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Youthhostel Lausanne
The Lausanne youth hostel, with its simple, pleasant, welcoming atmosphere, lies in a park-land and lake-side setting....
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- 24 hour reception
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From the railway station, take the m�tro (M2) in direction of Ouchy and stop in D�LICES. There take the Bus No. 25 in direction of Bourdonnette and stop in BOIS DE VAUX. Take the street in front of you and 30 m after find a sing JEUNOTEL. There we are.
By car: Take motorway to Lausanne Sud, and continue to the end. At the Maladi�re roundabout, take regular highway towards Geneva. Turn left after about 300m.
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Lots of clothing, tools, furniture,jewelry!
Sadly, we are moving away from the bay area and are getting rid of everything! Please come and take advantage of the great selection of goodies. Items for sale include, but are not limited to:
Acoustic electric bass guitar (perfect condition w/ hard case)
Bass/ Combo amplifier (perfect condition)
Acoustic guitar (fair condition)
Electric guitar (good condition)
Onkyo 7.1 channel surround sound 110w home theater receiver with speakers and subwoofer
28" HDMI hi-def 1080p computer monitor
X-box360 games
X-box360 console (needs new cd-rom)
Cuisinart table-top grill (wedding gift - barely used - great condition!)
Laptop computer
HP Laser printer (Unused -- still in box!)
LOTS of miscellaneous computer hardware and iPhone4 accessories
Down pillows
Luggage and backpacks
Cat toys and scratching posts
Fine fabrics and linens
Storage bins
Sporting equipment
Ionic Pro air purifier
Office desk
Brand new molcajete
Other misc. household supplies and chachkies
Please email if you have any questions! Hope to see you in The Point!
This Saturday, get your farmer's market vegetables AND a fun yard sale find! We're a two minute walk from the Grand Lake Farmer's Market and/or Grand Lake Theater, just two doors down from Holy Land. I'm moving on Monday, so everything is priced to sell! The address is 695 Rand Ave, and the yard sale will run 9-1. Contact me if you'd like to purchase any of the bigger items beforehand (will be removed as they are taken): Phenomenal vintage couch - $100. This beautiful, huge couch is worth a LOT more, but it's priced to sell, and also has one piece that needs reupholstering (pictured). 8.5 feet long, 40" tall at its highest point, 32" deep. Hi-Boy Dresser - $20. One drawer pull is missing, and the drawers tilt down when you pull them out. Otherwise, in good condition. It would make a great White Bookshelf - $15. Shelves are adjustable. 3.5 feet tall, 2 feet wide, and 11" deep. Coffee Table with Storage Space - $20. Hamper - $10.
Back for the 6th year the fat-friendly, gender-inclusive clothing and bake sale returns in August. Presented jointly by Big Moves, friends of NOLOSE, and the FatFriendlyFunders, we're so proud that this bonanza of fat fashion and fellowship is becoming a Bay Area institution. Cupcakes & Muffintops V6.0 August 3rd, 2014 Humanist Hall 390 27th St. Entrance on 411 28th Street, Oakland, CA 12-4 pm $0-$10 suggested door donation, no one turned away for lack of funds Pricing info: Most clothing $1-7; Some boutique items $10 and up, shopper's discretion. Are you ready for the Bay Area's biggest fat fashion extravaganza of the year? Are you prepared to spend the afternoon in the company of some of the most gorgeously courageous, enthusiastic fat folks around, egging each other on to buy that tight leather vest or try on that bikini? Are you ready to sample delicious homemade treats? Are you ready to come in with a reasonable amount of cash, and leave with armloads of new-to-you clothes you can't wait to wear? We will be accepting both cash and credit cards for clothing purchases. The door and bake sale will remain cash only. Check out our blog for updates and photos of what is coming through the sorting room: http://cupcakesandmuffintops.wordpress.com/ It's never too early to clean out your closets for great fat causes! We're currently accepting donations of gently used clothing for people of all genders, size large and up, up, up! Superfat and masculine-spectrum clothing especially appreciated. Send an email to cupcake at bigmoves dot org by July 25th to schedule a donation pickup, volunteer to help at the sale, or sign up to bake some goodies! Accessibility Information: The entrance to the sale is on 28th Street, through the garden. There is a small parking lot on the side of the garden towards Telegraph Avenue, and we ask that people leave the parking spaces in the lot for people who need closer, more accessible parking. Once in the garden, there is a path down to a ramp on the left; the ramp is the main entrance to the sale and will be festooned accordingly. Inside, we'll have some armless seats and volunteers on hand to help you shop, carry clothes, etc! The Humanist Hall has two gender-free bathrooms, one of which is accessible but may have a sink-height issue. The shared dressing room is also gender-free. A note about the clothing: we put the call out for donations of clean clothes but don't wash them ourselves, so some may arrive with pet hair, scented detergents, or smoke. All proceeds benefit the programs of Big Moves, friends of NOLOSE, and FatFriendlyFunders.

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The management of Westfarms Mall is hoping that shoppers this holiday season will have an unexpectedly hassle-free experience, and have added amenities and special events to meet the needs of all of their customers.
"We try to demystify holiday shopping – making it fun and super easy," said Westfarms Director of Marketing and Sponsorship Christa Allen.
Families will enjoy visiting the Ice Palace which once again fills the center court area. This year, the theme is based on the 20th Century FOX movie "Ice Age: Continental Drift" which is due out on Blu-ray™ and DVD on Dec. 11.
"It's definitely different than your typical trip to the mall to see Santa," Allen said. Although this is the third year that Westfarms has used the 30-foot ice palace dome, a mainstay of the display, the interactive elements of the overall experience are brand new.
While waiting for a turn with Santa, children may get snowed on inside the giant snow globe that is the ice palace. "It's 'actual' snow, completely natural and safe," said Allen.
Visitors can also leave their handprints in ice, "help" Ice Age character Scrat find his precious acorn, measure their height compared to several Ice Age characters, and enjoy a laser light show.
Of course there are the requisite professional photos on Santa's lap, but there is also an opportunity for the entire family to pose for a portrait on the ice throne, which Allen said is not really made of ice but is actually cold to the touch.
