushed me to the house. I have not seen my dad since and that was over three years ago.
He left taking nothing. I have searched the house and the only thing missing were his clothes. There are no longer any pictures of him anywhere. Mom changed her name back to Wilson. She wanted to change my name but I guess somebody wouldn't allow it.
My work outs started to pay off. I entered puberty just before dad left. He and I talked a lot about that stuff. My dick had started to grow just after I turned eleven. My balls dropped and I had hairs, three actually by the third month of my eleventh year. Dad showed me how to clean my dick head. He told me about shit getting under my foreskin and how to keep it clean. He showed me how to jack off. I really love him and I miss him so bad. I want someone to jack off with and maybe let me suck on him. Anyway, my dick is now a nice seven and three quarter inches long. It is thicker than a big polish sausage. I don't like for anyone to see it because they would make fun of me.
Paul on the other hand. There he goes, strutting his stuff. His dick is like two inches, soft. It is about as thick as a quarter. He is uncut and that is a real plus to me. He has a comfort layer on him. He is not fat, he just has no definition. His pecs are soft and smooth. His whole torso just has that puffy layer on it. It looks like a big soft pillow, or more like a pillow pad for a mattress. I kind of think that it would be fun to just lay my head on him and sleep.
I don't know why. I look at all these boys in the locker room and the cut cocks look naked. They look incomplete. There is only one other uncut cock in this class that I have seen and it is a nice one. His name is James, not Jim or anything else, and he is class. I would do him...Oh, I wish I wasn't so shy. I saw James hard as nails one day. He was next to me in the shower and I know he was checking me out. He was washing his cock and had a lot of lather on it. It was fully hard and sticking out about six inches. He was really stroking. I got a hard on and he was really staring as his cum arched up and landed on me. I stepped back under the shower and turned my back. I was excited but embarrassed.
James talked about me to several of the guys. I had some come up to me and ask if I was really hung. I heard talk like I was the best looking dude in class and I had the biggest dick and a really ripped body. Girls started talking me up and trying to cop a feel. I got where I wear my back pack slung over my left shoulder and carry it in front so it covers my bod. I don't want anyone fainting from looking at the finest piece of boyhood God ever created.
One day I am sitting on the bench just spacing. I only had a towel wrapped around me, actually laid over me. I had started to take it off and I sat down on the bench and just draped the towel to cover my goods. I had a sock in one hand and my boxer briefs in the other. I can't stand boxers, there's no support and I like to be held up and out of the way or I crush my balls when I sit down. James and Paul walked up to me. They were both naked. Paul sat down, straddle the bench with a leg to each side like he was going to ride it. James stood beside me and put his hand on my back.
"You are the hottest looking thing I have ever seen." With that said he jerked my towel away and Paul grabbed my cock and stuck it in his mouth. I scooted back and pulled my knees up.
"Hey, James. Check this cherry hole. God that is so cute." Paul reached out and ran his fingers over my ass hole. I looked around and the locker room was empty. I knew that there were no classes in here the next hour so no one could come to my rescue. James pushed me back and forced me to lay on the bench. I still had my arms around my knees and they were up against my chest. James started to kiss me and Paul was pushing my legs apart as he was licking and kissing on my butt.
James pried my hands apart and forced my legs apart. He moved his body so that he was half laying on me. His kisses were doing a number on me and I could feel my cock pulsing. Paul now had my legs spread wide and he was sticking his tongue in my ass and driving me crazy. James ran his hands around my chest then he began to circle my nipples. He was driving me insane with pleasure.
Paul put a finger in my ass and started to pump as he moved up and took my cock in his mouth. I heard him gag a few times and then he had his nose buried in my prize pubic bush. He started to fuck my cock in and out of his mouth and I thought I was in heaven. James left me and went in behind Paul. He bent over and spit in Paul's butt then raised up on his knees. I could see his big, hard cock as he pointed it down and moved forward. I felt Paul lurch forward as James shoved his dick all the way in Paul's ass.
James began to fuck. I could hear his skin slapping against Paul with every thrust. In a few minutes I could hear squishy sounds and figured he must have fucked up some ass juice like I read in some of these stories. Paul was really doing a number on my cock and I could feel my cum moving into formation for a full frontal assault.
James was plowing ahead with full speed. I watched his face as he twisted it to so many different shapes. Suddenly he had that look that I associated with an ejaculation and shoved his dick all the way into Paul as hard as he could. Paul took my dick to the hair line and I fired off a load of cum deep in his throat. I felt something hot and wet land on my leg then as I shot another load I felt it again. Paul was shooting his juice on my leg. James was pounding Paul with short hard strokes and by the look on his face he was having on hell of a climax.
Finished James pulled out of Paul. Paul raised up from me letting my dick fall aside as it softened. James stood in front of Paul as he moved around and sucked James's dick deep in his mouth. He sucked that dick clean. James looked at me, "He is by far the best cocksucker I have ever had and he loves to take it up the butt. I will share him with you but you have to swear that you won't tell anybody or let anyone else use him. Now you can come around here and fuck him. He want's that big cock of yours up his butt"
Still in a trance I got up. James moved around and lay down on the bench, as I had. Paul was on his knees sucking James with his butt sticking straight up. I could see his ass hole all open and wide. Cum was on the bench where he had been sitting and I saw some oozing down his thighs. I moved in and pushed my cock all the way in with one straight forward move. Paul grunted in pain. He spit James's cock out, "Easy dude, You are huge. Let me get used to it. That is the finest cock in this school but take it easy for a minute."
I took short strokes as I moved back and forth in his tight chute. Damn, this is so much better than jacking off. I have always wanted to do queer things but I didn't want to be queer. I guess it's not queer to fuck some guy who really wants it. Then I kind of woke up. I had not been altogether for the last fifteen minutes I looked around and said to myself, "Yeah, this isn't queer. Three naked boys fucking and sucking in a highschool locker room." I began to pound Paul with all I had. If I was going to be queer than I was going to enjoy myself. I had such a big cum that I was weakened by its force.
James had gotten off. I had gotten off. I felt good. I stood up and Paul went to his knees in front of me and started to suck my soft shit and cum covered cock. I looked down and he was beating his five and a half inch cock with full speed. In moments he fired a load of thin, watery cum on my left leg and foot. Then he backed up and looked at me like a puppy waiting for a pat on the head. So that's what I did. I patted his head then rustled his hair.
James looked at me, "I have to do this. I am so sorry. I am not a fag but your ass." He pushed me over so that I was bent and he dropped to his knees and started to lick my ass. He only did it for a couple of minutes then he stood up with tears running down his face. He took my hand and led me to the showers. Paul followed and we all gathered under a single shower head and held each other.
We turned all the showers on around us to as hot as they would go and filled the room with steam. Paul moved off and began to wash his ass bending over to let the water rinse out the cum. He kind of squatted and pushed. A big blob of cum and something else popped out and he used his foot to push it to the drain.
James never let go of me. We was soaping my back and feeling my ass. He just kept repeating in my ear, "I'm not queer." Then he kissed me, tongue and all. I washed his back and ass and I could feel both of our hard cocks rubbing against each other. Paul slapped James on the ass and said, "thanks man. That was the best." and left us.
