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BBC – Fears over Haiti child 'abuse'
Eh… 'Why' the quotation marks?
A BBC investigation commissioned as part of Generation Next – a week of programmes focusing on people under 18 – has uncovered fresh allegations of the sexual abuse of children by United Nations peacekeepers. Mike Williams reports from Port au Prince, Haiti. …
There are about 9000 peacekeepers in the UN mission to Haiti, most of them soldiers who come from 19 different nations. Most of them have come to help. They work hard in dangerous conditions to bring security and aid to the desperate people.
But there are some peacekeepers who are willing to use their advantages to exploit some of the most vulnerable people in this troubled society.
I spoke to a 14-year-old girl who told of the peacekeeper who offered her jelly, sweets and a few dollars for sex with her and her friend – a child of just 11 years.
Half of the population of Haiti struggle to survive on just a dollar a day and the streets are filled with people selling whatever they can to raise a little cash. At nighttime, those who have nothing to sell, sell themselves.
Among the UN soldiers and civilians, they can find willing buyers. One UN official told me that a great many of the girls who work the streets are children and, in the dark streets of the capital Port-au-Prince, we watched UN officials picking up young prostitutes and driving off with them.
Sarah Martin, of Refugees International, has studied the problem in UN missions across the world.
"To prey upon the very populations that you are sent to protect is one of the worst forms of violation and betrayal that there is," she says.
Yeah, no kidding. But hey, in case one is in danger of getting the false impression that child prostitutes is just a cultural thing, and hey, if they're there…
Sarah (not her real name) is a fragile looking girl of 16. She says that two years ago, she was raped by a Brazilian soldier serving with the UN mission there.
She stared at the ground while we talked and, almost in a whisper, she explained what happened: "He held me down by the arms and held both my wrists, twisting them back and we struggled together. And then he raped me."
Her mother cried while she recalled that day: "When I found her I didn't recognise my own child," she says. "She had the face of a dead person – I started to cry out, she couldn't tell me what had happened."
Ah, the UN. Let's fund them some more, so they can help those like the people of Haiti.
Oh, and in case anyone says "Yeah but that was two years ago, before the UN instituted their no tolerance policy", has anyone offered her counseling? Financial restitution? STD testing…? In the past two years?


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This shorter read was filled with life lessons and the struggle of leaving those we love behind… no matter where we are headed. Every October Zoey comes to see her daughter, and Amy can sense when her mom is near. But this year she can actually see her! It's heartbreaking to see the love she has for her little girl. But it's not all doom and gloom there is definitely some lighter moments and things Zoey will have to figure out before she can move on. Will she be stuck on this path forever? Or will she discover a way to move past everything and go where she belongs? Well I can't tell you…. you will have to read for yourself 🙂


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Over the past year, e-NABLE volunteers have come up with a variety of 3D printed hand and arm devices and have released many of the files free to download for anyone that would like to either create one for someone they know or take the files and improve upon them. This has lead to numerous prototypes and a whole lot of media coverage that is often not correct!
We would like to make sure that those that are following our story about our volunteer community – know exactly what is available and how to find the files or how long they can expect to wait to either receive a device, get printed parts or how long it may be before a design they have seen in the news, will actually be available to them.
e-NABLE is a global community of volunteers and this means that most of us have day jobs and families that we attend to and creating hands or answering emails from eager parents seeking devices for their children – is what we do in our "free time." We love helping people and are dedicated to making sure that we can help as many people as we can, but please keep in mind that we are not a company and we do not sell these devices and we are completely run by volunteers so it may take a while before you hear back!
If you are seeking a device for your child and have filled out the intake form – please keep in mind that it may be a week or two before you hear back from our matcher team and it may be a few months before a device is produced for you as we have a long wait list of people seeking help for someone they love and we get dozens of emails a day!
Below, you will find some information on each of the designs you may have seen on the news, where you can find the files to create them, how long to expect to wait to get one and if the design is still in prototype stage and currently unavailable.
Wrist Driven Devices – AVAILABLE
• These require a functional wrist to power the device.
• If you would like to get on the wait list to be matched with a volunteer who can print parts for you – please fill out our intake form here.
• It may take a week or so before you hear back from the matcher team once you have submitted your form. Thank you for your patience.
• It may be a month or more before you are matched with a volunteer who can print parts for you or create a device. Our wait list is long!
• If you would like to create one of these on your own – the files and information are available here. If you have a school or a local library near you with a 3D printer that will print parts for you, there are instructions and tutorials available to you so that you can assemble it yourself and avoid having to wait to be matched with a volunteer.
• The newest design, "The Raptor," can be created for around $30-$50 in materials.
• The "Flexy Hand" design can be found here.
• Many of our other designs can be found here.
Body Powered RIT Arm – AVAILABLE (Prototype stage)
• This is a body powered arm design that is still in the works and files are available but we are still working on the harnessing system and fine tuning the device.
• This arm requires an elbow and partial forearm stump to power the device.
• If you would like to get on the wait list for an RIT Arm design – please fill out our intake form here. Please note it may be a week or so before the matcher team is able to respond to your email.
• Because every arm stump is different – the arm designs will require recipients to work directly with a medical provider who can ensure the fit is safe and comfortable. Our volunteers can print the parts but it will be the responsibility of the parents/users to take the device to an OT or Physician to create a proper fit in the socket.
Body Powered Cyborg Beast Arm – PROTOTYPE STAGE
• This is a brand new prototype design from the team at Creighton University and is still in the very beginning stages of development.
• This design requires an elbow and partial forearm stump to power it.
• This design will not be openly available for a few months as it is brand new and still under development.
• This design will require the recipients to work closely with a medical professional to ensure proper fit and safety.
• Research and development will take place over the next few months and we will share updates as we get them!
"Limbitless" Myoelectric Arm – AVAILABLE
• This design is still in the early phases but has been released by the wonderful team at UCF and the files, parts lists and instructions can all be found here.
• This is a myo-electric arm that is driven by electronics and muscle sensors.
• This design costs approximately $350-600 to make if you have access to a 3D printer.
• For more information on the Limbitless arm – please visit their website.
Open Hand Project "Bionic Hand" – NOT AVAILABLE YET
• This design is not currently available for download but they hope to upload the design open source very soon.
• This is a robotic/bionic hand that functions using motors and sensors.
• The hope is to create it for $1000 or less.
• For more information – please see their most current media article.
We look forward to the day when all of these designs are available to anyone that wishes to create one – but until then, please know that we are working hard to reach our goal and as soon as we do – you will be the first to know!
Thank you for following our journey and being patient with us while we create, prototype, dream, develop, research and test!


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ABOUTPaper Lace was a British pop group best known in the U.S. for the chart-topping "The Night Chicago Died" (1974). Paper Lace also had a couple of minor hits in 1974 with their cover of Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods' "Billy, Don't Be A Hero" (which topped the U.K. charts) and "The Black-Eyed Boys." The original group members included lead singer and drummer, Phil Wright, and there have been a number of personnel changes along the way.
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Disney's Showtime Spectacular was a live show on Central Plaza Stage at Disneyland Park (Paris). It began in part of the park's New Generation Festival.
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It focuses on Mickey and his friends, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, Pluto, Chip and Dale, come together for a grand celebration of the newest Disney heroes from Toy Story, Lilo & Stitch, The Incredibles, Monsters, Inc., Ratatouille and The Princess and the Frog. Multiple costume changes and clever set-pieces make this a spectacle to remember.
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- Best of Friends (The Fox and the Hound, show theme)
- You've Got a Friend in Me (Toy Story)
- Lilo & Stitch
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- Everybody Scream!
