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CRESCENT CITY, Calif. - Response workers remove sorbet boom along the Elk River in Crescent City, April 3, 2011. Approximately 300-feet of boom was recovered after no traces of oil were found. The Unified Command's primary operational goal is to mitigate environmental impact to the harbor, so Crescent City can begin restoring its harbor as soon as possible. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Kevin Metcalf.
CRESCENT CITY, Calif. (AP) - Officials are trying to determine if a fishing boat that washed up on a beach in far Northern California is debris from the 2011 tsunami in Japan.
The Del Norte Triplicate reports that a 20-foot boat with Japanese writing on its side washed ashore Sunday near Crescent City, a community just south of the California-Oregon border.
It's believed the writing may be a license or registration number.
A team from Humboldt State University's Redwood Coast Tsunami Work Group - a group of local, state and federal agencies and others that studies tsunami hazards - was examining the boat.
A spokeswoman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the group is working with the Japanese government to try to confirm the origins of the fishing boat.
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Preparing for hiking trip of a lifetime -- and then a theft
Portland, Ore. – A Corvallis woman was prepared for it all on a hiking trip of a lifetime.
What she didn't plan for was her car being broke into in an REI parking garage in the Pearl District and thousands of dollars of gear being stolen.
But thanks to strangers, $1,510 has been donated to Jessica Beauchemin through a crowdfunding website.
A friend started the fundme.org website for Beauchemin after hearing about her plight and knowing how much she wanted to go on her trip.
Beauchemin planned to tour Mount Washington, Mount Jefferson, Cape Lookout and the Willowas. A former teacher, she soon planned to start her own business and looked forward to this trip as one last adventure.
Her tent was stolen, her backpack and a week's worth of gear was also pilfered.
"The violation and the terror just churning my stomach," she said. "The feeling of being invaded. All that buildup to this big trip since April – since I first plotted (it) out."
Sadly, insurance only covered a few hundred bucks worth of gear.
"I feel like I'm pretty well prepared for life and what it has to throw at me, but when I feel like I failed to protect myself that's a pretty powerful feeling," she said.
But now, thanks to the generosity of strangers, the money is trickling in.
"After having that experience in the parking lot and that terror and that anger, to have the complete opposite…to know that most people are amazing," she said.
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text: The Historic Preservation Society of Gettysburg - Adams County (HGAC) recently announced that the 2013 Annual HGAC Barn Preservation Award was presented to Jayne and William Shord of Orrtanna. This award recognizes the outstanding work done by the Shords on their circa 1867 barn which is the centerpiece of their Beech Springs Farm. Bearing the label of barn number 58 on the Adams County Historic Barn Registry, the Beech Springs Farm barn is classified as a standard Pennsylvania basement drive-thru type of barn. On Oct. 5 the barn will be the location of the fourth annual HGAC Civil War barn dance that begins at 5 p.m. and goes until 10 featuring the dance music of the Susquehanna Travellers, old time music by Tom Jolin and a Civil War style ham and bean soup dinner. A limited number of tickets are available and can be purchased at www.hgaconline.org. Barn owners interested in placing their barns on the registry should call Curt Musselman, chairman of the HGAC Barn Preservation Project and Grant Program, at 717-659-8827.


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text: My name is Geri. I love T's! I got my first one at age 14 for my birthday. It was a chilean rose hair. At the time I was limited to one T. I am now the proud owner of 6 T's. I made a promise though to my fiance no more than 8 T's in the house at a time XD although we agreed when I decide to breed any of them (I really want to go through the experience atleast once) that is ok. I'm always willing to buy/sell/trade so I may expand my collection, or help a fellow T lover find what they are looking for. Feel free to inbox me if you want to talk about T's. I am the only person I know in my area that is a T lover (i'm sure there's others I haven't met) So it would be nice to talk T's with others.


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Proctitis is an inflammation of the rectum that causes discomfort, bleeding, and occasionally, a discharge of mucus or pus.
Inflammation - rectum; Rectal inflammation
There are many causes of proctitis, but they can be grouped in the following categories:
Proctitis caused by STD is common among those who engage in anal intercourse. STDs that can cause proctitis include gonorrhea , herpes, chlamydia , lymphogranuloma venereum , and amebiasis .
Non-sexually transmitted infections causing proctitis are seen less often than STD proctitis. The classical example of non-sexually transmitted infection occurs in children and is caused by the same bacteria that cause strep throat .
Autoimmune proctitis is associated with diseases such as ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease .
Proctitis may also be caused by certain medications, radiotherapy , and inserting harmful substances into the rectum.
Risk factors include:
Successful treatment of the underlying cause usually cures the problem. Proctitis caused by infection is treated with antibiotics. Corticosteroids or mesalamine suppositories may relieve symptoms of proctitis in those with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis.
The probable outcome is good with treatment.
Call for an appointment with your health care provider if you have symptoms of proctitis.
Safer sex behaviors may prevent the disease from being spread during sexual activity.
DuPont HL. Approach to the patient with suspected enteric infection. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier. 2007: chap 305.
Giannella RA. Infectious enteritis and proctocolitis and bacterial food poisoning. In: Feldman M, Friedman LS, Brandt LJ, eds. Sleisenger & Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. 8th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2006: chap 104.
Rein MF. Approach to the patient with a sexually transmitted disease. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier. 2007: chap 307.
Stenson WF. Inflammatory bowel disease. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier. 2007: chap 144.
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Wonder what these guys were smoking?
Bras don't actually work
I agree Harriet. Women wear bras for all kinds of reasons. I have always worn one(a day bra around the house and an underwire outside), because my breasts are very sensitive and feel better "contained" in a bra. My younger sister goes braless most of the time and hers sag, spread and look like they are trying to get under her arm pits. I've told her if she would wear a decent bra, she would look 20 pounds lighter and 10 years younger. I can't even get serious about this "study". It was conducted by Men!
