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I just realized I am a bit behind in updating. After the last blog, I did speak to Dr. Whiteway, who confirmed that our DC/PA trip was a go. I am so relieved and happy and grateful to God and to all who have prayed for us and for Danny.
But I really had to scramble to get ready for the trip. We saved a ton of money by flying to DC from Dallas. Adding in the extra leg to the small airport really adds to the cost. So we packed up on Friday and drove in the intermittently pouring rain to Dallas. Major slowdowns, too, from an accident and a lane closure...and Austin, which is always a driving nightmare.
Friday night we spent at Henry's apartment, and Saturday we flew to DC, rented a car, and drove to my brother's house. He and his wife have an absolutely beautiful home. Yesterday we spent much of the day at the Smithsonian, at the National Museum of American History. Henry and Danny both love history, and in particular military history. There is a large exhibit on all the wars. We all think it would be better if they would have a separate exhibit for each war, rather than one huge one. But, alas, they didn't ask our opinion. We briefly went through the Star Spangled Banner exhibit. I didn't realize how huge that flag was until I saw it. And I made a point of going to the exhibit of the dresses of the First Ladies. I was disappointed in it. Because of renovation, there isn't a lot of room, and they only display a fraction of the gowns and other items they have in the collection. And I would have preferred if the dresses had been in chronological order. Even so, it was well worth seeing, and I enjoyed it.
After all that, Danny was tired, but of course we had to visit the gift shop and buy him a Christmas present.
Then last night, my brother Jim, Henry, Danny, and I went to my sister's house for a lovely, lovely dinner. Jim is nothing if not lavish, and he had ordered a ten pound ham! For a total of eight people, one of whom didn't come. (Jim's wife Donna had to change her plans because of her mother's illness.) Of the seven left, three don't eat ham. That left four of us to make a dent in ten pounds of meat. Guess we're having ham for Thanksgiving too. Luckily those of us who like ham, really, really like it. I did eat far too much, but there are occasions when I am willing to do that, and this was one.
It was a wonderful dinner. Not only was the food fantastic (and lavish), but it was just so good to be with my family again. I don't get to see them nearly enough. Maybe in a way that's good, because we would probably fight and argue a lot more if we lived nearer.
Today we are heading to New Jersey to spend the day with some good friends, and then tomorrow we are going to my mom's in PA.
After a day of absolutely crushing scanxiety (cancer parent word), stomach in knots, crying at the least provocation, etc., I was soooooooooooooo relieved to hear (preliminary read by Danny's dad) that his MRI looks stable after the surgery. There is no runaway growth, and it looks pretty much the same (0ther than the removal of the large tumor) as it did before the surgery.
What this means (I trust and believe) is that we will be able to go home (my home growing up, in PA) for Thanksgiving, and not start Danny's treatment until December 1st. We had bought the plane tickets for this trip way back in September, long before we knew about Danny's relapse. Once he had relapsed, we kept the reservation, hoping that it would work out that we could still go.
Dr. Whiteway had said we should go, but that was before we were sure what treatment we would be doing, or on what schedule. Since we only decided on that for sure this past Monday, I still didn't know if we could make the trip. If we do, then he, as I say, can't start treatment until December 1st, a full five weeks from his surgery, so it is longer than we wanted. Dr. W told me that she was OK with waiting until the 1st, and that it would be my decision. I said that I wanted to know the MRI result. If there was a lot of cancer growth, we would start treatment on Friday (tomorrow). If it was stable, then we would go.
Dave does sometimes miss things on scans, so I have to be very careful in making assumptions. I am still going to talk with Dr. W tomorrow morning and make doubly sure that she is OK with our going. But I think we can, and I am very happy!
Meanwhile, my brother is also supposed to come to my mom's, but his mother-in-law is having a health crisis and probably has lung cancer. The last I heard she was in the ICU. If she goes downhill, then he won't be able to come to Mom's. One crisis after another in our family, it seems.
Again I am having a hard time making myself post updates. I am not sure why. Perhaps it is that it seems worse to write stuff down. In any event, I am forcing myself, and maybe it will be therapeutic.
Sunday Danny and I headed to Houston, to M.D. Anderson, to consult with a pediatric neurooncologist there. Dr. Khatua. Back in April-May of 2013, when Danny was getting proton radiation at MDA, he also got weekly chemo, and Dr. Khatua was the oncologist who cared for him while he got that chemo. So we knew him, at least a little, but the main reason we wanted to consult him is that he is a top specialist in the type of cancer Danny has.