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- Gonna Take You There
- When We're Human (instrumental)
- The Reprise of You've Got a Friend in Me
- The Reprise of Best of Friends
- Minnie, Woody, Stitch, Mr. Incredible, Sulley, Mike Wazowski and Tiana were the only characters speaking English in the show. Other characters Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Chip and Dale, Buzz Lightyear, Lilo, Remy and Emile are all speaking French in the show.
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NVIDIA GTX 760 2GB Review
After NVIDIAs recent announcements targeting the enthusiast market with the GTX TITAN, GTX 780 and GTX 770, it was only a matter of time until their refresh initiative hit lower prices. The GTX 760 factors into this equation perfectly by providing a graphics card that can play at high resolutions and detail settings while targeting one of the markets most popular segments.
While the main goal of the GTX 760 is to supplant the well-received GTX 660 Ti in NVIDIAs lineup, there is also some heady competition sitting within its $250 price point. AMDs HD 7950 Boost which can be found for as little as $279 is the most obvious threat since it features an excellent price / performance ratio and includes an over-the-top Never Settle game bundle. Those free games (Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon, Tomb Raider, BioShock Infinite and Crysis 3) present a value added proposition that NVIDIA has yet to match even though AMDs card is a least $30 more than the GTX 760. Theyre also included with the $269 non-Boost HD 7950 but that card is becoming less of a factor in todays environment since higher clocked versions are available for about the same cost.
AMDs cards may very well provide some interesting benchmark scores but the GTX 760s real competition may actually come from within NVIDIAs own ranks. With its discontinuation, the GTX 670s price hasnt fallen by all that much (or at least not as much as some had hoped) yet retailers have begun discounting them nonetheless. You can currently find some custom cooled versions for just $310 after various rebates so it should be interesting to see how the GTX 760 can tackle this situation.
Like the GTX 770, the GTX 760 uses NVIDIAs GK104 core, although in a largely cut-down form which actually features less SMX modules than a GTX 660 Ti. At first this may seem like an odd choice since a refresh should technically offer more cores than its predecessor provided the same architecture is used. That didnt happen since NVIDIA needed to keep some daylight between the GTX 760 and GTX 770s performance brackets while also ensuring they could clear out existing stocks of GTX 600-series parts.
With this delicate balancing act in place, NVIDIAs newest card may not seem all that well positioned to replace the GTX 660 Ti, let alone compete against AMDs price / performance sweetheart, the HD 7950 Boost. However, the GTX 760s performance has been enhanced through the use of some minor tweaks, giving it a leg up over its predecessors.
With less CUDA cores and texture units than a GTX 660 Ti, NVIDIA had to find other areas where the GK104s performance could be improved. Two fewer enabled SMX modules led to the possibility of higher clock speeds which have been granted through the use of GPU Boost 2.0. By finding a balance between voltage, temperatures and power consumption, NVIDIA was to achieve Base and Boost clocks with substantial increases over the GTX 660 Ti. While some may think an average Boost clock increase of only 53Hz isnt all that much, the GTX 760 should hit those levels on a more consistent basis, providing more performance than the paper specifications would have you believe.
While the number of physical cores hasnt increased, there has been some secondary enhancements going on behind the scenes as well. Gone is the 192-bit memory interface from previous cards and in its place is a 256-bit bus which uses a quartet of 64-bit controllers, increasing bandwidth without having to use the expensive 7 Gbps GDDR5 modules found on the GTX 770. Alongside these four controllers is a fully-enabled set of ROPs, ensuring NVIDIAs new card wont be limited in this regard. With that being said, the GTX 760 may very well react negatively in scenarios which but the onus on texture performance.
Due to NVIDIAs careful architectural massaging, the GTX 760 is also relatively efficient. It only produces about 20W more heat and requires approximately 25W more input power than a GTX 660 Ti but performance should be nearly on par with a GTX 670.
One interesting aspect of this launch is the approach NVIDIA is taking with the rest of their lineup. It looks like the GTX 760 will be the last 700-series part released for the foreseeable future with the GTX 660 and lower-end cards remaining in place. Unfortunately, this will likely lead to a rather substantial performance gap in between some segments but NVIDIA feels their current entry and mid-level products are well placed to deal with AMDs competing solutions.
NVIDIA may have sent us reference cards to review but much like with the GTX 770, the GTX 760 is a virtual card. This means it wont have a reference version per se and board partners are being given freedom to design their own cards. The GTX 760 does however boast a layout very similar to that of a GTX 660 Ti, with a short PCB and a pair of 6-pin power connectors.
At first glance the latest addition to NVIDIAs lineup looks like yet another slam-dunk for anyone looking at an inexpensive sub-$299 gaming GPU. Even with this competition, AMD seems reluctant to substantially lower their prices, choosing to focus on enhancing their game offerings instead. Whether or not that will carry on into the GTX 760s segment remains to be seen but NVIDIA does seem to have a strong hand in play here.
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Ongoing hard circumstances and trials don't have to mean hardening in any way.. of the attitudes.
Tough things happen, sometimes way too tough.. but you're only a prayer from real kindness, from comfort, from answers, from tenderness.
Grace received can really help you act gracious.. and maintain an upbeat attitude in even a very downbeat kinda environment. Not all settings are, but it's good to be prepared in advance.
Pray believing without ceasing. We live in a fallen sin-cursed-world that indeed can be pretty hard and mean sometimes ..cuz of selfish sin.. but you and I don't have to be conformed to this world and become hard-hearted. Conformed has to do with changing from outside in, but transformed has to do with being changed by God's love from the inside out.
"And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." Romans 12:2 kjv
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ." 2 Corinthians 1:3-5
Having Jesus living big on the inside as Lord is what really matters most.
"Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness." Hebrews 3:8"And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt." Exodus 7:3"Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart." Ephesians 4:18"And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had spoken unto Moses." Exodus 9:12"And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?" Mark 8:17 #4give


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Friday, October 7, 2016
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So I didn't want a week to pass without an update but I really don't have time for anything more than this pathetic excuse for a post. I have been slammed with Chicago VeganMania (it was a great success, by the way, and, whew!, it is off my plate again!) and then, I had to hit the ground running right away for some pieces that I'm writing for my favorite little glossy. Oh, and maintain Vegan Street and keep my humble home from collapsing in on itself. This has all added up to an overtaxed, maxed out mama. I will be back with regular content starting next week. In the meantime, how about looking at some happy pictures and getting a good smile?
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" Today we all awoke to the shocking news of the end of the siege in Martin Place. Death at any time is extremely sad but in light of the events of yesterday, so close to Christmas this tragic event is so very traumatic for everyone concerned along with their families and friends".
We join with Sydney and the rest of Australia to mourn the passing of two very innocent victims whose lives have been taken in a cruel and selfish act. For those people who have survived the tragedy, we can't possibly imagine how their lives will be permanently scared and the months ahead for their families who have to help them come to terms with the events of yesterday.
As a caring practice, we know all of our staff will be offering support to anyone affected in some way by this tragic event. Our hearts go out to all those affected and wish them the strength to recover from this sad and historic day.


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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Throw Away Society
It makes me sad when I see people replacing things in their home so quickly after buying them. Things are made a lot more cheaply these days and they can break easily. This means that although they are more affordable, they are having to be replaced more quickly and this is a complete waste of money. It seems common sense to pay more money for better quality and then get things repaired rather than replacing them if they get damaged. For example why not get a leather couch repair done, rather than just buying a brand new one? It makes a lot more sense, saves a lot of money and saves waste. It is something worth thinking hard about, before spending lots more money on a new one.
