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I brought my Worm Factory in for the winter, but first removed almost all the material except for the worm, and started over with new bedding so I wouldn't bring insects into the house. But my new mix has no pumice, and I have been unable to locate any in stores. I could buy a huge amount for like $75 or more online, but don't want to do that. Anyone have any ideas on where to buy a small amount, like a couple of cups' worth? Thanks. |
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- Posted by equinoxequinox (My Page) on Sat, Dec 1, 12 at 22:56
Will wonders never cease. Small amounts of pumice, about a cups worth, I imagine could be obtained by purchasing very inexpensively, two pumice stones from a local drug store. The stones would be in the foot care area and called pumice stones. Pumice stones are commonly used to smooth rough feet. The stones could be rubbed against one another to produce pumice dust, or sand or grit. I would produce a photo of my vermicomposting troop but would ask that viewers cast aside their gaze as my worms no doubt have very rough areas as I have never provided them with the appropriate pumice scrubbing materials. It is my guess that 99.97 percent of worms in the world have ugly, rough patches due to not having pumice. I am glad of the edit button as this might be an example of a post I might think about and edit in a bit. Karen365 please tell me you wrote to the sellers of the Worm Factory and asked if you could purchase the special worm pumice powder distribution disk they sell in a two pack for $17.25. The world wide shortage the last 4 months of pumice may be holding up their distribution system. I have no idea why I am still able to post on this board. It obviously has no over-site what so ever. Karen365: Please tell me you are not looking to purchase, spend money on, pumice or grit for the gizzards of the worms. 50% of vermicomposters provide no grit. 50% of vermicomposters provide garden dirt, driveway sand, crushed eggs shells, crushed seashells. Special, designer pumice is provide only to a very few special vermicompost worms. Glad to meet you. :-) How did you separate your worms from the bedding and clean them for the indoor bin. That is a topic nobody has ever posted about that I can recall. But many people I bet want to bring their crazy, feed it everything, outdoor bin indoors after cleaning out the bad guys and the bad materials into brand new bedding and fresh food. |
To summarize what equinoxequinox said: You don't need to provide your worms with pumice. There is no real benefit to the worms. Some people like to provide some grit for their worms. A small amount of fine sand or ground eggshell will serve that purpose. |
equinoxequinox: Stop teasing newbies, lol. Besides, if you have a dog as a pet, you try to keep him/her clean when inside the house. So, same thing with pet worms. With 1st time pets, one tries hard to avoid any mistake that might kill it. |
equinoxequinox: You keep me in laughter. Thanks. I need it tonight. Bad news on pseudo-husband's cancer. But we'll get by. Sorry to be morbid. I too am glad of the edit button. I imagine I'll need it for this one tomorrow. ;D |
- Posted by equinoxequinox (My Page) on Thu, Dec 6, 12 at 1:34
dowbright: The lure of vermicomposting is it is a tiny world in which we can attempt to control everything. Despite all that may be going on in the real world, our vermicompost bin world is one where before we go to sleep at night, or while in waiting rooms, we can think about what is happening in and how the elements are interacting with each other. It is a nice place to escape to for a little bit. On the pseudo-husband it has been my experience that the most life I have seen, I mean people really working hard to live life, working it, and succeeding is strangely in the rooms with chairs of people receiving medication for cancer treatments. They chat. They chat. They talk. They share. They are kind. They ask after one another. They mean it. They think about one another. They share tiny gifts. They share tiny stories. They share tiny bits of their life with each other. They are so kind to one another. Sometimes there is a selection of knitted hats they give away for free. Sometimes a bowl of yarn and knitting needles and crochet hooks. Instead of the game telephone where everyone adds a bit to the story... people knit a bit onto what the person before them knitted. Some knit. Some purl. Some keep a perfect stitch. Some make a mistake and keep on going. Some drop stitches. Others pick them up. Some knit up all the yarn there. Some bring left over balls of yarn from home. Some buy yarn on sale at the store for the bowl. Some take a hat or two of crazy color. Some go home and knit 15 hats of crazy color and give them to the nurses for their hand out kits. I have never been a place more alive and happy with people determined to live the mystery amount of life they have than in a place treating cancer. The patients actually reach out and help one another. If this is the second time around then you can both be a guide post for others who this is all brand new to. Be first to reach out to the others in the waiting room. Do you maybe have a person to drive you both to the appointments. Ask around. This service makes a huge difference. They may not be on time. The drivers are sometimes from other countries. They all have very interesting life stories to share. Make friends. Gift wrap candy bars. Keep 6 in your pocket book. EVERYBODY loves chocolate. Reach out and talk to waiting room friends about your kitchen scrap eating vermicompost worms that feed your garden and flowers. Sometimes people want to think about anything but why they are there. Sometimes not. A vermicomposter certainly has a story of interest to keep their blood pressure low. Maybe keep a few quarter pounders of vermi on you at all times in a plastic container with air holes to give some away. Everybody should have a little world they can control and think about the interactions of to help them fall asleep each night. |
I'd better learn to knit. I'll start tomorrow. :) You have given me a great gift tonight. I will read it often and sometimes repeatedly. Thank you. Paula |
"The lure of vermicomposting is it is a tiny world in which we can attempt to control everything. Despite all that may be going on in the real world, our vermicompost bin world is one where before we go to sleep at night, or while in waiting rooms, we can think about what is happening in and how the elements are interacting with each other. It is a nice place to escape to for a little bit." This is poetry. |
- Posted by equinoxequinox (My Page) on Thu, Dec 6, 12 at 2:16
Not to worry because somebody there will NEED to teach somebody to knit. Maybe bring needles and a bit of yarn and ask if anybody KNOWS how to knit because you want to knit a special hat. Then they can go home with a story to talk about how they taught this crazy lady how to knit and she gave them real live worms. That crazy lady. To keep this on topic google "knit worm" then click on images. You will see lots of knit worms. A new way to vermicompost. That is all I have to say. |
Getting back to the original topic; Equinox, when you asked Karen how she cleaned up and separated out the worms from the castings, you just didn't read it right. She didn't write 'Worms' but rather 'Worm'. With one worm it's easy to do separation and cleanup. And yes, I use powdered eggshell for grit. Shaul |
- Posted by equinoxequinox (My Page) on Sun, Dec 16, 12 at 4:51
I am not sure if worms need grit. I am not sure if powdered eggs shells equals grit. I am not sure if pulverizing egg shell is safe to breath. i have eggs shells. They seem to belong in my worm bin or compost. I break then up so when using vermnicompost eggshells are not half inch chunks. sbryce perhaps you could summarize what Shaul said. I'm confused. |
Knitting and vermicomposting are two of my main hobbies in the winter. I learned to knit from youtube. Never knew cemo wards did things like this because I have several hat quantities of rather nice wool I have no use of. Anyway pulverizing egg shells to airborn dust will be hazardous and precautions should be taken. For a while I had been collecting the shells and crushed with a rolling pin then dusted them over the garden before the winter mulch went down. Now they unceremoniously go into the worm bin with the rest of it. A few times I have added a dusting of calcium sulfate (ground up drywall or plaster powder) to my bins. From my reading it seems like all gardens are at least somewhat lacking in calcium. |