Thousands of visitors pass through the center court display at Westfarms every year, and Allen said that Santa's elves typically hand out 18,000 give-aways.
Allen also highlighted some amenities that Westfarms shoppers should know about this holiday season:
- Parking: Complimentary shuttles are available from Tunxis Plantation Golf Course and Tunxis Community College in Farmington for those who don't want to drive. Valet parking is also available on weekends as well as for the entire week before Christmas.
- Wrapping: Available for $2 per gift in the lobby outside J. Crew on the upper level. "Your presents will be beautifully gift-wrapped," said Allen, and the money will all be donated to Hartford HealthCare's Cancer Connect.
- Gift Cards: Westfarms sells American Express gift cards which can be used at the mall as well as anywhere in the nation that takes American Express. If you purchase three or more, you get a special gift – a glass cheeseboard set, she said.
- Ticketmaster: Tickets are available to area musical performances or other shows.
- Hartford HealthCare Wellness Lounge: Available if you need a break and some relaxation, in the same area as the gift wrapping center.
Santa arrived on Nov. 8, and will stay through Dec. 24. "Of course Santa gets very busy after that," Allen said.


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She needs her crime-solving boyfriend, Luke, more than ever. Problem is, his ex-girlfriend has moved back to town, giving Bella some murderous thoughts of her own. Then again, there's no time for a relationship crisis when Bella's doing her best to derail her father's wedding and stay one step ahead of a killer.
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When I discuss the different joint pain/aches with doctors, the first thing I hear is - 'You are getting older and are overweight. We can send you for therapy and put you on meds but there is no guarantee that will help.'
Discussed the knee with an orthopedic surgeon and was advised that they could do arthroscopy surgery but there would be no guarantee of not having pain afterwards and they weren't sure if it would even help.
I have a new doctor now and will give him a chance to come up with something better then - 'You are getting older and are overweight.'
It sounds like to me you should be checking into a connective tissue syndrome for example Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome or Marfans Syndrome. I have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Hypermobility type and I have chronic fatigue, joint pain and muscle ticks and spasms. Ehlers Danlos is a heritary connective tissue disorder that can not be tested through blood, but by a geneticist. I also have jaw pain, all of my joints from head to toe do dislocate and subluxate many times aday. But with many other syndromes, this varies person to person. Most general praticianers do not know of these very rare syndromes and conditions. You can look Ehlers Danlos syndrome up at WWW.EDNF.org and if the posted symptoms are similar, I highly suggest you talking to your doctor about a referral to a geneticist. All the best Misswierddivine from Sweden
Finally, it dawned on me that it is all on the right side. In my initial Internet search, I discovered that it can be linked to Crohn's Disease, which was an "aha" for me, because my doctor diagnosed me with IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) earlier this year. So...I suspect mine could be related to that. Perhaps the same is true for you and others who have posted here. BUT I was also diagnosed with degenerative disc in my cervical spine 5 years ago, when I was 35, so it could "just" be more degeneration.
I still don't know what to do about it other than try glucosamine/chondroitin, but maybe this will help solve the mystery for some of us.
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For the second time in three weeks, a career day from C.J. Spiller went for naught.
Spiller posted a career-best in rushing and receiving Sunday, running for 91 yards and a touchdown on 12 carries and catching a team-high nine passes for 78 yards and another score in the Bills' 30-23 loss to the Dolphins.
"I'll trade those stats in for a win," said Spiller, whose 91 yards is the second-best individual effort against Miami's third-ranked run defense this season (Houston's Ben Tate had 103 yards).
"I'm just trying to make plays," he said. "I knew what I had to do coming into the game. I knew what I wanted to try and correct from last game. Obviously I wasn't making enough people miss last game, so that's something I wanted to correct."
The second-year had impressive runs on consecutive plays in the first quarter, an 18-yard draw up the gut, and a 24-yard run in which he broke away from a would-be tackler en route to Buffalo's first score of the game.
"I used my strength that people say I have little of, so it shows that I can break tackles," he said.
Spiller carried the ball just eight times in the first half despite averaging eight yards per rush, while Tashard Choice replaced him for extended stretches. Spiller only had two carries in the third quarter before getting more touches in the fourth in the passing game as the Bills attempted to rally back.
"We're trying not to wear the guy completely out," coach Chan Gailey said. "He's not the biggest back in the world. I don't think he can go out there and carry it 25 or 30 times."
Gailey said despite the loss he hasn't wavered in his support for quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick.
"I've lost zero confidence," Gailey said.
Fitzpatrick finished with 316 yards and two touchdowns but threw three more interceptions. He has eight touchdowns and 12 interceptions during the Bills' seven-game losing streak.
"There's nobody pointing fingers at anybody," receiver Stevie Johnson said. "We need a big mirror around this locker room so we can look at ourselves and see if we can do something different."
For the second straight week rookie cornerback Justin Rogers showed he can make plays in the return game.
After Miami got on the board in the second quarter, Rogers brought Dan Carpenter's kickoff out from a yard deep in the end zone for a 42-yard return — the Bills' longest kickoff return up to that point all season. In the third quarter he brought another out from three yards deep and returned the kick 54 yards.
"I've been practicing all year and the coaches gave me a chance to show what I got the past couple weeks and I just get in, stick to the scheme and I've got great blocking," said Rogers, who has also moved ahead of Leodis McKelvin on the cornerback depth chart.
"We have a rule, if it's like five-yards deep, don't bring it out. And I'm sticking to the same rule," said Rogers of the struggles in the return game for the majority of the year. "It's just a rule that we have. It's not me personally that they're letting bring it out, it's just winter time so guys aren't kicking it that far, so we have more opportunities to bring it out."
Stevie Johnson said his groin injury flared up late in the game, preventing him from being on the field for the team's final possession, while defensive tackle Marcell Dareus was also spotted after the game heading in for X-rays.
Tight end Lee Smith left the game with an apparent left ankle injury midway through the third quarter. Smith was carted off the field and did not return.
Reggie Bush recorded only the fourth-ever 200-yard rushing game by a Miami running back. Bush rushed for 203 yards, including a 76-yard touchdown run that proved to be the game-winner. His previous career-best came in his rookie season when he had 126 yards against the New York Giants. The former second-overall pick is just 27 yards shy of his first-ever 1,000-yard rushing campaign.