The appointment was yesterday (Monday) morning. I was a nervous wreck going in. Danny's dad met us there. He had driven down that morning. Dave and I first talked with the fellow, Dr. Kannan, whom we also knew from last year. I am not sure whether he remembered us, but he at least acted like he did. We told him the situation and explained that we wanted a treatment plan. The way Dave phrased it was that we needed a quarterback.
Then Dr. Khatua came in. Ironically, he didn't seem to remember Danny, but when he saw me, he said that yes, he definitely remembered me. I'm not sure if that says something about me or not. Danny and I both remembered him because, one day when we were there, he was rushing down the hall, and he slipped and fell down hard, leaving long black skid marks on the hall floor. Danny thought it was quite funny, though he fortunately didn't laugh.
Dr. Khatua was very kind, and very compassionate. He did an exam of Danny, and his comment was that Danny's Lansky score was very high. (This basically means that, if you saw Danny, you would never in your life dream that there was anything wrong with him, let alone that he was dying of cancer.) When he said that, Dave burst into tears...and so did I. But he was so kind. He told us about his son who had gotten cancer when he was only three, and said that we are all in this together.
We talked about treatment options, clinical trials that are out there, some that haven't yet started taking patients, and some that have closed. Although there aren't a whole lot of options for relapsed medulloblastoma, there are enough possibilities that it was hard for me, and I think Dave too, to sort through and figure out what would be the best option.
What he finally suggested was that we not actually do the clinical trial, but give Danny the same drugs off trial. I *think* this is the trial that we had talked about in Fort Worth. The big benefit of doing the same drugs off trial is that Danny can be treated sooner, and treated in his regular clinic. We did talk about doing it at MDA, but ended up deciding to get the drugs at home, and go to MDA periodically to see the doctors there and assess progress. I am happy with that. At this point, my biggest concern is that we get treatment started sooner rather than later. The cancer in his brain is very aggressive and very fast growing. And since he is so healthy overall, there really isn't a reason to delay.
I am hoping we can start treatment either Thursday or possibly Friday. This is cutting things close, since we are planning to drive to Dallas on Friday to meet Henry and spend the night there, and then all three of us will fly out of Dallas to DC on Saturday. We will be renting a car and having a mini-vacation before we drive to PA on Tuesday to spend Thanksgiving with my mother and brother. I will also pick up Cecily at college on Tuesday evening, so we will all be together.
So that's where we stand now. I hope this all works out - there may be problems, since neither of the doctors we saw contacted Danny's oncologist here (they were supposed to have e-mailed her yesterday, but it didn't happen). When I called her today, she knew nothing, and I had to tell her the plan myself. I wasn't able to remember all the details, unfortunately, and I felt bad and frustrated, but so many
things were said, and so much information was given, and I just couldn't process all of it, let alone remember well enough to tell her clearly enough.
I am really having to fight myself to post updates about Danny anymore. I am just so sad and discouraged that I don't feel like writing anything. Not that there is a lot of new bad news, but any is too hard for me.
Let's see...the Novartis trial that is specific for sonic hedgehog tumors is closed. There may be a possibility of getting the drug off trial and giving it to Danny off trial, but the last time I spoke to Dr. Whiteway, she didn't know if the drug would be available.
There is another clinical trial that has had some good results for some children. The closest location for that trial is in Fort Worth, which isn't impossibly far. There is an antibody trial in New York at Memorial Sloan Kettering, which is another possibility, but at least one of the experts we consulted doesn't think that should be the first thing we try. Targeted radiation is another possibility.
The new bad news is that Danny's new tumor is anaplastic (undifferentiated, wildly dividing cells). There was an area of anaplasia in his first tumor, but it wasn't enough to put him in the high-risk category. Now I wonder if it would have made a difference if he had had the high-risk treatment rather than the standard treatment. Dr. W doesn't think so, but she doesn't really know. And she may just be saying it so I don't feel worse about things.
We do have an appointment on Monday at M.D. Anderson to consult the neurooncologist there. Danny saw him weekly a year and a half ago when he was getting proton radiation. I didn't like him much then, but I have changed my opinion after talking to the mother of one of his patients. She told me he cares deeply and is very compassionate. He went into pediatric oncology after his own son was diagnosed with cancer. I desperately need compassion and hope.
After that, Danny will get a follow-up MRI on Thursday to see what has happened in his brain since the surgery (October 27th). Then we will go east to spend Thanksgiving with my family. I am so anxious to start treatment that I worry about leaving town, but Dr. W said it would be OK. Hopefully that won't be too stressful.