James began to hump against me letting our cocks slide together. It felt really good but I wanted a little more action. Without saying a word I got it. James slipped down the front of me, dragging his face all the way down my body till he was on his knees and my cock was in his mouth. He pushed me back so that my shoulders were against the wall and he began to really suck on my dick. He was so much better than Paul. He worked his mouth and throat muscles as he applied strong suction. He was moving the full length of my cock from his lips to his throat. I was getting weak all over as I could feel my load moving. Suddenly he shoved his finger in my ass and began to pump in and out. In moments he had three fingers in me and was giving my little butt nut a nice massage. I tensed and fired the strongest load I have ever felt from the head of my dick. I continued to shoot, load after load after load. I had just gotten off twice not ten minutes before and here I was with the granddaddy of cums sucking every drop of fluid from every part of my body going right down this hot boy's mouth.
James and I became secret boyfriends. We mess around with Paul several times a week. We fill him from both ends. He really likes being double dicked. We both do him from both ends so he gets his fill of cum. Then he cleans up and takes off leaving James and I to make out until I have to go home to face my old homophobic mother. I swear that this woman has so much hate in her...I fear for what she might do if she found out that I love to suck cock and I let James fuck me everyday. Wow, I love that boy.
I told him I was going to tattoo a big W on each cheek of his ass. When he was stretched out on the bed with his legs up waiting for me I could see what I was thinking. His ass hole would form the O so I would see WoW across his butt as I moved in. Then if someone saw the tattoo he could bend over and show them that it was a tribute to MoM. He giggled but I think that he might do it.
I decided that we really needed to do something nice for our favorite cock sucker so I got James to go along. Now when we do Paul we take his sock, that he has worn all day, and wrap it around the head of his dick so it is well covered. Then we let him lay down on top of us while he sucks us. I push his stuff aside so that his cock is on my shoulder and I kind of play with his balls as James fucks him. He really likes the extra attention. I am doing it because I really get off watching James's big dick going in and out of that ass hole right in my face. I do get kind of messy as the juices squirt out but it just adds to the excitement.
James does the same thing and he told me that he gets so boned watching my cock sliding in and out of that hole. He said that his cums are much stronger and better. When we both have had a turn at him we let him roll to his back. We take the sock with his cum soaked in it�he can usually get off three or four times during our fuck and suck sessions�and let him suck on it as we slowly jack him off. He really loves this and I think it makes him want to do us better because we pay attention to his needs too. Hey, you have to take care of your cocksucker or he will go somewhere else.
I have more confidence now and I kind of strut in the locker room. I am not quite as flamboyant as Paul or even James but I have learned that I really like the looks I get. I even get a few gropes and I don't complain. Word had gotten out and I have at least four guys join me in my after school weight program. We all work out nude and almost always are hard. I get a lot of respect from the other students. Even seniors pat me on the back and say hello. The older girls really like to talk me up and at lunch James and I have to go outside to keep from being mobbed. I don't know how I really feel about all of the attention. It is just second quarter of my freshman year. What is it going to be like for the next three and a half years?
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Bruins defeat Penguins with two goals in final 1:29by Matt Kalman
BOSTON -- The final regular-season meeting between the Boston Bruins and Pittsburgh Penguins featured playoff-level physical play, including 67 hits, and ended as the third one-goal game between last spring's Eastern Conference finalists.
Boston scored twice in the final 1:29, including Zdeno Chara's with 13 seconds left, to snap the Penguins' season-high five-game winning streak and prevail 3-2 at TD Garden on Saturday night.
"Yeah, it was very hard for me. Since the start of the game it was very physical," Chara said. "There was a lot of emotions involved and it was up-and-down hockey, a lot of scoring chances, very playoff kind of hockey.
"We were behind the whole game. We were just fighting for that tying goal and eventually we got it and then we carried that momentum into basically the end of the game and we were able to score a goal with very little time left in the game, so it was a good game to win for us."
Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik was taken from the ice on a stretcher after a first-period altercation with Bruins forward Shawn Thornton. Orpik was released from the hospital Saturday night and was expected to travel back to Pittsburgh with the team.
"Listen I feel awful. It wasn't my intention for that outcome," Thornton said. "I know Brooksie. I've gotten to know him over the last several years here. I skate with him in the summer through the lockout. I texted him a couple times. I feel awful. It definitely was not I wanted to see or anybody wanted to see."
The Bruins (19-8-2) pulled within one point of the Penguins (20-10-1) and Montreal Canadiens for first place in the Eastern Conference.
"It was a good win for us. We haven't felt real good about our game because of the ups and downs, and tonight it was kind of, like I said, a real weird game, it was a grinding type of game," Bruins coach Claude Julien said. "Didn't seem like a ton of stuff was happening, and for us to kind of grind it out and get those two late goals and get the win in regulation, I think we have to build on that."
Down 2-1 entering the third period, the Bruins had several opportunities to tie the game. Reilly Smith missed an open net, and Chara hit a post. Sidney Crosby could have extended the Penguins' lead but was stopped by Tuukka Rask (28 saves) on a breakaway right after Chara rattled the iron.
With Rask pulled for an extra attacker, David Krejci tied the score at 18:31. Chara fanned on Milan Lucic's pass but Krejci beat Marc-Andre Fleury (18 saves) with a wrist shot from between the circles.
Chara scored the game-winner with a wrist shot from the high slot at 19:47.
Before the first period ended, the Bruins had lost two forwards, Loui Eriksson to a concussion and Thornton to a match penalty.
Thornton injured Orpik by hitting the Penguins player while he was down on the ice. Orpik was alert and conscious at Massachusetts General Hospital, according to the Penguins, and coach Dan Bylsma said Orpik returned from there and would leave with the team.
On the opening shift of the game, Orpik hit Eriksson near the Bruins blue line during a breakout. Eriksson made his way to the bench then to the dressing room after the whistle. He did not return.
Thornton tried to challenge Orpik later in the period but instead was assessed a roughing minor. The Penguins scored on that power play when Chris Kunitz's wrist shot from the left corner deflected off Boston defenseman Dennis Seidenberg's stick then off Chara's body in front of the net to elude Rask at 6:33.
Smith tied the game 1-1 with a one-timer from the left dot at 10:13 after linemate Patrice Bergeron took a hit along the left wall to set up the score. The shot was the Bruins' first on goal and one of five in the first period to Pittsburgh's 13.
During a stoppage in play at 11:06, Thornton joined a scrum involving Pittsburgh defenseman Kris Letang, Orpik and Boston forward Gregory Campbell. Thornton arrived and pulled down Orpik. Thornton was assessed a match penalty for his actions.
Penguins forward James Neal received a two-minute minor for kneeing Brad Marchand during the same stoppage. Neal struck a prone Marchand in the head with his knee.
"I mean, what do you want me to say? That I was trying to hit him?" Neal said. "No, I'm going by him, I don't get out of the way, like I said. I need to be more careful and I guess get my knee out of the way, but I'm not trying to hit him in the head or injure him or anything like that."
The NHL announced Saturday night that Neal will have a telephone hearing with the Department of Player Safety on Monday. It also said Thornton will have an in-person hearing at a date to be determined.
The Penguins did the best they could to refocus on the game after Orpik left in that manner.
"Pretty quiet [on the bench]," Crosby said. "Like I said, it's hard to focus on hockey when you see a teammate and a friend just lying there, and he's motionless. You don't know what's wrong with him. We hear he's doing OK, but it's definitely kind of a different scenario when you're sitting there and it's quiet. The whole building was pretty quiet. I think they realized it was pretty vicious."
After the teams skated 4-on-4 for two minutes, the Penguins scored once during the remainder of Thornton's penalty. Neal came out of the box and caught a stretch pass from Matt Niskanen at the Boston blue line. From the left dot, Neal beat Rask to the short side with a wrist shot at 13:13 for a 2-1 lead.
