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Design by: Donna Collinsworth
Skill Level: Intermediate
Sizes: Tea Set Carrier (unfolded) - 24" across (point to point) Small Ladybug - 1"; Tea Pot - 5" tall; Cup - 3" tall; Creamer - 3" tall; Sugar Bowl - 3" across; Large Plate - 6" across; Small Plate - 4" across; Cupcake - 3½" tall
Materials: Worsted Weight Yarn :
Cherry Red (R) - 14 oz, 728 yd; (396 g, 666 m) White (W) - 3½ oz, 182 yd; (99 g, 166 m) Black (B) - 3½ oz, 182 yd; (99 g, 166 m) Cream (C) - 3 oz, 152 yd, (84 g, 137 m) Tan (T) - 2 oz, 104, (57 g, 95 m) Light Blue (LB) - 2 oz, 104, (57 g, 95 m) Size 10 Crochet Thread: Scarlet, Black, and Maize. Additional Materials: Yarn Needle, Thread Needle, Fiberfill, Craft Glue; Fabric Paint - Black; Red Ribbon 1" wide - 24"; 1" (25mm) Wiggle Eyes - 2; ⅝" (15mm) Wiggle Eyes - 2 (for Tea Pot); ½" (12mm) Wiggle Eyes - 4 (Creamer/ Sugar Bowl); ⅜" (10mm) Wiggle Eyes - 4 (for Cups); 1" Black Pompoms - 2; ½" Black Pompoms - 10; Black Chenille Stems - 4
Crochet Pattern for Ladybug Tea Set
Ladybugs are commonly viewed as lucky insects and some people believe it is unlucky to kill them. As they are the natural enemy of many insects (especially aphids), they are welcome at picnics and outdoor tea parties. This crochet pattern makes the Ladybug Tea Set a perfect toy or play set for any little girls that likes to have tea parties. Whether you are dining outside with friends, or setting up tea for stuffed animals, the Ladybug Tea Set let you bring own ladybugs along with you. The set includes a handy carrier and all the pieces for a "Tea for Two in a bag". Once you have laid out the teapot, sugar bowl, creamer and cups on the lace tea cloth, sit back with your cupcakes and enjoy an tea party without insects! At the end of the party, simply fold up the play mat to transform it into a handy carrier and storage unit for all the tea set pieces. This crochet pattern is sure to please.
Ladybug Tea Set crochet pattern includes a tea set carrier, small ladybug, tea pot, cup, creamer, sugar bowl, large plate, small plate and cupcake. All set pieces work up quickly with worsted-weight yarn. Multiple colors and a variety of crochet stitches set this child crochet tea set at an intermediate level pattern. Make enough pieces for two to dine comfortably on the play mat, or increase the place settings to the number needed for more guests to join in on the fun.
Ladybug, Ladybug, let's take a break.
It's time for tea. Please pass me a cupcake.
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(Sports Network) - The Houston Rockets found a way to win last time out that
didn't involve knocking down a ton of shots from behind the arc.
The Rockets are likely to try and get their long-range game back on track
Friday night as they seek a third straight victory in a clash with the
Milwaukee Bucks.
Only the New York Knicks average more 3-point attempts per game than the
Rockets' 27.2. That strategy certainly paid off in a New Year's Eve victory
over the Atlanta Hawks as Houston knocked down 16 of its 29 3-point attempts
in a 123-104 triumph.
However, the Rockets shot just 5-of-24 from behind the arc in Wednesday's
meeting with the New Orleans Hornets and instead turned to some more physical
basketball in a 104-92 win.
James Harden scored 31 points and handed out seven assists as the Rockets
outscored the Hornets 60-28 in the paint. Omer Asik added 21 points to match a
career high and also pulled down eight rebounds.
Patrick Patterson added 15 points and a season-high 10 boards off the bench.
"There have been a couple of games like that this year where our offense was
not really on point and we didn't score 120 or 130 points," Harden said. "We
had to find other ways to do it and I think that is showing a maturity that we
are growing. We are getting better. We are just finding ways."
Harden especially had to move down low to score as he went 2-of-8 from 3-point
range. He still managed to net at least 25 points for a 10th straight game and
help Houston win for the ninth time in 12 games overall.
"For us, we are going to take a lot of 3s," said Rockets head coach Kevin
McHale. "It's just kind of how our offense is and how our personnel is. ... We
do live and die on that a little bit."
The Bucks hope that the Rockets' struggles from downtown continue tonight as
they aim to avoid a third straight loss. They dug themselves an early hole on
Wednesday against the visiting San Antonio Spurs and a late rally wasn't
enough in a 117-110 defeat.
The Bucks allowed the Spurs to net 69 points in the first half, but an 8-0 run
late in the fourth pulled Milwaukee to within five with 13.1 seconds left.
However, San Antonio knocked down a pair of free throws to ice the game.
"You dig that kind of hole against a team like that, you're probably in
trouble," Milwaukee coach Scott Skiles said. "We did a better job in the
second half than we did in the first half but not the kind of team you want to
spot that many points."
Brandon Jennings netted a game-high 31 points, while rookie John Henson added
a career-high 20 points on 10-of-11 shooting with nine boards off the bench.
Monta Ellis ended with 18 points and eight assists.
Guard Beno Udrih missed the game due to a right ankle injury that had held him
out of 12 games previously this season. He is not expected to play Friday
night or Saturday at Indiana.
The Bucks ended an 11-game slide in Houston with a 105-99 triumph in their
lone meeting with the Rockets last season.
The Rockets, though, have still won 11 of the past 14 encounters overall and
four of their last six in Milwaukee.
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Book your room at Towneplace Suites by Marriott Miami Airport W
Get an overview of this hotelHotel in Doral with free breakfast and outdoor pool
Situated near the airport, this hotel is 1.6 mi (2.5 km) from Miami International Mall and 1.8 mi (2.9 km) from Dolphin Mall. Frost Art Museum and Martin Z. Margulies Sculpture Park are also within 6 mi (10 km).
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This smoke-free hotel features an outdoor pool, a fitness center, and a snack bar/deli. Free continental breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include coffee/tea in the lobby, dry cleaning, and a 24-hour front desk.
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Towneplace Suites by Marriott Miami Airport W features an outdoor pool and a fitness center. The hotel offers a snack bar/deli. A complimentary breakfast is offered. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This Doral hotel also offers barbecue grills, coffee/tea in the lobby, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
Towneplace Suites by Marriott Miami Airport W is a smoke-free property.
- Computer station
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- 24-hour front desk
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- Snack bar/deli
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- Family Hotel
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- Kitchen
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- Free cribs/infant beds
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Guests are offered a complimentary continental breakfast.
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Recreational amenities at the hotel include an outdoor pool and a fitness center.
- Golfing nearby
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- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
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Check-in time starts at 3 PM
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Rosalyn Carson-DeWitt, MD
Radiofrequency ablation uses heat to destroy abnormal tissue.
Radiofrequency ablation is used to treat:
Complications are rare, but no procedure is completely free of risk. If you are planning to have ablation, your doctor will review a list of possible complications, which may include:
Factors that may increase the risk of complications include:
You will most likely be given a sedative to help you relax. Local anesthesia will be used to numb the area. If this is done as part of another surgery, you may have
spinal anesthesia.
An IV will be placed to give you fluids and medicine to help you relax. Your heart rate, breathing, and blood pressure will be monitored. The area where the probe will be inserted is numbed.
The probe will be inserted into or directly up against the abnormal tissue.
CT scan,
ultrasound, or
MRI scan
images may be used to help guide the probe.
In some cases, once the probe is inserted, a number of electrodes will be placed into the area. This will let the doctor treat a larger area of tissue.
A small amount of heat will be introduced through the probe. The heat will destroy the abnormal tissue. The probe may be repositioned to destroy other areas of tissue.
You will be monitored for 2-3 hours after the procedure.