In other news, I signed up to do a research study investigating a new omega-3 supplement. It will bring me a little much-needed extra income. I already take an omega-3 supplement, but I will get a different one for the study. As part of the study protocol, I had to be weighed, and I found that I had lost five pounds. I guess that's my tiny little silver lining from all this. I am at the lowest weight I have been in probably at least seven years.
After what certainly seemed like an interminable wait, I got Danny's subtype result. Dr. Whiteway called me Friday afternoon. There are four different subtypes: WNT (no idea what this stands for, but we all want WNT, since the survival rate is over 90%), SHH or Sonic Hedgehog, Group C or 3, and Group D or 4.
The main thing that is known about these subtypes is that they don't know nearly enough. WNT is great, obviously. Danny's tumor is Sonic Hedgehog, and there isn't enough knowledge about it. I would have to say the same about the other two groups. Danny's individual tumor, in any case, regardless of subtype generalizations, is a very bad one. Recurrent and fast growing. Not good.
However, knowing the subtype gives us enough knowledge to decide on a treatment plan. There is an open clinical trial at M.D. Anderson in Houston, among other locations, for kids with recurrent medulloblastoma of the SHH type. Assuming Danny qualifies, which I think he will, then that is what we will be doing.
Here is the actual study info. Most of it doesn't make sense to me, and I think I know more medicalese than most. I have only skimmed it so far. Henry noticed (and I didn't) that it appears to be an oral medication, which Danny will certainly appreciate.
clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT01708174?term=lde+225&rank=28&show_loc s=Y#locn
I hope the link works. I constantly have trouble with this on SP.
The hard, cold reality, though, is that, while there is a good chance Danny's tumor will respond to this targeted drug, there is also a good chance that the tumor cells will develop resistance. I know this. I have lain awake night after night, unable to stop myself from imagining the worst.
So I am adding in at least one alternative therapy at this point. It has the benefit of being completely harmless, so if it doesn't work, at least it won't hurt anything. There are others I will consider, too.
Meanwhile, Danny's dad and I are meeting with Dr. W tomorrow to discuss details. I admit I am anxious to find out a time frame. I have to deal with my very part-time job, which someone else has to do if I can't be there. I very much need to know when we have to go to Houston so I can start looking for a sub.


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When we export an SSRS 2008 report to excel and then copy a range from that file to another excel file, the colours used in the report are changed to something that is totally different, very annoying when we use 'Conditonal Formatting' to colour some of these cells a specific colour. Any ideas why?
It is because MS started using Excel's custom color palette with SQL Server 2008 instead of the built-in colors. Problem is exactly as you are describing that when copy & pasting colors from one sheet to another you lose the formatting. Unfortunately: No way around that.
See this post: Excel Export copy to another excel discoloration issue for SSRS 2008
Suggestion from the SSRS team (in the above link/post) Posted by Microsoft on 5/29/2011 at 3:34 PM The API for COM/.NET is similar. You're calling Worksheet.Copy, which does not provide these options. Take a look at Range.Copy and Range.PasteSpecial.
Anyone having link to any C# code for using Range.Copy or PasteSpecial calls to copy from one workbook/sheet to another workbook?
I suppose the KeepSourceFormat or KeepSOurceScheme would be the trick to copy the sheet from one workbook to another to avoid the dis-color issue in SSRS 2008 R2 Excel report.


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The chair of the Charlotte City Council's economic development committee said the possibility of paying for a new NFL stadium or additional renovations played a role in the current proposal for a 30-year term on higher restaurant taxes. James Mitchell, a Democratic council member, mentioned the inevitable decline of the Carolina Panthers' stadium during an interview Tuesday afternoon with the Charlotte Business Journal.
On Friday, the city endorsed a $300 million proposal to make improvements and enhancements at the 17-year-old stadium. About two-thirds of the money would come from local and state taxpayers, including $144 million from the city if the state legislature approves a 1 percent increase on restaurant meals and drinks.
Mitchell said the city and council members have done a poor job of explaining the rationale behind the length of the higher tax.
"In another 15 years, the stadium will be 32 years old," he said. "Do you want to have to ask for more money? We can build a reserve and we can start building on amateur sports. It's a 2-for-1."
