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�There is one other thing that I hold certain; if ever there is to be fairer and better hunting than the chase of the Sperm Whale, man will have to voyage to other worlds to find it.�
Clifford W. Ashley in The Yankee Whaler.
From the dawn of history, in all the waters of the world, wherever whales have appeared men have been drawn to pursue them. Rock carvings only recently discovered in South Korea depict Stone Age hunters in boats in pursuit of large whales as early as 6,000 B.C. and in the Antarctic whales are still being hunted today.
Long before 1620, when the Pilgrims set foot in the New World, Olde England was sending its ships as far as Greenland in pursuit of the ocean leviathans. Whales were a known and valued commodity even then and in the latter half of the 17th century Dutch and British whalers went on to decimate the right whale population in the Arctic Ocean.
The early colonists, on their arrival in the New World described Cape Cod as � a place of profitable fishing, for large whales of the best kind for oil and bone came daily alongside and played about the ship� according to James Thatcher who wrote a history of Plymouth that was published in 1835.
The colonists lost no time in exploiting the whale fishery in their new surroundings and coastal whaling operations began to flourish.
In 1690, the people on Nantucket found themselves lagging behind the mainland in their capacity to take whales so they induced a Cape Cod man named Ichabod Paddock to come out and instruct them further in the art. Ichabod did his work well and, as the islanders skills increased, so did their annual catch.
In the year 1726 records indicate that a total of eighty-six whales were taken by shore boats from the island.
As the fishery became increasingly profitable, both the size of whaling vessels and the range of their operations increased. Sloops of 60 to 70 tons began to cruise to the Grand Banks and beyond in search of whales.
Nantucket is not a fertile land and as the resourceful islanders turned to the sea for their sustenance and wealth the industry grew in size until the name of Nantucket gradually became synonymous with whaling.
Whale oil for lamps and baleen, which had multiple uses, were much in demand at the time on both sides of the Atlantic.
In 1765 whaling merchants from Nantucket arrived in New Bedford to establish operations on the banks of the Acushnet River. Weary of the special interest groups in Boston and Providence that controlled the price paid for whale oil, Joseph Rotch was the first of the newcomers. He purchased ten acres from a man named Joseph Russell. The islanders came to the mainland resolved to harvest, process, and market the fruits of their industry on their own terms, bypassing the whaling cartel. Their arrival opened a whole new chapter in the story of whaling. These men knew their business. The golden age of whaling had begun. New Bedford profited from their success and the village began to expand. In 1787 it was incorporated as a town.
As the demand for whale oil continued to increase more and more vessels slid down the ways and Yankee whalers began to roam farther than ever before in search of whales.
In April 1775 came the news that a new whaling ground had been discovered off the Brazilian coast. Soon after this whalers began probing even deeper into the South Atlantic.
By 1791 whale ships had ventured around Cape Horn and opened the Pacific Ocean to the fishery.
At first they cruised along the southern tip of the continent, off the coast of Chile. Gradually they moved to the North towards Peru. Later came voyages to the Hawaiian islands and eventually to the seas around Japan.
The New Bedford whaling fleet grew from just 10 vessels in 1815 to 36 vessels five years later.
That year, the total value of the catch from the North American whale fishery, which included whalebone, whale oil and the more valuable sperm oil came to $71,522. Sperm oil, which burned more cleanly than oil derived from other whales, fetched $1.00 per gallon.
By 1823 New Bedford had overtaken Nantucket in the size of its whaling fleet. With a railroad connection to nearby Taunton, itself a thriving manufacturing center, the port enjoyed ready access for its goods to the markets in Boston and New York City. New Bedford emerged as an important center of commerce. Jobs were plentiful and the population expanded.
In 1829 the whaling fleet counted 203 sailing vessels and by 1840 it stood at 552.
When whaling reached its peak in 1845 New Bedford had become the epicenter of an industry with a global reach. The total value of the catch from the whale fishery in North America that year was recorded to the penny: $9,283,611.75.
It is difficult to grasp the staggering amount of wealth that this figure represents if counted in today�s dollars.
Not surprisingly, little of it trickled down to those whose labor had produced it. The net earnings per voyage of foremast hands during the years 1836-79 was only $30.47 according to Elmo P. Hohman whose book �The American Whaleman� was published in 1928.
In 1847 New Bedford became incorporated as a city as a host of harbor front industries flourished in support of the whaling fleet. Nobody knew it then but these were the glory years.
The heyday for the whaling industry was undoubtedly the period between 1840 and 1861.
Whaling voyages spanned the globe, often lasted three years, and yielded huge profits for merchants and investors. As wealth gushed from the sea and flooded the city, lavish mansions and impressive civic buildings sprang up to reflect the booming prosperity. But it was not to last.
The shots fired at Fort Sumter signalled the outbreak of the Civil War, a conflict which brought hard times to the whaling industry. Sailing vessels from Northern ports became easy prey to Confederate raiders such as the Shenandoah and the Alabama. Whaling vessels were specifically targeted.
Southerners were acutely aware of the abolitionist sentiment prevalent among the New Bedford Quakers who had traditionally dominated whaling and the Southerners were further incensed by an attempt to block access to their principal ports by sinking old whaleships laden with stone in the harbors of Savannah and Charleston.
Herman Melville, who had once rounded the Horn on the �Tenedos�, one of the scuttled ships, was moved to write a poem about the incident.
The Confederate Navy was not so sentimental and had no compunction about setting whalers ablaze, wherever they might be found, although generally they spared the lives of the crew. Forty-six whaling ships were captured or sunk before the hostilities ceased.
After the war, whaling operations resumed but after decades of massive slaughter their prey had become increasingly scarce on the whaling grounds. Additionally, the value of whale oil was much reduced, supplanted by the introduction of petroleum as a fuel.
The focus of the industry shifted to the West Coast and whalers based in San Francisco ventured deep into the ice of the Bering Sea to hunt the bowhead whale, sometimes with disastrous consequences. Thirty-two ships were embayed in the ice in 1871 and had to be abandoned.
It was the beginning of the end. Whaling entered a period of gradual decline from which it never recovered.
By 1895 the Yankee whaling fleet was reduced to fifty-one vessels and New Bedford was the last port in New England to continue in the trade. The last whaler was a schooner called the John R. Mantra which sailed for the last time in 1927.


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Here are three all natural recipes that you make with fairly easy to find ingredients. All of these spider control solutions are non-toxic and are safe for you, your children, and your pets.