About 10-60 minutes
Anesthesia will prevent pain during the surgery. You will be given medicine to help prevent most pain or discomfort.
It may be possible to leave the hospital on the same day of the procedure. You may need to stay overnight for your doctor to monitor you. Speak to your doctor to see if this is an option in your case.
Do not drive within the first 24 hours after the procedure. You may be asked to avoid strenuous activities. Be sure to follow your doctor's
After you leave the hospital, contact your doctor if any of the following occurs:
In case of an emergency, call for medical help right away.
American College of Radiology
The Radiological Society of North America
BC Cancer Agency
Canadian Cancer Society
Gazelle GS, Goldberg SN, et al. Tumor ablation with radio-frequency energy.
Interventional radiology.
RadiologyInfo website. Available at
http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/sitemap/category.cfm?category=ir&bhcp=1. Accessed August 28, 2006.
Radiofrequency ablation.
American Heart Association website. Available at
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4682. Accessed August 28, 2006.
Radiofrequency ablation. National Institutes of Health website. Available at
http://www.cc.nih.gov/drd/rfa/background.html. Accessed August 28, 2006.
Last reviewed November 2012 by Michael J. Fucci, DO
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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May 31, 2016
EMEPA crews are still working Friday to restore power to thousands of customers in Kemper County.
A tornado tore through the county Thursday, taking the life of at least one man, Carlos Madrigal, 28, of Blue Mountain, and injuring others. It also caused structural damage and cut off power to about 5,100 customers.
As of Friday morning, close to 3,000 customers were still without service.
EMEPA says it completed repairs to its distribution system overnight. The remaining outages are unable to be restored until all damage is repaired to the Tennessee Valley Authority transmission system. The utility estimates restoration by Friday afternoon.
EMEPA says all customers in Clarke County who lost power Thursday have now been restored.
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Tempe, AZ (Sports Network) - Seth Smith and Darwin Perez each recorded a pair
of RBI on Sunday, as the Oakland Athletics defeated the Los Angeles Angels of
Anaheim, 7-5, in spring training action.
Chris Young and Michael Choice added an RBI and a run scored apiece, while
Scott Sizemore also knocked in a run for the A's, who dropped a 2-1 decision
against Milwaukee on Saturday in their spring training opener.
Pat Neshek earned the victory after tossing a scoreless inning in relief.
Kole Calhoun, Brendan Harris and Kaleb Cowart each registered an RBI and a run
scored, while Travis Witherspoon added an RBI for the Angles, who fell to 0-3
in spring training.
Andrew Taylor was tagged with the loss after giving up two runs on three hits
and a walk over one full frame.
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Orlando, FL (Sports Network) - Brook Lopez produced a double-double with 14
points and 10 rebounds, and the Brooklyn Nets trounced the Orlando Magic,
107-68, at the Amway Center in the opener of a home-and-home series.
Four others scored in double-figures as well for Brooklyn, and despite
injuries to Gerald Wallace and Marshon Brooks, the Nets played their
most complete game of the season, albeit it was against an injury-riddle Magic
Andray Blatche and Jerry Stackhouse fueled the Brooklyn bench, which outscored
Orlando's 55-18. Blatche scored a team-high 15 points and grabbed nine boards
while Stackhouse poured in 11 in his Nets debut.
Starters Deron Williams and Joe Johnson chipped in 12 and 13, respectively,
for the Nets, who led by as many as 39 points in snapping a 10-game losing
streak against the Magic.
Still playing without starters Hedo Turkoglu and Jameer Nelson, the Magic
struggled to get anything done offensively and failed to score 20 points in
any quarter.
E'Twaun Moore dropped a game-high 18 points and Aaron Afflalo netted 12 for
Orlando, which has dropped three straight after winning its first two games.
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I have the latest 5.x Zimbra (I am waiting for next week's release to upgrade to 6).
My problem is that a local user is sending to another local user, via authenticated smtp. The mail is going via Amavis (which is useful so users do not infect each other), but it also goes via SpamAssassin.
The problem is that one of my user's mails are marked as SPAMMY, although they are absolutely simple and legitimate mails (no links to spammy sites, no attachments, etc).
Is there a way to configure the system not to run the spam check on local users only?
If I add that domain to amavis's whitelist, with a -10 score for example, this seems to affect spam coming into the box, addressed to anyone on that domain - it's getting a boost of 10 points positive score and consequently, reaches the user's mailbox as CLEAN.
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In response to guyfromtex's comment:
In response to paesan59's comment:
Is this a JV team. Am I watching an NBA team. These guys are PATHETIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fierce will probably just blame KG for not putting together a team that can compete!
Remember that 2011 series against the Heat?
The Celts only won once because Rondo had a broken arm.
But when the Celts won, KG had a 20-10 performance.
Today, KG only has 9 points and only 5 FG attempts.
This is the moment where the Celts need KG the most.
The Celtics lost in that series because they had absolutely no team chemistry. There were I believe 7 new players added to the team at the trading deadline. Danny Ainge dismembered that team when it was on a roll. I give Ainge credit, he had put together an awesome team that had one of the biggest frontcourts in NBA history, then he panicked and scr*wed the team. As the late great Redd Foxx would say: "Do your research you big dummy!"


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Plus Blog
December 16, 2014
The travelling salesman is one of our favourite mathematical movies. It's a tense thriller revolving around one of the most difficult open problems in maths, the P vs NP problem, and its potential to deliver the key to the world's most secret messages. Most of the movie is set in a single room, a secret government location, where four mathematicians are being debriefed as their highly classified project has been completed. An unexpected by-product of their work is a method for cracking the codes used to encrypt classified messages, giving rise to an intense debate between the mathematicians. Will their work be used for evil, by governments (or worse) to spy on all our communications and data? Would keeping it secret hamper medical advances and scientific discoveries that could be a force for good? The result is an intelligent movie full of suspense that takes maths, as well as mathematicians, seriously. Visit the movie's website for download or instant streaming.
To read about other mathematically inspired movies, read Maths, madness and movies.
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December 16, 2014
How are you feeling about Christmas lunch with the relatives? Worried you'll regress to your teenage years and all start pushing each other's buttons? The answer to this, as to all other questions, comes from maths: it pays to be nice!
Yes, yes it does.
For the full answer to this question, as well as a great way to while away the time between courses, get yourself or your loved ones a copy of SuperCooperators: Evolution, altruism and human behaviour or Why we need each other to succeed by Martin Nowak and Roger Highfield.
We were lucky enough to travel to Cambridge, MA, to meet Nowak and his colleagues and find out more about his research. You can read our interview with him and other stories about the maths of altruism in our package and ebook.
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December 15, 2014
We have a Mega Menger! Thanks to the tireless effort of students, the Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge (home of Plus) now has a piece of the largest distributed fractal model in the world. It's a model of a Menger sponge made out of over 48,000 business cards that are held together without any glue or sticky tape. Sets of six cards were folded up to form little cubes, a total of 8,000 of them, which together form an approximation of the sponge. The final result, which now adorns our common room, weighs over 90kg and is 1.5 metres tall.
A model of the Menger sponge at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge.
Little cubes made out of six cards.
The sponge model build was started off at an public event back in October, using thousands of little cubes that had been pre-built by students from twenty Cambridgeshire schools, coordinated by the Further Mathematics Support Programme. Enthusiastic members of the public and university students then finished it off, at one point working by the light of a single bulb when the building had shut down for the night. The effort is part of the MegaMenger project, which aims to build fractal models in multiple sites worldwide. If you would like to see our Mega Menger model, come to the Maths Faculty event at the 2015 Cambridge Science Festival, Saturday 21 March 2015, 12 noon — 4pm. You can find out more about fractals and the Menger sponge here.
Students building the sponge by the light of a single bulb.
Work in progress.
December 14, 2014
"Imagine the scene of a violent murder where the victim has been bludgeoned to death."