What's become a trend during Buffalo's losing skid has been its inability to convert on third down. The Bills offense went 0 for 11 on Sunday and was 0 for 23 on third down against the Dolphins in two games this season.
Erik Pears, in his first game after signing a new three-year contract extension with the Bills, struggled on Buffalo's opening drive. On first down, Pears was called for a 10-yard holding call, and on the next play he was beaten clean by Cameron Wake for a sack on Fitzpatrick. Pears was later flagged for a 15-yard facemask penalty.
The Bills committed 11 penalties for 92 yards in the loss.
"Coach addressed it after the game. It's a sign of an undisciplined team," defensive end Chris Kelsay said. "That's one thing I would never say about a team coach Gailey coaches is that they're undisciplined, because he demands discipline. And today, we shot ourselves in the foot with in crucial times with penalties and it hurt."
North Tonawanda's Rick Tomm and Kenmore West's Rich Harris were both honored before the game along with several other high school football coaches in the area as part of the Buffalo Bills High School Football Coach of the Week program. Orchard Park's Gene Tundo was named Coach of the Year.
Former UB and St. Joe's standout Naaman Roosevelt was inactive against the Dolphins, as Derek Hagan got the nod as the No. 4 wideout. Also out for the Bills were Scott Chandler (foot), Josh Nesbitt, Sam Young, Jarron Gilbert, Kamar Aiken and Kendi Onobun.
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It was a long 90-days, but the official waiting period is over and Putnam General is now in new hands. After months of uncertainty Putnam General is now officially CAMC Teays Valley.
The hospital and it's employees have been through a lot -- there was a time many thought they'd be losing their jobs, but Monday many said they said they feel like they can finally relax.
Monday afternoon was the official grand opening of CAMC Teay Valley.
Back in August Putnam General's owners HCA announced it would be closing, but the community and its leaders rallied together and fought to keep the hospital open.
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Internet Sales Tax Is a Bad But Necessary Idea
We seem to be stuck with high sales taxes, and Congress needs to level the playing field.
Robert Hahn is director of economics and professor at the Smith School, University of Oxford. Peter Passell is a senior fellow at the Milken Institute and editor of The Milken Institute Review. They co-founded Regulation2point0.org, a web portal on economic regulation.
The Financial Times recently published commentary by Jacob Weisberg deploring Amazon.com's use of political and financial muscle to avoid collecting sales taxes on out-of-state purchases. Amazon, he notes, only recently relented because the company sees greater advantage in positioning warehouses closer to customers.
Wall Street Journal writer Gordon Crovitz responded with a column entitled, "9,646 Tax Burdens on the Internet," in which he argued that the crazy quilt of state and local tax rules would be unmanageable for Internet retailers – especially smaller ones. Crovitz offers the example of a 1,400-word Wisconsin regulation differentiating taxable ice cream cakes from ones that are exempt by virtue of contents.
[See a collection of political cartoons on the economy.]
Who's right? Neither and both. Forgive our pedantry here, but it's important to get back to economic basics in judging the merits of Internet sales taxes. Here, we offer three criteria.
So how does the Internet tax bill stack up by these criteria?
[Read the U.S. News Debate: Should the Senate Have Passed an Online Sales Tax?]
Start with the fact that sales taxes are, in general, lousy ways to raise revenue because they are inefficient and regressive. Yet, sadly, state legislatures seem determined to shift their tax regimes toward sales taxes in an apparent effort to attract businesses that are unaffected by local sales levies.
That said, it's hard to defend the Internet exemption that drives customers away from local merchants – especially in the case of big-ticket items like consumer electronics. A decade ago, one could plausibly defend the exemption on the grounds that Internet merchants needed extra help in convincing consumers to try purchases at a distance. Today, the convenience of Internet stores and the ease of comparison shopping have erased that issue. By the same token, the red tape in following the tax rules of thousands of individual localities has been cut by computerization.
In the best of possible worlds, states and localities would reduce or eliminate their use of sales taxes, rendering the argument moot. In this world, we seem to be stuck with high sales taxes, and Congress needs to level the playing field.


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Mixed-acid fermentation
When wood arrives at a pulp mill, it goes through extraction to remove liquids from the solids. The solid material is used in the pulping process, transforming it into some form of paper. The liquid extract is the jumping-off point for mixed-acid fermentation.
Mixed-acid fermentation has not been proven to produce jet fuel. But with hydrogen upgrading, it can produce crude gasoline. It's attractive as a pathway because it doesn't require a clean feedstock — meaning, anything that contains cellulose can feed the process.
Van Walsum, who has worked on biofuels production for decades, including several years in private industry, has even made fuel precursors from seaweed and seaweed processing waste from a plant in Rockland, Maine.
In many fermentation processes, van Walsum says, a clean feedstock is necessary because the organisms engineered to consume sugars and degrade the liquid are particular about what they ingest. In mixed-acid fermentation, the organisms consume anything from proteins and fats to cellulose and starches.
Another benefit to the "dirty" process, as van Walsum calls it, is lower production cost because the fermentation does not require a stainless-steel reactor or clean, genetically engineered nutrients. In van Walsum's lab, the process is done in a plastic tub.
"A very highly engineered organism would probably want to have glucose and that's a refined sugar, mostly from corn or sugar cane, so right away you're looking at food sources," van Walsum says. "What we can do is take raw wood or garbage wood or wastes and not use a sterile culture, but rather completely open mixed cultures, like a septic tank — anything that will grow on what will feed it. But what we do is constrain the growth conditions so they only produce the type of product we can use, which is an organic acid."
At the fermentation stage, the organisms anaerobically digest the liquid extract, decomposing it to produce a mix of organic acids, including acetic, lactic, propionic and butyric acids. Calcium carbonate, or limestone, is added to the fermentation stage to neutralize the acids.
The acids are then dried, which is one sticking point for this pathway. Drying is energy-intensive, van Walsum says, and therefore expensive.