Plus, the subjects were ages 18 to 35.
Did you also note the age of the women tested? They were 18-35! Of course they didn't have much sagging. They probably also skewed for non extremely large breasts, thinner build & have not born/nursed children. Due to body shape, I didn't start sagging until recently at almost 53 & 2 yrs post surgical menopause. Never needed much support but always wore a bra for modesty. Others in may family were sagging at under 35 even wearing bras most of the time due to different shape of breasts.
I think the tester's motives are suspect.
"Boss - I have an idea for a (cough, cough) research project...."
His research is also biased and flawed. Of course he wants women to be bra-less.
Some bras actually increase back/shoulder pain for me (usually T-back athletic styles, but not all of them, and even the ones that do, not every time). But even so, I'm like the other poster who wear bras for comfort as well as support. Just as my panties protect me from rubbing clothing, so do my bras. Sometimes I will even wear one to bed!
There is something to be said for muscle tone in your pectoral muscles - it can make the sagging less. But, if you look at cultures that don't wear bras (African/Pacific Islander) - they are much saggier!
It's been proven in other studies that bras do not prevent the breasts from becoming more saggy in general, meaning when you're not wearing them. That said, it's clear to anyone with eyes in their head that they sure help with it while you're still wearing them!
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I have always wore a bra and still do. Most women wear the wrong size bra; good fitting ones are really expensive needlessly; the bra helps absorb sweat when working; helps hides the nipples in cold weather/air conditioned rooms. Working with patients in close encounters, I would be embarrassed to be bra-free. The nature of the supporting ligaments under the breast tissue degrade over time as all ligaments do, especially after pregnancy and nursing, as do the ligaments that hold the uterus. As the life span of humans continue to lengthen, so do our ligaments. I find bra free-women in public, especially, full-chested females, immodest, but then, I am prudish. I like a little mystery.
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Trinity Celebrates
the Season with Christmastide
On Saturday, December 1, Trinity opened the doors of the Ozinga Chapel to welcome parents, friends and the community to the College's first celebration of Christmastide. The audience was greeted by a 15-foot poinsettia tree, life-size nutcracker figures, and six-foot wreaths while the wind ensemble played a medley of familiar Christmas carols. The program featured performances by the College choirs, instrumental groups, and community choir members, with guest harpist Renee Wilson. Dr. Helen Van Wyck conducted the concert choir and honors ensemble in selections including French, English, Norwegian and Spanish carols; June Miller led the campus choir in Norwegian, English and African renderings; Matt Mantell conducted the string ensemble; and Dr. Ken Austin directed the jazz band, brass and wind ensembles. The audience participated in singing "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing," "O Come All Ye Faithful," "Silent Night," and "Joy to the World." A highlight of the evening was the performance by all music groups with the massed choir in singing two choruses from Handel's Messiah: And the Glory of the Lord, and Hallelujah! At the program's conclusion, the student choirs joined in singing "This Christmastide (Jessye's Carol)," the signature piece of the event. Next year, Christmastide will be held on two nights: Friday, December 6 and Saturday, December 7, 2002.
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The FCC may soon require bidders on a swath of the wireless spectrum to deliver a free, wireless version access to the Net — sans adult content.
Is a porn-free Internet possible or even desirable? Infoworld's Robert Cringely has some thoughts on the matter here. Tell us how you feel about it by registering your vote below.
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on 05 Jun 2008 at 4:33 am 1Tynan on Technology (beta) » Blog Archive » Do not attempt to adjust your Internet
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on 23 Nov 2008 at 10:22 pm 2not-Bob
I belive that we should at least have the choice… Right from the desktop. I mean, to have a serious leak-free content filter. And for the rest, be aware that some crap availliable out there is vomitive. A level between porn and gore. Disgusting. Some content supaused to be nudity makes one's skin hair straighten way before any other more fleshed piece of one. And even yet… Nudity isnt quite a problem, but seeing people in the frame of the act of freaking fucking around like, they should keep that personnal… I mean, thats no-good. The web truly should be reviewed and made porn free, and have a certain nudity level allowed… Like, at least… if one could have the choice, im not talking about any actual porn filters, this stuff doesnt work, but more like a review system putting serious tags on sites that might shock somebody. Even yet, i was talking the gore stuff. I saw that stuff like ounce or twice, making me whish i will never see such ever again, but what, it could happend if no serious population act is took against such. The main task of the internet should be to make the people work their wiseness.
Yet, there are sites about weapons, bad tricks, and what.. all the bad side of the net that is to concider aside of "porn". People's vices shouldnt ever get further than a realistic bareer. Like i said, simple nudity…. Like, there's no bad in nakedness…. Thats how atoms has worked to exprimate their excelent capacity of producing more than dust in a fine way. Yet, all the rest of the bad side of the web has to face a wall. Rock-Solid. Laws makes it hard to target anyone building that darkside, but at least, restrictions can be encouraged to being put in order that their crap never goes any further than their desktop. For the rest of the web, the better-side and the goodside, it should become at least as solid as bittorrent is. So that no nice sites goes down…. Koz it is way more frequent that the good stuff vanishes than any crap that stays sticked even after years..
So yeah, else than the kama sutra anciant book of showing the trick, i dont see what goods there is in seeing people in act on the internet. Good for them who had the kodak in hands, good for when they'll be grey-haired and missing the past telling their finaly-became-their-wife those ol'good times but what, who else should care?… I hate that, personnaly. 😀


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The FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office accused Smith, a Queens Democrat, of authorizing tens of thousands of dollars in payments as part of a plot to gain support from top Republican officials and force his way on the party's line for the November race.