Let me summarize what I said. The worms, not having teeth but gizzards, need help in grinding whatever food particles they ingest. Thus they need grit. Now, some people add soil or sand. I used to add fine sand and found after doing so, that the level of the bin would drop, dramatically. Nowadays, I use eggshells which I first dry in the oven. (Usually, after something has baked and the oven been turned off, there is still enough residual heat inside to dry the eggshells). I then grind them to a powder in my blender. Kept in a large salt shaker, I dust the bin every week or so. This I believe, helps to balance the Ph in the bin as well as to add to the quality of the future soil amendment/fertilizer. Though I haven't done so in the past, I really should be wearing some sort of dust mask and will be doing so in the future. Shaul |
shaul, that's a good use for that leftover heat! I, on the other hand, am so lazy that I just drop them in a big jar that I leave lidless. There's no scent at all. and they dry on their own after a few days. Is it laziness or just easy living? You decide. ;) |
I have found that putting egg shells in the oven even with left over heat make the egg shell britle and easier to break down/crush/blend. |
""I am not sure if worms need grit."" They do. "" I am not sure if powdered eggs shells equals grit."" It does. "" I am not sure if pulverizing egg shell is safe to breath."" Me neither, but I would be VERY surprised even SHOCKED if a **tiny** amount would cause any problems for a healthy human. Course, I have been very surprised and shocked in the past, so I fully admit I may be wrong, here. Reference, anyone? |
Alohas Karen365, You will find an Excellent Pumice for your worm farm here at: http://www.petmountain.com/show_product/11442-510853/?utm_source=pricegrabber&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=11442-521072 You can probably find it in many pet stores as well as I do... I also use Ground dry Egg shell, and we also crush up plain old dry wall as well, all are good and help the worms in digestion.. Next year when you go to put Your worms down for the winter Try using about 1/4 of the old bed material mixed with your new bedding which you should let age about a month before you transfer them and you wont lose as many as you did this year and you will be keepeing some of your worms eggs if you do so... Aloha Oi with Blessings, Dougurs,, Hawaiian Worm Farms LLC Hawaiianworms (at) Gmail (dot)com ---30--- . |
It's a big job but I've finally started. I have a large outdoor bin that is 2 yrs in the making and practically solid worm and quite wet. I scoop out bunches and place in kinda large flat containers so it can start to dry out. Then I slowly pick through and Han pick every one I see while also brushing slight top layers away. The worms travel to bottom to avoid light and in the end there's a pile of worms. Sometimes I sit with a magnifier light and long nosed tweezers a pick out all the capsules I see. That can be addicting. I have a need to save every worm possible, long live the worm <3 |
- Posted by AustinBill none (My Page) on Thu, Jun 13, 13 at 16:26
There are tons of pumice, loose pumice, available on eBay. Just search 'pumice'. |
- Posted by equinoxequinox (My Page) on Fri, Jun 14, 13 at 0:58
wriggler: Time is your friend here. After making the pile either make several more piles or do something fun for 15 minutes. Then when you begin brushing off the top of the pile it should be devoid of worms. Also setting the worm pile on something where the harvest of vermicompost can be brushed off right into a waiting container helps make the job easier. I sometimes sit on on 5 gallon pail upturned. Place a second pail in front of me. Then a piece of cardboard holds the pile of worm rich vermicompost. Every 15 minutes I brush a layer of vermicompost off the cardboard into the bin. The cardboard half covers the pail so it is easily captured. Possibly an inch each time is removed. Others will probably chime in with inventive and easy methods they have worked out. Most of us age our harvested vermicompost. Why? Possibly because most is used in the spring. It helps finish it. Plus all the eggs hatch and the babies are harvest the same as the adults. This is before they are old enough to have laid eggs. |
I have friends who buy the ready to eat salads in those clear plastic containers, appr. 7x12". I use these containers when harvesting. So, instead of dumping the stuff on a tarp or cardboard, I fill the containers and let them sit and the rest is pretty much the same. I find that this way I don't mess up my deck so much and didn't take up as much space as using a tarp, as I can stack the plastic containers cross-wise.. Of course the tarp depends on how much stuff you have to sort |
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Today, you can expect areas of low clouds and fog in the morning, then sunny skies for the coastal areas. Highs will be in the low to mid 60s at the beaches, 70s near the coast, and upper 80s for the interior valleys. Afternoon winds will be out of the west at about 15 miles per hour.
There's still a slight chance of rain through this evening for some of the southern interior valleys, but pretty quiet for most of the Central Coast.
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Sun, Apr 1, 12 at 11:52
I mistakenly bought Canadian worms because it said "red wigglers" on the container at the bait shop. I now realize which worms I'm supposed to have and have ordered them. In the meantime my bait worms are in a prepared worm bin.
What should I do with them now?? I don't know anyone that could use them for bait and I don't think they survivie temps above 65 degrees. Can I just put them in my flower beds? |
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You should take them back to the bait shop and trade them in for the right worms. "Red wigglers" are not the same as canadian nightcrawlers. Around here red wigglers come 50 to a pack and are small. Good luck. |
- Posted by dragonfly_acre none (My Page) on Sun, Apr 1, 12 at 18:29
Thanks....but naturally I threw the containers away. =( |
I fear the solution to this problem may be found in a fishing trip... :) |
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"We ended up at El Taco de México -- it's got real Mexican Mexican food. You been there yet?"
I shook my head. I've been eating like a pig since I came to town a few months ago, and despite the fact that I drink about fifteen cups of coffee a day and have the metabolism of a hummingbird on crank, I've already put on about ten pounds. Yet it seems that every time someone drops the name of a place where they just had a good meal, I've never heard of it.
714 Santa Fe Drive
Denver, CO 80204
Category: Restaurant > Mexican
Region: Central Denver
Hours: 7:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday
10:30 a.m.-midnight Friday-Sunday
Tacos, soft and hard: $1.30-$1.70
Burritos: $4.50 plain, $5.50 smothered
Menudo: $6
Platas (with rice and beans): $6.95-$8.95
Liquada: $1.25
We were standing by the back door in the alley behind Westword, which is the smoking section and an informal employee lounge. This is where I get some of my best unsolicited restaurant tips and -- same as when I was still in the kitchens -- where I get a lot of my best work done. The expansion-grate staircase next to the dumpsters is like my second office.
"What do you mean, Mexican Mexican?" I asked.
"They got all kinds of weird shit on the menu, like tripe, menudo, tongue and cheeks. They have brains, too. Right on the menu. Brain tacos."
"Sounds yummy," I said, grinning. "I gotta check that out."
For reasons of personal safety, my first visit was a scouting mission. I showed up at El Taco's no-frills outpost on Santa Fe Drive (the original restaurant, on Sheridan Boulevard, closed years ago) about five minutes before closing time and ordered rice and a single asada soft taco to go. My thinking went something like this: If, at the end of a busy night, this place could serve me food that didn't taste like it had been sitting around since breakfast, then it should be safe to come back the next day, early in the day, to try the brains. Freshness is a big issue when you're talking about organ meats, and in any case, the ability to dish up quality grub from the minute the door opens until a minute before it closes is, in my world, the most telling indicator of how a restaurant feels about its customers and its food. A good, fresh meal served at five minutes to ten tells me that the place actually cares about every poor shlub who comes wandering in off the street and, likewise, cares about the food being served from its line. Had I been sent on my way with dried-out asada on a stale tortilla, or rice all crusted up sitting untended for hours, I probably would have bagged El Taco right then and there. And I certainly wouldn't have gone back to try my first brain taco, because I'm not sure if being stricken with bovine encephalitis is covered under the company health plan.