At this stage, the acid has been transformed into a dry salt, which then goes into a process known as ketonization. In a reactor, the salt is constantly stirred and heated to 450 degrees Celsius (842 degrees Fahrenheit). The reaction turns the salt into a liquid fuel.
The liquid resulting from ketonization will burn, but not in the way it needs to in order to serve as jet fuel. Following hydrogen upgrading, however, the mixture could be used as gasoline.
"We've managed to get relatively good conversion on our mixed culture to organic acids," says van Walsum, who can produce the fuel on a bench scale. "It's very robust and can handle a dirty stream because everything ultimately biodegrades one way or the other. The trick is to keep it making these acids, and that's not too hard to do."


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How about anyone that has D/P and wifi setup their router with a name like PokeAP so that public will know a certain key to put in for use with the wii and the DS-DSLite, specifically a pokemon access point.
What do you think?
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At least the cover is done.
I think I'd insist on renaming it The Call of Cthulwho, though.
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At least the cover is done.
I think I'd insist on renaming it The Call of Cthulwho, though.
Now that's clever.
Am I the only one to read that title and think of this awesome Metallica song?
That is quite possibly the greatest thing ever.
@3 Yes, you are the only one. Metallica? really?
That cover is great, I've always been a big fan of Lovecraft although he's kind of like going to a restaurant for the atmosphere when the food is average. Few poeple know that after he died he formed a Psychedelic band.
@3 No, you're not the only one.
@5 What's wrong with Metallica?
I can see the wonderful, heartwarming scene of a reading of the children's addition of The Call of Cthulhu even now…
"Are you sitting comfortably, children? Then I shall begin…
Once upon a time there was a non-Euclidean entity, a hell-spawn scion of the Elder Gods called Cthulhu. He was ever so powerful, and ever so scary. So scary, that merely looking at him could reduce you to screaming, gibbering fear-induced madness for the remainder of your days.
Long, long ago, Cthulh was trapped in the city of R'yleh at the bottom of the ocean. There he lies still, dead but dreaming, and one day he will rise again to consume all of humanity. His faithul worshippers, as a reward for their fidelity, will be the first to be eaten, so that they need not witness the utter annihilation of mankind. When Cthulhu rises, he will eat you, your brothers and sisters, your parents, your friends, even your little dogs and cats – everyone, and the world shall be covered in darkness.
The End.
Sleep tight, children. And be good, or Cthulhu's tentacled minions will come to eat your flesh and skin you to wear your hide like a cloak…"
Still, it would be better than reading them excerpts of that most favoured compedium of sick horror stories used to terrify children into drone-like, unthinking obedience – I'm sure you can all guess what I am referring to…
Seeing this, I can't help but mention this The Adventures of Li'l Cthulhu video on YouTube…
In other cephalopod news:
The artist, DrFaustusAU, is actually producing the entire book not just the cover. It's going up in dA gallery by two-page spreads. Go check it out!
Gallery (thanks mrfright #2 for the link)
Re: That Writer from Providence and the little chilluns, here's the account of – dare I say it? – an unspeakably charming art project that was done for Hallowe'en a year ago and which I post for your pre-Hallowe'en delectation:
Don't draw too much attention to this guy, ;) ;) , or the estate of octorday eusssay (jerks) will make him take them all down. Which would be sad, because they all look to be rather entertaining.
"Horton Hears a Cthulwho"…
I'd love to get a copy of this. We're reading Roger Zelazney's Night in Lonesome October right now to our 6 year old and she doesn't understand the references to Cthulu.
I would not could not go insane…
I would not could not Aiiigggh my brain!
I'm curious to discover out what weblog system you've been working with? I'm experiencing some small security issues with my latest blog and I would like to find something more safe. Do you've got any suggestions?


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Wikipedia's data retention guidelines come with a loophole that allows them to keep data about you indefinitely.
Court prohibits copyright trolls from filing blanket requests for Internet users' identities.
New digital currency's value increased seven-fold last month, but is it for real?
Private space company accuses Air Force of playing favorites when it comes to giving out contracts.


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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Freshman Anthony Davis had 23 points and
10 rebounds to join Terrence Jones and Sam Bowie as the only
freshmen in Kentucky history with 20-10 games in their debuts,
leading the second-ranked Wildcats to a 108-58 victory over Marist
on Friday night.
Davis attacked the rim in the opener, finishing 10 of 13 with
eight dunks, as Kentucky shrugged off a slow start with a dominant
second half that turned a single-digit lead into a blowout in their
first game of the Basketball Hall of Fame Tip-Off tournament.
Jones, a sophomore, came off the bench for eight points after
the university said he was involved in an early morning car
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by copper86: [QB] Your paragraph about the ejaculate travelling down to the vaginal opening was exactly what I meant when I had asked him about ejaculating. To be entirely honest, my partner and I have been together off and on for two years; and have been engaging in anal sex this way for almost a year. I went for a pap smear and no vaginal infections were found; and they took a blood sample but never phoned me to return (I couldn't return because I had left university at that point, but they didn't call for me to have a follow-up appointment). But other than that, my reason for being nervous is because, since we've been doing things like this for a while, I'm nervous to all of a sudden ask for him to use a condom. He seems to feel as if there is no need to; and I want to trust him, but I am a paranoid person by default. I'm even afraid that he might be mad at me for asking if he had ejaculated during anal sex (he's not an unreasonable person at all, but I'm always nervous that something I say or do might upset him). This probably sounds extremely foolish, and I feel stupid writing it. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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This is the third day of my wirhdrawal bleed; and my partner and I engaged in anal sex. He did not ejaculate (I would have felt it); and he told me he hadn't come when I asked him if he had. I haven't missed a pill in ages, so I'm not really concerned about pregnancy... I'm just wondering this: if my partner had any pre-cum, would he have felt or seen it? This might be too much information; but we were outside and he was using his phone to see what he was doing. He also urinated at least twice before we started. I was also wondering how the birth control pill still protects you from pregnancy during your placebo week (that has always baffled me). Thank you so much!
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HI There,
For your last question, take a look at this, but the quick answer is that you are still protected.
How do birth control pills really work, even during the placebo period?