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Lynx - 200SRX - Pinion Set 14T 0.5M x STD Motor Shaft LX1459
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Antique doll shoes: Black leather 3 1/4 x 1 1/2" 125.00, Brown leather shoes #2 2 x 3/4 x 1" high at the back 225.00, Black & white leather shoes. Signed #2. 2 1/8 x 7/8" 225.00, Black with straps 3 1/2 x 1 1/2" 95.00, White 2 x 1" 45.00, Blue silk fabric shoes signed 8 3 x 1 1/4" 95.00, Black leather lace up small boot. Signed #5. 2 1/16 x 1" at the widest x 3/4" at the back. Very good condition 185.00
Antique French jointed bisque Mignonette 4 1/4". Blue glass eyes, original clothes, pink stockings, original wig. Clothes a little worn. Her head is a little loose, however sits well for display, black kiln mark back of 1 leg. Marked on her head 7 995.00
Antique Simon & Halbig K*R #403 Walker. Antique white dress, unusual style, slip & pantaloons, white shoes & socks. Wears a flower head piece. Original long blonde mohair wig. Compo body, jointed wrists. Blue sleep eyes. Head incised. Purchased in a London shop many years ago. Very good condition, cheek minor rub, dress has some staining on the back, I haven't worked with it to try to remove. Walker style head turns when legs are moved 1250.00
Antique German all bisque jointed doll. 6 1/4". Blue glass eyes, open mouth, original long wig. Her clothes & undergarments are sewn on. Very good condition, no damage 375.00
Original Heubach doll antique Christmas Candy Container very large sledder. From the early 1900s. Intaglio eyes, closed mouth, spun cotton suit with extra detail, in the early 1900s style with hat and pom pom, bisque head and hands. Pants are linen or similar material. The arms are marked with numbers and the back of the head is also. The sled is wood and very well made. 12" tall x 12" long including the sled x 5 1/2" wide. Wearing a white suit with red trimmed sleeves, a red scarf and a white hat with a broad red brim. Later dolls had less attention to detail. Excellent condition. I bought this at a show from a European dealer & put it away. I had dealers the whole weekend coming by wanting to see it. I've been told most had never seen this size. I haven't either & this is an outstanding example. Could have been a sample it's so unusual. I've added an extra pic to show the difference in size. The small one next to the lg one is a typical size that you see 4500.00
Kammer & Reinhardt Mein Liebling 117 24" antique bisque doll. Flirty eye. Antique dress, original wig & high top boots. Very good condition, really love this doll & her dress. Dress is missing 2 buttons on the back, has a few wear spots that blend in. Wears a slip & matching pantaloons, some melting 1600.00
Antique German Heubach bisque doll on skis Christmas candy container. c 1910-1920. 8" tall. Stamped Germany on one ski, has a bisque head and hands. The doll is dressed in the original outfit with a scarf and hat with a pom pom on top. Condition is good with the following issues: The left ski has a crack behind the foot but is solid and sturdy, there may be a tiny flake of missing bisque on the middle fingernail of the right hand. The outfit is a little dusty. Nice size, hard to find. 1250.00
Antique German Heubach Googly eye candy containers on snowballs: Blue hat 4 x 4" 1195.00, Red hat 7 x 3 1/4", has molded hair, the small ball probably replaced at some point 895.00
Simon & Halbig K*R antique bisque doll. 26 1/2" tall, Incised mark. Compo body. Blue sleep eyes, original long wig. Wears a beautiful antique velvet dress. Nice antique hat. Very good condition 1500.00
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Antique dollhouse dolls:
1)5" Original dress (melting) 275.00, 2)4 3/4" Bisque 225.00, 3)All bisque 3 1/2" 295.00, 4) 5" molded hair 295.00, 5)Glass eyes S&H 6 1/2" 275.00,6)Original clothes Hat, dress, underclothes. Painted face, bisque arms & legs, cloth body 4 1/2" 295.00, 7)Original underclothes Painted face, bisque arms & legs, cloth body 5" 250.00
Simon & Halbig antique bisque doll #1079. Large 33". Redressed in German silk clothes, replaced wig. Compo jointed body. Has a flake of compo off a knee otherwise good condition. She wears pantaloons. The wig is very good quality. The necklace she's wearing is not included 1500.00
Antique Bisque Heubach doll 9 1/2". Marked on the back of her neck 30 then a mark below that. Bisque head with painted eyes, compo body & arms, painted shoes & leggings. Original dress, hat & underwear. Not sure about the wig 595.00
German Antique Christmas child cotton ornaments: Cotton batting clothes, probably a celluloid face. Very good condition, some of the wrapping is loose on the rope. 4 1/2" 145.00, German Antique Christmas child cotton ornament. Cotton batting clothes, probably a celluloid face. Very good condition, some of the wrapping is loose on the rope. 4" 145.00, Child on a ball. Cotton batting clothes. Very good condition, there is a hole on the back of the head, not sure if it's there in the making, has cotton sticking out 3 t x 1 3/4". Hanger could be added to hang 165.00
Antique French Paper Mache Pull Toy small Bulldog. In really nice condition, growler works, bright red collar. 17 x 14 t x 6". On wheels, collar is nice & full. No damage, comes from an old collection. The blow up of his face & brightness makes his lip look worse then it it 2500.00
Antique beautiful German winter wonderland large musical Snow House filled with antique porcelain dolls and other accessories. A true fairy tale house to display all year, the house is one of a kind and extremely rare, not something you often see. The house contains many antique items from Erzgebirge. There are so many details in the house, angel dolls, sheep, sleigh, trees, tinsels and more 11 1/2" w x 16 x 27 1/2" t. c1920, although most items included are older. Very good condition. It has a music box, key wind mechanism. Comes from an old German collection 3900.00
Antique German Christmas Heubach Bisque Face Santa Candy Container. Early 1900's. Nice piece, not readily available. Sits on a cardboard base that removes for the candy. This antique Santa's cotton batting and crepe paper has normal signs of age and wear, some staining. 6 3/4" tall x 3 1/4" wide. Signed Made in Germany 795.00
Vintage Artist Bear really well done & soft, 21", made with old materials 49.00
Konig & Wernicke 1070 antique German bisque character doll 15" sailor with antique paper hat.c1912. Blue glass sleep eyes, painted lower lashes, feathered brows, accented nostrils & eye corners, open mouth 2 porcelain upper teeth, tongue, composition & wooden ball jointed body with side hip jointing, well costumed. Marked K&W 1070 IV 6. Very good condition, the hat is an old paper hat marked Made in Germany. Mohair wig & has old underwear. Nice costume 1100.00
Kestner turned shoulder head antique bisque doll 19". Kid body repaired at knee joints. Very good condition, old clothes & underwear. Old wig, sleep eyes, bisque arms, shoes are old oilcloth 500.00
Simon & Halbig #121 14" antique bisque head doll, bent knee compo body. Marked on the head Simon & Halbig 121, wears a German made sailor suit, old oilcloth shoes. He has a couple of worn or broken fingers, otherwise good condition 750.00
Antique Jumeau French bisque doll 22". Jumeau repro floral dress, antique underclothes & shoes, original wig. Pierced ears, set eyes, she is marked with a 9 on her head & body. Very good condition, her bangs may have been trimmed. 3400.00
French Bisque Doll Mignonette boy 4 3/4" Bisque head with glass eyes, compo body, original clothes & hair. His shirt is a little discolored with age. The doll is in good condition, his eyes are a little loose & sit back; French Bisque Doll Mignonette girl 4 1/2". Bisque head with glass eyes, compo body, original clothes & hair. Her clothes are somewhat faded & have moth holes on the back. The doll is in good condition 425.00 each, #203 4 1/4" all bisque glass eyes original wig 425.00, 5 1/4" Original dress bisque doll, lace at top added 425.00
Glass eye 9" German bisque antique doll marked 3/0, torso of body replaced. Includes trunk & accessories including an extra gown, hat, muff, basket. Trunk with tray doll 11 x 5 1/4 x 6" 325.00
Antique Simon & Halbig 1079 bisque doll 24". She wears an antique bathing costume c1910. Blue sleep eyes, pierced ears. No shoes. I believe it's her original wig. Very nice condition. Can be purchased without the outfit, it was expensive 975.00
Antique doll house miniature All bisque jointed doll #203 4" 125.00
Collector's Encyclopedia of Dolls, one of the most comprehensive, well researched and respected books on dolls ever printed. It is highly sought after by collectors. 6th printing. 2000 illustrations & marks in color & black & white. 700 pages & over 1,600 photographs. HB book with dust jacket in very good condition 50.00, Clothes book 50.00