This isn't the kind of sentence we were expecting to deal with when we agreed to help edit a book to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA). But we did. The book contains fifty articles about maths in all its shapes and guises — the gruelling sentence comes from one that explores how analysing the shape of blood stains can tell you how someone was killed.
It's not all that violent though: there are articles about champagne, Sherlock Holmes, space travel, gambling, sports, and much more besides, written by some of the best authors in maths and science. The foreword is by Dara Ó Briain and if you get tired of reading, you can look at the selection of fifty beautiful mathematical images that adorn the book. We have featured some of them as our images of the week.
Happy birthday IMA!
This image by Tim Jones, showing the ceiling of the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, is one of the images featured in the book.
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December 13, 2014
On this 13th day of our Christmas Advent we thought you might like to think about your true love, and for that you need your maths.
You might find it surprising but mathematics provides some of the most profound metaphors for love and human relationships. From converging infinite sequences describing the attraction and force of love in A disappearing number to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "How do I love thee, let me count the ways…", the rich language in mathematics provides just an accurate and evocative description of human emotions as it rigorously defines mathematical concepts.
You can find a wonderful collection of mathematical love poems in one of our favourite poetry books, Strange attractors: Poems of love and mathematics containing beautiful poems from across the last two millennia. And more recently, the students of The Camden School for Girls in London have written Sciku: The Wonder of Science - in Haiku!. You can hear more from the authors themselves in the video below!
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December 12, 2014
The number 12 is very flexible. You can write it as 2 x 6 or as 3 x 4. Or, even better, as 2 x 2 x 3. Which brings us to those very special numbers called the primes: those numbers that are not divisible by any other number apart from 1 and themselves. Every number can be decomposed into a product of primes, for example 12 = 2 x 2 x 3. The primes are the atoms of number theory, they are also connected to one of the hardest open problems in maths, and even to the weird world of quantum physics.
If you love the primes, or at least feel curious about them, then try Marcus du Sautoy's book The music of the primes: why an unsolved problem in mathematics matters. It's a gentle introduction to the primes, their importance in the modern world, and all the mathematicians they have taunted over the centuries. To get a feel for the subject, read du Sautoy's Plus articles The prime numb lottery and The music of the primes, or watch his lecture below.
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Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Born May 13, 1939, Keitel was raised in Brooklyn, NY where his Polish and Romanian immigrant parents owned and operated a luncheonette. At 16, Keitel joined the Marines and served overseas in the Middle East. When he returned home, he began to pursue an interest in acting, training at the famed Actors Studio before eventually landing stage roles in summer stock, repertory, and the fringes of off-off Broadway and community theater. He made his off Broadway debut in Sam Shepard's "Up to Thursday" in 1965 and two years later began his association with director Martin Scorsese when he answered a newspaper ad placed by the then-NYU student director. Scorsese cast him in "Who's That Knocking at My... Continue Bio >>
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A Carbon Credit Bank Account? Coming soon
November 13, 2009 3 Comments
European countries have acted as good indicators in the past as for what could be coming down the pipe here in American in the near future. The climate conundrum has been known to open up very strange things in the name of protecting the environment or "going green" Some people in the British legislature feel that giving everyone a Carbon-Allowance would effectively cap carbon emissions in the country.
Here's how it would work:
Every time you purchase something that has a certain degree of carbon in it, it deducts a set amount of credit from your arbitrary carbon sum you'd have in the account. The account would work similar to the way a normal bank account works and you would get regular balance statements send to you in the mail to help you keep track of how many carbon credits you have left. Once you run out, you are blocked from buying gas, transportation tickets, etc. until you buy additional carbon credit. As you can tell people can buy more Carbon Dioxide rights by paying the government – tax revenue that they absolutely love.
Britain itself has announced an ambitious Carbon Dioxide emission goal to cap 1990 level emissions by 80 percent. It is economic suicide. The impact it will have on the environment will be negligible resulting in a severe net loss for the economy and the people of the country. People don't even realize that Carbon Dioxide's impact on temperature is barely even detectable if it exists at all. The idea that Carbon Dioxide is directly linked to Warming has never been sufficiently proven, yet we are all ready to march in step as a globe under its banner.
None of these proposals actually aim to solve the problem either. These are all roundabout ways to dramatically increase people's taxes. People who are dependent on traveling a lot will not be able to cut back on their air travel and as a result it will just make it another source of tax revenue to the government. It will cripple businesses, force them to raise prices on retail and subsequently the citizens will lose out big time.
Why should we in the United States be concerned about this?
There has been a growing effort to enforce strict Carbon regulations on a Global level. The organization that would be overlooking this is the United Nations, which is composed of a number of nations that would not mind to see the destruction of the US economy. Hence we can expect a similar if not worse scenario in this country if we are not careful. They are already moving Cap and Trade legislation in the Senate which goes as far as to prevent people from selling their own houses without the government's approval. In addition the risk of this country's ratification of the treaty in Copenhagen opens up a whole new world of possibilities including international mandates being imposed on the daily lives of US citizens. People need to wake up to this hoax before it destroys them.


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Candlewood Suites Jersey City
Candlewood Suites Jersey City
Hotel Suites in Jersey City Offer Convenience to Manhattan.
In the heart of Jersey City Harborside Financial Center, overlooking the Hudson River, the Candlewood Suites® Jersey City hotel is ideal for your extended stay and weekend visits to the city. Our hotel suites near Times Square and Manhattan make for a peaceful, relaxing stay. We invite you to live, work, and unwind in your spacious hotel suite featuring a full kitchen, executive desk and comfy recliner.
Jersey City is home to JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs. Business guests appreciate that The Exchange Place and Pavonia/Newport PATH stations are nearby, which provides for a great alternative to driving into the city. We also offer free shuttle services for your convenience.
Situated in the New York Metropolitan area explore local attractions. Discover the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, and other historic landmarks. While in town, enjoy Madison Square Meadowlands, home of the NFL's Giants and NY Jets. Visit the 9/11 Memorial, Empire State Building, Central Park, and so much more.
After a day of the city-life, settle in to your space and take advantage of our hotel amenities: free Wi-Fi access and laundry facilities, 24-hour Candlewood Gym, Lending Library, Lending Locker, and our onsite convenience store, the Candlewood Cupboard. You can count on us to make you feel at home.
Quick Info
- Check In: 3:00 PM
- Check Out: 12:00 PM
- Minimum Check-In Age: 21
- Late Check Out Available
- Self Parking Fee: 1E+1 USD
- Print Fact Sheet
- Chat With Us
- On-site Guest Self-Laundry Facilities
- Standard Wireless Internet service is free for all members
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Victims in Uzbekistan raise awareness about female trafficking dangers
|Alfred Kueppers
|Publication Date
|19 August 2003
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|EurasiaNet, Victims in Uzbekistan raise awareness about female trafficking dangers, 19 August 2003, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/46a4851f1e.html [accessed 30 May 2016]
|This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.
Alfred Kueppers: 8/19/03
Artur Samari
Mansura Begbayeva is an attractive young woman with shoulder length brown hair and a grim smile. She has a dark story to tell. Begbayeva is one of hundreds of Uzbek women who have been duped into working in the global sex industry. Now she seeks to prevent other young women from making the same mistake.
Begbayeva's ordeal began in 2002. Following a divorce, she found herself homeless – living on the streets with her two young sons. After two weeks of uncertainty, an acquaintance told her about job possibilities in the sex industry in the United Arab Emirates. Such work would prove a source of easy money, assured the acquaintance, who put her in touch with an Uzbek couple that arranged such trips.
The 28-year-old flew from Uzbekistan to the United Arab Emirates with the couple. Upon arrival, they took her passport and told her she owed them $5,000. "Of course, they told me I would get rich and that I would be able to send money to my children," she said later. "Now I can only say that I don't want this to happen to other girls."