Recipe 1: Oil and Cotton Balls
If you are looking for an all natural way to remove spiders from you house then using essential oils is the way to go. They are non-toxic so it will not harm pets or children. Plus, most essential oil smells good. The easiest way is to simply soak a cotton ball in the oil and place it where you normally see spiders. Window sills, basements, cellars, garages, and doorways are common places where spiders enter homes. Once it complete drys out, just re-soak it.
Peppermint Oil – One of the most commonly used essential oils for repelling spiders is peppermint oil. It will not only keep spiders away, but it has a nice fragrance as well. Peppermint oil will also work to repel other pests including insects and rodents.
Orange Oil – For a natural, good smelling pesticide you can make use of orange oil. The active ingredient within it is D-limonene, which will dissolve the spider's or insect's external skeletal structure. Thus, making it a natural and effective insecticide. Even though it is natural and non-toxic, it can cause irritation to skin and eyes if you or pets come in direct contact with it. So, use caution.
Peppermint oil has long been used as a natural pest repellent. It is effective against spiders.
Orange oil can be used as a natural insecticide. It is a great alternative to using toxic chemicals.
Recipe 2: Oil and Alcohol Spray
You can create your own spray spider killer or repellent by mixing together a few easy to find ingredients. It simply requires some rubbing alcohol and essential oil. There are a large variety of essential oils, and they are naturally produced by plants to protect them from pests. The smell of the oil alone repels spiders and insects. If the oil contacts the pest it will penetrate their exoskeleton and cause severe damage to their nervous system, thus effectively killing them. The alcohol is used to dissolve the oil in it, creating a lethal concoction for spiders and insects.
You Will Need
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The Recipe
- 10 ounces of rubbing alcohol
- 1 ounce of essential oil
How to Use – Directly spraying a spider will kill it. Or you can spray the entrances to your home to prevent spiders and insects from entering. The alcohol will evaporate leaving behind a layer of oil residue that will repel spiders.
Recipe 3: Diatomaceous Earth
Diatomaceous earth is another natural way to kill spiders. This is a great choice, because it is completely non-toxin to humans or other animals. This substance comes from sedimentary rocks that are formed from diatoms, which is a small hard shelled algae. This rock is ground down into an extremely fine powder. The powder is porous, lightweight, and abrasive.
How it Kills Spiders and Insects – This Diatomaceous earth powder, also known as diatomite, kills insects when they come in contact with it. The powder is very light weight, so it will easily attaches itself to things. Once it contacts a spider it will start to absorb the lipids that are found on its external skeleton. These lipids are very important in locking in moisture, and when they are missing the spider will quickly dehydrate. The end result is death.
How to Use – The best way to use diatomite is to fill a hand held duster with the powder. Then spider powder any spiders that you find. You can also powder down webs, and other places that spiders are likely to contact.
Diatomaceous Earth is a commonly used all natural, non-toxic insecticide.
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The major snowstorm that is headed to the eastern Great Lakes and Northeast has commenced across the southern Plains, creating a white Christmas and nightmares for travelers.
Rare Christmas snow spent much of the midday hours falling in Oklahoma City, then reached Dallas in the afternoon.
Little Rock will turn into a winter wonderland tonight as a blizzard unfolds to the north across southeastern Missouri and southern Illinois. On Wednesday, the snowstorm will take aim at the eastern Great Lakes and Northeast.
A more detailed overview of the snowstorm's track can be found in this news story. Read below for more real-time updates on this Christmas snowstorm.
2:45 p.m. CST: Snow is falling Mena, Ark., which is located about 80 miles west of Little Rock.
2:00 p.m. CST: Freezing rain and thunder continue at Little Rock. Heavy snow still on tap for this evening.
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1:37 p.m. CST: Snowflakes start flying at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
1:00 p.m. CST: Temperature down to 37 degrees at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. It is currently raining, but one does not have to travel far to the west to see snowflakes.
12:12 p.m. CST: Freezing rain is glazing Little Rock, Ark., but 3-6 inches of snow is still expected to accumulate early tonight.
11:52 a.m. CST: Winds are strong enough for blizzard conditions across southwestern Oklahoma and into neighboring parts of Texas. This includes Lawton, Okla.
11:44 a.m. CST:New snow map has been issued.
11:36 a.m. CST: Latest snow total: 2.8 inches at Evergreen, Colo.
10:30 a.m. CST: Snow begins falling in Oklahoma City.
10:26 a.m. CST: Latest snow totals: 2.0 inches in Colby, Kan., and 3.0 inches 13 miles north of Edson, Kan.
9:31 a.m. CST: AccuWeather.com meteorologists just finished a special map discussion and decided that the zone of heaviest snow will set up a bit farther to the south and east than currently expected. Snow totals will be closer to 3 inches in Dallas, 3-6 inches in Little Rock and 6-12 inches in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Updated snow map will be forthcoming.
8:24 a.m. CST: Freezing drizzle continues into Oklahoma City, keeping roads very treacherous in the area. Rare Christmas snow is still in the works for this afternoon with a total of 3-6 inches expected.
7:23 a.m. CST: An inch of snow has fallen in Skellytown, Texas.
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Citing "continuing skepticism" among aviation industry stakeholders in both the U.S. and Europe, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has recommended that the FAA provide more information on its efforts to align with Europe on ATC modernization.
In a performance audit report to Congress in November, the federal oversight agency recommended that the FAA disseminate more information about interoperability efforts with Europe in public documents, such as strategic plans and performance reports. In particular, the agency should outline a recently signed memorandum of cooperation (MoC) that established a formal, collaborative structure for the U.S. NextGen and European Sesar ATC modernization programs.
The FAA and European Union signed the MoC on March 3 during a high-level conference in Budapest. The agreement's first annex covers "cooperative activities and interoperability aspects" of the NextGen and Sesar programs. It calls for the signatories to research the interoperability of avionics, communication protocols and procedures.
Carey Fagan, FAA executive director for international affairs, signed the agreement for the U.S. Pal Volner, state secretary for transport for Hungary, and Siim Kallas, EU vice president and commissioner for transport and mobility, signed on behalf of the EU.
Officials with the Sesar Joint Undertaking (SJU), the public/private organization managing Sesar's development phase, informed the GAO that moving forward with data communications—or DataComm—represents the program's "biggest challenge," because the U.S. and Europe have differing time frames for implementation. The two sides eventually will coalesce on the global Aeronautical Telecommunications Network (ATN) protocol for data communications, but the U.S. plans to leverage existing Future Air Navigation System (FANS)-standard avionics and evolve to ATN.
"SJU would like to see DataComm implemented by 2018, while a senior FAA official responsible for communications believes that it will take until 2023 at the earliest," the GAO said.
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The great fake rally of 2013
The stock market's strong start to the year tells us more about the investing crowd's need to believe that all the big problems are behind us than it does about the potential for a strong economy.