Pittsburgh didn't capitalize on two power plays in the second period. Rask got help from Seidenberg, who made a save on Jussi Jokinen's one-timer during one of the power plays when Rask was unable to get into position.
That set up the third-period dramatics.
"We did a pretty good job until the end," Crosby said. "They pull their goalie, put on some pressure, and then score on that chance. And then, pretty frustrating to give up that last one there, with 13 seconds left. I don't feel like we really thought the game was out of hand at any point. I think we made a couple mistakes that hurt us."
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Rutherford's Farm
Other Names: None
Location: Frederick County and Winchester
Campaign: Early's Raid and Operations against the B&O Railroad (June-August 1864)
Date(s): July 20, 1864
Principal Commanders: Commanders: Brig. Gen. William W. Averell [US]; Maj. Gen. S.D. Ramseur [CS]
Forces Engaged: Divisions(5,850 total)
Estimated Casualties: 1,100 total
Description: On July 20, Brig. Gen. W.W. Averell's Union division attacked Maj. Gen. S.D. Ramseur's Confederate division at Rutherford's and Carter's farms. This sudden assault came in on the flank of Hoke's brigade as it was deploying, throwing it into a panic. Ramseur retreated toward Winchester in confusion. Averell captured four pieces of artillery and nearly 300 men. With this defeat, Early withdrew his army south to a defensive position at Fisher's Hill.
Result(s): Union victory
CWSAC Reference #: VA115
Preservation Priority: IV.1 (Class D)
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Advice please on what plug in would I need to do this? :) Also how to do pencil effect in procedural
I'm doing some illustrations with Carrara and I would like an effect where the light source washes out the texture but doesn't give me pure white.
IE the maximum highlight might be a light grey , but at this point there would be no texture showing.
Any advice on what plug ins if anything or settings in Carrara to do this?
I am rendering mat objects that wouldn't work if they looked shiny
edit also looking for advice (after Dougs' comment) on making a pencil effect with procedurals :)
thanks in advance
ds-mail_2e0cb9c256 Posts: 70
I would think a procedural texture (not an image file texture) should work like you want it.....adjust reflections, highlights, etc. to controll reactions to lighting.
Perhaps an example of what you want as a result may prompt more specific help.
thanks Doug
I ddin't want to wrestle with the imageposting process :)
I could do it in post I suppose... I think I need to use textures because my ability with procedurals to establish a pencil effect is non existant.
I guess the best description is if I were doing a drawing on a tinted paper, then I use the eraser to rub off the pencil marks to establish my highlights - which are in fact my original tinted paper - and not white
edit: okay it had a simple answer combination of light and ambient light while changing the degree of shadow gives me close to what I want thankyou - derr I am blind :)
oh any clues on getting a pencil effect with procedurals very very much appreaciatedPost edited by Headwax_Carrara on
Age of Armour Posts: 426
Hi Head Wax :)
Will the non-photo real renderer work for you? I figure you probably have a reason you aren't using it but just thought I would bring it up just in case it slipped your mind.
Alternatively there are some things you can do with the "Angle" and "Lit" nodes included in the Shoestring Shaders. I don;t have them installed on my new machine yet so can't give exact steps but I know you can use them to create masks based on viewing angle and light position. This allows for some fun toon effects in the photoreal render.
Here is an example:
You could replace the solid colors and cross hatching (wires or tile function I think) with some scans of pencil marks to maybe get a more sketched look.
Head Wax,
I think this would be easier to do in post processing. I've attached an example of a render that I did, converted it to black and white and then post processed it in a Mac program called AutoPainter. There are a lot of programs that do this kind of effect. you can tweak settings to get exactly what you want.mynewpainting.png2000 x 1500 - 4MCouple_in_TinPanAlley.png800 x 600 - 791K
Milo Posts: 491
I like what Brian posted. You could also look at Plug-ins by Digital Carvers Guild. Toon pro, maybe Parchement or Shaders Plus.
Age of Armour
The unphotoreal renderer isn't reallydoing it for me. especially in it's treatment of eyelashes. I wonder if there is a way to make our own brushes for that - as it appears to be close, but not close enough , if you know what I mean?
Thanks so much for that link to your video. Yes I saw that video two years ago and I think that inspired me. I have those shaders but whenever I read the destructions my brain infarcts - so when you get a chance I would love some hints ;) ;)
I actually sat down and went through them again last night but can't hit on the right combination - its obviously trial and error. It's a good idea the pencil textures - they have been my most successful attempts so far combined with post
Thank you too, I have been looking at a few of those programs and see that they are pretty good, I'll check that out. I had sucess this morning with some tutorials I found involving minimum pass filters and then using the dodge and burn tools to refine the result. So maybe a combination would work - human intervention and cpu intervention?
I was checking out the Digital Carvers stuff last night, but it only gave me half a render before it went invisable - so I really didn't get much joy :) But I have my eye on them. I also tried Yatoon, for Carrara 7 which seems not too bad but not quite what I am seeking.
Thanks for your advice too!
out of interest this is what I have come up with so far
this last one shows the detail bestFinniedetail.jpg1200 x 1013 - 220KPost edited by Headwax_Carrara on
Hm. Not perfectly clear on what you're looking to accomplish. Are you trying to just do black and white lines?
I've always accomplished this by doing the non photo sketch render on green and then keylighting it in AE. But you're right about the eyelashes, which is why I stack my renders.
Without keylighting capabilities I guess you could still work with transparent PNGs right? So you render out your sketch layer, you then open up the texture maps for whoever the character is, find their eyelashes, make a copy of it, color over the eyelashes with solid black and then replace the old eyelashes, go into the render, turn off the alphas on everything except the eyelashes, render it as a PNG with transparent background, and then stack your eyelashes render atop your sketch rendering.
Personally I wouldn't go to all that trouble just for some eyelashes. I like to get in there and hand color all the existing textures and then use long brushes in the sketch render to give it a gritty look. But for black and white I think this would work.
Thanks for the outline methodology BC RICE. Ah yes, its no problem to pinch the non photosketch renders and use them with the eyelashes , the NPR is most useful for me as an outliner, probably more of a problem with hair made with transmaps I think, to tidy it up in post.
Yes I like the idea of black and white at the moment. I'm trying to widen my portfolio and this is something that will help me.
Black and white tends to be have less of a CG look sometimes. And I have been colouring it with water colour brushes in photoshop - using the NPR outliner as a separator for the individual sections of the image.
As an eg of what I admire and sort of would like to do ...
This is a piece by the guy who illustrated Jumanji and Zathura , both briliant works in black and white - well what I have seen at least. He uses a textured board under his paper to get his effects in Zathura - very effective. This is a poor example I am a afraid.
I spent a few hours today trying to simualte a few textures if PDPro - not a bad program of sorts. Would have been quicker to get a graphite pencil and draw them though ;)
Thanks again ;)
http://childrensbookalmanac.com/wp-content/uploads/6-4-Jumanji-image.jpgPost edited by Headwax_Carrara on
This is about where I am with tooning DAZ folks. This is done strictly in Carrara using YaToon and fooling around with the textures. I'm happy enough with it. I'm still undecided about whether or not to use sketch layers. I suppose it'll depend on the project.Cartoon_face.jpg640 x 480 - 46K
HI Head wax :)
Have you thought about Filterforge for photoshop.
I just did some messing around and made this filter which adds various sketchy type effects.temple_sketch.jpg800 x 600 - 211Kbottle_sketch.jpg800 x 612 - 213Kgrape_sketch3.jpg800 x 450 - 267K
Head Wax,
These look great. I see what you mean about the Jumanji pictures. They really are different.