Since details of the tax proposal leaked last month, political experts have wondered how the excess revenue would be used. A 1 percent increase in the tax would generate $20 million annually, according to the city budget department, much more than would be necessary to finance $125 million in stadium improvements. The city proposal disclosed this month calls for the city to repay $125 million of its $144 million contribution through a 15-year debt financing backed by the restaurant tax.
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Reading recovery: Goulburn Valley Library Corporation chief executive Charles Gentner and Cobram Community Library librarian Judy Taylor set up the temporary library at a Moira Shire office in Cobram.
Cobram and district residents will be able to utilise a small makeshift library that was set up at a Moira Shire office in Station St until Cobram Community Library reopens.
The library was closed last month due to flooding.
The building adjoins Cobram Secondary College and is owned by the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.
College principal Vicki Nolen said there had been a ''significant water leak'' in the building, causing damage to the floor and some furniture.
Ms Nolen said repairs would likely commence this week.
A department spokesman estimated the works could be completed by the beginning of the school year.
''The parts of the library damaged by the water will be re-instated by the end of this month,'' the spokesman said.
Goulburn Valley Regional Library Corporation chief executive Charles Gentner contacted the Courier on January 6 to advertise the closure.
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He said the revised indefinite closure would have a ''huge'' impact on the community.
''It's our second biggest library and one of the busiest times of the year,'' Mr Gentner said.
Cobram librarian Judy Taylor said she was pleased to offer residents the temporary service at the shire office.
''We are going to operate a small library collection where people can return books, pick up holds and borrow from a small library,'' Mrs Taylor said.
''We will be sharing (books) with other libraries who have been kind enough to let us borrow some of their books.''
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Style for Hire marked the rollout of its singular destination - StyleforHire.com - and its national personal styling service with 135 stylists in 24 key U.S. markets, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Boston. Co-founder Stacy London is passionate about her mission to help anyone who lacks the know-how, the confidence or even the time, to master the art of their own personal style. "Style for Hire is the physical extension of my style philosophy," said London, who serves as the firm's spokesperson and Stylist-in-Chief. "Our stylists help anyone - regardless of size, lifestyle or budget - find their own style, have fun with fashion, and gain confidence in the process!"
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Gov. Phil Bryant has named Steven Pickett of Raymond to the Mississippi Parole Board. Pickett replaces Danny Guice Jr. of Ocean Springs, who resigned effective Nov. 9. Pickett is currently serving as youth court resource officer in Hinds County. He has also served as deputy chancery clerk and justice court judge in Hinds County. He worked for the Hinds County Sheriff's Department from 1996-2007 and 2008-2012.
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Shepparton knitters help sick penguins stay warm
Mercy Place Shepparton residents have shown their love of nature after knitting vests for penguins rescued from oil spills.SIONNIE KELLY July 28, 2014 3:52am
Mercy Place residents Alma Lenon and Thelma Addams are some of the people who have been knitting vests for penguins affected by oil spills.
Residents at Mercy Place Shepparton are giving a whole new meaning to penguin suits with their knitting skills.
During the past four months, two volunteers and six residents have knitted more than 100 vests as part of the Penguin Foundation's Knits for Nature program.
The residents and volunteers have woven some warmth for penguins at Phillip Island Nature Park's Wildlife Clinic. The penguins were rescued from oil spills and were too cold to be able to survive on their own.
The Penguin Foundation provided residents with instructions to knit either eight-ply or four-ply jumper which, once completed, looks a lot like a small vest.
Mercy Place resident Thelma Addams is one of the residents who has dedicated her time to knitting vests and said it was important to help the penguins.
''It's a service to the birds to keep them alive,'' she said.
''The little penguins that come out of the oil spill are really cold.
''If they have the jacket on it makes it so much easier.''
Fellow Mercy Place resident Alma Lenon has also made several penguin vests and said she was motivated to help them because of her love for animals.
''I always thought they were beautiful little birds,'' she said.
The volunteers and residents have knitted penguin vests in a range of different colours, including red, green, blue and even multi-coloured.
Ms Lenon said it was her niece that encouraged her and other residents to take up knitting for penguins.
''My niece got it out of a magazine and then she got the wool and started us and it was amazing how it cropped up everywhere,'' she said. ''I sent a copy to my friend up in Sydney; she started knitting them and got other people too.''
Mercy Place lifestyle assistant Jenny McCoy said it had been great for the residents to knit vests for penguins.
''It's good for self-esteem, it's a worthy cause and they're a very clever lot and it's very social too,'' Ms McCoy said.