As the collective worldwide equity rally soldiers on, folks across the board once again have suspended disbelief to conclude that all problems are solved (or at least contained).
Whether it's Japan's deflation (which folks believe will be conquered by the money printing there), to the mess in Europe, to America's economic, financial and monetary woes, everything is deemed to be on the mend. Thus, money is being thrown at stocks, and the year has certainly gotten off to quite the start, with the major indices all running off notable strings of up days.
It probably won't be long before Bubblevision (aka CNBC) gets all lathered up about the "just right" Goldilocks economy yet again, as it has during every period in the past 15 years when money printing warped markets and the economy. (More about that later).
Mr. Market loves his new oversized racket
In short, a superficial analysis indicates we are in a bit of a sweet spot, so enthusiasm for the stock market continues to build. But along with higher equity prices has come another bout of collective amnesia.
Meanwhile, the world's bond markets have not been clubbed yet, as 10-year Treasury bonds keep making higher highs and lower lows (in interest rates), and last week traded at their highest level since last spring.
The bond market is now lower than it was when the latest rounds of quantitative easing began, but it will still be some time before it truly disciplines the Federal Reserve by taking away the printing press (which will ultimately punish equities as well). However, currently most investors are able to look past rising rates, shrug their shoulders and say, "Hey, rates are still really low, and they are rising now because the economy is better." (That, too, is a Goldilocks view.)
Who needs gold . . .
As for the precious metals, folks continue to decide they don't need gold when equities are working and all the problems have been solved. (They haven't been, but that is irrelevant at the moment.) Contrarians should take note of the difference between the psychology toward stocks in general and mining stocks or metals, as they are at opposite extremes.
On the subject of the metals, I thought I might take a stab at what has ailed gold for the past six to 12 months. My suspicion is that people have concluded that they don't need the metals. Not that Americans had ever really decided they needed much exposure to begin with.
But for now, Europe appears to be on the mend. (Note that I said "appears," because while European Central Bank President Mario Draghi's money printing and promises to do whatever it takes have papered over the problems there, but they have not gone away.) The structure of the eurozone is unchanged, and unemployment is enormous there as well, so the fiscal and economic pressures remain quite high despite the current improved mood.
And here in America, there was so much angst over what was really not that big a deal -- namely, concerns over the so-called fiscal cliff and the debt-ceiling wrangling -- that getting past those has produced a knee-jerk response and has caused people to totally ignore the massive government debts that are not being addressed.
. . . when we've been fooled?
Thus, we are in a period where money printing has supported debt markets and boosted stock prices, but none of the massively negative consequences from the flood of money has been seen (leading many people to conclude that there won't be any, which is wrong). No currencies have been drastically weak, because all G-7 currencies are bad, and inflation hasn't really started screaming, while people are willing to overlook what inflation exists -- for now.
So we are at a moment in time where the act of money printing no longer causes gold to move higher, since it is boosting stock markets and lulling people to sleep. However, all the drastic consequences are staring us in the face and will soon start to matter.
But just as it is difficult to tell in advance when the madness of crowds will exhaust itself (as we saw during the equity and housing bubbles), it is difficult to say when the "crowd" is going to realize that just because stocks are higher doesn't mean we aren't headed for a train wreck in America. Eventually the Fed will no longer able to print its way past trouble, not to mention the fact that inflation is certainly headed higher.
For Wall Street optimists, the glass is always half fool
To sum it up, the majority of investors are being head-faked, as the effects of money printing have "helped" markets and economies, but the consequences have yet to be felt. Thus, they have erroneously concluded that stocks are the place to be, everything is OK, and who needs gold?
That conclusion is incorrect, just like the idea that you will always make money in stocks over time, or that home prices never go down or other crazy notions that large groups of people cling to from time to time.
But that's where we are, and it will end only when it does. I, for one, am pleased that we have at least reached the phase where the bond markets are no longer abjectly cheering money printing, because that is the first sign of the beginning of the end of this insane epoch in financial history.
At the time of publication, Bill Fleckenstein owned gold.
This guy has and always will forecast doom. Unfortunately the one time when doom occurred, he did not predict it.
I am not in the market that much, I do not believe housing prices always go up, but it is equally foolish to be a bear all the time although it is easier to be taken seriously because although bears are wrong way more often than bulls, society seems to treat pessimists as more realistic. This is a false notion.
Reality is both optism and pessimism. A good financial advisor is both a bull and a bear depending on the information the see and interpret.
Bill Fleckstein is a bear, period. Guys like him yell fire so often without it happening, that when they finally are right, no one listens and everyone gets burned...and they get to finally look smart and say I told you so.
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Excellent book that takes place in 17th century Iran. Vivid descriptions of the locale sent me to the internet for pictures. The unnamed girl (see the afterward) perserveres through all kinds of obstacles to do that which she loves--making rugs--and become a master at the craft. Very good first novel and the author's second book just came out. I'll be starting it soon.
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Went here for the restaurant and comedy package, which at 30 quid a head turned out to be a pretty sweet deal, considering the Comedy Club on Deansgate offered a lesser deal at 47 bones. The restaurant food wouldn't exactly make it onto the Michelin star list, probably languishing somewhere in between Nando's and McDonalds, but it was worth eating. The show itself proved to be the value booster, as you are whisked away after your meal to quite an intimate setting where comedians can get really close up to really take the p*ss out of you. Especially if you're ugly or from Burnley. There are 3 acts in total, at least usually, and each set is about half an hour long.
There is a bar conveniently situated in the comedy room itself, which sells pitchers of San Miguel for a good price and you can still be tuned in to the comedy whilst you buy in the next round.
I went for my birthday with a bunch of mates, and i think it is definitely a good idea for those barren of what to do on such days. Three girls came and they enjoyed it every bit as much as the lads as well.
I am currently in my last year at uni down in England but have really enjoyed my time here. Coming from up North where I still have a great night out, I have always loved going to new cities for nights out to see what it's like going out in other places. While being in the North West I have mainly gone out in Liverpool because usually I have had a better night out with liking the fact that in Concert Square all the bars and clubs are nearby saving money on taxis and they are good clubs as well. However, I wanted to have one good night out in Manchester before going home as every night I have had there has usually been a disaster, so I looked up nights out and what was going on and decided to try Opus in the Printworks.
The Printworks is a big, well relatively big place in city centre Manchester with clubs, bars and restaurants inside with the likes of Tiger Tiger, Lloyds, Hard Rock Cafe and so on. Opus makes up on of the night clubs inside, I had heard of it but had never really been in as usually the Printworks is very expensive and some people had told me going out there is a waste of time but I decided to anyway. I had read on Monday that it was cheaper to get in as that is student night there and it stated on the website that it played a mix of cheesy pop, top 40 chart as well as pop music and so on.