Good luck.
3DAGE said:HI Head wax :)
Have you thought about Filterforge for photoshop.
I just did some messing around and made this filter which adds various sketchy type effects.
Good stuff. Man, if Filterforge came with an AE counterpart in the package I'd be all over this. $140 (which is the sale price) might be too rich for my blood. I know you can do PNG sequencing through Photoshop and could grab renders that way, but I pretty much stick to AE for moving things.
For stills, though, this is pretty neat.
Oh, and this might be the kind of thing the OP is looking for? You're just looking for black and white solids right? Maybe research this guy who's been doing it.
HI BC Rice :)
Thanks :)
They have a free download (stand alone and plug-in) version,. so it's not limited to just being a PS plug-in, although it's better inside PS.
and they offer a system of awarding points for uploading filters you make,.
so it's possible to make some filters using the free version, ..earn points, and get the full version, ...or at least a discount. :)
I've spent hundreds on packs of filters like Eye-candy, which are still great plug-ins, but with filter forge I can make my own, or download free filters from the library.
I also use Xara designer pro, for vector drawing, and it can use PS Plug-ins as "live effects" on vector artwork, so, I can also use Filter forge there.
I agree with you,.. It would be great if it had animation properties, and could be used inside AE,
but you can still use the filters to create all sorts of masks and textures and use those in AE, either as 2D masks or as 3D layers.
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Head wax :)
Try this as a starting point, simple cross-hatch "fractal noise" shader
Hope it helps :)sketchy.jpg640 x 480 - 32KPost edited by 3DAGE on
thanks very much what a great shader!
that is a great start - it looks like pencil :)
Filter Forge I'd forgotten about :( Ill go and revisit!
here's a render I used it on, an old B9 model of mine
have you seen http://www.optikvervelabs.com/ very nice stuff.
thanks :) the artist is very good, I wonder where he gets his models from? He is worth emulating I think. Or learning from at least.
BC Rice
thanks for that link. i'm looking more for the pencil look but I downloaded the india ink plugin after that. looks useful! His work is good. :)pumicgoldengirl.jpg690 x 900 - 166K
DANGER Will Robinson :)
Thanks Head wax :)
That looks better than I though it would :)
Nice software find. :)
that's like Nik Colour effects Pro,. But free,. I like that price.
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gaffer2 Posts: 65
check out photo sketcher it's free and does quick overall photo minipulation
thoromyr Posts: 444head wax said:I'm doing some illustrations with Carrara and I would like an effect where the light source washes out the texture but doesn't give me pure white.
IE the maximum highlight might be a light grey , but at this point there would be no texture showing.
Any advice on what plug ins if anything or settings in Carrara to do this?
I am rendering mat objects that wouldn't work if they looked shiny
edit also looking for advice (after Dougs' comment) on making a pencil effect with procedurals :)
thanks in advance
After reading the thread I don't think I understood your question properly, but what I did think of was a digital carver's plugin that lets you take final render and do things based on that. I don't think what I wrote makes sense and I don't have an example handy, but to try and restate: what it allows you to do is have carrara do a render of a pixel and use that information to determine how it should *really* be rendered. It is slow as a result, but was the only way I could find to get a particular effect in Carrara.
Honestly, if you are considering getting anything from digital carvers -- email him. He knows his products in and out and has given me good advice.
Head Wax and 3DAge,
Both images look amazing. Can you recap exactly how youdid them. The thread is a little hard to follow. Mayne it's just me. I'm assuming you did a normal render in Carrara and then post processed them in VirtualPhotographer.
HI Brian :)
That's about it..
I rendered the full colour image in Carrara,.. then ran it through "virtual photographer" in photoshop,
just clicking through the different pre-sets, playing with it.
I think I used "Steely satin", and changed the film grain to 800 ASA.
The scene is a little Greek temple I'm building,.. or destroying, :)
Colour original , post processed in virtual photographer , post processed with my own filters infilter forgeM4_temple_post2.jpg800 x 600 - 117KM4_temple_post.jpg800 x 600 - 195KM4_temple.jpg800 x 600 - 67K
sorry :( wasn't informed of new posts in email....
lovely images 3dage, like that middle one especially,
that software also does a nice 1600 asa as well. BTW great destroyed temple! those Greeks should have used more glue :)
gaffer2, thanks that Fotosketcher does a good job!
thoromyr, I will email him, great idea!
Brian, thanks :) I used 3dage's shader on 'everything', put a semi transparent vertical plane behind the robot to add backgroud texture, (you can see where it meets the ground at the shadow, rendered with shadows at say 50 percent and some ambient occulison I think, in post I use Fotosketcehr to add a little pencil work then adjusted the layer transparency between original render and Fotosketcher render to taste, then I ran it through 'pumicegoldengirl' (where do they get these names?) filter in that software I posted above (opticverve?)
with Fotosketcehr you can copy image to clip board via the edit menu, great time saver, saves saving each file (which I have been doing for a while till I twigged :(Post edited by Headwax_Carrara on


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So Much More Than Just One Night
December 21st, 2008 will be a night I will never forget.
He was finally coming home. After being gone to boot camp for the past 4 months, he was finally going to be back with me. The anticipation was killing me. I was counting down the hours, checking my phone every 5 minutes for a new message, just waiting for any contact from him. Then finally, on a cold Sunday afternoon in December my phone rings. As I look down at the screen I see his name appear on the caller I.D. and am instantly filled with pure ecstasy. I answer the phone and hear his voice again and am soon swooning over every word he speaks.
He asked if it would be okay to come over and see me, and of course with an over-eager hint to my voice I assure him it would be wonderful to come over.
Let's call him Anthony. Anthony and I have been friends for years. I met him my sophomore year of high school when he moved to California. Over the course of the next three years of high school we increasingly became closer and closer in a strictly friends only type of way, at least that's how it was until our Senior year.
The summer between our Junior and Senior years of high school was a turning point for our friendship. We spent virtually every day of the summer talking to each other, would go to water parks together, watching movies, and just spending time together. At the time I was dating another boy that I had been for about a year. Our senior year started and Anthony started to date a girl from school and I was still with my boyfriend at the time. Everything was fine and we were both happy for each other and ourselves.
About halfway through our senior year, Anthony and his girlfriend broke up. We finished high school together, graduated together, and started another summer together. Everything seemed completely normal and fine for the first part of the summer. I was still with my boyfriend and there was never any tension or awkwardness between Anthony, myself, or my boyfriend from then.
But then in August of 2008 it seemed like everything changed all at once. My boyfriend from the time and I hit a rough spot. No, it wasn't just a rough spot, it was like a hitting a brick wall. Things started to fall apart so quickly I felt like I was blindsided by the whole situation. And of course, when a girl is going through any tough situation she turns to the people she's the most comfortable with for help and support, and that for me, happened to be Anthony.
He quickly became my rock. I could cry on his shoulder, I could vent my angry to him, I could escape reality with him. In August, right before he was to leave for boot camp, his family had a pool party for him and I was invited. To begin with, I thought all of his friends would be there but it turned out it was a family event...and me.
We swam, we ate hot dogs, we played pool and video games, we talked with his family, and did the whole party thing. Then that night he and I were sitting on the steps of the pool alone (a lot of his family had either gone home or were inside watching TV and playing video games). We started talking about him leaving and not being able to talk for at least 6 months. Both of us realized how much we were going to miss each other and knew it would be hard to not be able to talk for so long. We agreed that we would still be friends and write to each other. Then, sitting there alone, under the stars in the warm water on an August night, everything changed for Anthony and I. He leaned over and kissed me. We had officially moved past the "friends" point.