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Nick and Hank investigate the murders of two men who are killed with fire. Through further investigation and with Eddie's help Nick is able to find the lair of the culprit, and kills him while Eddie rescues a kidnapped Juliette.
Juliette tells Nick she can no longer keep doing these things, and he tells her everything is in her hands.
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The College of Social Sciences values both theoretical and practical knowledge and understanding of essential human interactions within the context of creation. We are a community of diverse scholars and students that fosters and promotes excellence in teaching, rigorous scholarship, influential community service, and other core Jesuit values. The College prepares students for meaningful, productive lives, grounded in critical thinking and compassionate action.
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Counseling | Criminal Justice | Evening Division | Political Science | Sociology | Mass Communication | Nursing
Loyola's Counseling Program offers eligible counseling graduate students a carefully designed curriculum that will prepare them personally, academically and professionally to become skilled mental health counselors. One of the program's core beliefs is that effective professional counselor preparation requires a continuous blend of three types of learning: academic learning, experiential learning and learning about self. Thus this program, consistent with the Jesuit philosophy of educating the whole person, is designed to help students gain knowledge, understanding, and skills in a planned sequence that builds toward more advanced concepts and more sophisticated clinical interventions, all the while emphasizing ethical, social and cultural concerns.
Department of Criminal Justice
The Department of Criminal Justice has a long-standing commitment to improving the quality of justice through education, research, and public service. The faculty of the Department of Criminal Justice recognizes its mission as threefold.
First, the department is dedicated to offering its majors a state-of-the-art education in criminal justice by providing them with a comprehensive and critical understanding of the criminal justice system and the society in which it functions. At the same time, as part of College of Social Sciences, Loyola University New Orleans, the faculty is committed to addressing the special needs of adult learners and to preparing students to move into criminal justice careers or post graduate work as liberally educated, intellectually mature, ethically aware, and culturally sensitive men and women. Moreover, the department is dedicated to providing students throughout the university with opportunities to examine critically the broad questions of how justice is administered in American society and globally as well as confront the fundamental issues of criminal justice, which they face as professionals and as involved citizens.
Second, the Department of Criminal Justice is dedicated to excellence in research and scholarship as reflected in grants, awards, and publications. The faculty is committed to research that advances the teaching, assessment, and the knowledge base of the field of criminal justice, and also research that has policy implications and serves the goals of equity and efficiency in the administration of justice.
Finally, the department has a special commitment to providing the expertise of its faculty as a resource to assist criminal justice and social service agencies in the greater metropolitan New Orleans area and the state of Louisiana in the realms of applied research, policy development, training, and planned change to meet the social and technological challenges of the 21st Century. In order to accomplish its mission, the Department of Criminal Justice pledges:
- To provide a state-of-the-art curriculum and educational environment
- To foster the talent development of students, faculty, and staff
- To integrate technology into the curriculum including web enhanced instruction
- To promote each student's capacity for self-directed, life-long learning
- To ensure learner-centeredness in order to maximize learning
- To support faculty scholarly endeavors and research activities
- To enhance quality through a commitment to continuous improvement
- To honor the Ignatian tradition of educating the whole person by developing both cognitive and humane skills
- To reinforce the value of service to the community
- To develop ongoing partnerships and collaboration with criminal justice agencies
- To expand placement opportunities of graduates
- To inspire a sense of pride in being an alumnus or alumna of the Criminal Justice Department at Loyola University New Orleans
Evening Division
Loyola University New Orleans is a Catholic institution that emphasizes the Jesuit tradition of educating the whole person. The Loyola Evening Division supports the mission of Loyola University by providing various services for working students.
Loyola University New Orleans offers evening degree programs in Criminal Justice, Humanities, Nursing, and Social Sciences. Our programs reflect the basic philosophy of Jesuit education, combining rigorous and contemporary professional education with a broad foundation in the humanities and social sciences.
Department of Political Science
In keeping with the Goals of Loyola University, the Department of Political Science prepares its undergraduate majors and all other interested undergraduate students to assume positions of responsible and ethical leadership in a world where the most vital issues facing humankind inevitably find their way into the political process. An essential part of this goal is to communicate to its students the importance of a liberal education, including the discipline and rigor of thought essential to the truly educated mind. The department encourages faculty and student scholarship in political science as well as critical thinking, and political and civic engagement.
Political science as a discipline is at least as old as the work of Aristotle in its central concerns and as recent as the latest journal articles in its methodologies. As a discipline, it must constantly address the enduring questions of governance and liberty in the light of past knowledge and illuminated by the latest research. While it is common to distinguish between private and public spheres, governments in all ages have regulated the most private relationships, including marriage, parent-child obligations, and the obligations of the marketplace, as well as the arts, systems of belief, place of residence, and freedom of movement. Students of politics, then, must view the world from a wide perspective; they cannot expect to master all fields of knowledge, but they must be aware that many bear on the discipline of political science. Accordingly, students must necessarily be encouraged to explore deeply not only cognate disciplines such as anthropology, history, economics, psychology, and sociology, but those involving the arts, language and literature, philosophy, and the study of religious beliefs.
The Department of Political Science also involves students in practical political activity through experiential learning.
The demands of the discipline are great. Not only must courses and teaching materials be regularly and constantly revised to reflect current events, but also to reflect the breadth of human political activity. To do less is to devalue political science as an important field of liberal studies.
Department of Sociology
In keeping with Loyola University New Orleans' commitment to academic excellence, the Department of Sociology offers a rigorous, comprehensive sociology curriculum representing the discipline's theoretical orientations, methodological techniques, and its critical and comparative approach to understanding the collective social forces that shape human behavior and the contemporary social world. We also offer our students the opportunity to specialize in one of three concentrations: social stratification and inequality, law and social control, and global sociology. Consistent with the University's commitment to service and justice, we demonstrate a strong commitment to teach students to think critically about social justice principles and their realization in the community through social action.