As to whether your partner would have seen or felt his pre-ejaculate, I'm not sure what you're asking here, as if someone with a penis is engaging in sexual activity that involves their penis it's fair to say that most will secrete some pre-ejaculate at some point.
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Thank you so much for your response! I'll look at the article! I also urinated and changed my tampon when I got back.
My partner doesn't ejaculate very often; so I was wondering if pre-ejaculate was similar and if he could see it while he was doing the activity. I know pre-ejaculate can contain some semen; but I'm assuming the count would have been lower since he had urinated. Thank you for always being so helpful!
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I am aware that my pill stops me from ovulating (and even if I do, I know the mucous and uterine lining help to make implantation difficult for sperm); and I've been trying to do research on ovulation just for curiosity's sake and for my sanity, and I can't believe the outpour of information that's contradicting. Some medical sites say 14 days (assuming you have a 28 day cycle) or you halve your cycle to get the days you may be ovulating; and others say that sometimes you can ovulate during or after your period, or 12-16 days before. Your article "On the Rag" was helpful, but I'm just wondering what your take on ovulation was. I know it's different for everone, especially if their cycles were irregular; but how "irregular" is irregular?
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Really, when it comes to the regularity or irregularity of ovulation, versus menstruation, you'd have to ask someone who works in fertility that question. That's really to whom it would be relevant, and personally, not working in that field, I don't feel able to answer that question.
However, it is a given that when someone ovulates, and how often, varies among people quite widely. There are some averages and common threads -- for instance, on average, most people who ovulate usually do between around day 11 and day 17 of their cycles, and most people who ovulate do only do so once in a cycle -- but like most things with bodies, there is also a lot of deviation.
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And just so it's clear, your risks with unprotected -- per lack of a condom -- anal sex are most substantially STI risks in the first place, not pregnancy risks. Pregnancy via that kind of sex is possible, but not likely, whereas STI transmission from that kind of sex is both possible and likely.
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Thank you so much! I don't mean to take up so much of your time! Thank you for your input. I am aware that STI's pose bigger risks with anal sex; and would like to talk with my partner about using a condom for that, as well. When I had asked him if he had ejaculated, he had said "no;" and when I had said that he could if he had a condom on, he embarrassed me a little by saying that ejaculation into the anus wasn't a pregnancy risk. I knew that; but I would like to use a condom for that kind of sex, just for extra protection on both fronts (STI's and pregnancy). I just feel nervous to bring it up.
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Well, he was also only kind of right.
Ejaculate can run down for the anus to the vaginal opening pretty easily, since they're so close by, and also since so many receptive partners are on their knees during anal intercourse. It's way less likely for a pregnancy to occur that way, since that'd be indirect, but it is still possible.
But the risk of STIs and other infections with unprotected anal sex is very, very high.
Why do you feel nervous to insist on a condom to offer you both that protection?
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Your paragraph about the ejaculate travelling down to the vaginal opening was exactly what I meant when I had asked him about ejaculating.
To be entirely honest, my partner and I have been together off and on for two years; and have been engaging in anal sex this way for almost a year. I went for a pap smear and no vaginal infections were found; and they took a blood sample but never phoned me to return (I couldn't return because I had left university at that point, but they didn't call for me to have a follow-up appointment).
But other than that, my reason for being nervous is because, since we've been doing things like this for a while, I'm nervous to all of a sudden ask for him to use a condom. He seems to feel as if there is no need to; and I want to trust him, but I am a paranoid person by default. I'm even afraid that he might be mad at me for asking if he had ejaculated during anal sex (he's not an unreasonable person at all, but I'm always nervous that something I say or do might upset him).
This probably sounds extremely foolish, and I feel stupid writing it.
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Let's put things like "stupid" away, okay?
And his STI screens have been all clear, too (assuming you were screened for STIs with that exam: did you ask for screenings?), and you're both in a monogamous relationship -- one that has been so for at least six months with a clear STI screen for both of you very recently -- you're as close to 100% sure is?
If so, then bacterial infections are the main risk. (If he's never even been tested, then all bets are off, and not testing positive for infections so far, if you've been tested, doesn't mean you won't get them as this goes on, or that you may not have acquired something already that hasn't shown up yet.)
But at the same time, choosing to engage in sex with someone where you don't feel able to change things when you need to -- or when you know you weren't making sound choices before -- is problematic, and that right there suggests a need for some big talks to me. Same goes with feeling you can't say things that might upset a partner: that suggests a dynamic in your relationship that's not healthy.
Hopefully he knows, like I'd hope you know, that we can trust someone all we want, but that doesn't change how viruses and bacteria behave. All the trust in the world won't make genitals free of bacteria, or people free of illnesses we can all get or have.
None of this sounds foolish, per se, what it sounds like is that you're taking risks you don't want to, and where you can't even have the conversations to both establish what the risks are realistically, and staying silent about things that need to be talked about in healthy sexual relationships out of fear. And I think we can agree none of that is the good stuff, nor is any of it supportive of as healthy a body and as healthy a relationship as you could have.
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I think the next time we have anal sex, I will suggest that he wears a condom. I'm not trying to say that he's unreasonable or uncaring in any way - I'm just worried because he has left me twice before and I don't want to lose him again. If he asks about why I want to use condoms; I guess I could just say that I'd feel better about it - and so he could cum all he wants and not panic about anything.
As far as the pap smear went, I'm not sure if I had any screenings done. I got a blood test for sure, and that was in mid-December 2011 (with our first anal intercourse being in June or July of that year and first vaginal intercourse being in September of that year).
We've already made a few changes as to also using condoms as a back-up when undergoing vaginal sex; so hopefully I can suggest this change myself and see what happens.
I don't know why he doesn't wear condoms with anal. I think that he has either been screened or has never had anal sex before; or that he assumes that since I was a virgin when we first started to hang out, that I had no infections (which I know is not necessarily the case - it might be unlikely that I have anything, but it's not impossible), and that is why he thinks condoms are unnecessary.
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Can we agree that any partner who would leave you (or anyone) because they won't do something seriously basic that's one of the easiest things in the world to do in order to support both of your health and well-being isn't a sound partner to be with in the first place?