He drove me home after the party and we sat in his car and talked for an hour before we shared a teary hug and said our goodbyes. The next morning he flew to Texas.
We did write to each other and did stay in contact but both of us agreed "dating" would be too difficult with him being gone and decided to continue on being just "friends." Absence makes the heart grow fonder? Perhaps.
The months go by, and pretty soon it's the beginning of December and he gets the word he gets to come home for Christmas.
So, it's December 21st I'm waiting, impatiently, for him to come over.
I see his car pull down the street and am immediately overwhelmed with anticipation and excitement. He comes up to the door and I swing it open and wrap my arms around him. He comes inside, and we talk for a few minutes but the conversation is surprisingly awkward. I remember him just kind of leaning against the footboard of my bed with his arms folded over his chest, mumbling answers back to my questions about boot camp and how he's been. After more conversation that felt forced, he asked if I wanted to go for a ride and catch up in private. I go ask my father if I can go considering it's nearly 10 in the evening at this point and he agrees.
Anthony drove out past the city limits and pulled over to the side of the road. He leaned his seat back, put his hands behind his head, and simply asked me what was new. After about 2 minutes of conversation he kisses me.
After a while of making out he pulls off my shirt and begins to unbutton my pants. I stop him and look at him, with I'm guessing a confused expression, because he then asks me what's wrong. I mumble "Nothing," and he continues to take off his shirt and undo his pants.
He starts manual sex with me. I'm comfortable with this since I have done it in the past. After a while he pulls me over on top of him and I scoot to the side of him and tell him I don't know if I want to go that far.
I ask if he has a condom and he tells me no. I told him unless he has a condom I don't want to go any farther because I don't want to risk anything. He tries to tell me its okay, he's never gotten anyone pregnant before and even if I do, he has a good job and there's nothing to worry about. I still insist that I don't want to risk a pregnancy and am not sure I want to go that far.
He pulls me back on top of him and tells me we'll just take it slow and see how it goes and goes back to manual sex. After a few moments he turns me over on my back and gets on top of me. I push him off of me a little and tell him that I don't know if I'm ready for this and he tells me he won't force me to do anything and it's up to me but that he wants to "try something." At this point, he rubs his penis against my vagina and tells me not to worry and to just relax. We go back to making out while he is still on top of me and then begins to rub against me again. While we are still making out he thrust himself into me.
I try to push him off and he stops and tries to reassure me that it's okay and that he's not going to hurt me. I tell him I don't want to go any farther and start to get dressed again. He moans and begins to put his pants on. We talk for a few minutes then he drives me home, walks me to the door, kisses me on the forehead, and says goodnight.
I go into my room and break down crying. I get a hold of my two best friends and tell them what happened and the next morning they go with me to get emergency contraception.
I don't talk to Anthony for about a week after everything happened. When we do see each other again, he seems to act like nothing had ever happened between us. He continues on like we are still just friends and to everyone else it appears nothing has changed.
He leaves back for his second part of boot camp in the beginning of January. We hardly talked while he was here and we don't leave on real great terms.
Now the anxiety is slowly setting in. I start to worry about being pregnant. I start to obsess about it. It consumes me and quickly becomes all I can think about. In January alone I end up taking 3 home pregnancy test, all negative. I get no period in January. February I take even more pregnancy test, all negative. Still no period. March rolls around and I still have no period. My weight had dropped to a relatively low level because I hardly ate. I took even more home pregnancy test. Still negative. I tried different brands and types thinking that could be it.
I look up every possible thing there is on pregnancies and pregnancy test which I honestly think only made things worse. Doubt flooded my mind. Every time I read something about pregnancy test and pregnancies, it seemed like I turned around and read something that would contradict it. The worry and anxiety of it was taking over my life and I started to feel worst and worst. I would get cramps in my stomach and sharp pains that would shoot across the walls of my stomach like lighting rods. My stomach would burn and I never wanted to eat. I told my mom I want to go to the doctor because I haven't been feeling well and my period is missing. She calls and makes an appointment. I never told her about Anthony and I and she believes I could have the same thyroid condition she has. At the doctors office, they run a blood test to check my thyroid and nutrition level. My doctor and my mom are good friends and I was too afraid to tell him about the possibility with Anthony in fears he would tell my mother. The blood work comes back showing I have low estrogen and slight malnutrition. The doctor did nothing else but tell me to eat more rounded meals and I would go back in the future to see if my blood work comes back better.
I take more home pregnancy tests, still not able to get the paralyzing fear out of my head.
March 21st rolls around, I got to the bathroom, and see blood on my underwear. I am at first overjoyed and filled with relief. I had been cramping a few days before that but was used to cramps at that point sense it has been happening for a while. I bled on my period for the next 5 days, pretty much a normal flow and was finally feeling better. Then my mind started to play tricks on me again. I started to think it could have just been bleeding during pregnancy and went back to the internet to do more research. The more I researched, the more I was convinced I was still pregnant and that wasn't my period. I started imagining movement in my stomach. I became obsessed with looking at my side in the mirror. I would compare my stomach to pictures of pregnant woman online. I took more pregnancy test, all still coming back negative. At this point I had taken well well over a dozen pregnancy tests.
The cramping is still happening. I still imagine movement in my stomach. I've convinced myself my stomach is larger and I am still paranoid about being pregnant. I told my mom that I am still having the cramping in my lower stomach and I have an appointment with a gynecologist on April 28th. Even now, being April 3rd, I still want to take another pregnancy test. I keep waiting for the line to magically appear positive on the test. Now, I just have to sit back and wait for the end of April to once and for all prove to myself what I already know, that I'm not pregnant.
Every logical part of my brain is telling me I'm overreacting and to stay calm and let it go, but then I walk by a mirror and look at my stomach or a I feel a flinch in my stomach and am back to being just as paranoid as before.
The worst part of this whole situation is that I've lost someone I viewed as a really good friend. I've lost the friendship, I've lost the trust we had, and I've lost control of my own mind.
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The Temple Theatre is located on the upper floors of the Masonic Temple building, which was constructed in 1928.
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I can't find a U.S. Cinema among the listings for Glendale in my August 24, 1986, copy of the L.A. Times Calendar section. However, in that issues listings for Pacific Theatres, there is a theatre called the Regency 2 at 232 S. Brand Boulevard, which I believe would be the address of the storefront in the Masonic Temple Building immediately adjacent (on the north) to the Temple Theatre's entrance: See this photo from the 1950s, looking north on Brand (its the same photo to which Bryan Krefft linked above- the URL has been changed.) I never visited that block of Brand in the 1980s, so I don't know for sure if Regency 2 was an aka for the Temple or not, but it seems likely. There was also a Regency 1 Theatre in the 1986 Pacific Theatres listings, located just up the block at at 210 S. Brand Boulevard. In 1971, 210 S. Brand had been the location of the independently operated Sands Theatre. I don't think that house is listed at Cinema Treasures yet under any name.
Yes, the Temple Theatre was later known as the US Cinema and when Pacific Theatres operated it as the Regency 2. The Sands Theatre would later be known as the Regency 1 under Pacific Theatres operations. The Sands Theatre was an indendent theatre and was operated by a former projectionist.