The Penguin Foundation no longer needs knitted vests, so the residents have moved onto knitting possum pouches for baby possums who have lost their mothers and they are also knitting poppies for next year's Anzac Day.
Mercy Place is looking for donations of pure wool so its residents can continue to knit pouches for possums.
''Anyone willing to give us some pure wool, we'll happily take it,'' Ms McCoy said.
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Trouble at Kangaroo Island
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Kathy Marks is Asia-Pacific for The Independent, based in Sydney. She has also worked for Reuters and The Daily Telegraph.
Sunday 26 August 2012
Kangaroo Island, south of Adelaide, is one of Australia's most popular tourism destinations, thanks to its profusion of native wildlife, which includes koalas, kangaroos and the world's smallest penguin species.
But lately there have been dark goings-on in the animal kingdom: the New Zealand fur seals have been devouring the fairy penguins.
Penguin numbers have dropped by half on the island, according to some locals, who want the seals to be sterilised, relocated or even culled. Now they have come up with a new suggestion: shoot them with beanbag rounds – a method more commonly used to control riots – if they approach penguin colonies.
John Ayliffe, who runs nightly penguin-spotting tours, said five penguins had been taken by seals near the town of Kingscote in recent weeks. He warned that the seal population was booming and that, unless drastic measures were taken, the penguins on the rocky island could be wiped out. The lead shot "hits the seals like a punch and it will not penetrate the skin provided it's fired from sensible distances", he said, after which the seals would simply move away.
Conservationists, however, are horrified, and the state environment department says that "interactions between New Zealand fur seals and penguins are a natural phenomenon over which humans have little control". It adds that the seals – a protected species native to Australia as well as New Zealand – are only now recovering from commercial sealing in the past.
Sealing, which was Australia's first major industry after colonisation, nearly eradicated the fur seal. Although it was banned in the 1830s, fishermen were still allowed to kill seals deemed to be "interfering with fishing operations" until 1983.
In recent decades, the Kangaroo Island population has bounced back to about 25,000 – and the number of penguins has declined in tandem, claim tourism operators. One of these, Simone Somerfield, told The Australian last year that visitors to her penguin viewing centre had seen the birds ambushed by seals in the shallows and even chased on to the shore.
"Every now and again you would see one penguin being taken, and I would say, 'Gee, that's amazing, it's like David Attenborough'," she said. "But then it was more and more and more, and then mass kills in which the seals were not even eating them. It was happening within a hundred metres and you have a complete view – it was like watching a horror movie."
Seal populations are believed to have grown partly because of a decline in numbers of sharks and killer whales, their natural predators. Mr Ayliffe, manager of the Kangaroo Island Penguin Centre, said that in South Africa and Namibia seals were "harvested" because there was not enough food for them. "Harvesting is a major tool used internationally to manage numbers. It's only a matter of time before we implement some control measures here."
However, measures such as culling and relocation have been rejected by environmental authorities, who say they have proved expensive and largely ineffective elsewhere. New seals move into areas from which others have been removed, and relocated seals swim long distances to return to familiar feeding grounds. Moreover, penguins form only a small part of the fur seal's diet, according to marine biologists.
Tim Kelly, of the Conservation Council of South Australia, said while he could understand the frustration of tour operators, the growth in seal numbers was a welcome development. He added there were other threats to the penguins, such as attacks by dogs and nest predation, which also had to be taken into account.
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Universities are heading for a financial crisis over the payment of final salary pensions to their staff, a conference heard today.
Dr Geoffrey Copland, the former vice-chancellor of Westminster University who headed the pay negotiating body with university unions for four years, warned that the current pension situation "can't be sustainable".
Asked what would happen if it was not tackled, he replied: "Universities will be unable to afford the payroll and won't be able to operate.
"I don't think it will come to that - we'll find other ways round it but it is a really stark situation we face."
Dr Copland, who addressing a seminar organised by the Learning Skills Foundation sponsored by The Independent, warned: "I think this is one of the big issues the sector has to face."
He said staff were in a variety of private schemes but that the cost of an individual's pension was now "in the upper teens". Many support staff were in private schemes "some of which are going to collapse".
Dr Copland warned that redundancies amongst university staff were also likely to increase,
"We have to seek redundancies one way or the other(to make ends meet)," he added.
"That will not get any easier. In fact, it may get worse." One way forward, he argued was to take on"high calibre specialists" from the world of business and the arts to deliver lectures to students – without incurring the extra costs of taking them on as full-time staff.