It does sound like you both need to talk about testing, even though it should have been talked about long before now. You need to know if he's been tested or not, not guess at it, and you also need to find out for yourself if you have had any STI screenings (at the very least, without HIV counseling, you can know you didn't have that screening). And you not having had a sexual partner before isn't a sound reason for him thinking condoms aren't needed, neither is his not engaging in anal sex before: after all, his health isn't the only one at risk here.
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Thank you so much for your response, Heather. I really appreciate it!
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Usain Bolt is the best ever, Anna Kournikova wasn't - just to clear that up before people get on their high horses and start to make references to athletic ability. I have no intention to compare their relative skill levels in the respective disciplines, but as a certain Mr Robert Bräutigam recently mooted, Usain Bolt is starting to mirror certain aspects of Kournikova. Predominately their quite frankly nauseating use of fame.
Anna Kournikova was notorious for the flaunting of her body and became the pin-up girl of tennis. Fortunately for Anna her distinct lack of talent in the playing sense was more than made up for in other areas. She has made millions from her good looks - fair play to the lass. Such was her fame in the early 2000s that a computer virus was named after her, perhaps this was a better achievement than any of her tennis exploits?
Moving to the fastest man in the world, the man's a hero, right? If we are to look objectively at the charismatic Jamaican we all would acknowledge that he is the finest sprinter to have ever graced our planet. We would also note that he has been a phenomenal ambassador for his sport. Yet, he is a barely credible actor and a woeful rap artist.
Many of you will have seen Bolt fronting Virgin's advertising campaigns; he is mimicking Richard Branson with his dyed hair and beard. If you are not wooed by Virgin's less than tactful marketing then at least you will find it hard to suppress a giggle at Usain Bolt's quite frankly ridiculous appearance. Only Djbril Cisse can pull off that type of blonde facial hair, period.
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- 'No matter who you are, no matter what you're doing, you're not gonna catch me, you're not gonna beat me.'
- 'When I hit the top speed I turn on the afterburner.'
Sheer hilarity, wouldn't you agree?
I pray that Usain Bolt is smart enough, or indeed his management are, that he doesn't tarnish his image as the greatest athlete of all time by such superficial ideas. Fortunately, however, he has at least brought something to the world of sport.
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Karissa Demers is a 2005 graduate of Northern Adirondack Central School. She received a Bachelor's Degree in Communication Disorders and Sciences in 2009 from SUNY Plattsburgh and a Master's Degree in Speech-Language Pathology in 2011 from Nazareth College in Rochester. She is employed as a Speech-Language Pathologist for Clyde-Savannah Central School District.
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KINGSVILLE — James Gordon "Jim" Baird, age 68, of Kingsville, Ohio, died at home on Wednesday, June 26, 2013.
Born Sept. 6, 1944, in Conneaut, Ohio, he was the son of Gordon and Dorothy (Gibson) Baird. A graduate of Rowe High School, he attended Bowling Green State University, majoring in geology.
He was a self-employed contractor and dairy farmer. He attended Amboy United Methodist Church in his earlier years, and was a member of the Farm Bureau and a 4-H Advisor. Jim enjoyed watching car racing, gardening and his cows. He was a Cleveland sports fan and an avid Civil War buff, but most of all, he enjoyed his family.
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The Philippine peso fell toward a four-month low as concern the Spanish economy is looking increasingly fragile deterred risk-taking. Bonds were steady.
The currency was poised for a second monthly loss after Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy called for a show of force from European authorities as his government sought ways to avoid tapping markets to fund the bailout of the nation's third- biggest lender. Philippine gross domestic product increased by the most in a year in the first quarter, according to the median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg before official data due this week.
"The peso is mostly being driven by global sentiment," said Goh Puay Yeong, a Singapore-based foreign-exchange strategist at Credit Suisse Group AG. "Growth is still pretty decent there. The macroeconomic outlook is still stable."
The peso weakened 0.2 percent to 43.627 per dollar as of 9:59 a.m. in Manila, according to Tullett Prebon Plc. The currency reached 43.960 on May 25, the weakest level since Jan. 16, and has lost 3.2 percent in May, following a 1.7 percent decline in April. One-month implied volatility, a measure of exchange-rate swings used to price options, was unchanged at 7.25 percent.
The Southeast Asian economy expanded 4.4 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, following 3.7 percent growth in the preceding three months, according to the Bloomberg survey before a government report on May 31.
The yield on the Philippines' 5.75 percent bonds due November 2021 was steady at 5.55 percent, according to prices from Tradition Financial Services.
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Slowly, but surely, the the diversity of publicly available genome-wide SNP samples is increasing. One of the most interesting and valuable sets, released not long ago thanks to the Yunusbayev et al. study, comes from the Mordovian Republic in the Russian Federation. It includes the results for 15 people from the closely related Erzya and Moksha ethnic groups (10 and 4 samples respectively, and one mixed individual).
So why are these Mordovian Republic samples so important? Because the Erzya and Moksha have a long history in the Middle Volga region of Russia, which is a key zone for those interested in the Eurasian steppe and forest steppe. Their presence in the area as a distinct Volgaic Finnic entity probably dates back to around 500 BC, but various groups who contributed to their ethnogenesis were probably here much earlier. We can infer this from the Erzya and Moksha languages. They're classified as Finno-Ugric, and thus Uralic, but show ancient influences from Indo-Iranian, Baltic, and possibly even proto-Tocharian. What this suggests is that Erzya and Moksha genomes should provide strong clues to the various population movements through this region, possibly all the way from the metal ages to historic times.
Based on a variety of analyses I've done with these samples to date, this certainly appears to be the case. But the results give a strong impression of mostly one way traffic across Mordovia - from the west to east.
Below is an MDS featuring the Erzya and Moksha from Yunusbayev et al., plus a single Erzya from my Eurogenes Ancestry Project (Erzya1), run against samples from the North Caucasus, Chuvashia and North and East Europe. Interestingly, not only do they cluster tightly with the North and East Europeans (PL = Poland, RU = Russia, SE = Sweden, UA = Ukraine), but they're clearly separated from the North Caucasus samples and even from their immediate neighbors on the Volga, the Chuvashs.