I poked my head in and chatted with one of the A Noise Within people, and she said the original movie theater was right behind the red, theater-looking doors on the first floor, just past the mini-lobby with a chandelier inside the entrance doors, with staircases to each side of the lobby going to the other floors. My significant other, who grew up in Glendale, can't remember ever having to go up stairs or an elevator to get to the U.S./Regency 2, although his memory of it is hazy, since he usually went to the Capitol or Roxy. (Actually, he's vaguely remembering that before the Sands became the Regency I, it's possible that there were briefly two theaters, Regency I and II, both inside the Masonic Temple building, possibly creating the small theater space now used by A Noise Within, although he's really not sure about that.
So anyway, is it certain that the main theater was located on the upper floors?
And why isn't the Regency 2 name even listed as an a.k.a. for this? It was called that for some time, and was the only name I ever knew it by (although I never went there, as it had the reputation for being a dump). I thought the most recent name of the theater was always used as the primary name, but it's not even listed at the top.
AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LISTING FOR THE SANDS/REGENCY 1?? It's still standing at 210 S. Brand just down the block from this, now used as a restaurant/banquet hall, but it completely disappeared from Cinema Treasures. I'm positive it used to be listed, but it's been deleted. Why??
I've seen that banquet hall marquee many times. I always wondered if that was a theater.
I drove by the Masonic building the other day. There is an old ad for the California Bank on one side wall. Here is a 1940 photo from the USC archives:
This theatre was also known as the Regency 2 Theatre when Pacific Theatres operated it. The theatre was located on the ground floor of the building.
Interestingly enough, there's no sign of a theatre yet in these photos from the California State Library. It claims these are circa 1927, and let's hope the links work:
The earliest Glendale city directory listing I can find for the Temple Theatre is 1940.
An interior view on Flickr by Gamma-Infinity:
And the theatre space that was the Temple is definitely on the main floor
Here's a .pdf of the restoration proposal for the building:
It gives the history: The Masonic Temple was built for in 1928 for the Unity Lodge, which was founded in 1905 and grew over the years through various consolidations, building an earlier lodge on the same Brand Boulevard site in 1914. The subject building was designed by Arthur George Lindley of the local firm Lindley & Selkirk, which also designed the Alexander Theater in 1925. The property was listed as Glendale Register No. 15 in 1997.
In 1934,' a movie theater, the Temple, was built inside the Mason's auditorium at the lower floors, with theater use continuing under different names through the early 1990s.
Former Masonic Temple Building: Historical Background Architect, Arthur G. Lindley. Contractor: J.v. McNeil Company
Construction Chronology May, 1928: Excavation begun. January, 1929: Substantial completion.
Building Data: Building contains 55,376 gross square feet of space, of which approximately 48,643 square feet is rentable. It initally contained three lodge rooms, one banquet/auditorium space, a ground floor auditorium, a bowling alley, cafe, billiard salon, related member and guest meeting rooms, lounges and storge rooms and an apartment. The two-story high banquet/auditorium and lodge rooms between the First and Seventh Floors are all located adjacent to the north wall of the building. See building section, Sheet HP-4.
The building was also known as the "Unity Temple". Arthur Lindley seems to have visually "unified" the various floors of the main façade of the building by designing continuous vertical ribbons of windows. To give greater grandeur and height to the building, which stands 105 feet at the top parapet, he designed a series of steps, chamfering the edges, which recede back and toward the center.
When completed, the former Masonic Temple was the tallest building and had the largest auditorium, the fastest elevator and the largest enclosed space in the City of Glendale.
So, 1934 then. No real info on the proposed use of the former movie theatre space, just a little bit about the lobby.
And Bill's page on the Temple
also links to the full "The Monolith" Flickr set
which includes these recent interior views showing the Temple/US/Regency 2's auditorium and balcony:
and this is the old projection room being used as a wig department for the Noise Within theatre group:
Had a few shifts working there under PT It was on the ground floor Had a small concession area & a small ticket booth (aka box) to sit in & sell tickets The managers office was up stairs One manager I can recall was "Monica Bradley" She was one of the managers there under PT She got teansfered to "The Eagle Rock Plaza" All these theartres got axed either coverted or destroyed I think at one time there was 7 theatres on brand blvd That was during the 80's All these old pictures bring back memories of when I lived & worked in glendale
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In her Retire Well column earlier this week, MarketWatch's Elizabeth O'Brien reported some startling figures about the costs of a frail old age: people who took time off from work in midlife to care for their parents or older relatives, O'Brien noted, lost an average of around $300,000 in forgone wages, pensions and Social Security. That's a daunting burden to consider, whether it's yours today or your adult kids' tomorrow. And few ailments are more likely to cause a lengthy disability late in life than dementia, which already affects around one in eight Americans over 65 (and whose prevalence is expected to rise sharply as the population ages).
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Researchers offered one caveat: The people they studied were mostly patients of the Cooper Clinic, a fitness-counseling and preventive-medicine complex in Dallas whose patients tend to be both more affluent and better-informed about fitness than the average boomer. That said, the report represents one more addition to the growing pile of evidence that more exercise before retirement can help you keep the doctor bills lower once you get there.


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By Mark Patton,Santa Barbara News-Press
Austin Mansker's right wrist is held together by a screw. His right knee is bound by a strand of muscle taken from his hamstring.
The beard, however, is holding its own all by itself.
UCSB's rookie goalkeeper, who sprouted seven weeks of dark whiskers while the Gauchos went undefeated through their first dozen matches and exhibition, is working on a new growth after Tuesday's shutout of first-place Sacramento State.
It got his chin back up for Friday's 8 p.m. home showdown against arch-rival Cal Poly, which will be televised nationally by the Fox Soccer Channel.
"He shaved it after we lost to Northridge, and so I guess he's starting up another one," UCSB coach Tim Vom Steeg said. "He's a Bay Area guy and it's a little bit of a 'fear the beard' thing. That's kind of popular up there these days, the kind of the thing to do up there as a baseball closer.
"Goalkeeping is 90 percent presence, and he doesn't look like somebody you want to run into when he comes out."
It does get kind of hairy.
"I've always been a big boy," said Mansker, who packs a solid 200 pounds on his 6-foot-2 frame. "In high school, I once went out to kick for the football team and the coach wanted me to play linebacker.
"Since Day One here, the goalkeeper coach has had me going out and using my body and running into kids."
He wound up leaving parts of himself all over Harder Stadium during his first two seasons at UCSB, both of which he spent as a red-shirt. He separated his shoulder during his first week of practice in 2010 and then broke his wrist during workouts a few months later.
"He was gone all fall, and then spring came around, and he was still having trouble with the wrist," Vom Steeg said. "That really prompted us to look at getting another goalie. ... We went out and got Andre Grandt and, in our minds, those two guys were going to compete for the job."
That competition came to a crashing halt just before fall drills last year when Mansker tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee while playing for his club team in the Bay Area.
"I just went to close down on some guy and my cleats stuck in the turf," he recalled. "I heard it pop ... actually heard it. I went down and couldn't move. ... I knew it was bad right away."
Grandt wound up playing every minute of last season. Mansker, meanwhile, went into nine months of rehabilitation, and then into one-on-one workouts with goalkeeper coach Stuart Dobson, wondering if he'd ever get another chance.
"I was just trying to stay motivated," he said. "You don't know how many hours I spent in the training room and in the weight room. I pretty much weight-lifted for two years straight.
"Then, for awhile, we'd just do hand stuff, not a lot of footwork. I wore a brace for awhile. I spent lots of hours alone with Stuart on this field, knowing that I was going to do everything it took. I wasn't going to quit."