As we arrived at roughly half 11 even though it opens from 10pm, it had a bit of a queue to get in but once inside it was very busy so I gathered that people must come early. They have door men of course, who turned some people away that were under 18 because it's student I.D. of course. I thought to get in for 90p I'd need an NUS but they accepted my normal student card for 90p entry which was brilliant. It states £3 without student I.D. otherwise 90p for students but usually this means NUS which is why I was happy. 90p entry is great to get into a nightclub as other places around town charge about £5 which when paying that I feel I have to stay for the majority of the night,
Being student night, most of the people in here are younger I'd say early 20's is about the oldest. The idea in here, is that there are two rooms there is your cheesy pop and chart room then there is your r'n'b room. I went into the r'n'b room but I didn't really like it in here as hardly anyone was dancing and it tended to be more garage music which isn't really my thing so after about 5 minutes I moved back to the other room.
The pop room is the bigger room but it is very busy, although I did get served quickly at the bar, all drinks are 90p which is just brilliant especially in a big city. They had everything from bottles of Magners, beers, alcopops, shots, bargain really.
Throughout the night as it gets later the stage becomes active as they have dancers on the stage which makes it a bit livelier and they throw stuff into the crowd like glow sticks to light up the room that bit more. I liked the music in here because it was such a mix from early 90's like Spice Girls and 90's dance to current chart, indie, dance r'n'b and urban. The dress code stated on the flyer is cool and sexy so it states no entry, no effort. There is a photographer going round throughout the night incase you have forgotten your camera taking photos which go onto a website where you can register and get it for free which is nice as I got a good photo with my friends.
Being busy, shows that this place must be good apart from having an incident with a girl trying to start a fight with me for no reason I did have a brilliant night and will definitely go back before I finish. A lot of my friends had an amazing night also and again want to go back so I succeeded finally in having a good night out in Manchester before leaving thanks to Opus! I am sure this is open until 2am on Mondays but not only do they have their 'We Love the 90's night on Mondays but during the week there other things.
On Tuesday they have The O Bar which has 2 for 1 cocktails and if you go on the website there is a drinks list with prices. They also have a mix of beach house and modern jazz which sounds interesting. Then on Wednesday there is La Havana which is Urban Latin Mix, World Music and Club Anthems. It is open from 9-2.45am. Basically this is a Latin and international mix with club classic, r'n'b, hip hop and more. They do £1 sambucca's, £2.50 double vodka and red bull's and it's free before 11.
Thursday is Kama Sutra, this is an r'n'b night, 3 themed rooms, cheap drinks and it's open 10-3am. Friday being a main going out night is just free entry. It is then open 5pm-2.30am. It has a mix of current chart to ultimate anthems and is also cheap drinks with three different rooms. Saturday is probably the busiest night to go out in Manchester, so they state they are busy before 11.30pm so to get there early. Again this is three rooms of dance, r'n'b, and a few from the 70's, 80's and 90's. Again more cheap drinks and free entry before 10.30pm otherwise it is £4 before 11pm, £6 before midnight then £8 after so judging by costs it's best to get in early. You are not allowed to wear sportswear or are denied entry. Lastly on a Sunday it is Salsa Sundowner, 6-9.30pm. They say that it is Latin Euphoria here but not much more information.
I'd say having only been on one night out here I can't overall judge it too much but definitely on a Monday if you're young and reading this and either are visiting Manchester soon or live there but haven't been then you should. It's not going to set you back much in money and it is a great night out. For more information go onto the official website http://www.opusmanchester.com here you can get on the guest list, get more information on club nights and comedy lounge as well as the bar & grill. You can also buy gift packages online for birthdays and special events and find out how to get to Opus.
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Environmental Risk Factors for the Anti-synthetase Syndrome
The MYORISK Study – 11-E-0072
Study Design
Like other complex diseases, autoimmune diseases are the result of numerous causes, including genetic and environmental factors. Some researchers believe that people who are susceptible to autoimmune disorders develop them when the body reacts to environmental or other factors by creating white blood cells that attack the body's own tissues, which then progresses to autoimmune diseases. These immune-triggered disorders can overlap with one another to some extent, but most autoimmune diseases have certain distinct triggers.
The autoimmune disorder myositis weakens the muscles and may cause other health problems. Environmental exposures associated with myositis include ultraviolet radiation, stressful life events and muscle overexertion, collagen implants, infections such as retroviruses and streptococci bacteria, and certain drugs and chemicals. Some individuals with myositis also produce proteins in the blood called autoantibodies that react with certain parts of the person's own cells, called synthetases, which are involved in making new proteins. A syndrome called the anti-synthetase syndrome, which includes myositis and lung disease, is associated with having the anti-synthetase autoantibodies. Researchers are interested in studying differences in environmental exposures in individuals with myositis. This study is being conducted to determine if persons with the anti-synthetase syndrome have had different environmental exposures before disease onset compared with other patients with myositis who do not have this syndrome and compared with healthy volunteers.
To determine whether selected infectious and noninfectious environmental exposures are more common in individuals who have myositis with the anti-synthetase syndrome, compared with healthy volunteers.
Subjects with myositis and healthy volunteers
Number of subjects
- 150 myositis patients with the anti-synthetase syndrome
- 150 age- and sex-matched healthy controls that are ideally friends or cousins of the anti-synthetase syndrome patients and living in the same geographic area
- 150 myositis patients without the anti-synthetase syndrome
Overview of the Study and Evaluations
This is a blood, urine and data collection study and subjects may be enrolled at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD, in the NIEHS Clinical Research Unit in Research Triangle Park, NC, or in their local health care provider's office. A single visit and evaluation is all that is required.
Participants will complete questionnaires about their medical history and the types of exposures they have had at work, at home, and elsewhere. Participants who have myositis will also be asked about certain infections, heavy exercise or physical exertion, sun exposure, tobacco and alcohol use, and stressful events prior to being diagnosed with the disease. Healthy volunteers will be asked about the same exposures before the date of diagnosis of disease of the myositis subject to which they have been matched.
Participants enrolled at their local doctor's office will receive a kit that contains instructions for completing the questionnaires and blood drawing.
All participants will be asked to collect house dust in the bedroom using a special filter that connects to a vacuum cleaner. This dust will be kept for possible future analyses of infectious or toxic agents based on the other results from the study.
Individuals with myositis will have other tests as clinically indicated, including lung function tests and imaging studies.