But it all turned out fine. When I arrived, they were scrubbing down for the night -- a half-dozen tired Mexican ladies attacking every flat surface with soap, bleach and galley mops as if at war with invisible armies of germs and bacteria. After being barked at in lisping Spanish by the woman behind the counter, one of them trudged off to the stoves to put my dinner together; a minute later, it was packaged to go. I opened the styro the second I got back to my car. The rice was steaming, warm and fluffy, orange with gentle spice and as fresh as if it had been made special for me as soon as I'd walked through the door. The asada was hot and tender -- not at all old or scorched or tired -- and still juicy from the grill. My only complaint was with the tortillas, fresh off the oiled flat-top but mealy; they were La Favorita brand -- a surprise when everything else was homemade.
Tortillas aside, that snack was a green light for a return visit. I felt confident that I could trust El Taco not to poison me, that whatever I got would be prepared carefully and well. But still...
It wasn't the thought of the brains themselves that scared me. I've eaten brains before and enjoyed them, I suppose, as much as anyone can enjoy anything eaten primarily for the pure, sick thrill of it. Back in New York, I even cooked with brains -- every so often turning out a nice, freak-show Saturday-night special of calves'-brain hash with potatoes, onion, peppers and garlic that people loved right up until they found out what it was. But every time I'd encountered brains before, it had been in a fine-dining environment, where the assumption (however unfounded) is that the chef has been trained in the proper use of such an esoteric ingredient.
Eating brains from a takeout-counter Mexican joint was something else entirely. The fact that El Taco has been serving them for close to twenty years -- that they're listed right alongside tongue, chicken and barbacoa on the big menu hanging above the counter, as though eating brains was the most natural act in the world -- provided no comfort. Nor did the two plaques on the wall announcing El Taco's Zagat awards of excellence (for 1999 and 2001), because for all I knew, those Zagat people were a bunch of sissies who'd sampled nothing but the green-chile chicken enchiladas and a couple of tamales before putting their seal of approval on this establishment.


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Ottawa injury lawyer shares Ottawa bicycle safety tips and Ottawa bylaws for helmets.
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I was out visiting a client in Rockland today and as I was driving around Rockland, I couldn't help but notice how many people were out on their bicycles . That's great for so, so many reasons. We are all excited for spring to arrive and with spring comes more pedestrians, cyclist, motorcycles, ATV etc. I wanted to take a moment and remind everyone of a few things you can do to help keep yourself and your children safe.
The Ottawa Police have a great website that offers the following bicycle accident safety tips:
-Make sure your helmet is on and fits properly.
-Your bicycle helmet should be snug and not move around.
-Your bicycle helmet should sit two finger-widths above your brows.
-The straps of your helmet should form a V below and around both ears.
-You should not be able to get more than 2 fingers between the chin strap and your chin.
-Ottawa and Ontario cyclists must wear a helmet by law if they are under 18 years of age.
-Do not wear a hat under a helmet. This is not safe.
-Helmets only reduce personal injuries, they do not prevent accidents from happening.
-Do not use a helmet that has already been in an accident.
-All bicycle helmets need to be CSA, CPSC, Snell B-95, or a N-94 certification sticker.
-Remember that motorists and cyclists share the roadways.
-Cyclists must also follow the rules of the road. The Ontario Highway Traffic Act, the Ottawa Traffic and Ottawa Parking Bylaw state that cyclists:
-Stop at all stop signs and stop at red lights
- Properly signal any changes in lanes.
-Ottawa cyclists must remain on the right side of the road
-Do not ride your bicycle on sidewalks.
-Have a bell, gong, or horn on your bicycle.
-If you are riding at night, make sure your bicycle is well lit.
Please be safe out there. Ottawa has had far too many tragic bicycle accidents and cyclists injured and we all need to obey the rules of the road. Have a great and happy spring on your bicycle Ottawa !
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If you are a cyclist and become injured as the result of a bicycle accident, you are entitled to accident benefits from the insurance company of the vehicle that hit you or your own insurance company f you have one. If you have any questions that relate to the rights of cyclists and compensation , please do not hesitate to contact any of our Ottawa bicycle accident lawyers. We offer free consultations and can travel to you.
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Regrettably, an Ottawa cyclist was on her bicycle yesterday morning by a vehicle at the intersection of Wurtemburg Street and Rideau. Ottawa Police were able to treat the female cyclist at the Ottawa accident scene but the extent of her injuries was not known at the time of the accident. Ottawa Police are investigating the accident and what may have caused it.
There are far too many cyclist injured in Ottawa every year. Ottawa has very busy streets and our cyclists and pedestrians are a big part of our busy streets. Typically, when a cyclists and cars collide, the cyclist loses and suffers very serious injuries. Regardless of who is at fault, cyclists will typically be entitled to compensation from the driver's insurance company.
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Cyclists involved in a cycling accident with a car or truck typically suffer any number of severe injuries, including orthopaedic injuries, broken bones and head injuries and spinal injuries. Unfortunately, in these accidents , a helmet is not enough protection. Our personal injury lawyers are highly experienced in cycling accidents and can hire expert accident reconstruction experts to reconstruct cycling accidents and prepare engineering reports to show the impact of a cycling accident.
Typically, there is more obligation on a motorists to avoid a cycling accident and there is a reverse onus of proof on the driver. In other words, this means that in a cycling accident a driver must prove that they were NOT at fault. Our bicycle accident lawyers are also experienced in preparing for this.
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Ottawa Bicycle Accident Lawyer, Ontario Cycling Accidents Lawyer David Hollingsworth…I have 3 very young children who are constantly out on their bicycles. Thankfully we have instilled in them to always wear a helmet. As an Ontario personal injury lawyer, I meet regularly with Ottawa bicycle accident victims who have suffered serious personal injuries such as a head injury, brain injury and I often meet with family members who have lost a family member, because he or she was hit while riding a bicycle and died. It's hard to remember but we all need to be reminded that a bicycle is a motor vehicle and that cyclists need to follow the same rules as other motor vehicle. As an Ottawa bicycle accident lawyer, I feel this is especially important to teach our kids at a young age. For now, yes they are always close by on their bicycles, but before we know it,they will be biking to school, to a friend's house,to the pool and we won't be there to remind of the rules of cycling safety. Let's teach them now !!
As adults, we take for granted that our kids know how traffic works and what safety signs mean. Practice, review and years of experience with adult supervision will help reinforce these lessons. Most importantly, lead by example. I'm constantly amazed and what my children do and say and realize that they are copying me and what I do and say. Set a good example by wearing bike helmets themselves and practicing safe cycling skills. Remember all bicycle helmets should be CSA CPSC or Snell certified and fit properly. All cyclists under 18 must wear a helmet.