Antique Bisque doll Christmas skier candy container 895.00, Heubach Bisque Face Girl on Sled with Bisque face and hands. Nice detail to face 7 1/2 x 6 1/2" T 795.00, Antique Paper Mache doll Christmas sled candy container 425.00, Santa 8" Made In Japan 145.00
Antique Belsnickle Santa lg size 11 3/4 x 5 1/2" 450.00 more available
c1900's antique Schoenhut Rolly Dolly's Santa Roly Poly medium size paper mache, minor wear overall 9 - 1/4" T 1295.00
Bliss antique paper litho on wood Bowery & Central Park Trolley car, rare hard to find piece in good condition. The horses, conductor & driver have been replaced. The seats swivel in both directions. 17 1/2 x 9 3/4 x 7" 1200.00
4 1/2" Kestner antique all bisque little girl. She has brown sleep eyes (the original wax is missing), the sweetest little face with a cute little closed pouty mouth, expert painting of fine long lashes and brows. She has beautiful bisque and coloring. She has a one piece torso & jointed arms and legs. Her socks are painted white with a blue band & she has black Maryjane shoes. She has a replaced brown mohair wig & a pale blue silk dress made of antique fabrics with an antique under slip. There are no hairlines or repairs. There is a tiny inside chip on her right leg on the torso part c1890 395.00
Antique German Christmas Ornament bisque head, cotton body girl sledder ornament. She wears a silk fringe skirt with a crepe paper jacket. Her sleeves, leggings and hat are cotton. She sits on her original wood sled. There is wear from age to the papery cotton, bisque is fine. Overall very good condition. The sled is 4" long and it measures about 4 1/4" to the top of her head while seated x 1 1/2 wide 275.00
Antique German Santa on a sled. He measures 3" tall and the log is 3 3/4" long. He has felt clothes and a composition face with a great expression. The sled is on a cardboard base. There is old ribbon strapped on. He may have had something on his back at some point 275.00, Antique German Putz Santa on a white mica sled. 3 3/4" tall and the sled is 1 1/2 x 4 3/4" long. He has felt clothes and a composition face with a rabbit fur beard. The sled is cardboard. The back corner is a little bent & a little spotting on the sled, the rest of the piece is in good condition. Marked Germany on the bottom. 185.00
Antique bisque doll seated baby. Great for a carriage, bathtub or other piece. 2 1/2" t x 2 d x 1 1/4" w. Very good condition 225.00


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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO/KJCT)-- One person was killed in a crash in the Grand Valley early Wednesday morning.
It happened just after midnight on Broadway, just west of Redlands Parkway.
According to the Grand Junction Police Department, a car crashed into several powerlines and caught on fire. The driver was not able to get out of the car. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
There were many homes in the area without power and crews are working to place the downed utility poles.
Broadway was closed between Redlands Parkway and Reed Mesa Drive. Police expected the closure to last for most of Wednesday.
Broadway Elementary School and Redlands Middle School do have power and will be open at their regular times today. Bus pickup times will also be the same. There are alternate routes in place for parents who are dropping off children.
To get to Redlands Middle School, take Redlands Parkway to South Camp, South Camp to 20 1/2 Road, and 20 1/2 Road to Broadway.
For Broadway Elementary School, take Redlands Parkway to Greenbelt and then Greenbelt to 22 ½ Road.
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So we continued our Philly adventures on Sunday morning with the hop on, hop off double-decker bus tour.
{ I learned my hair lesson with the humidity the night before. solution? topknot! }
I was pretty overwhelmed on the bus tour at all of the historic sights we were seeing, and in an effort to keep up, my photos are a bit hit and miss when it comes to quality. I definitely have to give myself an A for effort, though. It is important to note that while on this bus tour, we were literally getting smacked in the face with tree branches (why they don't trim them so the bus can fit through without harming anyone, I will never know...).
{ these two monuments are in dedication to those who fought in the civil war }
{ a closer view of one of the monuments }
{ Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul }
{ infamous Rocky statue, aka a classic Philly sight. }
These next two photos are a part of the city's "Your Move" art collection, which scatters over-sized popular game pieces across the plaza. This is designed to juxtapose childhood memories with adult responsibilities. Can you spot the game pieces? Which games do they belong to?
{ Benjamin Franklin statue, sculpted by Philadelphia's own James Peniston as part of the Keys to the Community collection in the Old City. }
{Betsy Ross' house, adorned with the flag she is credited with designing. }
{ seriously lovely architecture here... I was constantly looking 'up!' }
{ might seem strange to see a giant clothespin in the middle of the city, but it is known as The Kiss, resembling two people in an embrace. I think it's so cute when you look at it that way. }
{ Philadelphia city hall, topped with the city's founder: William Penn. }
{ Rocky fans rejoice! Here are the steps he ran up in the movie, though our tour guide told us Stallone only did the last few steps, his stunt double did the rest. Really? Sigh... is it difficult to run up some steps? }
{ classic Chinatown shot. Every metropolitan city's got one... }
{ Elreth's Alley, known for being our nation's oldest residential street. And go figure, it is the same size as the streets in England! }
Our first "hop off" was at Eastern State Penitentiary. I have to admit that I had never heard of the place and had no idea the history we would learn about while we were there. Afterall, the concept for this prison was born in Benjamin Franklin's living room. One inmate, one cell. The idea being that isolation would give the prisoners time to reflect and think about their crimes, and ultimately show signs of penance for what they had done.
{ at the time, rumors flew that Al Capone was allowed to live in relative luxury during his stay here. }
{ I don't know why, but I love this photo... }
After our tour of living like an inmate (heat and all!), we stumbled on, what else? A London pub! We decided it was a sign and that we were meant to have lunch there.
{ coincidentally the inside looked strikingly similar to a pub across the street from Big Ben in London. }
Next stop? Independence Hall! I was so unbelievably excited to see this historic place and try to imagine all that had gone on inside those walls.
After much running around trying to figure out where to get tickets, we managed to find out that they were sold out for the day. I say sold out in relative terms, because the tickets are actually free. They just have to monitor how many folks they let in. Thus, the reason for the tickets.
I was crushed that they were sold out, and just when I had given up hope, another ticket agent came over and told us that they had just had two cancellations if we wanted to go right now. Did we?! So we were off on our tour of Independence Hall. Oh how I love it when things work out...
{ is it just my imagination or is the sun shining directly on Independence Hall? }
{ the architecture inside is beautiful. }
{ known simply as the Assembly, or Signer's, Room, it was here that both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were drafted and signed. }
I couldn't get a clear picture of George Washington's famous "rising sun" chair, but that is it in the back center, where he presided over the Constitutional Convention. James Madison's journal quotes Benjamin Franklin making a very inspiring quote about the sun seen on this chair, just as the final members were signing the Constitution. It gave me goosebumps when I heard it.
"...Painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun. I have often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun."
{ bottom left hand seat believed to be Benjamin Franklin's. }
{ I couldn't get a very clear picture, but this is the first printed copy of the Declaration of Independence. This copy is actually a month older than the handwritten copy that is on display in our nation's capitol. This one was read aloud in the square to the general public, announcing our independence. }
{ incredible to see this in person... words can't describe it.. }
I think it is safe to say we were pleasantly overwhelmed by late afternoon and decided to retire to our air conditioned hotel room to relax a bit before heading out to dinner on restaurant row.