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Gender: Male & Female
Ages: Children and adults
Population Exclusion(s)
Eligibility Criteria
- Inclusion Criteria
- Adults or children with myositis are eligible to participate if they have been diagnosed with possible, probable, or definite myositis within the last 12 months.
- Healthy controls will be sex- and age-matched (within 5 years for children and 10 years for adults) to the myositis patients with the anti-synthetase syndrome.
- Healthy controls will ideally be friends or cousins of the anti-synthetase syndrome patients who are also living in the same geographic area as the antisynthetase syndrome patients.
- Exclusion Criteria
- Exclusion criteria for myositis patients
- Inclusion body myositis
- Cancer diagnosed within the last 2 years
- Myositis that is clearly the result of drugs or toxins
- Exclusion criteria for normal volunteers
- Recognized autoimmune disease
- Interstitial lung disease
- Exclusion criteria for myositis patients
Treatment Intervention
Additional information is available in the representative protocol consent and assent below:
- Consent for patients
- Consent for healthy volunteers or parents of healthy minors
- Assent for minor patient or healthy volunteer
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- Adult NIH(133KB)
- Adult Offsite(135KB)
- Healthy Minor Assent(23KB)
- Myositis Assent(29KB)
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Subjects may be enrolled at the NIH Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD, 20892, or at the NIEHS Clinical Research Unit, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.
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Frederick W. Miller, M.D., Ph.D.
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Youth Academy
Mission Statement
"To offer a centre for personal development to young rugby players to allow them the opportunity to play the highest level of rugby they are capable of."
Objectives of the Youth Academy
- Identify and develop players of potential to perform to their highest standard
- Improve the standard of our most talented young players
- Identify and develop volunteer Coaches and Managers within the Club.
- Encourage integration and retention of players between youth age groups and senior rugby.
To achieve these Objectives the Youth Academy aims to;
- Identify and improve players at a young age
- Ensure that players are identified and put on the correct programmes
- To work with club and school coaches to ensure that identified players are receiving the correct support
- Identify and monitor talented former Stewartry players play at other clubs
The Academy is led by the Academy Manager, John Muir. John is responsible for;
- Producing the overall action plan.
- Co-ordinating and directing specialist coaches for specialist positions or techniques.
- Running the main Academy coaching session each month.
- Overseeing a team of Academy mentors.
- Monitoring the development of each Academy player at; club, school and representative level.
There is one academy training session each month at Stewartry Rugby Club plus potentially some additional sessions for individuals depending on the needs of the group. Sessions may be handled on different days by different coaches, whose responsibility is purely for planning a given session as directed by the Academy Manager.
All Academy training sessions and events will be communicated to all players by the Academy Manager.
The Academy will offer players the following:
- Specific Strength and Conditioning Programme for Rugby
- Micro Skill Development
- Positional Skill Development
- Specialist Coaching Sessions
- Individual player assessment and feedback
- Player Monitoring Programme
Playing / Teams
The Academy will operate independently from any one age group but will work in consultation with that players' current coaches. The team to whom the Academy players decide to play for would depend on the individual circumstances, including:
- Club/School/Representative commitments
- Playing ability
- Age banding
We expect that Academy members will show a commitment to rugby and play for their School, Club and Pathway team where available. Players will be encouraged to make their own decisions and targets with the support of the Academy Manager.
Who qualifies for the Academy?
Any registered player within the age bracket will qualify for the Academy. The youngest age group players eligible for the Academy will be in the U16 age group. The eldest eligible players will be assessed individually, considering; current and previous playing
background, and playing position.
Membership of the Academy will not be a condition of playing membership (see below).
Interaction with Club/School/Representative Rugby
The Academy will offer players flexibility in their rugby education. In all cases, the Academy Manager will liaise and share all Academy plans with all other coaches who have players within the Academy. This is to ensure that the Academy does not conflict with club/school/representative rugby commitments and that the interests of the player are put first. The aim of the Academy is to enhance the level of local rugby, not hinder it.
The Academy provides additional coaching; and some players will already receive a lot of coaching (either from their school or from the club) in these cases it will still be entirely appropriate for them to continue to play for their age group and participate in the Academy.


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Art Gallery of Ontario
The AGO houses art collections both excellent and extensive (bring your stamina). Renovations of the facade, designed by the great Frank Gehry and completed in 2008, fail to impress at street level: perhaps because of a drab downtown location. Fortunately, everything changes once you step inside.


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Are You a Home Project Hoarder?
I don't know about you, but sometimes I feel like I've got a serious problem hoarding supplies for my home projects. According to Wikipedia, compulsive hoarding is "the excessive acquisition of possessions (and failure to use or discard them)." While I may not be to that point with my fabric stash, give me a couple years and we very well could have a problem on our hands.
It is just something I can't say no to, made evident by the fact that one of my son's first words was "fabric". If I see a print I love for a good price I just can't resist buying it, even if I don't have an immediate project in mind. Fabric's not my only weakness. I also have 2 tables, a footstool, a buffet and a cupboard that I'm going to refinish one of these days and I constantly find myself searching through Craigslist listings for another project. I just can't seem to stop myself.
I know I'm not the only one who does this, so let's hear it readers. I want to know, what do you stock-pile? Do you have stacks of fabric in the top of your closet? Or is your basement full of furniture needing a little TLC? What items do you find yourself collecting for future use?
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I used to have a real problem with this. Fortunately I discovered a method: if I find something I want to buy, I leave the store and wait a few days. 99 percent of the time I realize I don't want it. If I go back, I am happy with the buy 100 percent of the time. I also have a rule that I will not buy anything that does not have a shelf or a drawer where it can live.
I LOVE fabric and can relate to this dilemma. Maybe sort through and give away your least favorite fabrics and vow to use up all that before you use any more?
I hear ya! My basement is full of hand me down furniture waiting for some love.
I think that happens a lot, specially to us crafters. What I do is every couple of months I go throught the material I have and if I don't get excited about any proyect to do with it, then I give it away or save for the garage sale, every 6 months.
You would think I spend every minute of my day working on an art or craft project with how many materials I have! On the plus side, I like organizing, so it's all neatly displayed so I don't look like an out-of-control hoarder!
I don't like the term "crafting hoarder"... it makes me feel like there's a problem with my bins of acrylic paint. And my plastic cases (divided, thankyouverymuch) of beads. And the old turned table legs that would make such great candlestick holders. And those boxes of fabric pieces... they just want to join together and become a quilt one day. (Some day.) Is that so wrong?!?!
*raises hand and nervously glances around the room*, my name is... and i am a project hoarder.
It's bad. I have various project items/tools strewn about nearly every room of my apartment and nowhere to really store them properly. It will be interesting to see what the DSM-5 has to say about that...