As a parent, we all struggle with figuring out when our child is ready. When are they ready to bike to school without an adult? Your child wants to ride a bicycle to school and naturally you worry. Maybe they will need to cross a busy street and maybe they won't. What to do? You need to feel at ease with your decision. Keep in mind that most kids under the age of 9 will not have the skills to bicycle safely without supervision.
The following may help you make the decision:
- Can your child cycle well enough to:
- check over their shoulder while cycling in a straight line ?
- quickly and confidently apply brakes to stop ?
- ride with one hand while displaying safety hand signals ?the ability to know the speed of other vehicles ?
- Avoiding a bicycle accident: Can your child?
- know their right from left ?
- the ability to avoid distractions ?
- lock up the bicycle on their own ?
Avoiding an Ottawa bicycle accident: Does your child understand:
- what yield means ?
- what "right of way" means ?
- what road signs mean and where to look for them ?
Avoiding an Ottawa bicycle accident : Cycling with an infant:
As an Ottawa bicycle accident lawyer, I would advise against cycling with infants who do not have sufficient neck strength to hold their heads up while wearing a helmet . It is best to wait until your infant is able to sit up on their own and can wear a properly fitted certified bicycle helmet.
Avoiding an Ottawa bicycle accident : Cycling with a toddler:
As an Ottawa bicycle accident lawyer, in my opinion, toddlers are safest on a bicycle when they are in a bicycle trailer or in a seat mounted to a bicycle frame. Again, please make sure your toddler is wearing an approved and properly fitted bicycle helmet and that your trailer or seat is firmly attached to the bicycle.
Avoiding an Ottawa bicycle accident : Cycling with a bike trailer:
Bicycle trailers offer a more stable and secure environment for your toddler. Not to mention that extra space can be valuable for bringing along toys, snacks, extra clothing or other supplies; which can extend the life of your bike ride and possibly avoid a melt-down. The dangers with bike trailers are that they are less visible and your child is farther away. For safety, it is recommended that you attach a bright coloured safety flag to the trailer for greater visibility, and if possible, ride with another adult behind the trailer.
Avoiding an Ottawa bicycle accident : Cycling with a rear-mounted seat :
Bicycles equipped with rear-mounted seats allow you to keep your child close to you. However, they also shift the centre of gravity, which may make cycling challenging. It is recommended that you first practice riding with a weight comparable to the child's in the seat. It is also important to make sure your seat has a high back, a shoulder and lap harness, and foot guards to protect feet from the spokes.
Avoiding an Ottawa bicycle accident : Cycling with a front-mounted seat:
There are many types of front-mounted bicycle seats. As an Ottawa Bicycle accident lawyer, I feel that bicycle seats mounted to the handlebars should be avoided, as they may affect steering control. Other front-mounted seats that attach to both the seat and handlebar may be more stable and keep your child in front of you. This would allow you to keep an eye on your child, as well as the road.
Avoiding an Ottawa bicycle Accident : Cycling with a bike-trailer:
Young children can ride with an adult using a trailer-bike. The bike trailer attaches to the seat post and allows an adult bicycle to become a tandem bike for kids. It is especially useful for longer trips where young children may get tired pedalling on their own.
All this to say, we need to use common sense and exercise absolute caution when cycling. There are many Ottawa bicycle accidents daily and sadly some involve children and are very serious. Cycling is an amazing activity to do with children, which is why it is so important at a young age to teach them right , as we all want our children to enjoy a long life of cycling. Be safe and happy cycling Ottawa.
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….David Hollingsworth, who runs a personal injury practice for plaintiffs at Goldberg Wiseman Stroud & Hollingsworth LLP in Ottawa, says one of the big issues in his city is a couple of really "nasty" collisions involving cyclists and buses. "We have designated bus lanes and designated cyclist lanes and locations in the city where you have to cut across the bus lane to the cyclist lane. There was a fatality, a young woman, doing just that. That is a hot topic here in Ottawa right now. There have been articles in the paper about what should be done, what they're going to do to make our cyclists safer." Another issue is the widespread flouting of the ban on driving while using a cellphone. But Kwinter says it's a very difficult law to enforce. "You can pass all the laws you want but if you can't enforce it so you can take somebody to court and get a conviction, what good is the law? I haven't seen any cases where people have been charged but I would think that a police officer would have to be following someone. And if you're following someone at night, it would be virtually impossible to see what they're doing. How do you ever look into the car from behind a vehicle? In the daytime, you'd have to be either following the vehicle for a considerable period of time or be stopped beside the vehicle. And if anyone sees that they're being followed by a cop car or that one is beside them, they're not going to talk on their cellphone." Hollingsworth agrees, noting he hasn't seen or heard of any instances of enforcement. He thinks people are on the phone even more now since cars are better equipped. "There's no question it's a problem," he says. "You have to dial the number, especially now with 10-digit numbers, and BlackBerrys have small buttons. You can see drivers tapping away at their phone. I guess any conversation, changing the CD is a distraction. But they've not got it up at their ear; they've got it down in their lap or leaning against the steering wheel." The issue has also become an important matter in litigation. "I have a number of cases right now, one in particular which is a fatality, where the strong suggestion is that the driver who caused the accident was texting," Hollingsworth says. "That's now a common thing. Almost every time you're in an examination for discovery, the question comes up for both parties: whether you were on your cellphone or were texting. The followup question almost always is, 'Can I have your cellphone records?' Obviously, that kind of distraction would lead to the contribution of fault."…. To read the entire article visit the Law Times website.
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Spring has sprung and the bicycles are out! I will admit my heart skips a beat every time my 4-year-old daughter clicks on her helmet and takes her Dora bike out. Riding a bicycle on the road can be dangerous and bicycle accidents can have lifelong implications, including ongoing medical care, pain and suffering, loss of income and the prospect of devastating effects on your family. Bicycle accidents and personal injury can be the result of a negligent driver. Drivers do not always think the person on the bicycle has the same rights, as does a car or motor vehicle.
Ottawa bicycle accidents can be especially injurious to the bicyclist because he or she has nothing to protect them from a high-speed impact with another vehicle and ultimately, the hard-pavement. Many Ontario bicycle accidents end in tragedy, which includes brain injury, head injury, burns and cuts, spinal injury, broken bones, fractures, and death. I recommend to all bicyclists to always wear a helmet to protect the sensitive brain against head and brain injuries, and to wear protective clothing with reflective qualities—essential for night-time cycling. The reflective gear acts to protect the cyclist by warning drivers in advance of his or her presence. The #1 goal of bicycle safety is to avoid getting hit by a car. Always practice safe cycling by using your hand signals, and riding in designated areas.
In Ottawa Ontario, every cyclist has a right and entitlement to compensation when a driver is negligent and causes an accident that results in their personal injury. Ottawa bicycle victims who suffer serious personal injury in Ottawa bicycle accidents and Ontario bicycle accidents need to protect their rights to compensation with the help of an Ottawa personal injury lawyer or Ontario personal injury lawyer that understands the laws regarding bicycle accidents in Ontario, specializes in personal injury and driver negligence and can help you get back to your life as best possible.