He suffered a mental blow when Dobson left UCSB to take a coaching job at the University of Akron just before the start of fall workouts.
"Stu is the one who basically recruited me - he came out to see me play, and he brought me here," Mansker said. "He's the one who kept me working and training, just him and me, trying to get me back from those injuries. When he said he was going to Akron, I told him, 'Well, we'd better get somebody who knows what he's doing.'
"Well, I've been really grateful and lucky to get someone as good as Paul (Hart) to take his place. He's really pushed me hard and gotten me sharp. I feel I'm in good hands there."
Mansker was admittedly nervous when he made his debut during the second half of this years's exhibition against Westmont College.
"It was nerve-wracking," he recalled. "My first touch on the ball, it went up in the air, and I had to bring it down."
He was stunned when Vom Steeg announced that he'd be starting the season opener at Loyola Marymount.
"I had a hard time sleeping the night before the match," Mansker conceded. "I was hoping to work my way in toward the middle of the season, just whenever my chance came."
But Vom Steeg figured that Mansker was a better match-up than Grandt against a Loyola team that likes to dump balls into the box.
"Andre is a shot-stopper, he's low to the ground and he's good with his feet," he said. "But what Austin offered to us was size in the box - and he's got good strong hands and is good in the air."
Grandt still remained an option for Vom Steeg, but a hip injury to 6-foot-6 center back Peter Schmetz during the fourth game against Valparaiso left UCSB vulnerable to head balls and convinced him to stick with Mansker.
"The minute we lost Schmetz, it was not even a question," he said. "As a goalie, if you know Schmetz is there 8-yards out, you know he has it, so it keeps you in your goal. But we don't have anyone that big now.
"The thing is, Mansker is strong, he's physical, he comes out, and he gets enough on the punch to clear it out of danger and it just goes away."
He's got a round-house to rival Rocky Marciano, and a fearlessness to match. He still charges hard off his line, thinking not of the screw in his wrist nor the transplanted hamstring that binds his knee. He was laughing on Tuesday about the cleat marks he got on his abdomen while defending a corner kick.
"I just keep playing out there," Mansker said. "I'm thankful for every day I'm out there. It's a blessing.
"These last few years, I've always had to look forward to the future. That's all I had. Now I'm here, on the field, and I'm going to live in the present."
But then, he would like to look like Santa Claus by December.
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Have y'all heard of Centering yet? My apprentice Donna and I started Centering with three of our clients due in the Summer a couple of months ago and I am so loving it!
If you go to the website mentioned above, you will see the program seems to be very oriented towards young women and those who are at risk (socially/medically). What we've done is take the outline and tailored it towards the needs of homebirthing women.
For example, today we talked about getting the home ready for the birth, what the supplies were for, talked about water birth, the birth tub and where to get the supplies. We also talked about GBS testing because two of the women are at that point (one will be in a few more weeks) and went over the two women's diets that turned their diet sheets in tonight.
What I am finding so wonderful about our Centering sessions is it is like a childbirth class, but with prenatals. The women are bonding with each other, talking with each other about different things, asking each other for information and advice and we (Donna and I) are letting the women lead each other and are there to guide and be there for factual information when it is required. It really is a great sight to behold!
Today, we met in my office instead of the classroom because there was a childbirth class going on in the classroom. More intimate, but not bad. The guys and I sat on the floor and the women sat on the couches. I have two couches (I'll put pics up of my office.) and these odd rugs that shed that I got from IKEA, so I threw down a couple of blankets to sit on. We'd also talked about it being Chocolate Day last session, so I brought Chuao Chocolate and passed that around to those that wanted it. (Chuao is THE best chocolate on the planet - hands down!)
For those that teach childbirth classes, you know this issue well. Sometimes you get a class where the guys just don't speak up. You just don't know what is on their minds - what their issues are. This Centering group is like that. I asked one of the more open dads yesterday what I could do to get the dads to talk more, share more... and he thought maybe if they broke off into their own group, they could share by themselves. I'll try that, but hesitate sending them without a chaparone. If Donna is with us next time, I might send her with them. She'd be a great one to bounce ideas off of. I've tried talking to the guys directly, too, but they are just so quiet! They still come, though, so that says something, right? And they are all going to the Birthing From Within/Hypnobirthing classes. I can't help wondering if they would talk more if we were not in a group setting. I know there will be other sessions where the guys yack it up a lot. In fact, my next session has a couple of repeat dads in it and I know they will be active talkers. It doesn't necessarily mean that a dad is unhappy if he doesn't talk either, right?
I'm glad I jumped into Centering. Many midwives have talked about doing it, but haven't quite gotten the plan into motion. I decided and just did it. Donna and I laid out the topics and went for it. I don't have the exact schedule in front of me, but the topics are something like this (and some topics are covered in the same session):
- Body Image
- Food Choices
- Exercise
- Others' Reactions to Pregnancy & Homebirth
- Preparation for Homebirth
- Waterbirth
- Postpartum Care of Mom & Baby
- Breastfeeding
- Integration of Newborn into the Family
And while discussing topics, we discuss the tests/screens that are due for their weeks' gestation, we talk about any concerns that they want to share in public, we do their blood pressures, fundal heights, listen to heart tones all in the same room together. If women want to speak in private, that is no problem at all, but most share right there... yeast issues, sexual issues... everything... right out in the open! It really is wonderful.
When active children are introduced into the mix, I can see issues arising, however. Kids are an integral part of our prenatal visits and Centering isn't the most kid-friendly model of prenatal care that I can see so far. In the Fall Season coming up, there are several toddlers and pre-schoolers coming up, so we'll see how that goes. I really do want and need children to be a part of mom's prenatal care - it helps so much during the birth - so perhaps I need to be more creative during the Centering Sessions to include them more. Talking can be so boring, though.
I just wanted to share a little of what I was doing in our offices that might inspire you all to try something different if you were so inclined. Even of it isn't Centering, per se, maybe gathering women together in a different way could be your project.
And so I keep thinking forward!


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Date: May 3, 2013
District: 7 – Los Angeles and Ventura counties
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LOS ANGELES – Caltrans has awarded the Los Angeles area nearly $194 million to projects that will upgrade transit service, purchase eco-friendly buses, modernize transit facilities, and create jobs.
"These projects give Californians a viable alternative to using their cars," said Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty. "Public transit reduces traffic congestion and protects the environment by lowering greenhouse gas emissions."
The Southland received more than half of the $301 million Caltrans awarded statewide. Some of the notable Los Angeles projects include:
$149.5 million for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (Metro) Regional Connector Project, which will connect the Metro Gold Line, Blue Line and Expo Line and enable passengers to travel from Azusa to Long Beach and from East Los Angeles to Santa Monica.
$19.9 million for Metro's Bus Rehabilitation Program to repair and improve up to 321 buses.
$11.4 million to Metro extend light rail 8.5 miles from the intersection of Crenshaw and Exposition boulevards to the Metro Green Line at the Aviation/LAX Station.
The projects were chosen because they are already underway, and the new round of funding will ensure they stay on schedule.
The funding comes from Proposition 1B, the 2006 voter-approved transportation bond, which is providing $3.6 billion over a 10-year period to improve public transit in California. To date, Proposition 1B has provided more than $2 billion in funding to approximately 750 transit projects statewide, with 340 completed.
Caltrans also awarded funding to transit projects in Long Beach, Ventura County, and the city of Montebello. For more information those projects and to view a comprehensive list of the all projects statewide that received Proposition 1B transit funding, please see the attached file.