Yep. Married to a stasher (don't say hoarder.) How about a 10 x 12 "bed" room full of fabric with a path to a embroidery machine?
People have started bringing me old furniture to refinish and rescue. I can't resist them, either. My basment is like a home for wayward dressers.
Guilty - cans of paint, bolts of fabric, chairs that are half done. I need to make a list, finish the work or get rid of the materials (maybe donate them so someone else can hoard them!).
A good friend, L., and I learned to knit together about 5 years ago. I never got too advanced, but since then I've made about 5 scarves and 7 baby blankets. Currently I have 2 leftover balls of yarn and yarn for a new scarf and various needles.
L.? Well she has an entire closet in her good-sized house that is FILLED with yarn, needles of all types, etc. She will just go into a yarn store and buy needles for no reason!
And how many projects has she completed?
Makes me smile every time. Her true hobby is shopping in yarn stores, not knitting!
NOTEBOOKS. for some reason i love having them around at all times. and love new notebooks. i only buy recycled or wind power made things now, but having 10 doesnt really seem like i'm helping the environment... i am banned from buying them and have been for 2 years now. I still find unopened ones when I move!! ahhh
Oh, yes - This is me.
I have fabric stashed in a closet for a drapery project that I changed my mind on - leftover fabric from other draperies I had made a couple years back that I just know I'm going to make into a lampshade, leftover fabric from having chairs reupholstered that I just know I'm going to have pillows made from one day...
...half-used cans of paint - so many painting tools and supplies its ridiculous - tools, tools and more tools for this project and that project.
one whole bedroom devoted to crafts storage, including yarn, fabric, furniture waiting to be either stripped or reupholstered. Every time I visit this site, I mentally close the door on that room! (The rest of my house is pretty good though!)
Kate, if you're looking to get rid of that pink patterned fabric in the upper right, I'll give it a good home ;)
A fabric stash that defies description, not to mention fabric already made into curtains, drapes, what have you that I saved when I replaced them.
My own stash goes back more than 30 years, but, knowing of my "interest" my aunt sent along my grandmother's impressive stash when Grandma died. Some was uncut, and in the original fabric store bag, with sales slips. I'm guessing that $0.30/yard Italian wool crepe must date back at least to the '40s.
Recently, in an effort to use up some of the fabric (yeah, right) I've started picking up free items at our town dump to cover or reupholster (yeah, right, again).
Then there's the yarn.
Hi, I'm a furniture hoarder. We have such an obsession with side tables in our home, that we started stacking them. Which turned into a very cool "bookcase"? type thing. Spring is a very challenging time, as it is prime time for street pickins! We should probably just commit to a storage unit and open up shop to sell the refinished versions.
I have a rule that I have to finish a project before I buy more supplies. My plants ALL have to be planted before I return to the nursery, my knitted shawl has to be done before I buy more yarn...it works for me, but I always have leftovers...
Guilty as charged. ;-)
I had to get a bunch of extra furniture to store all this crafting stuff I never use. It's so sad but at least it's not in boxes anymore. I have yarns, fabric, drawing and painting implements, general kids crafting items (glitter, glue, construction paper, crayons, etc) and no I have no kids. I'm starting to slowly let go of stuff I know I'll never use but it's difficult. I also try not to impulse buy. I'll pick things up and walk around in the store until I realize that I will never use this item and then put it back. Honestly, most of it was left overs from some project or another and the rest was inherited. At this point, unless I'm actively working on a project and need something I won't buy anything.
There was a brief period where my husband didn't trust my to enter a fabric store alone. But I have it under control now I swear!
Yarn, fabric, books and my latest finds on craigslist and etsy :)
can somone tell me how to organize all this?
I'm more or less okay when it comes to fabric (less more than more ... if that makes sense) but I am a sucker for free things in an alley. lol
I have a few pieces of furniture needing some love, a clawfoot caste iron bathtub that needs a new/vintage bathroom to live in, cans of paint, a large pile of burlap sacks that need a wash before being made into curtains and several rooms that still need a paint job. Oh, and then there's the floor that needs to be rid of the wall to wall carpeting and the kitchen that needs to be gutted.
Not to mention the Very Long List of links in my bookmarks that I will be getting to one day - from sewing toddler pants, making raised garden beds, sewing a quilt to baking that perfect loaf of bread and building an organizer for my son's play room.
Okay, I might still have a wee problem. Maybe. I'm not admitting to anything though.
guilty! i have 3 decent sized totes full of art and craft supplies - anything from paper, fabric, and paint, to plaster and dental alginate (for making casts), etching liquid, various spools of wire, spray mount, glass gravel, sandpaper, multiple adhesives ...
if a crafty apocalypse ever happens, i'm SO ready ...
Also guilty here, but on the mend. I threw away a bunch of fabric scraps the other days.
I enjoy embroidery, but I solve the stashing problem by buying online patterns and creating my own. I also never buy the exact thread color if I have something similar. It's done marvels with my overstock embroidery drawer ! (hum... big drawer still).
I try not to buy fabrics ahead of imaginary projects, but still... I seem to be weak in that department. And let's not talk about craft books, please...
Yep, ready for the crafty apocalypse, or craftocalypse, or yarnocalypse, in my case. As my sister says, I have a needle problem.
@ewg109, are wayward dressers the result of one nightstands? (Bad pun, sorry, sorry...)
This used to be me. But I called Goodwill, and had them come when I wasn't home, because I knew I couldn't watch all my stuff going out the door. They cleaned out all my project areas. I was astonished at how much I had. Sometimes I think of things I miss, but for the most part, I was DONE with projects.
Fabric, furniture, scraps of wood, left over tile ... oh it's pretty bad! I've been trying very hard lately to use or lose it and it has helped me get a lot more done, but it really hasn't cut down on the list of to-do's or taught me how to say no to sale fabric or free wood.
Guilty as charged.
I just sorted out my craft room. I build props, do bookbinding, polymer clay, electronics, and then there is the sewing. The sewing takes the bulk of the space.
I just culled out several other crafts like spinning, knitting, and crochet, that I don't do anymore. I got rid of 12 bags of fabric, to friends, and donations. I really focused on keeping what I really use.
Funny enough, with the space I feel like doing more with what I have.
As a crafter loving person from way back (realized last year that I've been sewing for over 20 years!) I recently found a wonderful way to thin my fabric/yarn/textile stash-- IBOLs! You can send boxes to needy individuals and sewing coops in northern Iraq. Please check out their website: http://ibol.wordpress.com/. Last year I sent 12 and I am hoping to send some more. It is better for your materials to get used than to languish in your cupboard or storage area....