School of Mass Communication
We educate students to have a critical understanding and comprehensive body of knowledge of the techniques, theories and social consequences of our complex national and global communications system. In our technologically intense fields in which method and form are major concerns, we educate students to become intellectual, artistic and ethical professional leaders in this rapidly changing information environment.
In the Jesuit tradition, we are committed to understanding and advancing social justice through service to our university, our communities and our disciplines. As scholars, staff, student and alumni, we value the media as social instruments and are committed to the ethical integration and application of communication skills, knowledge and values in the interconnected and diverse world around us.
The faculty of the School of Mass Communication clearly recognize the responsibility implied in the Goals Statement: Loyola is potentially strong in three areas that are in some significant way unique: communications, music and religion. By achieving excellence in these unique areas and sustaining its strong undergraduate departments, Loyola will be a significant force in higher education.
The school strives for excellence primarily by participating in the universitys pursuit of truth within the context of the Christian faith and the Jesuit tradition. We particularly pursue truth about communications as work to be done and truth about the media as social instruments. In teaching mass communication as work to be done, the faculty teaches a set of courses in the techniques of mass communication, and those courses are designed to bring students to competence in that work. The faculty is concerned not solely with techniques as they are practiced in the field, however, but also with the principles, which underlie those practices especially the how and the controlling why so that graduates will be able to adapt to, even guide, the rapid changes in the field.
The school is intimately involved in the universitys mission to teach the liberal arts. The faculty sees it as essential that communicators be educated in the traditional areas, which forge a more common bond with others in order that they might more effectively communicate with others. In a technology-intense field such as ours, in which method and form are major concerns, the faculty are insistent that our emphasis as part of the university be placed upon content or matter lest we graduate individuals who are adept at the use of equipment but have little or nothing to communicate. It is the facultys hope that in studying the arts and sciences, students will come to see how technique depends upon content and will employ their humanistic knowledge in their communications exercises.
The School of Mass Communication, in line with the universitys educational goals, strives to produce a student who is both educated and trained, one who combines critical awareness, ability to make decisions, and technical and organizational competence. A solid basis in the techniques of the field is expected of our students, but we also stress a comprehensive view of the theory, the ethics and the social consequences of our complex national and global communications systems.
Our goal is to produce graduates who are both technically competent and also able to provide vision and leadership in the complex field of communications.
School of Nursing
BSN Program
The primary mission of the Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing Program of Loyola University is to prepare nurse generalists who possess professional competencies to provide and coordinate client care in a variety of settings. The curriculum is designed to achieve this end. Through upper division nursing studies, the curriculum offers the opportunity for high quality professional nursing education within the multidisciplinary context of a Jesuit university education.
The goals of the BSN Program derive from the Program Mission and from beliefs of College of Social Sciences faculty about the non-traditional, adult learner. Program goals also reflect the philosophy and tradition of Jesuit education. The BSN Program seeks to:
- Provide students with a broad base of liberal studies in the Jesuit tradition in order to enhance understanding of self, others, and the world in which we live.
- Provide students with foundational studies and experiences that ensure an appropriate level of competence in effective communication.
- Provide students with a working knowledge of concepts essential to contemporary professional nursing practice.
- Provide a flexible educational program that facilitates attainment of personal and professional career goals, and meets the health care needs of the community.
- Provide an undergraduate education that fosters continued professional growth and forms the foundation for graduate education.
Upon completion of Loyola Universitys BSN Program, graduates will:
- Employ critical thinking and decision-making skills in professional nursing practice.
- Recognize the influence of beliefs, values, and economic status on provision of health care and client health behaviors.
- Demonstrate skills in the art of communication with individuals and groups, and competency in the use of communication tools.
- Understand the theoretical basis of nursing interventions and use nursing research findings to improve client care.
- Design and implement nursing interventions that promote the health of individuals and aggregates.
- Function as a nurse generalist in primary, secondary, or tertiary health care settings.
- Demonstrate continuing professional development.
MSN Program
The mission of the MSN program is to prepare nurses to function in advanced roles in a variety of health care settings. The MSN program seeks to develop critical thinking and ethical-decision making skills as primary skills needed by all nurses in advanced roles. The curriculum is designed to educate nurses to provide effective and cost-efficient nursing care, and to provide leadership in improving and extending health care to specific populations.
- Provide graduate nursing education in the Jesuit tradition.
- Create opportunities for the development of expertise in an advanced role.
- Foster development of advanced interpersonal and communication skills.
- Prepare nurses capable of improving health care and initiating change in health care delivery.
- Foster professional identity as a nurse with an advanced role.
Upon completion of Loyola Universitys MSN Program, graduates will:
- Evaluate the influence of beliefs, values, and economic status on the provision of health care and client health behaviors.
- Demonstrate critical thinking in the implementation of an advanced role.
- Function in collaborative advanced roles as members of interdisciplinary teams in a variety of health care settings.
- Demonstrate mastery in the use of contemporary communication tools and techniques.
- Contribute to the development of the discipline of nursing through the application of nursing and related theory and research to practice.
- Critically analyze current health care policies and practices.
- Demonstrate an understanding of and appreciation for legal and ethical standards of advanced practice.
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In the past magic was thought to be fake, but when scientist find an ruin strange things start to happen. People around the world begin to have nightmares. The scientist decicide to destroyed the artifact.Yet they did not know what was to come. When the artifact was destroyed the scientist buried it. The land was peaceful for 200 years. Then all of a sudden tye artifact exploded causing the earth to beome a desolate waste land. People could not trust each other, so they spit up into groups. The people soon descovered they've gaind powers which they called magic. They studied their magic, made empires and military. Soon war broke out. While these empires where at war no one noticed the area where the artifact was buried. Hells gates where opened and evil started pouring out. The humans banned together to stop the threat. They created an organisation of preist to summon angels to help with the war.