These results are obviously totally out of whack with geography. Indeed, it appears that the Swedes are a little closer to the North Caucasus than the Erzya and Moksha across the more significant dimension 1. This might seem bizarre at first, but not if we consider that Eastern Europe wasn't affected by any significant post-Ice Age migrations directly from the south (ie. the Mediterranean Basin/Near East), unlike Western Europe. It's not just my own work showing this, but also the aforementioned Yunusbayev et al. study, which described the presence of a significant genetic gap between populations of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. Moreover, archeologists have been saying something similar for years.
From the Eneolithic [Copper] period to the Early Iron Age there were no invasions of population from the Near East or Iran in the steppes of Eurasia. All migrations, though numerous, occurred within the steppe and forest-steppe zones.
Elena E. Kuz'mina, James P. Mallory (Editor), The Origin of the Indo-Iranians, Vol. 3, Barnes & Noble, 2007
Hence, the cline of Mediterranean/Near Eastern influence across the European continent generally runs like this: Southern/Southeastern Europe > Western Europe > North/Central Europe > Eastern Europe.
However, the Erzya and Moksha do carry direct influence from the east of the Volga. This shows up on the MDS plot along dimension 2, with the samples from Mordovia placed slightly closer to the Chuvash than most of the other North and Eastern Europeans. My ADMIXTURE analyses also indicate about 6% of North/East Asian ancestry, which is 5-6% higher than in most North/Central/Eastern European groups (see here).
This isn't surprising, considering the number of invasions from the east that have passed through or near the Middle Volga on their way to Europe, including various Turkic and Altaic onslaughts during the middle ages. What is startling, however, is how much of the older, western-like genetic ancestry the Erzya and Moksha have manged to retain. This didn't happen across the border in what is now Chuvashia, where language replacement to Turkic seems to have been accompanied by significant gene flow from Siberia. Thus, modern Chuvashs carry around 20-25% North/East Asian admixture.
Another interesting fact revealed by the Yunusbayev et al. dataset was the high level of light pigmentation amongst the Erzya and Moksha. I discovered this when plotting allele frequencies from various SNPs linked to fair hair and light eyes in Europeans (see here). The combined samples from Mordovia came out as one of the fairest groups. The result was confirmed by a reader, who sent me data from a pigmentation survey of Northeastern Europe, showing the Erzya as fairer than ethnic Russians, and the Moksha at about the same level as the Russians. A quick search via Google revealed the following two random representatives of the Erzya nation. I don't know the original source for the first image, while the second comes from Wikipedia.
I'm not sure whether these women look like the average Erzya, or even if they're representative of a significant minority of the population. The latter is more likely. In any case, it's interesting that two random hits off Google matched the genetic results of the reference samples from Mordovia. The relatively light pigmentation of such individuals, from near the Samara Bend, certainly fits with the notion of an expansion of a predominantly light eyed and fair haired population from this area during the Bronze and Iron Ages. Of course, I'm referring here to the Andronovo tribes.
According to C-14 [carbon] dating, the Andronovo and Timber-grave cultures formed at the shift of the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC on the common base of Eastern European cultures. The main components were the steppe cultures of Poltavka, late Catacomb (to far lesser degree), and the Abashevo culture of the forest steppe zone. The latter culture belonged to the Corded Ware group of cultures of Central Europe.
The subsequent development of the Timber-grave culture in the Pontic Caspian steppes was determined by the large-scale participation of the Abashevo culture in the Don region and the post-Catacomb Multi-roller Ware culture in the Ukraine.
The close genetic affinity of the Andronovo and the Timber-grave culture tribes became even closer thanks to regular contacts, especially because of the flow of tin from Kazakhstan and of copper ( as well as of finished products) from the Urals. The contact zone lay between the Volga and the Urals. The Andronovan influence reached the Dnieper.
Elena E. Kuz'mina, James P. Mallory (Editor), The Origin of the Indo-Iranians, Vol. 3, Barnes & Noble, 2007
Our autosomal, Y-chromosomal and mitochondrial DNA analyses reveal that whereas few specimens seem to be related matrilineally or patrilineally, nearly all subjects belong to haplogroup R1a1-M17 which is thought to mark the eastward migration of the early Indo-Europeans. Our results also confirm that at the Bronze and Iron Ages, south Siberia was a region of overwhelmingly predominant European settlement, suggesting an eastward migration of Kurgan people across the Russo-Kazakh steppe. Finally, our data indicate that at the Bronze and Iron Age timeframe, south Siberians were blue (or green)-eyed, fair-skinned and light-haired people and that they might have played a role in the early development of the Tarim Basin civilization.
Christine Keyser et al., Ancient DNA provides new insights into the history of south Siberian Kurgan people, Human Genetics, Saturday, May 16, 2009, doi: 10.1007/s00439-009-0683-0
The publically available datasets I used in this blog entry are found at the links below. My analysis can be reproduced with the PLINK software, found here.
HGDP-CEPH Human Genome Diversity Cell Line Panel
Yunusbayev et al. dataset


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BOSTON — The federal investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings has revised several significant details reported in the aftermath of the tragedy, especially the hunt for the perpetrators.
Investigators now say the surviving suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, did not engage in a gun battle with the police SWAT team that captured him a week ago in a boat in suburban Watertown.
They said no weapon was found on him or in and around the boat even though officers riddled the small craft with bullets before pulling him out and handcuffing him.
At the time, police said they had "exchanged gunfire" with the suspect, and that they also feared he had explosives hiding in the boat. No explosives were found there.
Investigators did not say if any of the bullets fired at the boat struck Tsarnaev, who was bleeding from serious wounds and taken to a Boston hospital. They said he was at the scene of the gunfight between police and his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, about 18 hours before the boat capture.
But they also disclosed that only one weapon, a 9mm handgun, was found at the earlier gunfight scene instead of the three guns that officials said at the time were recovered there. They said the gun was used by Tamerlan Tsarnaev to shoot at police, seriously wounding one officer and slightly injuring another.
Tamerlan died from bullet, shrapnel and other injuries sustained when his younger brother drove over his body while fleeing the gunfight in a stolen car. Investigators said the brothers had tossed a pressure cooker bomb like those used in the marathon explosions as well as handmade pipe bombs at police during the confrontation.