If you have been involved in a bicycle accident and suffered a serious personal injury, you are likely entitled to serious compensation. David Hollingsworth and his Ottawa, Ontario personal injury team have been helping Ottawa and Ontario accident victims get maximum compensation for their Ontario personal injury since 1999. David offers free consultations and takes cases on a contingency basis, which means no money upfront and he gets paid after you get paid. Contact David directly at www.ottawainjury.ca or call 613-978-9549.
Ottawa Bicycle accident update.
Ottawa Lawyer, David Hollingsworth, Ottawa Injury Lawyer. I am always so amazed at how Ottawa comes together as a community and supports each other. Thank you Ottawa !
OTTAWA — Among the casualties of this summer's rash of collisions between cars and cyclists was the promising future of a young Sudanese refugee who had begun to rise above his difficult past in a troubled country.
But in his death, the roots he helped his family establish in Ottawa took hold, as the community rallied around his grief-stricken brothers.
"My heart is full of happiness," said John Ochang Luka, whose younger brother, Charles, was struck by a car on Ogilvie Road in July.
"That support I had during that time up to today, I'm very happy. Friends, the Sudanese community in general, and the teachers of Charles and the teachers of my children — all of this made a lot of difference to me."
Charles Taban Luka, 22, was cycling along Ogilvie Road on July 21, when he drifted out of the bike lane and into the path of cars travelling in the same direction.
Just before 11 p.m., he was hit by a Volkswagen Jetta and sustained critical head injuries. Police say he wasn't wearing a helmet and may have been drinking.
He was kept on life support at the trauma centre of The Ottawa Hospital's Civic campus for two days before he died.
He left behind his three brothers, who all arrived in Ottawa together from Sudan nearly four years ago.
"They've come so far, they just start thinking they're getting ahead and they get hit with this," said Nicole Hicks, who taught Charles's niece and nephew at a Beacon Hill North Catholic school.
"They've been through so much already, and to be making it on their own and trying to learn English. And Charles would do so much for that family. It's just an enormous loss for them, they had such a close-knit little family."
John Ochang Luka, 35, was a refugee in Kenya when he received a scholarship to study in Canada. But he refused to leave without his three younger brothers, and later arrived in Ottawa in November 2004 with them and his wife and two children.
Had he arrived in Canada with just his wife and children, he probably would have had an easier time, financially speaking, said family friend Nathalie Maione.
The elder Luka immediately began working to support his extended family and put his brothers through school, Maione said.
Charles was halfway through a four-year program in bio-technology at Algonquin College, Luka said.
He worked for a biotech company and took on a second job at Tim Hortons, eager to repay the favour to his older brother and contribute money to the family's coffers, Maione said. He also sent money back to his parents in Sudan.
Four years after arriving in an unfamiliar land, he was well on his way to building a life in Ottawa.
"He was part of the choir at his church, he was very involved," Maione said. "They used him as an example for the youth, a very upstanding young man."
When Charles died, the people he had come to know felt compelled to help his grieving family.
"The community really came together, because they wouldn't have even been able to afford the funeral," Maione said.
Money was also raised to send Charles's body back to Sudan for burial, which was a great comfort to his mother, Luka said.
Shortly after the tragedy, John's car, which the family relied on heavily, gave out. "Without a vehicle, the family would have to pull the three children out of the school and sever many of the roots they had worked so hard to establish," Hicks said.
She went to work finding the family another vehicle. She spoke with Luc Bélanger, general manager of Marcel Belanger Pontiac Buick GMC, about the family's plight.
"My idea was for them just to defer the payment or something so we could fundraise at school. When I asked them how much the van was, they said: 'Free of charge.'"
Still mourning Charles, the family is now faced with the stress of trying to find a new place to live that will accommodate Luka's wife and children and his two younger brothers, who live in an apartment nearby. But the help they've received since July has meant a lot to them.
"This minivan and other things, this is a lot," Luka said. "This is a lot.


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Sword of Darkness
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Son of No One
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Why hasn't Darkness Within been released?
Writing is a strange animal. Sometimes it's tame and loving, and it brings you daily gifts. Other times, it's vicious and bites you hard while you're trying to pet it. DW is one where it turned vicious. I've written two full drafts of the book...More
Will Blaise ever have a book?
I hope so. I adore his sense of humor and want to write many more books in this series. It won't be as long as DH. Only 12 books, but I'm hoping to get back to it soon.
New York Times bestselling Arthurian Fantasy series.
In a world of magic and betrayal, one king rose to unite a land divided and to bring unto his people a time of unprecedented peace. A time when might no longer made right. When one man with a dream created a world of chivalry and honor.
Guided by his Merlin, this man's destiny was to be the Pendragon– High King of Power. But Arthur was a man who had many enemies and none of them greater than his own sister Morgen. Queen of the Fey, she was ruled by her own jealousies and by her desire to rule as Pendragon in her brother's stead.
It is a story that has been told for centuries. The rise and fall of the great King Arthur, the betrayal that led to the destruction of the Round Table.
But what happened the day after the battle of Camlann? Arthur is mortally wounded and taken to the isle of Avalon. The sacred objects of Camelot that gave him his power have been scattered to protect them from evil. The Round Table is fractured. The good guys have retreated to Avalon to serve their fallen king and the surviving Penmerlin who came forward after Arthur's Merlin mysteriously vanished.
Camelot has now fallen into the hands of Morgen. No longer the place of peace and prosperity, it is now the land of the unholy. Demons, mandrakes and darklings make up the brotherhood of the new round table and another Pendragon has stepped forward to take Arthur's place.
Once human, he is now something else entirely. A demon with one single mission: to reunite the original Round Table and to claim the sacred objects. With those under his control, there will be nothing to stop him from making the world into whatever he chooses.
The only hope mankind has is those who still remain from Arthur's company. No longer the knights of the Round Table, they are now the Lords of Avalon. And they will do whatever is necessary to stop the Pendragon from succeeding.
The line between good and evil has become blurred. It is a realm of chaos and of champions. Of wizards and warriors who struggle to right the balance that was upset when one man put his trust into the wrong person.
Welcome to a realm that exists out of time. Welcome to a world where nothing is ever as it seems. It's a battle that ranges from the Dark Age moors of Arthur well into the future where the one true king and Mordred may one day fight again.
Theirs is a world without boundary. A place without borders. But in this power struggle, there can only be one winner…
These were the sacred objects that the Penmerlin, Emrys entrusted to Arthur Pendragon so that he could rule the land peacefully without contestation. But once Camelot fell to evil and the king vanished, the new Penmerlin entrusted the the sacred objects into the hands of their waremerlins. They were scattered and hidden in the realm of man and of fey so that they would never fall into the hands of evil.
It is now a race to reclaim and reunite the lost objects.
1. Excalibur
The sword created by the fey for good. The one who wields it cannot be killed, nor can he bleed so long as he holds the scabbard that sheaths it.
2. Hamper of Garanhir
Created in order to feed the Pendragon's army while at war. Put in food for one, and out will appear food for one hundred
3. Horn of Bran
Given as a companion for the hamper, this horn is a never-ending cup that will provide wine and water for all who drink from it.