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Hey All;
Just wanted to share a couple of things that came off my needles recently.
First a pair of socks I call DayDreaming:
Second a sweater called Amhra'n Gra:
Am finishing up a pair of Yoga Socks that I have named Xanadu tonight. Then picks tomorrow.
What else is out there? Would love to see some stuff. Really enjoyed looking at the sweater and the goodies that Dee posted! -- Edited on 4/1/07 8:20 PM --
Love the socks! Very nice work on the sweater too.
Here are my latest FOs. I made them for my nieces.
Doll outfit for one niece's American Girl doll. Pattern was from Knitter's magazine, Fall 1998. Yarn is Rowan Designer DK.
Sweater for the other niece, shown with the doll sweater for scale. The pattern is Torgeir from Elsebeth Lavold's "Viking Knits Collection". Yarn is Rowan Designer DK.
------Lori (visit my blog at: http://monkeyroom.blogspot.com)
Adorable sweaters. Lucky niece! I especially like the way you did the faces with the sweaters. What a novel idea! Hope you don't mind if I borrow it.
Just finished an easy project while I was house/dog sitting for 3 weeks, no computer on the premises!
Red afghan, Lion Wool-Ease, knitted two strands together on size 13 circulars. This basket-weave rib pattern just wraps around me so nicely -- it's the first afghan I've ever made to keep for myself, out of the dozens I've gifted over the years.
Red afghan
I got the pattern from a library book; if I can find it on Amazon I'll post the info here.
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Beautiful work Diana M. It looks really warm. It sounds so relaxing to be able work on project like that without having to put it down then pick up up months later because life gets in the way.
Your afghan looks so cozy - I love the color.
I haven't been able to commit myself to any blanket type knitting yet - not even in my head. I'm too slow. I'm still knitting sleeveless or kids' sweaters.
Knitting has sure given me an appreciation of how *fast* I can sew.
Actually, because of the simple pattern, needle size and the doubled yarn, this went pretty fast.
Even so, if I had a weekend to whip up a wedding gift, I'd choose a simple quilt over a simple afghan any day!!
Afghans do make great gifts. I too have given them as gifts and finally made one for my son, which is actually in my family room and used constantly!
The color of yours is great!
Hi Lori,
I love the little sweaters! Your work is gorgeous, and the way you have it displayed is wonderful!
I have been working on my first Intarsia project, a scruffy cat on a patterned background. I sincerely hope I will be finished by tomorrow. I have several other little projects waiting for my attention.
What a great color choice, and the pattern is so nice. I love it!
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A COUNCIL has again warned householders they face court action if they fail to remove wheelie bins from an alleyway – despite having nowhere else to store them.
Three weeks ago the Post & Times reported that Staffordshire Moorlands District Council had placed letters on scores of waste bins in alleyways between Southbank Street, Livingstone Street and Cromwell Terrace, all in Leek.
The letters from the waste collection department said: "If this bin has not been removed and returned to private property by Friday, October 4, 2013 we will assume it has been abandoned and will arrange for it to be removed."
Although most of the bins were left in situ after the deadline dat, last week the council again dropped off another letter, from waste manager Nicola Kemp, to residents saying that if they did not discuss having alternative containers by Friday, November 1, the council would assume that residents were happy with the present arrangement.
The letter said: "Please be aware that it is an offence to store bins on the public highway in between collections and as a result you could be liable for a fixed penalty notice to be served, which is currently £60 or £40 if paid within 10 days.
"If the penalty remains unpaid, the matter then proceeds to court where the maximum fine that can be imposed is £5,000.
"Please note any alternative containers provided must be stored on private property. It is your responsibility to ensure you have somewhere to store your waste in-between collections." However, the Post & Times has been given a copy of the deeds from one resident in Southbank Street which states that he owns part of the alleyway.
After receiving the letter another resident, Edwin Clowes, aged 69, of Southbank Street said he was disappointed that the council had not spoken to residents before threatening court action.
He said: "I have a coal bunker and a small shed for the logs.
"There is simply no room for the bins. If they were pushed up to the back door they would block any fire escape.
"You would also have to climb over the bins each time you wanted to get out of the property.
"If there was a fire we could not escape.
"The council has now stated that we could have containers, but where do I put them? "They will not talk to us, Unstead they just send threatening court letters. All I want to know is where do I put my bins and at the same time maintain a fire escape, but no-one will tell me what to do."
Councillor Arthur Forrester, who has the responsibility for the environment at Staffordshire Moorlands District Council, said: "The letters that we delivered last week are asking households to confirm their waste container requirements.
"We appreciate that some residents have limited storage in their yards or front gardens and alternative containers are available to help address this.
"The letter contains details of these alternatives and asks residents to consider which of the containers best meet their requirements.
"We've asked residents to let us know by Friday, November 1, so that appropriate arrangements can be made and have provided reply paid envelopes for this purpose.
"Staffordshire County Council as the highways authority has confirmed that the alleyways are adopted public highways so I would reiterate that bins cannot be left in the alleyways, and it is the responsibility of residents to ensure they have somewhere to store containers in between collections.
"Council officers are available to offer advice and to discuss the options by telephone, or to visit homes with examples of the containers, and we can also arrange assistance for people who can't put their containers out on collection day.
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Keven Veilleux sat last season because of an injury to his knee spent some time in wheeling to recondition but now he finds himself in more trouble than he could have ever wanted
Apparently Veilleux was suspended indefinitely by the Nailers for allegedly using a racial slur during Sunday's victory against South Carolina.