We had reservations at a very highly rated Spanish tapas restaurant, and I couldn't wait to try it out.
Unfortunately, I completely forgot about the art of photography when the delicious food was placed in front of me, because I only managed to photograph my drink (sangria, of course!) and dessert (there was nothing tapas-like about this dessert, let me tell you...).
I think I have successfully overwhelmed (and distracted!) you all enough for one day. Tomorrow I will post about our final day touring around this great city, including the Constitution Center and Christ Church!
Stay tuned...
I think I speak for everyone when I say T.G.I.F., right?


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The Complaint alleges that the Company issued false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business and prospects, including the status of its negotiations with U.S. Costco to renew its co-branding agreement, which was set to expire on March 31, 2016, and the financial impact of that agreement on the Company's business.
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Aurora Red White & Boom Fireworks
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City/State/Zip: Aurora, Indiana 47001
County: Dearborn County
June 29 – 30, 2018. Military Equipment will be on display both days, with free military vehicle rides. On Friday there will be a beer/wine booth, live music and a lighted boat parade. On Saturday, look for a car show, craft show, the beer/wine booth, more live music and fireworks!
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I bought this as a present to myself for $2 because it's Peter Dayton, frontman for Boston monsters La Peste, being helped out by members of the Cars (Ric Ocasek, Elliot Easton and Greg Hawkes); I mean, there's no way that could not be great, right? If you've heard the studio tracks at the end of the La Peste collection that Matador put out a couple of decades ago (a couple of which Greg Hawkes also played on, if I remember correctly) then you kinda already know what to expect from this. If you haven't, then nod your head and just go with it. La Peste's "Skin Tight" gets re-made as a new-wave power-pop song and is the top of the class here; it probably would've made for a nifty KBD-styled 7" 45 had it been released with "Perfect Wave" -- somewhat of a surf instrumental -- on the flip. The other two songs on here aren't anything special, although the extra-flabby ballad "Stuck on The Same Refrain" is probably what set this 12" up as probably nothing more than a resume for a record deal. If you don't own any La Peste stuff then try to track down the "Better Off Dead" single, it was recently re-issued twice and thus is fairly easy to buy online.
"Perfect Wave"


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Noah Sheetz of Chefs Consortium will prepare a variety dishes made from locally sourced ingredients for tasting by shoppers at Honest Weight Food Co-Op in Albany from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Items will include potato-cheddar hash, maple-apple crepes, pork-braised winter greens and seared tofu. The event is free and open to the public.
Honest Weight is located at 484 Central Ave.


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Have you wondered what the tallest man-made structures are? Are humans the only beings on Earth capable of building the giant skyscrapers, bridges, and other
10. KCAU TV Tower
Coming in at number ten on the list of the world's top 10 tallest man made structures ever is Sioux City, Iowa's TV tower. This tower registers as the largest structure in the state of Iowa and stands an impressive 2,000-ft. (609.6 m). Made in 1965, the tower still stands, and has held the record of the largest structure in Iowa for over fifty years now.
9. KATV Tower
Located in Redfield, Arkansas, this tower comes in at the exact same height as number ten. Standing 2,000 ft or 609.6 m tall, this tower enjoyed being the largest man-made structure in Arkansas since its installation in 1965 up until January 11, 2008, when it collapsed.
8. Petronius Platform
This massive oil rig has been a sight in off-shore New Orleans for years. It was placed in 2000 and is used for off-shore oil drilling. The massive structure is in the Gulf of Mexico and dwarfs many oil rigs seen off-shore. The measurements on this giant structure are about 2100 ft or 610 m. In the picture above, you see the rig with a giant cargo ship next to it for reference. Since its hard to determine the size of the structure against the background of the ocean, seeing it near the ship really helps viewers comprehend this behemoth oil rig.
7. KXTV/KOVR Tower
This tower is located in Walnut Grove, CA, and is still in use today. Put there in 2000, this 2,049 ft (624.5 m) communication tower is the largest structure in California today. That is no small feat when considering the vast amount of skyscrapers and large buildings dispersed through the state.
6. KRDK-TV Tower
This tower is located in Traill County in North Dakota. The structure is the fifth biggest structure in the world, losing out to its neighboring tower by a minuscule three feet. The tower is used till this day to transmit signals and was installed in the year 1998. The tower has suffered two collapses, in 1968 and 1997. The most recent collapse gave way to the installation of the tower that is found there today. The tower stands at 2060 ft (628 m).
5. KVLY-TV Tower
This tower was erected in 1963 in the town of Blanchard, North Dakota. The structure stands a whopping 2,063 ft (628.8 m), beating its neighboring tower by a grand total of three feet. This tower is the largest structure in North Dakota. This structure enjoys the title of the tallest mast in the world.
4. Shanghai Tower
The Shanghai Tower's construction came to a close in the summer of 2015, making it the most recently erected megastructure on our list. The giant tower is located in Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai, and measures over 2,073.5 ft (632 m). The structure boasts 128 stories and the credit of being the largest structure in China.
3. Tokyo SkyTree
The Tokyo Skytree was finished in March 2011, measuring 2,080 ft or 634 m. This tower is the tallest in the world, along with being the tallest in Japan. The SkyTree, located in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan, opened to the public on May 22, 2012, and features a wide variety of different offices including broadcasting as well as restaurants and an observation tower. Guests enjoy the breathtaking views and scenery. Though this structure is massive, the recent construction of large buildings surrounding the area has since affected the broadcasting abilities of the tower.
2. Warsaw Radio Mast
The Warsaw Radio Mast enjoyed the title of the largest structure in the world from its installation date of 1974. This structure came in at an impressive height of 2,120.7 ft (646.38 m). The massive radio tower was located in Konstantynów, Gąbin, Poland, and broadcast data for decades before its collapse in 1991. The tower was not replaced but still enjoys the title of the second largest man-made structure ever, beaten only by the massive infrastructure that makes up the Burj Khalifa.
1. The Burj Khalifa
This massive, pale skyscraper makes its home in Dubai. Boasting a height of 2,717-ft. (828 m), making it number one on the 10 tallest man made structures list. The construction of this giant building was no small feat. This is the largest man-made structure on Earth today. The construction began in 2004 and was finished in January of 2010. The megastructure boasts over 160 stories, the world's highest outdoor observation deck, and the world's longest service elevator, among other awards.


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Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Well, it's been a while since I posted...and I'm so busy at the moment with travelling (I'm getting married and my fiancee is from Barcelona!), work, renovations and construction for myself and for clients that I think it'll be a while before I post again. So this blog is on hiatus until I have more time. I will try to post some photos of
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I've spent a huge chunk of nearly every summer in my life up at Bear Lake. It is heaven to me. Through the years the experience has shifted and morphed, changing shape to fit my life. And every year it fills me in a new way.
There are things that are constant as far back as I can remember. The thin dry air that smells of sage and juniper and the occasional skunk. The clear cold water quenching scorched skin. The hot sad on calloused summer feet. The vivid sunsets. The mosquitoes. Waterskiing. The tap water that tastes of clear minerals. The ease of family being close.
Then there are the things that shift. The number of people crowded into various different spaces, the ratio of adults to children, the ages of my kids and all the nieces and nephews (it seems like almost yesterday that Bear Lake was filled with toddlers, now we're edging into teens, Max has a deep voice and Elle wears makeup). My place in life and motherhood. The lake level, it has been low for years and years giving us miles of sandy beach, and now it's up high. Hazel can slide down the same hot metal slide of my childhood right into the lake.
I love the juxtaposition of all of it. The old meshing and melding with the new. Each year I'm trying on new experiences in a safe and familiar environment.