Investigators also contradicted reports that the younger brother's throat wound that has impeded his ability to speak resulted from an attempt to take his own life with a gun. They said it was caused by shrapnel from a makeshift bomb and not a bullet.
Additional information was released Wednesday about the killing of the campus police officer that touched off the nighttime gunfight and the daylong lockdown of the Boston area in search of the surviving suspect.
Investigators said they believe Sean Collier, 27, an MIT policeman, was ambushed while sitting in his cruiser on the Cambridge campus because the brothers wanted another gun. They said the pair fled without Collier's service revolver when they could not figure out how to release its triple-lock holster.
Collier's killing brought scores of officers into the area, and a motorist soon reported to police that his black Mercedes SUV had been carjacked by two men who said they were the marathon bombers and had killed a policeman.
Police were able to track the SUV from the driver's cellphone, which he left in the vehicle, setting off a police chase and high-drama events that eventually led to the death of Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Other developments in the bombing case:
-- Investigators said the two pressure cooker bombs that exploded near the marathon finish line were likely detonated by close-range remote controls like those used in kids toys.
-- Federal security officials in Washington were under fire for not sharing terrorist watch data on Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011 and 2012, when Russian authorities warned the FBI and CIA separately that he was a "strong believer" in radical Islam. House Speaker John Boehner said he wants to know "what agencies knew what, and the fact that it wasn't shared."
-- The mother of the Tsarnaev brothers told reporters in Russia that she will never accept that her sons planted bombs at the Boston Marathon. "America took my kids away from me," she said. She also said she regretted moving her family to the United States from the Dagestan region of Russia a decade ago. She and her husband later returned to Russia but the sons stayed in the Boston area. "Why did I ever go there? Why?" she said. "I thought America is going to, like, protect us, our kids. It's going to be safe."
-- Her surviving son's medical condition was upgraded by Beth Israel Deaconness Hospital officials in Boston from serious to fair. Investigators said he has remained silent since they informed him of his Miranda rights to refuse to answer questions and to have a court-appointed attorney. He is now represented by a lawyer.
-- No one has yet claimed the body of the older brother from the Boston morgue. But Anzor Tsarnaev, the father of the brothers, said he plans to arrive in the city soon to bury his oldest son and talk with the younger one. He said his wife is undecided about whether to accompany him because she is the subject of an arrest warrant on a shoplifting charge that she ignored when she returned to Russia.


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Transport needed for an American Eskimo about 22lbs and total love bug.
He is wanting to get to his furever home in CT and we need help getting him there. We can get him to Washington, PA just south of Pittsburgh and then from Harrisburg the rest of the way home via the ground. We need help between Washington, PA and Harrisburg, PA
He arrives in Washington, PA on Sunday 10/11 at 10:00 am. Anyone able to fly him from Washington, PA to Harrisburg, PA
Jay is our boys name and he will traveling with health certificate, leash and collar. Crate can be provided if needed.
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By ROBIN CAUDELL
---- — AuSABLE FORKS — Margaret Horn has lived in Jay for seven years.
She was thrilled to join her son, Thahawitha ("He brings it with him"), and granddaughter, Wattsitsonni ("She makes the flowers bloom"), in the Adirondacks, the ancestral homeland of her people.
But over time, she discovered she didn't see anything visible pertaining to the Mohawk Nation or Kanienkehaka.
She changed that with "Mohawk of the Adirondacks," an art exhibit at The Windows Gallery of the Tahawus Lodge Center, featuring the works of Towanna Miller, Kakwirakeron Montour, Star Horn, Cheyanne Doxtador, Natasha Santiago Smoke and Barbara Little Bear, all artists from Kahnawake or Akwesasne.
The exhibit runs through Friday, Oct. 12, and celebrates Mohawk history, art and culture through the ages. Artifacts on display include cradleboards, a corn pounder, and horn and turtle rattles. An array of baskets created from birch bark, sweet grass and porcupine quill are displayed.
"I knew Rebecca Kelly at the Tahawus Lodge through dance," said Margaret, show curator and an advocate for aboriginal society and culture for a quarter century.
"I discovered what they were doing," Margaret said. "I approached them in the early spring. I suggested we start off with something I can identify, something easy for me to organize and create as a Mohawk."
In Canada, Margaret's ventures included jewelry, art, documentary film, education and tourism.
"Part of the intent for me was to start making connections with people here, so they could discover what the Mohawks are. They are still alive and producing artwork, especially through crafts. It's a very easy way to engage people to be able to talk about culture through art," she said.
On exhibit is a beaded women's yoke by Barbara Little Bear.
"Traditionally, there was a lot of beadwork," Margaret said. "On our regalia, our traditional dress, that is one of the pieces we're showing."
When she was a very young girl, an aunt showed Margaret how to do appliqué beadwork on felt.
"Through the years, I did some beadwork, loom work and beading. I designed and created jewelry from old photographs. It didn't necessarily have to be Mohawk. We borrow things from here and there," she said.
While she was in college, she supplemented her income by creating jewelry. She majored in social services, had two children and worked for many nonprofits.
She worked a decade in corrections in Canada and eventually earned a master's degree in Canadian studies, focusing on justice issues. For the next 15 years, she worked for nonprofits tasked with social and cultural development. She worked several years as director of aboriginal tourism in Canada.
She's semi-retired and enjoys her carpenter son's renovation of her AuSable Acres home.
"I find the Adirondacks pleasing. There's so much to do. I'm kind of reluctant to return back to the reserve. It's right next to the city, Montreal. It's a completely different atmosphere," Margaret said.
She's in the development stage of a six-part documentary on the lives of Mohawk ironworkers.
In the meantime, she's busy with "Mohawk of the Adirondacks."
The exhibit includes a few of her vintage pieces, a medallion and a beaded belt with Iroquoian motifs.
Star Horn, her daughter, is a visual artist, graphic designer and rustic-furniture maker based in Perth, Ontario. The exhibit includes a work from Star's "Story Teller Series."
"She's been an artist all her life," Margaret said. "She never stopped painting and drawing over the years. She was drawing when she was 4 years old. She was at the table hours on end."
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