A US State Department report issued in June documented the practice of "trafficking in persons," most of whom are forced to work in the global sex industry. In the report, the State Department named Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkey as countries where trafficking has gone on with virtual impunity.
Begbayeva sought to escape her situation almost immediately. Her initial attempt to flee failed, and she suffered a severe beating when caught. Ultimately, she managed to return to her native Samarkand roughly seven months after her departure for Dubai.
According to local anti-trafficking activists, it is relatively easy and cheap for traffickers to ship young Central Asian women to rich nations as human cargo. Activists say that Israel, Malaysia, and Western Europe are major centers of sex slavery, and that women like Begbayeva often find themselves held hostage within hours of their arrival at their destination. A few small non-governmental organizations are beginning to warn young women of the dangers of the sex industry, and assist others trapped abroad.
Victoria Ashirova, director of Samarkand's Ayol Resource Center for Women and Family, offers programs to raise awareness among at-risk Uzbeks, especially orphans and the rural poor. Many Uzbeks still consider the topic of female trafficking too shameful to discuss openly. "We don't keep statistics, but we know it is increasing," Ashirova says.
Ashirova ties female trafficking to Uzbekistan's steep poverty rate. Between 40 and 80 percent of Uzbekistan's citizens get by on less than a dollar a day, the State Department says. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive.] Ashirova claims that many rural mothers are so desperate that they are willing to consign their children to traffickers without understanding the consequences of their actions.
"I spoke to one of the pimps, who told me that mothers offered her their daughters," Ashirova said. "But when they receive $100, they don't think of it as selling their daughters." According to Ashirova, mothers rationalize the exchange as a way to make ends meet until a daughter marries or finds work abroad. The government denies exit visas to unaccompanied young women, but this does not prevent them from leaving. "Most of them use a false passport." Ashirova added.
Nodira Karimova runs the Future Generation Center, which offers a trafficking hotline in an unmarked office one block from Katortol, Tashkent's red-light district. Her staff sniffs out possible trafficking operations advertising in newspapers with names like "White Dream Co. LTD" and seeks to repatriate young women caught in sex slavery. "All the girls we talk to from Katortol say that they know girls who have come back with a lot of money," she said, holding a White Dream contract. "But I've never met one."
Begbayeva, who grew up in a Samarkand orphanage, estimated that she had sex with 25 men per day, mostly migrant laborers from South Asia. Most of her earnings were confiscated by pimps. She eventually earned back the $5,000 she "owed" the traffickers, she says, "and maybe that's why they didn't try to catch me." These days, Begbayeva finds life to be a constant struggle. She has found occasional work as a housepainter, but she says that after a month's work, she has received no pay.
Editor's Note: Alfred Kueppers is a freelance journalist based in Central Asia. Artur Samari is a freelance journalist based in Samarkand.
Posted August 19, 2003 © Eurasianet


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At first, I was a bit leery when I noticed it arrived in a badly battered outer box. When I opened it I saw that the mount head was packed inside an inner box that didn't seem to be damaged. Upon removing the mount head, I didn't see any damage so I assembled it and took a couple of photos. At the time I didn't realize that a dovetail set screw was bent. I didn't notice it until I went to mount a second scope. So I called up Orion and they quickly shipped me a new screw. Orion customer service is first class.
Here are my feelings on this new mount. There's no question that the tension issue has been resolved. I can easily lock down the mount while changing out an eyepiece and not have to worry about the scope falling which was the case with the previous version.
So how well does it perform? Quite well. I've used it with a number of scopes. It's extremely stable. I see very little vibration. This mount is light-years ahead of the SV MG mont both in build quality and execution. As some already know, the SV mount turned out to be a disaster. The less said the better.
So mounting my long C4-R and then doing some slewing showed me that balance is still critical if I want smooth slewing. That means rebalancing after changing out eyepieces if the weight of those eyepieces varies. But this isn't a real problem since once I plug in a particular eyepiece, I tend to use it for a while. I did notice that just like the older one, some scopes van be perfectly balanced and then as I reach anywhere near zenith, the point of balance shifts and suddenly the diagonal end wants to drop. At that point I can either rebalance or just crank up the tension knob. Doing the latter will tend to make slewing a bit jerky. I believe the reason why the balance point changes with some of my scopes is where the finders are attached. With the 6"SCT I have a large RACI mounted over to the right on the rear cell. The SV102ED has its RACI mounted on the clamshell.
So overall, slewing using this rig is quite effortless. With a smaller, shorter scope such as the TV-85 or the Meade 80mm seen in the accompanying photo, movements are smooth as glass. I do find that it's critical to properly level the mount. Otherwise, if I have the azimuth tension knob disengaged, as I slew from left to right or right to left, suddenly the mount will turn on its own. By the way, anyone know where I can buy a small circular plastic bubble level that I can attach to the flat top surface of one of the tripod legs? My local hardware stores don't carry them. The RV store I tried only carries a large one.
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|The Lost Ones: Emergency Care and Family Tracing for Separates Children From Birth to Five Years
|UN Children's Fund (UNICEF)
|International Rescue Committee (for UNICEF); Marie de la Soudière; Jan Williamson; Jacqueline Botte
|Publication Date
|April 2007
|Children's rights | Children-at-risk | Family reunification | Right to family life | Unaccompanied / Separated children
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|UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), The Lost Ones: Emergency Care and Family Tracing for Separates Children From Birth to Five Years, April 2007, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/468e2f632.html [accessed 31 May 2016]
|This is a working document. It was prepared by Marie de la Soudière, Jan Williamson and Jacqueline Botte, under the supervision of Marie de la Soudière, formerly Director and Special Advisor, Child and Youth Protection and Development Unit, International Rescue Committee. The paper was commissioned and revised by Jean-Claude Legrand, Manuel Fontaine and Rebecca Symington of UNICEF. The advice and recommendations come from experience acquired in a variety of emergency settings in Asia, Africa and Europe, including Aceh, Albania, Bosnia and Herzogovina, Burundi, Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Kosovo, Liberia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Thailand, Uganda and United Republic of Tanzania, among others.


text: Comprised of brothers Prince Be (Attrell Cordes) and DJ Minute Mix (Jarrett Cordes), the early-'90s group P.M. Dawn straddled the gap between hip-hop and smooth '70s-style soul, creating an innovative urban R&B that owed as much to pop as it did to rhythm and blues. The brothers recorded their debut single, "Ode to a Forgetful Mind," in 1988, but P.M. Dawn didn't release a full-length album until 1991. The record, Of the Heart, of the Soul, of the Cross: The Utopian Experience, was an immediate hit, thanks to the single "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss," which sampled Spandau Ballet's new wave hit "True." Both the album and the single received glowing reviews, as did the 1993 follow-up, The Bliss Album?, which featured the hit singles "I'd Die Without You" and "Looking Through Patient Eyes." In 1995, P.M. Dawn returned with Jesus Wept, which received strong reviews but weak sales. Dearest Christian, I'm So Very Sorry for Bringing You Here. Love, Dad followed in 1998; by this time, the group had virtually dropped out of sight as a commercial force, even though most corners continued to praise the artistic quality of their work. A greatest-hits compilation, The Best of P.M. Dawn, appeared in the summer of 2000. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi


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Mark Parti's 1927 Ford Model T Modified - Crudely Correct - Rods & CustomsWritten by on December 1, 1998 Maintaining The Outlaw Theme...
I knew that if I waited long enough, my type of rodding would come full circle. My only question is, why did it take so long? Well it didn't. A parallel "participatory" hands-on style of rodding has been with us since the late '80s, but I was blinded by the glitterati of flawless, pro-built smoothsters and didn't see the flip side of true hot rodding roaring down upon me.