This year Bear Lake has been awesome. I'm two weeks into it and have about two left to go. Jeff was with us for the first week and a half, during the official Eyrealm reunion. That week was packed with people. Everywhere. 39 to be exact. We all loved it. The newness of it all was thrilling for my kids (well, everyone but Emmeline, more about that later). One day I asked Hazel if she was having a good time and she responded, "Yes! Such a good time I can hardly believe it!" Both she and Charlie were so psyched to be with their cousins that there would be whole days where I seriously didn't see them. And Jeff was around to help manage Emmeline's moods and Peter's naps. It was perfect.
Now the newness and charm of it all has worn off a bit, Jeff is long gone, back to his summer bachelorhood in Boston and things have gotten a little trickier. I realize it is totally ridiculous to gripe one tiny bit about life here in paradise, but it does have it's challenges. Challenges that I'd gladly take along with all the perks, but it has taken some serious strategizing to make it work for everyone.
Having whole days stretched before us with nothing structured was so welcome at first, but now we're all craving a bit more back bone to our time. Doing nothing but playing and sitting and talking was heaven for the first little bit (and something I look forward to all year long), but now it's making me antsy.
The basic eb and flo of days here is so slow with the absence of all the demands of normal life, yet time goes by so fast that it's hard to keep track of naps and meals and bedtime. We're usually down at the beach until 7pm or so which makes dinner late and bedtime later. And, despite the late bedtime the kids all wake up with excitement to play all welled up inside and it almost always trumps the exhaustion they've got to be feeling. They're up and playing and I'm up and feeding and running and cleaning and before we know it it's lunch time, time to wake peter up or put him down, time to get 5 bodies all buttered up with SPF out to the beach, time to get pictures downloaded or blogged, time to start prepping for a meal you're in charge of (a huge job when you're cooking for nearly 40!) and then there's another mess to clean up.
And then there's the constant tug-o-war that goes on. The pull of the ambitious stack of books I've brought to read and the tug of all the interesting adult conversations constantly springing up. And the yank on the other end of all my children's needs. I always expect that child care part to be easier because the kids are so well entertained with cousins and there are always so many adults so willing to help out, but when it comes down to it, I'm the only one who can feed Peter, sooth Emmeline, help Hazel navigate relationship woes, calm Charlie. I'm still the mom and the only parent my kids have around.
Then, there's the powerful desire to soak up my kids and live up to all the expectations I have of how much I'm going to read with them and help them with all their summer goals. But they're also tugged in every direction by cousins and aunts and uncles all doing such appealing things. We're all having a hard time focusing. I've been on Hazel for not focusing on what I've asked her to do and she keeps telling me, "Mom, you KNOW how days go up here!" Yes, I do know how days go up here. They're tricky. They're unfocused which, after a while can start to feel pretty frustrating.
But, they're also wonderful. Wonder full. Full of moments waiting to be grasped and enjoyed.
I guess it's just hard to learn how to just be. There is an art to changing pace, to spending days differently. I'm worried that if I don't master this art all this unique time will be wasted in frustration. It's ok if things are unfocused. It's ok if I'm not productive. I need to redefine success here, adjust expectations. I need to learn to just be. Be present. Maybe if I learn it here it will spill into my everyday life at home.
So, for now I'm going to carve out an hour in the morning just to be with my kids. To read and work with them, to reconnect and help us all feel a little more centered, gathered. And at night as I put them down I'm going to resist the urge to plow through it all and get back to all that good adult conversation and games and cookies and instead enjoy the little people that they are.
And beyond that I'm going to try to cultivate the ability to just be. To be present, to enjoy things as they come. I'm going to throw out the rest of my expectations. Stop trying to make this experience fit into what I dream it will be all winter long. I'm going to just do my darndest to learn the lessons presented here to me, as they come.
(and I'm going to hope that next year I'll read through this post before heading off to Bear Lake so that I can get comfortable just being a little sooner)


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Benjamin Percy
(2012 - Prose)
Excerpt from The Locksmith
In eighth grade he dressed up as an ape for Halloween. He had a fullbody suit with shaggy black hair and a mouthful of teeth. No one knew who he was at school. He would walk up to girls and stare at them and say nothing and they would press their backs to their lockers and hide behind their friends to give him wide berth. Some people laughed but with a nervousness that made their laughter come across as forced and wheezy. It was the first time he felt powerful.
He kept the ape suit in his closet and sometimes he would put it on and stare at himself in the mirror and thump his chest -- once, twice -- while breathing heavily into his mask. He did not know why but it gave him an erection. Normally his father would not return from work until dinner time, so he felt safe to walk around the house in the ape suit and watch television and do his homework at the kitchen table, but one day his father came home early and because Brian had the television volume up he did not hear the growl of the engine or the crunch of gravel or even the rattle of keys. When his father pushed open the door to the garage with a pizza balanced in one hand, Brian sprang up from the couch. This startled a yell from his father and he dropped the pizza box on the floor where it opened as a cardboard mouth blurping cheese and pepperoni. Moths -- Pandora moths the size of hands -- fluttered in from outside while his father leaned against the open door and observed Brian with hooded eyes that revealed his curiosity and disappointment. "What's wrong with you?" he finally said. The ape suit went in the garbage that night, but Brian hasn't stopped thinking about it -- the way an amputee will never stop thinking about a lost limb -- remembering the sense of power that came with it.
Over the past few months he has trapped weasel and pine martens and coyote and beaver and even a wolverine. For all except the beaver, which required an open-cut dissection, he sliced around the hind legs below the hock and sliced up the back of the hind legs to the anus and from there stripped the pelt off the hind legs. He removed the tailbone by slicing from the anus along the bottom side of the tail to its tip and then worked it free from the bone. He pulled the skin delicately off their pink bodies, as if pulling a damp nightgown from a woman, pausing at the head, where he had to cut through their ear cartilage and around the eyes and through their lips to slip off the pelt completely.
Then came the fat, the flesh, the gristle -- scraping it off -- and then washing the pelt with soap and water and patting it off with a towel. He keeps several wooden stretchers in the garage and he centered the pelts on them and pulled them taut and waited a day for them to dry and then turned them and waited another day and then wetted their underside with vegetable oil to keep them pliant and brushed their fur with a dog comb so that they appeared fluffy, shiny.
From the Goodwill he bought a mannequin to use as a frame. He had learned how to sew in the service, but never with leather. The Internet told him everything he did not already know, such as how to keep the holes clean by lightly dampening the stitch groove and polishing the diamond awl blade with a block of beeswax before every punch. With a waxed fivecord linen thread that runs from a thousand-yard spool, he used a saddlestitch method, pulling snug so as not to break the thread or rip a stitch. He made the leggings first -- from four gray-furred coyotes -- and then puzzled the rest of the pelts together to match his upper body, binding the variant furs and their colors to make a patchwork coat that hung from him loosely and would not tear if he ran and contorted himself oddly when climbing a tree or leaping across a canal.
And now he is nearly done, tying off the final stitch for the helmet or mask -- he isn't sure what to call it -- made from the beaver he trapped the other day. He is in the living room -- seated on the same lumpy couch and watching the same wood-framed Mitsubishi television as he was when his father surprised him so many years ago. Wheel of Fortune is playing. Pat Sajak is making small talk with a contestant, a man from Kentucky who has a wonderful wife and dreams of one day taking a cruise to Alaska. His hands are deformed. They look like fleshy lobster claws. Another contestant spins the wheel for him. The sun has set. The curtains are closed. The mannequin stands nearby, draped in the hair suit. Its blue eyes stare into a void and its pink mouth puckers into a dead smile. On television the wheel is spinning, and in the living room Brian is biting off a loose thread and knotting its end. The category is Action and the puzzle is three words. Brian sharpens a pair of scissors over a whetstone, then holds his fist inside of the furred mask to brace it as he scissors two eye holes and carves open a slit for breathing. The wheel is rattling its kaleidoscope of pie-wedge colors, glittery numbers. It nearly comes to a stop on bankruptcy but clicks forward another notch to the silvery promise of a thousand dollars. "Touching you naked," Brian says to the television. And then, more loudly, "It's touching you naked, you idiots."