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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — Did you wake up this morning wondering what the first weekend of November has in store for you, NBA fans?
Let us help.
How about another round of "talks," perhaps even another round of hollow smiles and more posturing about deadlines that move at the whim of the men on both sides of the league's labor dispute and even a scare tactic or two that threatens to cost us the entire 2011-12 season?
We completely understand if lockout fatigue syndrome is full-blown in your household. It's choking the life out of things here at the hideout, where every breaking news blast is met with a raised eyebrow and questions about who might be pulling the strings on this latest stunt (the dissolution of the union is coming back to the forefront now).
(SI.com and NBA TV's legal analyst Michael McCann details all of the particulars for you!)
They've met in small groups, larger groups and committees. There have been conference calls, secret ones and not-so-secret alike, news conferences and now threats of the union decertifying and still no sign of the one thing we need … a new collective bargaining agreement!
Substantive talks are one thing and we'd welcome anything in that neighborhood going on this weekend.
But showing up to a Manhattan hotel and sticking around just long enough to tell each other that nothing has changed is not what we'd consider progress.
And we're not the only ones exhausted by the process …
Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe captures the mood of many with his column that places the current state of affairs in the proper historical context:
It is very annoying for those of us who still love the sport of professional basketball to see what its custodians are currently doing to harm it. I wish it were as easy to decipher as the NFL madness. It was pretty easy to outfit the combatants in that one.
White Hats: Players
Black Hats: Owners
The NFL lockout was about very rich guys, all making a profit from their teams, wanting more. The players asked for nothing. Status quo was fine with them. There was a $9 billion pie, and there was ample opportunity for everyone to get a nice slice.
The NBA pie is worth "only'' approximately $4 billion, and, unlike the NFL, not everyone makes a profit. That is clear. But just who is losing what remains unclear, because history teaches us that in these matters, professional sports teams make statements concerning their finances that, while perhaps not outright lies, are, shall we say, substantial stretches of the truth. Make that enormous, stupendous, astonishing stretches of the truth.


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I decided to look up the word allegory in an online dictionary and here's what it says.
A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
By that definition, Narnia is absolutely allegory, whether Lewis intended it or not. Unless it's exempt based on the word 'hidden' because the story's Christian religion undertones aren't exactly subtle.
So I'm curious what other people's thoughts are. Is there an argument one could make as to why it's NOT allegory?


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(CNN) -- On one hand, Cristiano Ronaldo is still scoring goals for fun and Gareth Bale is starting to justify his mammoth transfer fee.
On the other, Real Madrid's defensive game is appalling.
Carlo Ancelotti, who learned the game in a league where solidity at the back is everything, must be having kittens.
So would you if your team took a three-goal lead against the bottom team in La Liga, then proceeded to hang on nervously for a 3-2 win that so easily could've ended in misery.
Especially when your previous outing started similarly and ended in a 7-3 scoreline. And even more so when your next game is a trip to Juventus in the Champions League.
"A disaster," Ancelotti called Saturday's second-half display against city rival Rayo Vallecano, a team which had conceded 27 goals and scored just eight in 11 previous Spanish league matches.
Read: Sanchez scores winner in Barcelona derby
"Against Sevilla we were 3-0 up and let them back into the game. Today the same thing happened and that is not a coincidence," the Italian told reporters.
"We need to change and remove the superficiality we have on the pitch, the second half was a disaster. You cannot let a team back into the game like that when you have the quality of Real Madrid.
"It is something that we have to talk about in the dressing room. It has happened twice that being in front has changed the attitude out on the field, and that is not good."
Real had started so well, with Ronaldo waltzing down the left and firing in a low shot for a third-minute opener.
Rayo had a good penalty appeal turned down and a goal disallowed before Real's marquee signing Bale laid on a perfect cross for Karim Benzema to head the second just after half an hour, having been set free by Xabi Alonso.
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Alonso, making his first start this season, was a major factor in Real's first-half dominance but the Spain midfielder did not come back out after the break due to another fitness problem which puts him in doubt for Tuesday's trip to Italy.
Nonetheless, Bale was again the provider as Ronaldo punished Rayo at the near post soon after the interval, putting the Portugal captain above Atletico Madrid's Diego Costa in the Pichichi standings with his 13th league goal this season.
It was downhill from there for Real.
Vallecano won two penalties in quick succession -- both converted by Jonathan Viera, one coming after Joaquin Larrivey hit the bar -- while Diego Lopez did well to tip Alberto Bueno's shot onto the post.
The result left third-placed Real six points behind Barcelona -- which won 1-0 against Espanyol on Friday -- and two behind Atletico, which hosts Athletic Bilbao on Sunday.
Real Sociedad moved up to seventh with a 5-0 drubbing of Osasuna, while Almeria climbed off the bottom on goal difference with a 1-0 win over Valladolid.
Read: Chelsea slip lets Arsenal go clear at top
Celta Vigo moved away from the bottom three with a 1-0 win at Sevilla -- which had conceded seven against Real in midweek.
In Italy, Napoli and Juventus moved to within two points of Serie A leader Roma with respective victories on Saturday.
Second-placed Napoli, which hosts Marseille in the Champions League on Wednesday, beat Catania 2-1 with first-half goals from former Real Madrid forward Jose Callejon and Slovakian Marek Hamsik -- putting both on six in the league this season.
Juve, which needs to beat Real to have any chance of a place in the knockout stage, triumphed 1-0 at Parma thanks to a 77th-minute strike from midfielder Paul Pogba.
Struggling AC Milan lost 2-0 at home to fourth-placed Fiorentina ahead of Wednesday's trip to Barcelona in Europe's top club competition, further progress in which may be the key to the future of under-pressure coach Massimiliano Allegri.
His Rossoneri hold the second qualifying place above Scottish side Celtic, but languish 11th in Serie A -- 18 points behind pacesetting Roma, which will seek an unprecedented 11th successive win at Torino on Sunday.


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2009-10 Women's Basketball Season Recap
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The women's basketball team captured their first ever Skyline Conference Championship after defeating eight-time defending champion Mount Saint Mary College in the title game. The Rams finished the regular season with an overall record of 22-1 and were the number one seed heading into the playoffs.
At the NCAA Tournament, Farmingdale was defeated by Gettysburg College in the first round to end their record breaking season.
Individually, the team was led by two-time Skyline Player of the Year, senior guard Kimberly Blakney (Brooklyn, N.Y./Benjamin Banneker). Blakney led the nation in both scoring and steals for the second consecutive year and was named the Met Basketball Writers Association Division III Player of the Year, a First Team All-Star for D3hoops.com and ECAC Metro Region First Team. Blakney averaged 25.6 points, 11.7 rebounds and 6.1 steals per game this year. She led the team with 53 blocked shots and was second with 64 assists. Blakney leaves Farmingdale as the colleges' all-time leading scorer and holds career records in six other categories.
Senior guard Kamaya Miller (Brooklyn, N.Y./Midwood) had an outstanding final year for the Rams as she finished second on the team in scoring (11.6 ppg), rebounds (6.6 rpg) and steals (3.6 spg). Miller contributed 50 assists and was the defense leader for coach Mooney.
Junior Juanita Chappel (Brooklyn, N.Y./Grand Street Campus) led the team with 89 assists and finished third in both scoring and steals. Senior Tiffara Steward (Elmont, N.Y./Sewanhaka), sophomore Dominique Cunningham (Amityville, N.Y./Copiague) and freshman Jeanette Zubizaretta (Bay Shore, N.Y./Calhoun) all were a major part of the teams success this season.


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