But Mike Parti did. The Generation X-ers, who lived in his North Hollywood, California, neighborhood, had discovered the '50s and had focused on its jukeboxes, jitterbugs, and Parti's "homey" hot rods. Master machinist Parti, who makes his living restoring antique motorcycles to 100-point status and is shown here with artist Robert Williams and Williams' wife Suzanne, became the Williams' information source for '50s hot rodding. Parti answered their questions in his own way-showing them how to build a hottie with the scrounging techniques he perfected as a teenager nearly 50 years ago.
Parti began by liberating all the right stuff from boneyards, swap meets, or friend's old iron stashes. He slowly assembled the crudely correct car in a manner to mirror yesterday's communal construction practices. Parti's spiritual guide, Jerry De Mille, donated the front of a '27 T body, which Parti found half-buried in De Mille's backyard. Parti also located a freebie T frame, which he boxed, Z'd in the rear, and rebuilt using new tube crossmembers.
The "bulldog" or suicide-type front suspension-located in front of the crossmember-is comprised of a dropped (4-inches), drilled (10 holes), and tabbed (for a towbar) I-beam axle. It is retained by a combination of '40 Ford wishbones (notched for tie-rod clearance), a radiused Model A leaf spring, and a pair of Parti-produced friction shocks. Steering is a Ross unit of "god, who knows" vintage, and stopping is accomplished by '40 Ford hydraulics. The rolling stock is a vintage mix of '35 Ford 16-inch spokers spinning Firestone and Michelin skins. At the rear, Parti switched the '46 axlehousing halves from side-to-side to reposition the spring perches forward and make the car look better; then he removed 31 inches from the driveshaft, installed '46 radius rods, and added the spring from a '27 T.
A 0.040-inch-over '46 Merc settled between the T rails. Parti filled the flattie with a collection of Ford, Winfield, Navarro, Offy, and Stromberg parts. Even the baloney-sliced velocity stacks, with their painted insides, are generically correct. The only new part-save for a recently minted radiator-is the Rick Cresse-fabricated old-style headers. Quite naturally, a '39 three-speed trans sends the torque to the third member.
The remnants of the '27 T-roadster body-modified by Larry Creese-was channeled over the frame and fitted with a rear panel shaped to look like the back half of a touring car. The grille shell (a cut-down '36 La Salle) and headlights (thought to have come from Western Auto) again illustrates Parti's quest for era accuracy.
"I can't remember Ernie's last name," says a head-scratching Parti, "but paying him to trim the car in tan leatherette and buying the radiator were the two most expensive parts of the $4,000 car." Parti built the dashboard, located the '36 "banjo" steering wheel, adapted the '28 Chevy windshield to the '27 T cowl, wired the 6-volt starter to operate off a 12-volt system, and installed the Stewart-Warner gauges.
Parti's lessons in home-hewn hot rodding have worked. The neighborhood kids saw what it took-hard work, headwork, and homework. Today's reaffirmation of ancient iron and crude kemps is growing. Mike Parti has a part in it.
Mark Parti, North Hollywood,
'27 T-Modified
Type: Bored, 254ci, 0.040-over '46 Mercury flathead
Induction: Offy intake with three Stromberg 97 carburetors
Heads: Navarro-finned
Cam: Winfield SU1A
Pistons: Cast aluminum (8.5:1)
Crank: '46 Merc
Ignition: Lincoln Zephyr
Exhaust: Headers built by Rick Creese
Transmission: '39 Ford three-speed top loader, Ford clutch, shortened (by 31 inches)
Rearend: '46 Ford, 3.54:1 gears
Front: Drilled and dropped (4 inches) I-beam axle, '40 Ford spindles and radius rods, owner-built friction shocks, and radiused Model A leaf spring.
Rear: '46 radius rods, '27 T leaf spring, owner-built friction shocks
Brakes: '40 Ford, front and rear
Wheels And Tires
Wheels: '35 Ford wire (4.5x16) front and rear
Tires: Firestone (16x5) front, Michelin (16x5) rear
Bodywork: Front half of a '27 T fitted with a touring-style rear body panel, channeled over frame.
Paint: Owner-applied red primer


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ACM India and Microsoft Research India hosted a 'Faculty Summit' in New Delhi at The India Habitat Centre on February 4th and 5th 2013. The broad theme of the summit was 'Scaling up Research and Innovation in Indian institutions. The agenda included talks, joint sessions to lay down the background, and break-out sessions relating to the theme.
The Faculty Summit got together attendees from the top academic research institutions in the country, along with representation from the government and the industry.
Dr Shashi Tharoor, the Hon'ble Minister of State, Human Resource Development addressed the summit on the first day.
ACM India and Microsoft Research India hope that this summit will pave the way towards identifying actions for the future that the computing community can take up together.
Program Agenda :
|Day 1 - 04 February
|9:30 - 10:15
|10:15 - 11:00
|Inaugural session: Articulating the Summit objectives
|P J Narayanan, P Anandan
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|Plenary Session
|Tony Hey
|Plenary Keynote : Creating a Climate of Innovation
|Dr Shashi Tharoor
|Open discussion - Issues facing young researchers
|Narendra Ahuja, Pankaj Jalote
|2:30 - 3:00
|PPP in Indian R&D
|C N Krishnan
|3:00 - 3:15
|3:15- 3:30
|Break-out session objectives
|PJ Narayanan, Srinivas Padmanabhuni
|3:30 - 5:00
|Breakout discussion tracks
|1. Enhancing Research Numbers, Ambience
|2. Industry Participation & Partnership
|Day 2 - 05 February
|Plenary Session
|Shree Nayar
|10:15 - 11:00
|Plenary Session
|Naveen Garg
|11:00 - 11:15
|11:15 - 12:15
|Panel Discussion - Driving Quality in Higher Ed
|B N Jain, Rajeev Sangal, Sriram Rajamani, Narendra Ahuja (Moderator), Pankaj Jalote
|12:15 - 12:45
|Online Education
|Sriram Rajamani
|12:45 - 1:45
|1:45 - 2:00
|Break-out session objectives
|M Balakrishnan, P Anandan
|2:00 - 3:30
|Breakout discussion tracks
|1. Spreading the research message widely
|2. Societal applications: Education / Health
|3:30 - 3:45
|3:45 - 4:15
|Summary of Actions and Closing
|P J Narayanan, P Anandan
Date: 04 and 05 February 2013
Venue: India Habitat Centre (Jacaranda Room), New Delhi
Program Committee:
M Balakrishnan, IIT Delhi
Pankaj Jalote, IIIT Delhi
Srinivas Padmanabhuni, Infosys Labs
P. Anandan, MSR India


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USES: This medication is an antihistamine used to treat itching and redness in the eyes due to allergies.This medication is not recommended for the treatment of eye irritation due to wearing contact lenses.
HOW TO USE: Apply this medication in the affected eye(s) usually once or twice a day as directed by your doctor, depending on the brand of eye drops you are prescribed.Wash your hands before each use. To avoid contamination, do not touch the dropper tip or let it touch your eye or any other surface.The preservative in this product may be absorbed by contact lenses. If you wear contact lenses, remove them before using this medication and keep them out of your eyes for at least 10 minutes after each dose.Tilt your head back, look upward and pull down the lower eyelid to make a pouch. Hold the dropper directly over your eye and apply the prescribed number of drops. Look downward and gently close your eye for 1 to 2 minutes. Place one finger at the inside corner of your eye near the nose and apply gentle pressure. This will prevent the medication from draining out. Try not to blink and do not rub your eye.Do not rinse the dropper. Replace the dropper cap after each use.Use this medication regularly in order to get the most benefit from it. Remember to use it at the same time(s) each day. Continue using it for the full time prescribed.Wait at least 5 minutes in between applying this medicine and any other eye medication (e.g., drops or ointments) you may be using. Use eye drops before eye ointments to allow the eye drops to enter the eye.Inform your doctor if your condition persists or worsens.
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Ric Flair watches Charlotte
A post on Instagram of Ric Flair being backstage and watching his daughter on a monitor as she makes her debut on Monday Night Raw. In a rather interesting bit of trivia, Charlotte makes her WWE debut in a city where her father dominated the professional wrestling scene for years.