4. Saddle of Morrigan
A gift to the Penmerlin from the goddess Morrigan, this will enable a person to go instantly wherever they desire. It was created so that the Pendragon would be able to oversee his kingdom with ease. No distance or time is too great. It can move a person from one continent to another or from one time period to another.
5. Halter of Epona
Given by the goddess Epona, the halter, if hung on a bedpost at night, will grant the one who possesses it whatever horse he desires in the morning.
6. Loom of Caswallan
A gift from the war-god, any cloth produced from this loom will be stronger than any armor forged by a mortal's hand. No mortal weapon will ever be able to penetrate the cloth.
7. Round Table
Table of power that was created by the Penmerlin. When all people are seated and the objects are in place, it is the ultimate in power. Whoever rules the table, rules the earth.
8. Stone of Taranis
A gift from the god of thunder. Should a knight sharpen his sword with this stone, it will coat the blade with a poison so potent that even a tiny scratch from the blade will bring instant death.
9. Mantle of Arthur
A gift from the Penmerlin, this will enable the wearer to become invisible to everyone around him or her.
10. Orb of Sirona
Created by the goddess of astronomy, this will enable the person who holds it in their hand to see clearly on even the darkest night.
11. Shield of Dagda
Whoever holds the shield of Dagda will be possessed of superhuman strength and so long as the shield is held in place, they cannot be wounded.
12. Caliburn
A sword of the fey, this is the evil sword that balances out Excalibur. It is said that this one sword carries even more power and that it can destroy the other sacred objects.
13. Holy Grail
No one is quite sure where it is. It is the greatest object of all for it can bring the dead back to life.
Stone Legion:
A cursed race, the Stone Legion is under the command of Garafyn. By daylight, they are ugly gargoyles who are forced to sit as stone (they can only move if they are commanded by the one who bears their emblem), but at night, they can move about freely and under the light of a full moon, they can again take the form of handsome warriors and knights–but only so long as the full moon touches them. Should they leave its light, they will immediately return to their gargoyle state. There are those who say there may be a way yet to lift their curse, but so far all those who have tried, have met with failure and death.
The Stone Legion isn't the only race that inhabits the realm of Camelot. There are also the graylings, a twisted group of fey who were cursed to serve their more beautiful counterparts, the Adoni. More beautiful than any creature alive, the Adoni are truly evil to their core. They lack all mercy and all compassion. Graceful and slender, they will stop at nothing to bring the world of man to its knees.
**Please note that the books listed under series are in their correct reading order even though they don't have to be read that way. The ones listed under related are books/anthologies that contain characters from this series, but they exist outside of the series time line.
Why hasn't Darkness Within been released?
Writing is a strange animal. Sometimes it's tame and loving, and it brings you daily gifts. Other times, it's vicious and bites you hard while you're trying to pet it. DW is one where it turned vicious. I've written two full drafts of the book and have tossed both aside due to the fact that they stunk. While I write every day and without a vacation, I'm not the kind of writer who writes to deadline. I don't rush a book. Ever. I want to give every single book I do all the time it needs to be the best book I can write. Having spent most of my life in bitter poverty, I appreciate how hard it is to earn a paycheck and I would never, ever ask a reader to pay for anything less than my absolute best. I won't do it. You deserve only the best I can do. It's my promise to you with every book I publish. For whatever reason, you might not like a particular book I've written, but the one thing I can do is swear to you that I gave it my all and that I thought it was the best book I could deliver. Otherwise it wouldn't be published. I would rather delay publication than put something cut rate out there. I am so sorry that this book has given me such fits. But I haven't abandoned it or the LOA series. I love this series as much as I do the others I write. I'm hoping a little time away from the project will inspire me and that this time when I restructe the plot, it plays nice with me. On the bright side, you know I don't have a ghost writer. If I did, the book would have been out years ago. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the other series I'm writing and will try them if you haven't. They have the same humor and sense of adventure as the LOA books. Please look for updates on Kaziel and the Helhounds. I'll let you know as soon as I have the book finished and we have a date for it.
Will Blaise ever have a book?
I hope so. I adore his sense of humor and want to write many more books in this series. It won't be as long as DH. Only 12 books, but I'm hoping to get back to it soon.


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On Thursday night, barring a trade, the Dolphins' first selection in the 2013 Draft will come with the 12th overall pick. While Miami has twice before been slotted with the 12th overall selection (1992 and 2010), the team only once selected a player at #12. Read More
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The Rodeo-Chediski fire burned a hole in Arizona's heart. A year after the biggest wildland fire in state history battered Mogollon Rim area towns and scattered refugees, the people of the Rim have not only survived, but thrived.
But the land which binds and defines them will not heal for centuries. And the psychological wounds, like the blackened forests, won't mend in this lifetime.
"It's almost like in defiance of this horror, people came back and did prettier things," said Bari Mears, a Phoenix resident who lost her summer home in Bison Ranch near Overgaard. The Show Low city treasurer rattles off numbers of healthy tax revenue and robust housing starts. "We're actually better off than last year," Larry Ploughe said. "What else can you ask for?"
However, walk southwest of Show Low over scorched earth in silent black woods, and no birds sing.
Linden resident Diane Dick hasn't seen a blue jay since the fire. Before Rodeo-Chediski, they'd land on her deck and take peanuts from her lips. "We're worried about all our birds," she said. "They just didn't come back this year."
The Show Low Fire Department takes a dozen calls a day reporting smoke from barbecues or dust devils. "It . . . gets a little old, but we can appreciate their concerns," Fire Chief Ben Owens said.
The Rodeo fire started June 18. Two days later the Chediski fire ignited.
Together they merged to 469,000 acres — bigger than metropolitan Los Angeles. It towered as high as 400 feet, dwarfing Arizona's tallest skyscraper — the Bank One building in downtown Phoenix — and it flared as hot as 2,000 degrees. Billowing smoke from the fire could be seen from the East Valley. The blaze rousted 30,000 people from 10 communities. More than 4,500 firefighters joined the battle from as far away as Alaska and Puerto Rico. The president of the United States flew in to show support.
That was one year ago. This is the Rim now.
Volunteer firefighter Charlie Brown is still pounding nails, rebuilding his house lost to the fire.
His once heavily forested 4-acre lot in Pinedale, just west of Show Low, is home to a pile of scorched automobiles, blackened Ponderosa pines and the 35-foot motorhome he has shared with his wife, Barbara, since the inferno uprooted their lives.
"That's a long time to be camping," he said.
He has marked a few partially seared trees with yellow ribbons. A steady whine of chain saws indicates the fate of the "snags," or standing dead trees.
"When this is all said and done, if we have any Ponderosa left, there will be very few of them," he said.
Brown's wife, Barbara, said she still has emotional days, as though she lost some of her identity to the fire. She's looking forward to a bright future in a new home.
"I can't see how going through the healing process of this fire is much different than what you go through with the death of a family member," she said. "You just have to knuckle down and get through it the best you can."
Including Brown's home, 465 houses and 26 structures such as barns and sheds burned along the Rim. The damage total reached $72.8 million, according to Cammy Darris, chief deputy of the Navajo County Assessor's Office.