"This is opposed as casualisation by the unions but I would encourage it as bringing in terrific expertise to meet the particular needs of particular groups of students," he said.
Meanwhile, Professor Malcolm Gillies, former vice-chancellor of City University, London, warned the current participation rate in the UK in higher education –particularly amongst males – was "unacceptable".
"Only 30 per cent of white males expect to go to British universities this year,." he said. This would leave the country unable to compete with other Western nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
He conceded that government funding for higher education could in future be reduced so that it was used to "remedy market failure" and subsidise students in courses which were necessary for the future of the country but undersubscribed.
"If there is no shortage of students and they're prepared to pay, why would you put any government money into that at all?" he said.
He added that universities should be encouraged to send their lecturers into schools to help foster an interest in higher education amongst those youngsters less likely to have had experience of it in their lives.
In addition, the schools should encourage the youngsters to visit their local universities.
Professor Gillies, who has advised the Government on school/university links in London, said it was one of the most successful methods of promoting participation.
A spokesman for the UCU, which represents university lecturers, said it was in negotiation with the employers over the future of the scheme.
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Yes, the law allows what the neighbor did. No, we don't think it was an appropriate response. If, as the dog owners claim, this was the first such incident, then shooting was a gross overreaction.
But sometimes individuals do irrational things and other people suffer the consequences. Differences are either resolved or they are not. But they are often best left to the parties involved and not to the government jumping in with its own irrational response by trying to fix things with a law.
The rabbit owner said he shot the dog (with what gun-control zealots will no doubt call an "assault" rifle) because his bunnies are prone to heart attacks if startled. And the crack of an AR-15 semi doesn't startle them? Perhaps not. According to the dog owners, the bunny man regularly does target shooting on his property.
The dog owners want the law changed to remove one's right to shoot a dog if it merely is "worrying" someone's animals, as opposed to "wounding or killing" them.
That "worrying" is a pretty broad term, to be sure. But it has its purpose. No doubt farmers and others have had experience with hens that wouldn't lay and cows whose milk production went down because of dogs. And if Bambi were being chased through the snow by a pack of dogs, would anyone object to shooting the dogs, even if they had not caught up with the deer?
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"Urban Sea" by João Coutinho from Portugal
First place in the pattern parade goes to this stunner of a photo, taken from the top of the 50m high monument Padrão dos Descobrimentos in Lisbon. This image just gets better and better the more we stare at it - the sheer scale of it, the way the pattern almost looks 3D, the harmonic coloring of the little figure caught within the waves - it all works together to give a real visual punch. Yet the setup remains a total mystery. Who's the girl? What is she doing there? What's going on outside the frame of the photo? Weirder still, you can't even get a sense of the temperature or the time of day. No shadows, nothing. How on earth did Joao get that shot so pristine? We caught up with him briefly, and although he wouldn't reveal his secrets, he did have this to say about MINI Space: "it means a window to the world, where it is possible to reveal and show the sensitivity and art that lives in every person." We're blushing!
Jury Prize 2: Ray-Ban Clubmaster Sunglasses
"Escalator" by Jeroen Broecheler from the Netherlands
If you still haven't read the title of this submission, see if you can figure out at first glance what that machinery is. Got it? This is a great example of those weird moments when a new angle totally de-familiarizes a place or thing you thought you knew so well. And that's what we love about Jeroen's photo - it makes a plain old escalator look so stark, clean and angular that it's almost beautiful.
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"Mugs" by Elizabeth Wilhelmsen from the U.S.
There's something about Elizabeth's image that makes us feel happy just looking at it. Maybe it's the photo's impeccable symmetry, or the geometrical pattern of the mugs' shadows against the wall, or maybe it's just the thought of a steaming cup of tea. Either way, we feel a sense of satisfaction and calm gazing at this image.
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"In Between" by Lisa Belitska from Germany
There's something so magnetic about this picture, it's easy to see why our MINI Space community voted it into the top spot. We all know that childhood feeling of peeking through a crevice and trying to piece together what you can see, unnoticed - and in this photo, you can't help but share Lisa's thrill as she does just that. Those patchwork squares on the curtain look like they have an interesting past and a few stories to tell, but for now, we'll just have to keep guessing.
Check out the image gallery for the competition's runners-up. If you didn't make it, take heart - the quality and quantity of submissions was absolutely through the roof this time around. In the meantime, get involved with our current design competition, "Optical Illusions in Real Life!" Keep submitting, keep voting, and keep sharing the love with your MINI Space community!
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