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Prince Michael Jackson and Girlfriend Remi Alfalah Love True Blood?
It's been a rough month for the kids of the late pop icon Michael Jackson. Not only is the fourth anniversary of their father's death nearly upon us (June 25), but Michael's only daughter, Paris, attempted suicide last week.
While Paris is said to be "physically fine," the Jackson family lawyer, Perry Sanders, Jr., hinted at the emotional agony that has likely stuck with her.
"Being a sensitive 15-year-old is difficult no matter who you are. It is especially difficult when you lose the person closest to you," Mr. Sanders, Jr., said in a statement.
Paris, herself, left thinly veiled clues as to her mental state on Twitter before the suicide attempt.
"Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away," she quoted from the Beatles' song "Yesterday" via Twitter. "Now it looks as though they're here to stay."
Her previous tweet read, "I wonder why tears are so salty."
Prince Michael Jackson was seen visiting her in the hospital last week, but he took time to be a normal teenager last night by taking his girlfriend, Remi Alfalah, to the season six True Blood premiere. The teens both attend the Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, CA, where the juniors just finished taking exams last week.
It's nice that he had some time for fun amidst the sadness in his life. What are your thoughts on the Paris tragedy?
Source: Hellomagazine.com


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Vendetta Red
Birth Place: Seattle, Washington, USA
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Genres: Alternative Rock, Screamo, Emo, Post-grunge
Years Active: 1998-2006
Genres: Alternative Rock, Screamo, Emo, Post-grunge
Vendetta Red was an American alternative rock band from Seattle, Washington that formed in 1998. They released an EP, ''6 Kisses, A Blatant Reminder of Why We Are Alive'', in 1999 and two albums, ''Blackout Analysis'' in 2000 and ''White Knuckled Substance'' in 2001, before signing their first major label deal with Epic Records. Their first release on Epic, ''Between the Never and the Now'', charted at #1 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers and #101 on the Billboard 200 in 2003 with the album's single, ''Shatterday'', peaked at #16 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart. The group's fourth and final album, ''Sisters of the Red Death'', was released in 2005 and charted at #21 on the Top Heatse... Continue Bio >>
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Ever wondered what it would be like to step back in time and experience the sights, sounds and smells of 14th century England? At The Canterbury Tales you can do just that. Offering an excellent introduction to the city and its most famous literary connection Geoffrey Chaucer, England's finest poet, this popular centrally located attraction sets the scene of five of Chaucer's tales in an entertaining and informative way.
Groups can step back in time to join Chaucer and his merry band of pilgrims on their pilgrimage from The Tabard Inn to the shrine of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. Along the way their stories of love, romance, jealousy and trickery are vividly re-created with all the fun and excitement of the famous Tales. The Canterbury Tales is an audio guided attraction with translations available in French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish and Japanese. A special commentary for children is also available.
We welcome visits from schools and groups and offer the following benefits to pre-booked groups of 15 or more people:
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For discounted admission prices pre-booking is required. Please complete and submit our group booking enquiry form (available via the website) or contact us directly. Our Group Bookings Office is open Monday to Friday 9am to 5.30pm.
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Canterbury coach park is about 10 minutes walk from the city centre. Our costumed characters are happy to meet groups there, or at a pre-arranged place in the city centre - please ask at the time of booking as this service is subject to availability. There are also drop-off spaces available in the city centre.
Canterbury Coach Park
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The following prices are valid for pre-booked groups of 15 or more people
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Seniors Citizen £7.00
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For Group Booking Forms please visit the website.
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The Canterbury Tales accepts cash and cheques (in sterling), Switch, Mastercard and Visa. For regular customers, payment can be made direct via BACS if arrangements are made in advance. Cheques should be made payable to Heritage Projects (Canterbury) Limited. Credit and voucher facilities are only accepted when a written agreement is established in advance of your visit.
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Notice of cancellations must be given 7 days in advance, otherwise we reserve the right to impose an administration fee of 25% of the total amount of your reserved booking. Some joint packages may have different cancellation terms - please ask at the time of booking.
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Alameda, CA (Sports Network) - The Oakland Raiders signed linebacker Omar
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The 28-year-old Gaither spent training camp with the Houston Texans after
starting four of the 10 games he played for the Carolina Panthers last season.
Selected by Philadelphia in the fifth round of the 2006 draft, the Tennessee
product started 36 games over five seasons with the Eagles.
Gaither has compiled 393 tackles and six sacks in 77 career games.
To make room on the team's active roster, the Raiders placed linebacker Travis
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Just finished a mount of my wife's buck. I have never seen a wall hanging Pronghorn Euro mount that "looked right" to me. There are some desk sitting ones that look good, but because their horns stick almost straight up, the wall ones with the half skull just look odd.
I think this one came out fantastic. Mounted on a second plate at a 45 degree angle. We glued the lower jaw back in and the added depth really made a difference. Only thing I wish I could change is cutting the base down and moving the skull back 3/4 an inch, but I did this all without power tools so that change would have been a pita. Maybe once we move and I get my shop set back up.


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nice and quite unusual style! Is it entirely done in photoshop? (Oups i didn't even read the end of the post where you explain you use paintshop pro shame on me!)
Your attachement is ok, no problem in seeing it
Here's the story behind my map. My 6 year old daughter and I like to go exploring around the city, finding little spots that aren't well known. She then begins to make up stories which I gladly elaborate on (thus the silly names like 'unicorn forest'... girls, sheesh). I thought it would be cool to map out the areas we have discovered. I use Google Earth to find the area and to use as a template for scale and landscape positioning. Everything is just where it actually is in real life, just 'mapped up'. I did change the old broken train car with old broken wagons however.
A big thanks to Bogie for the freebies (trees/bridges/houses) as well as a couple of deviantart artists for the borrowed sketches of the unicorn and troll. I used paint shop pro (my poison of choice) along with some sketching filters and techniques to give it a more sketchy look.
This is my first time using this forum so I hope I attached the pic right...
nice and quite unusual style! Is it entirely done in photoshop? (Oups i didn't even read the end of the post where you explain you use paintshop pro shame on me!)
Your attachement is ok, no problem in seeing it
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I like it. Even more I like the story behind it.
Love the sketchy style and colours - great job jugabyte.
Nicely done. Did you create a brush special for the trees or is that all freehand?
I really like the 'sketchy' style. The border, title, and troll/unicorn artwork are really nice touches, but I think the sketch version is more appealing because of the lower color saturation. More subtle...more better.
Nice map
I didn't even feel like it was necessary for me to use more than one kind of tree, I just rotated and resized it all over, and changed some hues.
Thanks for the encouragement guys, I look forward to progressing and getting better and better.
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Hospital officials say they'll also have numerous Christmas parties for the residents this year. Our own Andrea Williams was one of the parade judges.
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Thank to DtL reader Tessa for tipping me off to the latest Anando news!
Ana Ivanovic traveled to Madrid to watch boytoy Fernando Verdasco play an exhibition and the pair were spotted at the airport again (it seems to be their fave place for intimate Anando action, huh?) where Nando picked up the smiley Serb.
The pair were greeted by the whole Verdasco clan including father Jose, mama Olga, anad sisters Sara + Ana.
A few observations:
1) it's getting s-e-r-i-o-u-s people
2) now you can tell how monstrously tall Ana is compared to the rest of the humanoid ladies
3) they all seem so strangely chummy already as if they've known each other a while, even holding hands as they skip through the streets of Madrid. Haven't they only been dating since the US Open?
I guess the Verdasco fam really likes Ana. No pressure Nando...really, none at all. *thinks don't screw this one up man-whore*
See more pics here and here.
CORRECTION: This took place in Ferrol, Spain not Madrid. See comments for more details. Thanks anonymous reader!