Veilleux fought Scooter Vaughan twice in the game against South Carolina today Vaughan who is African American. The first fight ended up with Vaughan being pushed through the door to Wheeling a bench.
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In February of 2013, a group of seven from the USA and ten from Mexico traveled to Cuba. We carried $1000 of new climbing gear for prizes for their national climbing competition and $1500 of gear for equipping routes. This video was shot during that trip. We are planning our third annual trip being in Cuba, January 26 to February 2 of 2015; learn more below!
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SRCFC trip to Cuba will center on participating and sponsoring their National Climbing Competition, which this year is where it all started, Valle de Vinales. The dates of the competition are Thursday, 1/29 to Saturday, 1/31. We plan to arrive in Havana on January 26 and leave the country on February 2. There is flexibility for folks who want to arrive sooner or depart later.
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|Respiratory training, hypoxic ventilatory response and acute mountain sickness.
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|PMID: 8931177 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|A low hypoxic ventilatory response (HVR) has been observed in endurance athletes and has also been associated with low exercise ventilation and a high susceptibility to acute mountain sickness (AMS). In other studies, respiratory training was found to improve cycling endurance and decrease exercise ventilation. We therefore hypothesized that respiratory training alone may reduce HVR and increase AMS susceptibility. In 16 healthy subjects, we measured HVR (delta VE vs. delta SaO2) and the susceptibility to AMS (Lake Louise Score). Eight subjects then underwent respiratory training (30 min isocapnic hyperpnea, 4-5 times weekly, 4-5 weeks), thereby increasing breathing endurance (the time to exhaustion while breathing at 60-75% of MVV) from 455 +/- 193 sec to 2049 +/- 476 sec (p < 0.05). Eight subjects served as controls. No significant change of HVR (0.67 +/- 0.36 vs. 0.55 +/- 0.22) or of AMS score (3.5 +/- 2.1 vs. 3.9 +/- 2.2) was observed after training, and there was no significant difference from controls. We conclude that respiratory training neither depresses HVR nor increases the risk of AMS.
|G Markov; R Orler; U Boutellier
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Are you familiar with Letter-boxing?
I wrote about our failed attempt a while ago. Feel free to read about it while I describe our latest excursion.
In a continuing effort to keep the boys from spending 20 hours a
day having their brains sucked dry via electronic devices, we
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MONDAY, Nov. 25, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- A higher intake of sugar and sugar-sweetened beverages is associated with a higher risk of some endometrial cancers, according to a study published online Nov. 22 in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
Maki Inoue-Choi, Ph.D., R.D., from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and colleagues analyzed data from 23,039 postmenopausal women who reported their demographics, anthropometry, medical and family history, lifestyle, and dietary intake (via a food frequency questionnaire) in 1986.
By 2010, the researchers identified 506 type I and 89 type II incident endometrial cancers. After adjusting for various factors, including body mass index, higher intake of sugar-sweetened beverages was associated with an increased risk of type I cancers (hazard ratio, 1.78 for highest quintile of intake compared with no intake). Higher sugar intake was also associated with a higher risk of type I cancers. In contrast, there was no association between diet and the risk of type II cancers.
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Recently two letters regarding the City of High Springs' purchase of a golf cart have been published. The golf cart is an example of just how dysfunctional the City of High Springs has become. I hope that city leaders step up and answer some simple questions:
1) Why was a golf cart purchased when the contract it was to support is not going forward? Since the revenue to justify the purchase will not be coming into the city, where in the budget is the money coming from?
2) If a work vehicle is needed in the City of High Springs why is the Polaris 4-wheeler the city owns not being used? Is the Polaris not working? Did our city manager and commissioners even know the city owned a Polaris work vehicle?
3) Why was Commissioner Barnas involved in the purchase of the golf cart? He has admitted, on the record, that he instructed the city manager to purchase the cart. A public records request shows that Commissioner Barnas picked up the check used to pay for the cart and, it is assumed, delivered the check.
4) Who was the cart purchased from? A public records request indicates that the cart was purchased from an individual by the name of John Fradd who lives in Turkey Creek. Would Commissioner Barnas like to confirm or deny that he had, as a realtor, a business relationship with Mr. Fradd?
The process of purchasing equipment for the city should be left to city employees and department heads. We should not be buying anything without a demonstrated need. Of all the tools city employees might make use of, I doubt any department head would put a $1,700 golf cart at the top of the list.
Ross Ambrose
High Springs, Fla.


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He moved his massive frame easily around the ring, sweat flowing, shadowboxing and moving ... unloading more punches at the shadowy opponent, continuing to move.
David Rodriguez is back in the gym, back training, eager to put 2012 in his rear-view mirror, eager to make 2013 something special.
Rodriguez, 6-foot-5 and carrying a little extra weight these days, has been sidelined by a pair of injuries -- one minor, but annoying; one life-threatening and life-changing -- but is gearing toward a return to the ring in mid-March.
"Hopefully, it will be in El Paso," Rodriguez said of his upcoming fight. "But, we just don't know for sure yet. Chicago is another possible location. But I'm back, I'm healthy, my fluidity is coming back. I'm making some changes to my management team and I want to have three or four fights in 2013 ... just keep training from one to the next. I'll be taking some significant fights and, at the end, I believe I have a shot at the (Wladimir and Vitali) Klitschkos."
Rodriguez, who usually fights in the neighborhood of 250 pounds, is a spotless 36-0 with 34 big knockouts. He has stopped 24 of his opponents in the first round. But, his career has been put on hold. He scored three big wins in 2011, including a spectacular third-round knockout of Owen Beck in the Don Haskins Center.
But, at the very end of 2011, Rodriguez was knifed in Scottsdale, Ariz., and very nearly lost his life. The angry scar traveling down his jaw line, almost from ear to mouth, is a constant reminder.