Some have sold out and moved on. But Dave Ashton, director of the Navajo County building department, estimates that 90 percent of fire victims are returning to the Rim.
Last year, no new subdivisions were planned in Navajo County. This year five subdivisions are platted, including two on 160-acre sites, he said.
"I think it's a little bit better than I expected," Ashton said. Tombstone may have lost its title as Arizona's Town Too Tough To Die.
Heber-Overgaard lost 291 structures, mostly homes, in the fire — more than any other Rim town. About 40 homeowners were full-time residents, and most were insured, though often it wasn't enough. The towns banded together and raised $200,000 for struggling residents.
Construction crews have descended on the area, creating some feeling of promise. Of the 168 homes that burned in the Pinecrest Lakes mobile home area in Overgaard, about 130 are rebuilt or under construction.
Residents say it's good to hear the background noise of hammering and sawing. But it's strange to see rows and rows of shiny white new homes. Even their land looks foreign — bordered by an endless stretch of dead trees.
Mesa resident Lee Schabacker moved back to Pinecrest two weeks ago, in a new house in the same lot where she shared a home with her husband, Theodore. He died in March at age 91. Friends from the Faith Lutheran Church, where Schabacker preached until he was 89, are often at her home offering help. It feels odd when they leave, she said.
"I have no memories of him in this house," she said. "Down in Mesa I see him at the desk, I see him everywhere. I think he's going to walk in."
There's more regrowth just west of Show Low, in Linden, where a mountain subdivision called Timberland Acres lost 106 homes.
Devastation from the fire depreciated property values by more than $2 million, said Marilyn Price, Linden fire chief.
The fire district was forced to raise property taxes to keep a minimum level of service. The owner of a $100,000 home will pay an extra $450 in property taxes annually.
"The community has been understanding," Price said. "But I don't think most people understand what a fire does to a community after it's gone."
Social service agencies have lent a helping hand, but underinsured residents are still struggling to rebuild their homes. Much of the relief funds have gone to the Show Low area or to Heber-Overgaard, Price said.
"Nobody knows where Linden is," Price said.
Many members of Linden's 25-person volunteer fire department took shelter at the fire station and watched their community burn, unable to battle the flames head-on.
Those memories still burn, and residents in Linden — and across the Rim — often blame environmental extremists for legal challenges that prevented forest-thinning measures used to reduce fire susceptibility.
"If they want their pristine, there it is," Brown said, thumbing toward charred, spindly trees surrounding his property. "Those of us who live here are all environmentalists. We just want our forest to be here."
Anger still boils up, and not just toward environmentalists.
Residents in Heber-Overgaard are still infuriated with Valinda Jo Elliott for starting the Chediski fire, and many blame the government for letting it spread.
Dick Potts was in a Forest Service lookout tower the day the Chediski broke out. It took hours, he said, for the government to send airplanes to attack the fire.
Meanwhile, he listened to different entities argue on the scanner, and he had a feeling the fire would take his house in Overgaard. He was right.
He and his wife, Gail, have already rebuilt a home looking onto the torched Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest. But he scraped by for decades in the Air Force and then in the Scottsdale Police Department to build a house among the trees.
"That was the whole point of living up here," he said.
Steve Lillie, the man who threw a burnt log at a town meeting in July when a U.S. attorney announced that Elliott would not be charged for starting the fire, is serving 40 hours of community service for a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge.
Lillie started work again on the Overgaard Springs Cabins, a development of more than 30 cabins under construction when the fire overran Overgaard last summer.
He said he's not proud of letting his emotions boil up that day, but he, like many in Heber-Overgaard, wonder why Elliot went free and clear. She was charged with driving drunk in a separate incident in December.
"We live with it every day, and she just goes out and gets drunk," Lillie said.
"We're not devastated," Show Low Mayor Gene Kelley said.
Quite the contrary: Sales taxes are up 1.5 percent from last year to $5.6 million, according to city treasurer Ploughe. A Home Depot is opening and 68 more building permits have been issued than last year. "We're holding our own and showing some positive growth," Ploughe said.
Cliff Pettingill, a Realtor and co-owner of the KC Motel, said hotel business has been steady, but real estate has been stagnant.
"We didn't have an influx of calls from people wanting to sell and leave," he said. "But people are not looking, and they are not buying."
The economy, Pettingill suspects, "is more to blame for real estate sales than the fire."
The main hit to the town named for a hand of cards is tourism, Kelley said. Big Lake, Holly Lake — all of the high country attractions are still there, he said.
"Tourists either believe the attraction they are used to coming to is burnt up and gone, or that they themselves are afraid of fire," he said.
On the Fort Apache Indian Reservation south of Show Low, seeds that were supposed to help reforest land commercially logged by the White Mountain Apache Tribe now are being nurtured to help reforest tribal land devastated by last year's fire.
The blaze blackened 270,000 acres of the reservation. It charred sacred Apache sites and accelerated the expected demise of the White Mountain Apaches' timber industry, which provides 60 percent of the tribe's income.
The Apache tribe's two timber mills have been working double shifts to process salvaged wood, said Mary Classay, general manager of the Fort Apache Timber Co. But the salvage logs are likely to run out by October, eliminating the need for the Cibecue mill, a small operation in the heart of the burned area.
With the western side of the reservation heavily damaged, commercial timber cutting can only be done on the east side, and even there, harvestable logs are expected to run out in the next decade.
Ask Rim residents if they're scared of fire, and three reactions tend to pop out:
-- They're sanguine. In Pinedale, Larry Denton lost a car, bass boat, satellite dish, swimming pool and two homes. He's worried about another inferno descending on his 2 1/2-acre knoll but said, "There's not much you can do about it. If it catches on fire, it catches on fire."
-- They're mindful. Last year, Dana Sipes, a three-decade Show Low resident and county court clerk, didn't rake the pine needles around her house. "I sure did this year," she said.
-- They feel something that they can't place or shrug off. Lightning still makes Show Low resident Wendy Tedford nervous. "I think everybody's on pins and needles. Gun-shy, so to speak."
The fire charged a ridge behind Dirk Dick's Linden home, incinerating two adjacent houses and roaring to within 20 feet of his south wall before winds miraculously shifted.
He hasn't walked in the devastated forest since the Rodeo-Chediski. Why not?
"I don't know," the retired Border Patrol agent said.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on Graduation
When is the ceremony? Where is the ceremony?
When: 9:00 a.m. to 11 a.m. Friday, May 9, 2014
Where: Cullen Performance Hall - Building #517 on the Campus Map
Where is the form to make reservations for the ceremony and reception?
To Be Determined
What should I wear under my commecement gown?
The College of Pharmacy ask that graduates wear dress shoes (no tennis shoes); dresses, skirts, and dress pants for ladies; and slacks for men. No jeans, please. Your attire should reflect the auspicious nature of the occasion.
What do I do with my rented graduation items after the ceremony?
Students are to look for the UH Bookstore gown return boxes located outside the hall following graduation. Drop your gown in the box (Doctoral students keep the hood, tam and tassel) or you have one week to return your gown directly to the UH Bookstore.
How long is the ceremony?