Guilty...and now I have a name for it.
i'm a interior designer and i come upon things from clients to estate sales,flea markets etc and i had 3 of the largest storage rooms you can get so now i'm consolidating and going to sale most on ebay..my lost someone else's gain! 8-(
I could have written that post! My basement and attic are full of fabric and projects. This year I made a New Years resolution to complete at least 1 project every month. I made a list of things I would like to complete this year, and I'm trying to stick to it. This way I can at least get 12 things done. Oh yeah, I also decided that I can't buy any more craft supplies or fabric unless it's directly related to a current project. So far, I'm on track. I finally finished making dining room curtains, a curtain for my daughter's room, covered an ottoman, and with the extra time, I made some kid's short sets. I am DRIVEN! In April, I get to refinish a chair I picked up at Goodwill last summer. I'm hoping to finally make enough room in my basement to move my sewing machine back down there!
My boyfriend thinks I need a support group for exactly this problem... looks like I just stumbled across one? ;-)
At the moment, I have several sewing projects, jewelery projects, furniture refinishing, and other home improvement projects half done. And yes, I stockpile supplies... (I've been a craftaholic my whole life, went to art school, and now I'm a designer... I'd say it's an occupational hazard, but really it's a life hazard.)
I never dream about my fantasy wedding - I just dream about my fantasy studio/craft room...
@ Mlle Kate - love "craftocalypse" !!
The thing I seem to hoard are projects themselves! I've got a very long list and just keep adding to it. I have to say, also, reading AT isn't exactly helpful in that arena. ;-0
Two thoughts.
I am more of a project category hoarder. I have a basic starter kit for embroidery, calligraphy, sewing, watercolor, bookbinding, &c. The allure of the things I could have if I made them myself only lasts long enough to spend a little money. I then promptly abandon the notion.
I read an introduction to an organization book once where the author recounted working with a crafty client. The author asked the woman the use she envisioned for a particular room abounding with craft supplies. When the crafter responded that the room was supposed to be a place where her child could play, the organizer observed, "so you have chosen to put your supplies ahead of your child." Ouch.
I gave a lot of my stash to a co-worker and it included some of my mother's stash, possibly my grandmother's. (Collecting a stash is hereditary.) I also cleaned out patterns that had to date back to the 60's. The whole thing had gotten out of hand.
My co-worker took it to a shelter for teen-aged girls that was struggling on a shoe-string budget. The girls used the decades old material and patterns to make clothes, but updated the design details.
My favorite, applicable at times, acrostic SABLE (Stocked Arsenal Beyond Life Expectancy).
I got rid of nearly everything. I have two etsy shops and when I didn't want to keep up with them I was left with a bunch of materials.. Right after donating my last box of (my best) yarn for immigrant women to knit for their children, I got inspired to start knitting for my own daughter, and I had kept two sets of yarn. So for me the releasing of old supplies and projects opened up space for me to be creative again. I think with tons of projects, my mind is weighed by the options and should-do's. I still have a box of supplies for handmade toys, some wool and fabric, but only a couple of smallish boxes. I'm thinking that in a couple of years I will do some crafting with my daughter so I'm not getting rid of absolutely everything. I also made a rule I won't buy anything unless I have a specific thing in my mind for it, and no buying more until previous project is finished. I feel free :)
My name is femmebot and I horde fabric. I work at a high end fabric showroom and fabric is given to me...what's a girl to do?
I am guilty of this but what is to be done with left over fabric until I find matching fabric to use it in another project?
I have an old snowboard (among lots of other hoarded items) that I swear, one day I'm going to make into a snowboard bench.
I have lots of hobbies, so it can get bad. I instituted a rule that I can't buy more supplies than I could (conceivably) use in one week.
So...a few balls of yarn, one set of colored pencils, once set of drawing pencils, one box of willow charcoal, one tub of air-dry clay, no more than two of any color of acrylic paint (one to use, and one to open when the first runs out), etc.
I still have a lot of stuff, but at least it's a VARIETY of stuff. :) I go shopping for groceries weekly, so this way I never have long to wait even if I do chance to run out.
My name is Maggie, and I'm a little bit of a hoarder.
I stockpile old clothing items with the intention of upcycling them, something which rarely - if ever - happens. To the shock of my roommates, last week, I turned down the offer of a grocery bag full of old clothes, simply because I don't have the space.
I'm also becoming a little bit of a furniture hoarder - I have 2 trunks, an antique desk and an antique sewing table stashed at my mom's house, along with a dining table at my grandparents' cabin and a couch at my sister's. Those are just a matter of getting a bigger place, though.
The 3 bins full of old clothes, however...
Guilty!! I am not only a supply hoarder, I'm a starter kit hoarder. I just like to know how to do different crafts. So I buy all the supplies to learn something new, do it once or twice and move on. It is bad people! bad! I finally gave away my jewelry bead board (and assorted supplies).
It helped when I had to scale down my 'craft room' into a 'craft cabinet' to make room for our nursery. I just put all the junk I didn't want anymore (light box for paper embossing- check, old paper I never liked anyway - check, rubber stamps when I switched to clear ones - check!), and I got $50 for it all on Craigslist. Felt good! Now I hoard organizational supplies and baskets...
Thanks for identifying my disease.
YARN. I've got two chests stuffed full of yarn, which, if I unraveled it and tied it all together, would wrap around the earth a few times. My goal this year is not to buy any more yarn, and be creative with the stock I have. Its proven to be a little difficult, but I don't think I can justify buying another piece of furniture to hold it all!
I am a craft/scrapbooking/art supply hoarder. There, I said it. I do actually use the stuff, though, and I have the space for it. I just really need to stop watching crafty youtube videos because I always see some new thing I "have" to have.
I like a lot of craft hobbies, so I have a lot of craft materials. I am only allocated certain baskets and bins in my small apartment and only when one of these has room, can I start to add more items to them.
I'll have you know that I could stop buying fabric if I wanted to.
I just don't want to. :)
Yes - I love yarn, fabric and all sorts of needlework and am fortunate to have a craft room that I can't reorganize to my satisfaction. BUT, a wise woman in England told me not to worry. If you keep adding to your stash while you're still working, you won't have to worry about buying stuff to do when you're retired and on a fixed income. I love that logic!
The place where 'living with less' has hit me is with crafting and decorating.
Enough already; five years of internet education has given me bookmarks and inspiration images for a thousand lives I'll never live.
So I wiped my hard drive, put my shelter magazines on Freecycle this week (so hard to do that!), and applied the same rule to shelter sites as fabric stores: I go in for specific projects.