The man closes his eyes and lifts his deformed hands as if in benediction. A moment passes before Brian realizes the man is crossing his fingers. "Thumbing your nose," the man guesses. Lights flash. Bells ring. The audience claps and Pat Sajak smiles and the man does a little dance and throws back his head and opens his mouth to reveal a black cave of laughter that seems to swallow up the screen when Brian punches the remote and everything goes dark.
Brian stands from the couch and approaches the mannequin. He stares into its blank blue eyes a moment before fitting the mask over its head. He surveys his work as a tailor, tidying a sleeve, brushing his hands across the fur, petting it. A musky smell rises off the suit, somewhere between a groin and a wet dog -- a smell that surrounds him, minutes later, when he strips naked and steps into the pants and tightens their belt and then pulls on the jacket and finally the mask. The noise and the heat of his breathing surround him and he experiences that old familiar feeling of power and excitement. An erection throbs to life. It is his first in months.
He walks from the living room down a narrow hallway and into his bedroom. There is a full-length mirror mounted on the closet door and he studies his reflection in it. The only source of light is a 40-watt bulb glowing above him. It has about the same effect as a flashlight to the face in throwing long shadows that squirm all over his body when he moves. He likes the way the mask fits snugly to his face, like armor. He pulls on a pair of white tube socks and then his combat boots, shined to a black gleam. "I'm going out," he yells to the house and pauses a moment in the doorway as if awaiting a reply.
All his life he has lived in this house -- this three-bedroom ranch with the lava-rock chimney and the red cinder driveway -- located in Deschutes River Woods, a thickly forested development on the outskirts of town. There are no streetlamps here. Only the stars spiraling above him, the moon staring through the trees like a scarred eye from another world. For a moment Brian stands in his driveway, letting his eyes adjust, before loping off into the nearby forest.
(Published by Graywolf Press, 2010)
Benjamin Percy is the author of two novels, Red Moon (forthcoming from Grand Central/Hachette in 2013) and The Wilding (Graywolf Press, 2010), as well as two books of short stories, Refresh, Refresh (Graywolf Press, 2007) and The Language of Elk (Carnegie Mellon, 2006). His fiction and nonfiction have been published by Esquire, GQ, TIME, Men's Journal, Outside, the Wall Street Journal, and the Paris Review. His honors include the Whiting Writers' Award, the Plimpton Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories and Best American Comics.
Photo by Jennifer May
Author's Statement
Every time my birthday approaches, my wife asks what I want -- and I always say, "Time." There is never enough time, not when you have kids to raise, a house to renovate, classes to teach, deadlines to chase. The NEA has given me the gift of time. Time at the keyboard. Time in the library. Time to interview sources and time to travel for a book project I could not have undertaken without this assistance. I'm humbled and grateful and excited to share the work the NEA has made possible.


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FRANKFURT (Reuters Life!) - When you next step into a hotel in the Americas or Europe, look out for a more Oriental flavor to the breakfast buffet, as the world's largest hotel chains step up efforts to attract Chinese customers to their hotels.
Starwood Hotels and Hilton Hotels both said they will start to provide guests traveling from China with tea kettles, Chinese tea and slippers in their rooms, along with a selection of familiar foods at the breakfast buffet, such as congee and dim sum.
"I know how daunting it is to step into a country for the first time," Starwood Chief Executive Frits van Paasschen told Reuters on Monday.
"We want to make sure that when Chinese travelers go outside of China for the first time, whether for business of pleasure, that they are as comfortable as possible."
Starwood, which even moved its headquarters to Shanghai for a month in order to build better relationships there, is now offering the services at 19 hotels in cities such as New York, Paris, London, Bangkok and Sydney.
"There's a whole variety of things you can do, that aren't necessarily expensive but which change a customer's experience a great deal," van Paasschen added.
Hotels are currently returning to the sentiment of it being the little things that count, such as a friendly smile, rather than trying to lure guests with fancy freebies.
Hilton Worldwide has named its program for Chinese travelers 'Huanying', which means 'welcome' in Chinese. It will roll out the concept to 30 hotels next month.
"As the world prepares to welcome the growing number of Chinese travelers, we continue to lead and give guests compelling reasons to choose Hilton," Dave Horton, global head, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, said in a statement.
Starwood estimates the number of people traveling from China will reach 100 million by 2015.
"There's 25 million going abroad for the first time each year," said van Paaschen. "That's not far off the population of Canada."
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Online creative collaboration is complex, and leaders frequently become overwhelmed, causing their projects to fail. We introduce Pipeline, a collaboration tool designed to ease the burden on leaders, and describe how Pipeline helped redistribute leadership in a successful 28-person artistic collaboration.
Leadership is important in many types of online creative collaboration, from writing encyclopedias to developing software to proving mathematical theorems. In previous work, we studied leaders of online animation projects, called collabs, organized on websites like Newgrounds. These leaders take on a huge variety of responsibilities, and many become desperately overwhelmed. They also struggle with poor technological support, relying on discussion forums designed for conversation, not complex multimedia collaboration. To manage these challenges, leaders attempt less ambitious projects and embrace top-down leadership styles. Still, less than 20% of collabs result in a finished product, like a movie, video game, or artwork.
Our goal was to encourage complex, creative, and successful collabs by designing a technology to ease the burden on leaders. Two theories guided our approach:
- Distributed cognition holds that cognitive processes can be distributed across people, objects, and time.
- Distributed leadership suggests that leadership roles can be decoupled from leadership behaviors, which could be performed by any member of a group.
We integrated these theories and used them to design a system which helps leaders distribute their efforts across both people and technology.
The result is Pipeline, a free, open-source collaboration tool. Pipeline enables redistributed leadership through the notion of "trust." Projects have two types of members:
- Trusted members, who can create and lead tasks (among other privileges)
- Regular members, whose privileges are limited to working on existing tasks
At one extreme, creators can replicate the old "benevolent dictator" model popular on Newgrounds by trusting only themselves. At the other extreme, creators can trust every member of their projects, creating an open, wiki-like environment. Most Pipeline users will opt for something in between, making real-time adjustments as needed.
We launched Pipeline in 2011 and have seen users organize a variety of creative projects, includi movies, video games, and even a global scavenger hunt. Our paper focuses on one case study, an artistic collaboration called Holiday Flood. Over six weeks, 28 artists from at least 12 countries used Pipeline to create a digital Advent calendar with 24 original Christmas-themed artworks, along with an interactive Flash gallery. Every aspect of the project was completed on schedule, and the Newgrounds community responded with high ratings and a staff award.
Our research suggests that Pipeline contributed to Holiday Flood's success in several key ways. It emboldened the project creators to attempt something more complex and ambitious than anything they had tried previously. Pipeline also helped members perform leadership behaviors previously reserved for leaders, like planning, problem solving, and providing feedback.
For more, see our full paper, Redistributing Leadership in Online Creative Collaboration.
Kurt Luther, Carnegie Mellon University
Casey Fiesler, Georgia Institute of Technology
Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology


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A Funny Thing Happened...
Hello, I'm Steve Shuffle and I just made partner at the prestigious law firm of Scoot, Scoot, Scoot and Associates. Did I mention it is a family owned law firm? I think the original Scoot was a friend of Abraham Lincoln. Well, maybe not that old but the firm had been around a long time. It was a real accomplishment to make partner in this family driven law firm. There were many associates that had been running around in their briefs long before I came on board. I think even more of an obstacle was the idea that there might be some confusion with Scoot, Scoot, Scoot, Shuffle and Associates. Was it a law firm or country dance lesson studio?