Rodriguez put a finger below the scar, the width of one finger, and said, "Right here and I would be dead. As it was, I lost three pints of blood. I had 369 stitches, inside and out. The amazing thing is that there was no nerve damage. The plastic surgeon said he had no idea how I avoided that. I can't believe I walked away from that with nothing but a line on my face.
"I'm making not only a comeback in boxing, but a comeback in life," he said. "I want this to be inspirational, for people to know they can overcome anything. This changed my world outlook. It changed my outlook on life. It feels like I'm on bonus time. This could have gone the other way, easily."
Rodriguez finally returned to training and resumed sparring in Las Vegas with trainer Rafael Garcia. But then, he injured his knee and had to have surgery. The year 2012 was a loss for him professionally.
"I'm ready to go again," he said. "I sparred over a hundred rounds in Vegas and never even thought about the scar. My knee is 100 percent. Great. No issues. I'm not a kid anymore; I'm 35. I'm realistic. But my chance is still there."
Rodriguez is currently working at Pound 4 Pound Gym in East El Paso and he is working with an old friend, Joe Sullivan.
"I've known Joe since I was 12," Rodriguez said. "I was always getting in trouble and he got calls on me when he was a policeman. He started taking me to the gym religiously. I was frustrated this time with all the injuries. I was in a dark place. And Joe came by and pulled me out of it, got me back in the gym. I wasn't going to pull myself out. He asked when I was going to start training again and I told him I was going to Vegas in March. He said no and got me going right now."
Sullivan, former policeman, football coach and professional boxer, smiled and said, "David has so much potential. He has the potential to be something special. He's made a lot of progress. We've been working out for almost five weeks -- cardio in the morning in here in the gym in the afternoons, and some strength work on Saturdays. In two or three more weeks. David will be ready for sparring.
"I know David like a little brother ... since he was 12 or 13," Sullivan said. "Right now, it's all about keeping his head right, keeping him going. My job is easy because David has been trained by the best. He just needs to ignore all the critics and work his way there. It's within him. He can do it. Just stay away from all the negative stuff."
Rodriguez finished his workout for the evening. Sweat pouring off his big body, he stopped to talk to a couple of young fighters.
"If you see me in here, just ask me (for help and advice)," he told one teenager. "Anytime. Just ask."
A few moments later, Rodriguez approached gym owner Louis Aguilar and asked, "Is it OK if I help that kid over there?"
Smiling, Sullivan said quietly, "That's just another sign David has grown up. In years past, he would have never done that. Now he wants to help these kids. It's great. He's growing into himself and, like I said, he has so much potential."
Laughing, Sullivan added, "I pick David up and he's going strong now. You can take a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. He's doing this. I just tell him he owes me now, so go win a world championship."
David Rodriguez has begun his journey back ... a journey back from a moment that could not only have ended his career but his life. He is resuming a journey, but he is starting from 36-0 ... not from square one.
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"Nikki. Nikki. Wake up, we have to move," I whisper hoarsely while prodding her lightly on the side. Her petite body rolls over and I can tell she's awake, but is refusing to open her eyes. Every day we sleep outside of camp she does this. I think she forgets we're not in total safety anymore.
I shake her more vigorously as worry and threat set in; we all know that there are people out for us. Looking for us. A light shiver slides down my spine, then envelopes my entire body with a feeling of unease. Oh, the memories. At times I wish for them to just fade, but in all fact, they are all I know for sure about myself.
My gaze slides back down just in time to see Nikki finally flutter her eyes open, to reveal the icy blue underneath. Even when she's just woken up her eyes still have an edge, but if you don't know her you wouldn't be able to see it. You'd be to mesmerized by how deep they are, and how the ring of black emboldens the color. Her bleach blonde hair is in disarray that frames her face in a perfect curtain, giving off a shadow effect on her tan skin. Even though she's a year older than me, which makes her 15, she's still only 4'10. Hah, shorty.
She blinks a couple times, trying to remember where she is at. Then it seems to hit her dead on when her eyes lock with mine. She rolls to her knees and starts rapidly wrapping the few objects we brought in the thin paneled cloth. I wish I could wake up that fast, I have to lay there for a while, then stretch, and lay a little longer. I start to smile thinking of some of the things I do half asleep, but then I realize that I'm letting the mind bunnies get the best of me. I try to help but her hand always flashes in front of me and grabs it before I can.
We stand and I start off first, my feet disquieting the world as they slam into the ground. It takes me a few seconds to realize that there are no feet accompanying mine. I turn and see Nikki standing stagnant and stiff. Her hand was inching into a fist at the edge of her collar bone. I run back over and pull with all my might at her arm. My attempts weaken and last shorter amounts of time.
"Earth to Nikki, let's move," I say with another effortless tug. "Remember? Funny story, people kind of want our intestines on a stick. Let's go! GO!" I overly strained the last syllable in go, hopefully my sarcasm caught her.
"My locket's gone." She whispered worriedly.
She's had it ever since I met her. The star shaped bronze locket was always there in its fading glory. I've asked her a couple times about it, but she never answers. She just gazes towards the clouds and clutches the locket, so I've almost given up on it. I don't know what's on the inside, or if it even still opens, but I know it's important to her and she won't leave without it.
She drops at a great declivity and frantically races her hands through the grass in search for it. Before I realize it, I've dropped down next to her and am also scanning the fading summer grass. I feel anxiety growing as more time passes without finding it. With each slide and swipe of my hand nothing comes up except grass and leaves, and I can feel nerves breaking one by one as the sun claws higher into the sky.
"I found it!" Nikki cries triumphantly. She starts to fasten in on, slowly moving her hair out of the way, but I have grown too impatient to wait any longer. I grab her wrist and tug, with a jolt she almost falls to the ground, but then stumbles into pace with me. We crash through the open field as the painted colors of the sky run together into a pink that will soon solidify into a pale blue.