Which totally explains why I'm here today! I can quit whenever I want!
"home for wayward dressers"! :)
Yes, I admit it, I have TOO MUCH STUFF. (At least it's mostly neatly stored out of the way, accessible but out of sight...)
Ethnic fabrics and embroideries from flea markets (I have some gorgeous authentic ikats, some hand painted Indian panels with deities trimmed with sequins, mudcloth, tourist grade kimonos, etc...) Piles and piles. (OK, to be more specific, about 7 piles about 18 inches wide and 16-18 inches deep, on utility shelves.)
Polymer clay and every tool imaginable, including a dedicated convection oven, food processor, pasta machine, and buffing wheel...
Beads (about 1.5 cubic feet if all dumped into the appropriate container.)
Jewelry findings and tools.
A partial closet full of illustration board, stretched canvases, fomecore board, and other "fine art" supplies.
(I used to teach art. It's impossible to pass up a bargain on things I know are otherwise expensive, if I might want them someday!) (It's also a sickness!!)
I have a completely ridiculous yarn stash. I could not buy yarn for the next 10 years and still have enough to work on constantly. Let me not even mention the fiber and spinning accoutrements. Or the cross stitch materials. Or the recently acquired quilt kit. Sigh. I wish I had a better way to organize these things. Mainly so that they could be attractive and displayed instead of just a messy pile or shoved into space bags.
my husband and I are both suckers for a refinishing or upcycling project. we have a room in the basement that we refer to as the 'furniture room'. that's a bad sign...
Guess I thought my scrapbooking phase would last longer than all of, oh, two months. Same with the knitting phase. And the pillow-case-making phase.
On the bright side, I haven't bought a single crafty thing in over a year and if I ever DO have motivation one rainy day, there's ten projects at the ready!
In my "nesting phase" of pregnancy, I managed to purge many long-time-ago started projects, many, many bags of clothes meant for repurposing, and many spoiled craft supplies (paints, glues and such have a lifetime, you know)
Then I measured and took a photo of all my fabrics, neatly folded and put them in clear bags. One by one I packed six shelves full to the brim.
Six shelves! OMG!
I decided that it is nice to finally put all my fabrics on one place, and it will stay that way.
That was six months ago, and I can proudly say that it did. I purchased some new fabrics, for immediate needs of a project or if there was a "hole" in my shelves that is big enough to be occupied with it.
Similar things happened to other supplies. Some of them went to a trash can, some to my daughter kindergarten group, some to crafty friends. All that left I organized in appropriate containers, and filled another six shelves. That left one shelf empty to (finally!) become a home for my sewing machines.
The only thing that is now out of control is that I, like nccata, am keeping a neverending list of "I want to do" projects...
Crafting is not a curable thing...
This is me to a T. My mom cave is where I keep my collection. What can I say... I love to be surrounded by beautiful things.
I have just...obscene...amounts of yarn and fabric. Rather than beat myself over the head for it, I decided to think of it as smart planning. When the zombies come, I'll be the one with all the supplies to keep people in clothes for years and years *mwahahahahaha*
fragglefemme -
I love that I'm not the only person here who evaluates purchasing decisions with zombies as a factor. ^_^


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You see them just about everywhere you go. They're the "first family" of window decals.
They are Stick figures, representing the parents, children and even the beloved family pet.
They're on the backs of thousands of car windows displaying each family's personalities, including the Jeremy Merlo's family from West Springfield.
"Well this is my wife's decal. It's her car. She got them because she thought they were cool. I'm not sure I get it but she loves them," said Merlo.
They seem harmless enough, but police across the country are now sending a warning message to those who have a series of stickers on their vehicles.
They said thieves and predators are now using bumper stickers and decals to track their next victims.
According to an Ohio-based search and rescue site, if you have your family decal up on your window along with a "My child is an honor student" bumper sticker, you are displaying how many children you have and where they go to school.
Throw those in with a parking pass on your rear view mirror, and you are also telling where you work or live.
"That's definitely an interesting concept and certainly a concern," said Merlo.
He said he'll take the warning into consideration, but he's won't be clearing his bumper stickers.
"There's a lot of creeps out there, but I'm not worried about that," he continued.
Merlo said there's one sticker on his car that should actually send a warning message to those criminals.
"If you look at the decal on the other side of the window which is the NRA sticker. I'm not so sure someone's going to pick on this car."
CBS 3 spoke with several Western Massachusetts police departments about the stickers. They said they haven't heard of this type of situation happening in the local area, but always caution people from putting out any personal information in public view.
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Evergreen opens the season with a 51-64 loss to Notre Dame
November 7, 2003
by James J. Portune
Olympia, WA - The Evergreen State College Women's Basketball teamkicked off the 2003-04 season in the opening night marquee game of the King Oscar Women's Basketball Classic.
From the opening tip, Evergreen's opponent, Notre Dame de Namur (1-0 Overall), controlled the game and handed Geoducks (0-0 Cascade Conference, 0-1 Overall) their first defeat of the season, 64-51.
Evergreen leading scorer tonight was not a returning player from last year's team. But, junior Kristen Zompetti (Seattle, Wash./Kennedy H.S.) did wear Evergreen green & white two years ago and came off the bench to score thirteen points, shot 4 for 5, hitting 2 of 3 from behind the three point arc and made all three of her free throw attempts.
Following close behind Zompetti in scoring was senior Shiante Reed (Tacoma, Wash./Foss H.S.). Her eleven points came from 5 field goals and 1 three-point basket.
The different between this year's team and last season squad can be found down low in the paint. Junior transfer Heather Hyde (Olympia, Wash./Center H.S.) had a game high 10 rebounds, 4 offensive and 6 defensive. Last season head coach Monica Heuer did not get a double digit rebounding performance from one of her players until the eleventh game of the season.
Freshman Jenny Olson (Loon Lake, Wash./Deer Park H.S.) also played well in the post. She completed her first college game with 7 points and 6 rebounds.
Discounting opening night jitters, Evergreen's scoring slumps tonight may have been caused by uncertainty at the point guard spots. All throughout the evening, senior Alicia Riddle (Portland, Ore./Benson Polytechnic H.S.), junior transfers Stephanie MacDuff (Lakewood, Wash./Lakes H.S.) and Shakira Rule (Sacramento, Calif./Natomas H.S.) shared the ball-handling duties. Subsequently, the Geoducks committed twenty-one turnovers.
Day two of the King Oscar Women's Basketball Classic gets underway at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow (Saturday) evening. Azusa Pacific, winners of today's 5:30 game, will play Notre Dame de Namur at 5:30 p.m.. At 7:30 p.m., Evergreen will play Westminster


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