It was very gracious of Milton Slide, one of those associate's passed over with at least fifteen more years at the firm, to have invited me to the formal party for his son's graduation. I wasn't sure if it was college or law school graduation but as a new partner I needed a tux in my closet anyway. It didn't take long to lighten my bank account by six hundred bucks for, basically, a black suit with a frilly shirt that I thought would be more at home in mom's closet. The really important decisions I had to make clouded my thoughts. BMW or Mercedes?
I felt pretty spiffy in my new duds 'I'd say debonair', but was still dealing with the ruffles on my new shirt, when I approached the front door of Milton's home. This clown met me at the door and asked me if I was the magician? I'm not talking about some bozo dude holding four cards and talking full house. This guy had a flaming red ball of hair, painted face with the big red nose, a real clown. I told him no and scooted around him to enter the house.
A woman welcomes me to her home, late twenties I guessed, so I tell her I am a guest of her fathers. Well it turns out she is Mrs. Milton number three and as I looked beyond her into the living room I realized the eye level of the other guests would hit my new cumber bun. It seemed little Johnny, her son from a previous matrimonial disaster, had successfully completed six years of elementary school. Milton, of course in his glory, walked over in his shorts and Who Concert T-shirt with a broad grin and a 'so glad you could make it'.
I'm a smart guy and understood that this graciously passed over associate was clarifying that the joke was on me. Options ran rapidly through my mind with 'score one for Milton' leading them. Actually what was going through my mind was score two for Milton because Mrs. Milton number three was a ten, but beyond the numbers, I was pissed. If I showed it though, he would win. So this smart guy, needing time to regroup, reached out and shook Milton's hand with a thank you for inviting me. Then with the best tooth paste commercial smile I could muster I turned to Mrs. Milton number three and gave her a friendly hug. It must have been my unstable footing causing my hands to accidently slide down below her waste and I still believe it was a moan not a gasp she uttered. The accidental grabbing her ass did force me to reevaluate my earlier thought, she was clearly a twelve and a half.
I reluctantly moved past her in the door way to congratulate the guest of honor for his choice to move forward in his reach for an education over a life on the streets. He was easy to spot in the crowd of waist high party goers as he wore a crown on his head. I knelt down and congratulated Johnny for his distinguished achievement and we spoke about what lay ahead for him. A short conversation and after giving the matter several minutes of serious thought he informed me it was the seventh grade. I made a mental note to get this kid to a poker table one day.
I noticed Milton had finally stopped laughing at me the penguin towering over his guests and I wandered into the kitchen. Finding a large glass and bottle of vodka it occurred to me I needed a drink. It should have also occurred to me after accidently grabbing Mrs. Milton number three's twelve and a half and not to mention still dealing with the fu-fu new shirt that just maybe I wasn't in the most stable of conditions. When I accidently tripped at the fruit punch bowl and spilled my entire drink, grateful that I didn't spill a drop on the table cloth, I was convinced it was time to go home.


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- Case report
- Open Access
- Open Peer Review
Subannular left ventricular pseudoaneurysm following mitral valve replacement
- Narayanan Namboodiri1Email author,
- Santosh K. Dora1,
- Bejoy Thomas2 and
- Manoranjan Misra3
© Namboodiri et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2008
- Received: 17 May 2007
- Accepted: 19 May 2008
- Published: 19 May 2008
Delayed development of left ventricular pseudoaneurysm is a rare late complication of mitral valve prosthesis and requires early surgical intervention. Here we describe the occurrence of such a complication diagnosed 6-months after the valve surgery in a 60-year-old lady. The anatomic delineation of subannular left ventricular pseudoaneurysm using multiple imaging modalities including CT angiography is also being discussed.
- Left Ventricle
- Computerize Tomographic Angiography
- Pulmonary Vein
- Left Anterior Descend
- Mitral Valve Replacement
Delayed development of left ventricular pseudoaneurysm is a rare late complication of mitral valve prosthesis and requires early surgical intervention. Here we describe the occurrence of such a complication diagnosed 6-months after the valve surgery in an elderly lady. We discuss the anatomic delineation of subannular left ventricular pseudoaneurysm using multiple imaging modalities including CT angiography.
Case history
Left ventricular pseudoaneurysms are known to occur rarely as a delayed complication after MVR [1–3]. The cause of this complication is not clear, but its potential is present whenever there is early separation of the mitral annulus from the fibrous skeleton of the heart. Reoperation, endocarditis and oversizing have been reported to predispose to its formation. Many of the cases reported were asymptomatic as in our patient, but acute rupture is known to occur.
Proper anatomic delineation is essential in order to plan appropriate therapy. Unlike in the postmyocardial infarction cases, these aneurysms following MVR tend to be subannular in location [4]. The close proximity to the vascular structures and artifacts associated with the prosthesis make imaging of these aneurysms more difficult. Cardiac catheterization and echocardiography (transesophageal and transthoracic) have been used in the past with success [5–8]. However, complementing the existing imaging techniques with a new modality, CTA resulted in excellent delineation of anatomic details in this patient. TEE clearly demonstrated the communication to LV and the size of pseudoaneurysm. The echocardiographic features like the thickness of the cavity wall and narrow neck suggested it as pseudoaneurysm. TEE provided a full depiction of the LV and the adjoining pseudoaneurysm, enhancing the preoperative evaluation of the extent of the defect. However the relation to coronaries and bronchus was not clear on TEE. CTA well delineated the close proximity to LLPV and left lower bronchus. CTA thus provided detailed information about the extension of pseudoaneurysm. The detection of the continuity between the annulus and the rent as became evident on CTA precluded a percutaneous approach in the closure of pseudoaneurysm. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging was not attempted due to the expected susceptibility artifacts due to the artificial valve.
Cardiac catheterization and coronary angiography could show the compression on LCx which was not clear either on TEE or CTA. However, no additional knowledge about other anatomic relations was obtained with this modality. Left ventricular angiogram confirmed the severity of paravalvular leak as mild only. Coronary angiography helped in ruling out the rare ischemic cause for pseudoaneurysm. TEE offered more reliable information about the site and size of pseudoaneurysm when compared to ventriculography. Comparing all modalities, CTA has a definite complementary role to TEE and left ventriculography in delineating the anatomical relations of LV pseudoaneurysm following MVR as a preoperative imaging modality.
Early surgical repair is recommended in these cases, particularly in large expanding pseudoaneurysms. To avoid the risk of repeat median sternotomy and adhesiolysis, left thoracotomy has been used in selected cases [1]. The surgical repair should be done on cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) as attempts to suture the tear against pressure loaded, beating heart are likely to be unsuccessful. In case of suspected or detected thrombus in the aneurysmal cavity, dissection of the heart should initially be limited to the anterior surface, to enable placement of cannulas and institution of CPB. LV should be dissected free from the pericardium only after the aorta has been cross-clamped. The recommended surgical methods include internal, external or combined approaches [9, 10]. Internal approach, the most preferred one in cases of rent involving the mitral annulus, posterior wall or large area of LV involves reopening the left atrium and the correction of the rent from within. Buttressed sutures are inserted from outside through the valve-sewing ring in lateral fashion avoiding LCx. In chronic cases, the neck of the pseudoaneurysm can be closed directly because of its firm fibrotic edges. Removal of the prosthesis has been suggested for better exposure in difficult cases. External repair by direct buttressed sutures is generally advocated for small defects limited to myocardium. In cases of widespread rents, combined approach removing the prosthetic valve and patching both the inside and outside of the ventricle might be recommended.
We acknowledge our sincere thanks to Mr. H R Subramaniam, the cath lab assistant in the preparation of images. No funding involved in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; and in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this case report and accompanying images. A copy of the written consent is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief of this journal.
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