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
(CORRECTED) SIGHTING: Anando getting serious, take family photos in Madrid
Labels: Ana Ivanovic, celebrity, Fernando Verdasco, gossip, tennis
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- Tennis ObserverDecember 10, 2008 at 5:45 PM
LOL poor Fernando, looks like la dolce vita is over, he must be a good boy to keep the rich female giant in da V house!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 10, 2008 at 5:55 PM
I don't know why I have a hard time believing Ana is so damn tall, I don't know why, maybe because of her graciousness, but looking at the pics, wow! She's one hot huge woman!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 10, 2008 at 6:00 PM
The post is really nice Rich, but some corrections. All these pictures are from a city in Galícia called Ferrol. They all spent the weekend together here as Fernando was playing an exhibition tournament. The pics in the airport are from Ana and Fer arriving in Ferrol together from Mallorca, where they both were. You can see that among the luggage they carry is his racquet bag. The big bag is Ana's. His family met them there and I've read reports from the spanish media saying that when Ana was not with Fernando she was always with his sister or his mom. So yeah, they must really like her. :) They do seem confortable together. They all went to Madrid on sunday or monday, not sure.. but today Ana was with Fer watching a Real Madrid match.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 10, 2008 at 6:45 PM
They're going way too fast. Either they'll get serious or they'll crash and burn. I'm not sure what would be more interesting.ReplyDelete
This is all so cuteReplyDelete
She is a giant! o_OReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 11, 2008 at 4:35 AM
note to fernando: seriously, don't screw this one up. you know, a lot of guys would kill to be in your place.ReplyDelete
if you visit the forums sections on ana's site, it seems that a lot of her fans are still skeptical (to put it mildly) of nando. i also hope he realizes how 'protective' ana's fans can get.
t: hey there! nice to hear from you again.ReplyDelete
sonja: for some reason she doesn't look like she'd be tall, something to do with her proportions. shrieka, for instance, is really leggy and lanky so she looks the giant that she is. i was at an event for her last year and she's enormous - and she was wearing heels no less.
but ana doesn't look very lanky and her proportions are more right on.
anon: yes, ana's fans are ferociously protective and loyal - which is normally good - but when i write anything that might be seen as negative i hear about it. she's not perfect - don't let the smiley-ness fool you!!!
True Rich, Shrieka looks much more like a giant than Ana.ReplyDelete
It only shows when Ana's standing next to regular women... LOL
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1961 Pontiac Tempest - Braggin' WagonWritten by on June 6, 2013 Creating a one-of-None '61 Tempest SD-421
What does it take to build up a base level, four-cylinder '61 Tempest wagon into a head-turning Super-Duty style nostalgia racer? Gary Beemer, a 62-year-old retired sheetmetal worker, knows the answer because he's done it.
"I like Pontiacs, especially Tempests," he says. "I currently race a '63 Tempest coupe with an SD-421 engine. When a good friend offered me a '61 Tempest wagon, I decided to bring it back to life as a one-of-none '61 Tempest Super-Duty wagon."
Model-year '61 was the debut for Pontiac's radical new compact Tempest. A total of 100,783 were built that year, and it won Motor Trend's Car of the Year award.
At NASCAR tracks and on dragstrips, racers were getting the most out of 389-powered Catalinas, and taking home plenty of wins to prove it. Although General Motors wanted Pontiac to bring out a version of the Corvair, which would be called the Polaris, Pontiac management was not interested. Instead the division designed and manufactured the Tempest, which became the first compact model in Pontiac's lineup.
It was hailed by automotive journalists for its engineering advancements, such as the "half-a-V-8" 195ci Indy 4 engine, a rope drive (first seen in the '51 Buick LeSabre concept car), a torque tube, a rear-mounted transaxle, and independent rear suspension. The unique powertrain arrangement did more than minimize the transmission hump, which American car owners were accustomed to in the cabin. It also gave the vehicle an ideal 50/50 front-to-rear weight distribution.
The new Tempest was marketed not only for its advanced engineering, but for its sporty looks and good fuel economy, too. An 8.6:1 low-compression Indy 4 topped with a one-barrel carburetor came standard. It was rated at 110 hp. For an extra cost, buyers could opt for a 10.25:1 compression Indy 4 with a one-barrel (120hp manual/140hp automatic) or a four-barrel carb (155 hp). All three engines had a fuel economy ranging from 18 to 22 mpg. (Buyers could also order a 215ci/155hp aluminum Buick V-8 in the car.)
Sedans and wagons were the first Tempest models to roll off of Pontiac's assembly line. That brings us to Beemer's Tempest wagon's birth, which took place on December 22, 1960. Its Fernando Beige exterior, Indy 4/1-barrel engine, and economy axle made it the epitome of low performance.
All that was about to change when Beemer got his hands on it in 2007. "The body was rough, and I already knew that I'd pull its original drivetrain for a Super-Duty conversion," he says. "There was one aspect of the car I wasn't going to mess with. That was its most striking feature—a Tri-tone red, burgundy, and ivory vinyl interior in nearly flawless condition."
Beemer performed all of the Tempest's restoration work himself. "After disassembly, and removing glass, undercoating, and caulking, I sent the body, hood, fenders, doors, and other body pieces out to be media-blasted," he says. "That's when I discovered an older fender bender with a body-shop repair and some rust issues in the fenders. Other than that, the Tempest was mostly rust-free."
"Immediately after the wagon was blasted, I sealed the body pieces with PPG DP40 epoxy primer," he continues. "Then I got to work with PPG K36 high-build primer and began the laborious task of blocking the metal's imperfections. I followed with PPG DP90 sealer and allowed my prep work to cure. Afterwards, I applied three coats of PPG DMD1683 Tuxedo Black, followed by three coats of PPG DCU2002 clear. I wet-sanded up to 2,000-grit and wheeled it out with 3M Perfect-it Rubbing compound."
David Hillard of Hillard Performance in Donnelsville, Ohio, built the Tempest's new short-block. Starting with a '64 421 block, he filled its bottom half with HardBlok Water Jacket Filler, line-honed and zero-decked it, and over-bored it to 4.16. Once the block was prepped, he stuffed it with a polished Pontiac "N" 4.00-inch crank, Tomahawk 4340 forged I-beam connecting rods (6.625-in length), and BRC custom flat-top pistons. The resulting displacement is 435 cubic inches.
Beemer assembled the long-block, adding "127" Super-Duty heads, which he upgraded with Manley stainless-steel valves (2.02/1.76), Lunati double springs, a Lunati sold-roller cam (289/286-degree duration, 0.582/0/582-inch lift, 109-degree LSA), and Harland Sharp 1.5-ratio rockers. He bolted on an "859" Super-Duty dual-quad intake, and topped it with two Edelbrock "1411" 750-cfm, square-bore carburetors.
Other engine buildup components include a Melling M54D oil pump and Milodon 8-quart pan to keep the mill well lubricated, and a Pontiac points distributor (upgraded to breakerless), stock-replacement coil, reproduction Packard 8mm wires, and ACDelco R45S plugs to comprise the ignition path.
Exhaust is exhumed through ceramic-coated Hooker Competition full-length headers, featuring 1.625 primaries and 3-inch collectors, and then down through custom-fabricated 2½-inch aluminized pipes, dual Flowmaster Delta Flow mufflers, and 2½-inch turn-downs.
Aft of the block, a McLeod Racing 11-inch clutch housed in a Lakewood scattershield, a Richmond Super Street 5-Speed [manual] with overdrive, a custom-length Dynotech driveshaft, and a Ford 9-inch rear stuffed with a Detroit Locker, 4.11 gears, and custom-length Moser 31-spline axles complete the driveline. "I had to enlarge the area around the firewall, tunnel, and floorpan to make a traditional Pontiac setup fit," Beemer says.