Droplets of dew splatter up and hit my legs, refreshing the skin and mollifying the itch of grass and insect bites. The tree line of the woods is slowly growing into view, and as we approach my nerves start to ease as the feel of home starts to come closer. The instant we break through the tree line we stop, grasping for air. Nikki's arms collapse to her knees as she hunches over, and I lean back into a tree, light headed trying to keep myself standing. My mind starts jumping to the other dozens of times this happened, it only makes my head spin more, so I start valiantly fighting the mind bunnies back to reality.
"Klair, where's Briar?" Nikki exhales out.
I swallow hard, my swollen throat protesting. "Left earlier, I guess"
She just shrugs and starts walking sluggishly toward the sound of trickling water that will lead us to camp. I can tell she is hassled by everything that has already happened this morning, but I can tell she's trying to keep a good attitude. Unlike me she can handle stress and direct anger in different directions. I have been getting better with managing it, but people know that I have anger issues and know the signs when a blow up is coming.
Slowly oxygen builds up in my system, evening out my ragged breaths as my mind sways back to normality and away from the rocking waves of my mental boat. My steps no longer stagger and the high pitched tone in my head is gone, so I can hear the rustle of the world awakening. Everywhere I look the scenery gives off an energy of total serenity and poise. I blink once. Twice. And I keep them shut accepting the memories, and the fact that they are past.
I can see the wooden boards, and irons in waiting. The metal chains and the gritty feeling of rope against my skin. I see the abusers hands and the intruding words that could be lie or truth. I can still taste my own blood, but I wouldn't cry. The eyes. They're so clear, the light yellow color. So much hatred and malevolence. I was a fighter, and I kept fighting. The world was fading, and then the light. Of my savior…
My breath comes out shaky and I lean one hand against a tree and stop to fight off all of the voices overcoming my mind. It's mostly shady whispers, but I don't like them. I prefer to have my mind just to myself and no intruders. I shut everyone out and away from my secrets, and put a 'please do not disturb' sign on top. I had worked hard to keep people out and I'm not opening the door again.
I open my eyes wondering if I had made a big scene, but to my avail, Nikki hadn't paid any mind to me. I regain my intellectual balance and continue on my way, trying to finally leave behind my memories, though I know that it won't work. They've been carved there with a white hot knife, and scars have been left.
Thankfully when I look up the make-shift camp is in sight, with our rugged belongings in their normal position. The rusty old pot hangs from a tree branch over a diminutive fire, and a tarp covered with mud and leaves encases an abandoned fox den that we expanded. A decent sized river runs down the edge of our camp and disappears into the woods. To top it off a hollowed out log contains our few belongings, most of which we stole, off to the side of the camp.
I look towards the rock that hangs over the river and see Briar sitting in a relaxed form, sharpening her knife on a stone. Her dark brown hair is pulled into a messy braid that's plopped over her right shoulder. I can't be sure if she has noticed our arrival, because I'm almost sure her gray-blue eyes are trained on her current task. It's slightly frightening how at ease she looked while sharpening a lethal weapon.
Since she's 15, also, that makes me the youngest of our trio, but certainly not the weakest. Before I met Nikki I was your regular street fighter, trying to survive. I stole, but I kept it to a bare minimum, and I hustled people, but only when I knew that they didn't need the money as much as I did. I still had the mighty temper, and so I was often fighting with strangers. To be honest, I half way enjoyed it. I liked being able to blow off some steam and prove myself to others. I grew strong and unbreakable, as I still am. I can't remember much anything, but my years on the street and now.
The three of us, we're so different, yet in almost every bitter aspect, we are the same. Our minds are tortured with what is, was, could have been, and should have been. Struggling to find a place where we truly are, and live. We hold onto every memory, every pain, and thought, because in all reality they are all we are. And so we steal, and lie, and con, and hustle, but we do it for survival. Survival of the fittest.
I run up to Briar and leap at her. She tosses her knife to the side and flips me over. I bury my foot in her chest in a way that it won't hurt, so instead of fighting back she simply dove into the clear, turquoise water. It splashed up and rained down, cooling off my sweaty body. I stand and jump into the river striking a pose in mid-air, then let out a scream underwater because of the shock of the cold.
I break through the surface of the water and shake out my hair. A high pitched shudder escapes and my instincts come into play, so I look around and take everything in. Nikki is standing on the rock looking over us and carefully removing her necklace so she can dive in with us. When I look back Briar is right in front of my face. I pretend not to be shocked and calmly spit water in her face. She wipes it off and barely blinks.
"You were up awful early this morning," I say as Nikki jumps onto my back.
Briar simply shrugs and says, "I wasn't early, you were late," then dives under the water and swims off.
I take full realization of Nikki being on me, so I flip over backwards and wrestle her off. As soon as I catch a break I swim rapidly towards the edge and claw my way up the steep drop, and then sprawl to let myself dry off. I breathe in and the sweet, tangy scent of the forest consumes me. My eyes flutter shut, yet I can still see the light through them. The last thought that floats through my mind as the early morning sun lulls me to sleep is: This is where we stand.
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Gesso on wood (pastiglia); 7 1/4 x 8 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (18.4 x 21.6 x 26 cm)
Rogers Fund, 1910 (10.141.1)
This wood casket is decorated with pastiglia ornament, a relief technique found in northern Italy between the late fourteenth and mid-sixteenth centuries. In contemporary recipes, the substance was called pasta di muschio (musk paste). It was made of a white lead paste mixed with egg white as a binder and scented with musk. The scent was thought to have aphrodisiacal properties, which added to the casket's value as a marriage gift. The grotesque decorative forms were inspired by Roman examples.