Please plan and prepare for 2 hours.
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You will receive an e-mail via student listserv from Assistant Dean Pitman providing a link where you can purchase your pictures.
What do I do with my belongings, such as purse, coat, hangers, etc.?
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Pharm.D. students will be notified once honors status has been determined.
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[871] Lysophosphatidylcholine Acyltransferase 1 (LPCAT1) Is Associated with the Progression of Prostatic Adenocarcinoma Independent of Race and Age.
Thomas J Lawrence, Xinchun Zhou, Zhi He, Charles Pound, Steven A Bigler. The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson
Background: There is not yet a satisfactory biomarker in predicting the progression of prostate cancer. Lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase 1 (LPCAT1) is a recently characterized enzyme that converts lysophosphatidylcholine into phosphatidylcholine. Increased LPCAT1 activity has been reported in adenocarcinomas of the colon and prostate (PCa). The current study is designed to determine if there is correlation of LPCAT1 expression with various clinical features of prostate cancer.
Design: Tissue micro arrays (TMA) were made from 183 selected prostatic tissues from 123 patients accessioned over the past 20 years at The University of Mississippi Medical Center and used for the immunohistochemistry (IHC) study of LPCAT1. A scoring system was created by a combination of percentage of positive cells and intensity of staining recorded as 0, 1, 2 or 3. All specimens were divided into 4 groups: benign, high grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN), primary PCa, and metastatic PCa. Primary PCa was further sub-grouped as low grade, intermediate grade, and high grade according to Gleason scores (2-6, 7, and 8-10, respectively). The IHC combined score was also analyzed in relation to patient age and race.
Results: One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) showed statistically significant difference in staining scores among groups (p < 0.0001). The mean staining score was 3 in metastatic PCa group, which was significantly higher than that in primary PCa, HGPIN, and benign groups (2.15, 1.13, 1.45, respectively; p=0.001981, p<0.0000001, p<0.0000001, respectively). There was a significant increase in staining of primary PCa as compared to PIN (p=0.00243) and to benign (p =0.000381). ANOVA also showed statistically significant difference among grades of primary PCa (p<0.0001); however, this difference was significant only between high and low grade primary cancers (p=0.001206). Also, LPCAT1 IHC scores were higher in primary tumors from patients who subsequently developed metastasis than in patients not known to have developed metastasis over the follow-up period, and this difference was independent of Gleason score. The results suggested that IHC scores for LPCAT1 did not correlate with patient's age and race in this study cohort.
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Chaing the Expert setting seemed to make the difference. I'll have to check it through a few more drawings to see if that really cured it.
Apparently it will allow it. Changing the Expert setting allowed me to update the drawing with the revised block.
Oh good!
To take it a step further, you can record a macro of the steps you are taking to reinsert the block, and then simply play it back in the other drawings to make the process go a little quicker
***cough***unless you use xrefs***cough***
Actually, one of our Canadian government doesn't like xrefs either, but we use them anyway, and when it comes time to submit the drawings to them, we simply bind them
Yeah, the xref's would be nice. But thinking of the other people that access these drawings I'm afraid they would be totally lost when it comes to using xrefs.
I've got one idiot that changes the units on every drawing he touches. He likes to set the units to Architectural (even on block wiring diagrams). He also creates a viewport even though the entire drawing is in model space.
Oh the crosses I have to bear. ;-)
Preaching to the choir, sister [air snap]
We had a international multi-disciplined job (started before I joined the company) and it was such a mess because they WEREN'T using xrefs (or real-world geo-referencing) that no two drawings knew what the other was doing. It was a nightmare. One example is that the length of a wharf was shortened, and because the eelctrical guys weren't using xrefs, they had extra lamp poles they didn't know they needed to remove.
My idiots are so stupid (how stupid are they?) they are SO stupid that they:
- Explode Dimensions and Leaders
- Explode MText
- Explode Blocks
- Explode Hatch Patterns (need I say more?)
This one guy had to add another line of text to an existing general note in one of my drawings, and instead of double-clicking on the piece of MText, or even using the DDEDIT command, he actually created a SEPARATE piece of text and placed below the existing! That's bad enough, but he actually went out of his way to create that separate piece of text using a different text style, different height, different colour, AND on a different layer. It stuck out like a sore thumb when plotted.
Now, I will say, even with the most simplest of drawings, I always insert a title-sheet in paperspace, cut a viewport, and plot because: a) it keeps every format and envirnoment consistent, and b) if using the sheet set manager, you have no choice but to use layout tabs.
I believe that the problem is that you are trying to re-insert a block that is already defined within the drawing. If you try to re-insert the block and look at your command prompt history (or hit F2 if you have the command prompt turned off) you should see a *warning* that will say something to the affect of: "Duplicate Block <name> Definition Ignored" (I don't remember the exact wording off the top of my head ) I don't know if there is a setting to override this and prompt you if you would like to re-define it? The only way I know of to get around this is to physically delete the block from your drawing, do a purge to remove the block definition, and then re-insert the block.
I have no doubt a lot of us could write some good CAD horror stories about some of the buffoons that use this software. It probably would be a best seller amongst us only though.
I'm a little late to the party here, but if you use DesignCenter to insert the new version of the block you can simply redefine it (without even reinserting it).
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Just a few quick things...
1.) Take it easy on your IT guy, it's likely not HIS job to know the in's and outs of the application you're using, it's propbably YOURS!
2.) You should be able to explode any block in the drawing with the same definition, purge and reinsert. Viola!
Let me know if that helps...
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It's Valentine's Day, and I swore I wasn't gonna blog about it. I wasn't even going to acknowledge it… that's how much I wanted not to be reminded of my singledom today.
Yeah, right.
Even those of us who are okay with being single are acutely aware of it today. It's everywhere really, so you can't avoid it. Co-workers had flowers delivered, the office kitchen was covered in heart shaped sweets, and my Facebook is cluttered with "Happy V-Day!!" status' that quite frankly, make me want to puke.
…and as annoying as it is and as much as I've tried to ignore it, I can't help but think about my current relationship status and what's next for me.
My dating life is virtually non-existent right now. I deleted both my Plenty of Freaks and OKStupid accounts weeks ago, and the most action I've got lately is a few flirty emails from an Engineer at work- who I'm sure is trying to butter me up before he slaps some ridiculous project on my desk.
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I don't think so.
This time, I'm giving a new site a try.
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The concept of How About We is to create dates instead of marketing yourself through an online profile. Users can create and post their own date ideas and then go and pick out other dates they'd be interested in going on. I think it's a great idea because singles can connect over things they have in common. I can find someone to go to hockey games, search for fabulous new restaurants, and try new wines with.
I mean, aren't we all sick of trying to figure out how to write the perfect profile? Say the right things? And is it just me or is anyone else growing seriously bored with the marathon messaging that NEVER. GOES. ANYWHERE. (This is probably my biggest dating pet-peeve right now. Step it up, boys!)
I also like the fact that people are being forced to be creative… I think it weeds out all the duds that aren't really serious about making an effort.
I'm really excited to try out this new site, and if you want to check it out too- you can use the coupon code "VDAYFUN" to receive 33% off.
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