This self-described "Tempest lover" chose the classic route for the vehicle's ride and handling. Up front, the chassis retains stock control arms and springs, and stock replacement shocks, which he painted grey to look like the GM originals. The rear hunkers down with a Chassis Engineering ladder-bar setup with coilovers and a homemade Panhard bar.
Braking is actuated by way of a Wilwood Forged Dynalite Rear Drag Brake Kit in the front, with four-piston calipers and 11.44-inch rotors, and stock Ford 11-inch drums in the rear. How did he bolt the Wilwood rear kit to the front of the Tempest? "I fabricated brackets to make them work," he says.
The exterior appears stock except for a Pontiac Super-Duty hoodscoop, and polished Torq Thrust II wheels (15x4/15x8) wrapped in Pro Trac 550-15 bias plys and M/T 235/60R15 ET Street Radials, front and rear respectively.
Beemer debuted his Super-Duty Tempest tribute at the 2009 POCI Co-vention and won Second Place in Popular Vote. He returned to the POCI Convention in 2011, entered concours judging, and took home a Gold. After receiving his award, he drove the Tempest to Beech Bend Raceway and made it to the final four in bracket racing. A month later, he brought the Tempest to the 50th Anniversary Tempest Celebration at the 2011 Ames Performance Tri-Power Pontiac Nationals, where Smoke Signals' head honcho (or should we say Poncho?) Don Keefe gave it an Editor's Choice Award.
"The accolades it has been awarded are sweet, but I get the best thrill from driving it," Beemer laughs. "It's seems everybody else is bragging about my wagon."
Yes, we are, Mr. Beemer. Yes, we are.


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Awesome. You got a couple of good ones there.
These pictures are from our trip to Eastern Nevada, we were there for 2 1/2 days before we had to leave because of an incomeing storm.
"Elk dont know how many feet a horse has" - Bear Claw
Awesome. You got a couple of good ones there.
Gets my blood pumping. I have 7 points hoping for next year archery.
Scratch that. Just checked I have 6 points. Might pull something still.
I know a girl who drew a muzzleloader bull tag in 2009 and she only had 4 points, but I also know people who have had 16 points then drew the tag. You got to love the luck of the draw. I have 4 points right now so my finger's are always crossed.
"Elk dont know how many feet a horse has" - Bear Claw
That looked like a fun shed hunt trip!!
I hunt because......
Atta boy! Good find.
Nice Work !!
Spotted what we guessed to be around a 380-390 class set of sheds, but they were on private land that is heavily watched. As tempting as it is, it's just not worth it. Was fun to see them though. Only thing I found on the land I hunt is a set of spikes that are 26" and 24" long, which I found to be quite long for a spike.
"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway."
Hunting camp coffee isn't complete until you chew the last drink.
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AMES, Iowa – Two-time Iowa State all-American and 2012 graduate Alison Landwehr has been named to the BIP/USA Development Team that will play in the China - USA Challenge Invitational Tournament, June 17-25, in Shanghai and Beijing.
"It's exciting to see more and more of our players continue their college career and play professionally," head Cyclones coach Christy Johnson-Lynch said. "This is a great opportunity for Alison to experience another culture and help prepare her to play overseas this coming fall. Alison was always a great teammate and very mature and responsible, which are some of the qualities a player must have to be successful overseas. No doubt she will have a terrific pro career."
Landwehr is one of 12 collegiate volleyball players from the 2012 season to make the team headed by New Mexico head coach Jeff Nelson. Kansas outside hitter Sara McClinton is the only other Big 12 volleyball player to make the squad, which is traveling to China with the Pac-12 Tournament All-Star Team.
The team arrives in Shanghai on June 17 and will have roughly 48 hours to settle in and adjust to the time change before playing Jingsu on June 19 at 7:30 p.m. local time (6:30 a.m. CDT). A scrimmage on the 20th and a final match on the 21st precede the team's departure for Beijing on June 22.
Once in Beijing, the BIP/USA Team will begin play against August 1st on June 23 and play one match each on both June 24 and 25 before returning to the United States on June 27.
Fans can visit the official BIP/US Development Team website here and can keep up with the team's sightseeing fun, matches and player blogs throughout the trip by clicking here.
The full schedule of matches for both Shanghai and Beijing are below and are subject to change. All times are local, 13 hours ahead of CDT.
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The Hillman-Gibbons connection and the return of Kevin Seitzer
The game of baseball revolves around relationships. Today, the Royals completed their 2009 coaching staff by adding John Gibbons as bench coach and Kevin Seitzer as hitting coach. The men have taken different journeys to today's announcement, but both additions can be tracked to relationships that started years ago.
John Gibbons
Gibbons and Trey Hillman have managed against one another at every level from Class-A to the Major Leagues. Gibbons started his coaching career as a minor league roving instructor with the Mets from 1991 to 1993. As he moved up in the Mets system, he squared off with Hillman, then a manager in the Yankees farm system. In 1996, Hillman was the Florida State League Manager of the Year. His Tampa Yankees finished first in the regular season with a 84-50 mark. Gibbons' club, the St. Lucie Mets, went 71-62 and won the Florida State League Championship with playoff wins over Clearwater and Vero Beach.
In 1998, Gibbons and Hillman were reunited in the Eastern League. Hillman was in his second season with the Norwich Navigators while Gibbons managed the Binghamton Mets. Both were promoted to the Triple-A level for the 1999 season. Over the next three seasons, Hillman skippered the Columbus Clippers while Gibbons led the Norfolk Tides.
Managing eventually took the pair out of the country. For Gibbons, that was just across the border in Toronto, where he led the Blue Jays from 2004 to 2008. Hillman's odyssey continued in Japan, as he skippered the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters from 2003 to 2007. Gibbons and Hillman squared off in April and May of 2008, with Gibbons and the Jays taking 5 of the 7 contests. Now in 2009, the two will work side by side.
Kevin Seitzer
Kevin Seitzer's relationship with the Royals goes back nearly three decades. Seitzer, a prep standout in Lincoln, Illinois, was scouted out of high school by 2008 Royals Hall of Fame inductee Art Stewart. Seitzer's batting skills impressed Stewart to the point that Stewart knew that the young player would someday play in the Major Leagues. Seitzer decided to attend college at Eastern Illinois in the fall of 1980. Stewart continued to track Seitzer's progress at Eastern, and in 1983, the Royals selected the right-handed hitter in the 11th round.
Late in 1986, Seitzer arrived in Kansas City. A year later, the story at the beginning of the season was that Seitzer would play third base, which had been manned by George Brett since his arrival in late 1973. Brett moved to first, and Seitzer fit in right away with an offensive year for the record books. Seitzer tied Minnesota's Kirby Puckett for the league-lead with 207 hits. The total was the most by a Major League rookie since Tony Oliva's 217 in 1964. He was the fourth Royal to collect 200 hits in a season, and is still the only rookie to accomplish the feat. Seitzer tied a franchise record with 6 hits on August 2, 1987. He is the only player, home or visiting, with 6 hits in a single game at Kauffman Stadium. No other player has had more than 4.
Seitzer played for the Royals through the 1991 season before going on to Milwaukee, Oakland, and Cleveland. He coached for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2007 and currently runs a successful baseball training facility along with his former teammate, Mike Macfarlane.
ATH welcomes both John Gibbons and Kevin Seitzer to the Royals coaching staff. We look forward to watching them build relationships with the players in 2009.
4 Comments
Despite being a stalwart Yankees fan, as a kid Kevin Seitzer was always my favorite player. I am excited he gets to return to the team he started with 26 years ago.
Rosh Koch – http://roshkoch.mlblogs.com
I did end up writing a blog entry in response to this post. I hope someone, even if just an intern assigned to reading responses to blog entries, gets a chance to read it and understand a little bit more about why Kevin Seitzer will always be a hero to me.
Rosh Koch
Rosh Koch,
Thanks for sharing your Kevin Seitzer story. We're happy to have him back in uniform!
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