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|Hospital board prepares for new Colorado provider fee legislation
|Written by April Peregoy
Preparations are already being made by the East Phillips County Hospital District (EPCHD) Board for new provider fee legislation introduced by Governor Bill Ritter during the last week of February.
The new legislation was discussed at the EPCHD's board meeting Monday night, Feb. 23.
Called the Healthcare Affordability Act, the new bill proposes charging hospitals provider fees, amounting to $600 million total, to increase the amount of Medicaid reimbursement money that the state receives from the federal government.
Colorado Hospital Association (CHA), the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing and the Governor's Office have been working together for more than nine months to develop the proposal. It is also supported by many of Colorado's medical organizations.
With these provider fees, Colorado can leverage state funds to draw down federal funds at a dollar-for-dollar match to provide coverage to more than 100,000 Coloradans. The plan expands the Children's Health Plan Plus program for kids and pregnant women up to 250 percent of the federal poverty level. It also raises reimbursements for inpatient and outpatient services up to the maximum allowable rate under Medicaid.
Supporters say the increased coverage and reimbursement will reduce the number of uncompensated care incidents—one of the main reasons for cost-shifting to the private sector and the insured.
However, not all hospitals will earn back the money they pay for the provider fees. Smaller hospitals are especially at risk to lose money, according to Melissa Memorial Hospital administrator John Ayoub.
To prevent individual hospitals from suffering under the new legislation, CHA is developing a cooperation mechanism that will allow the funds to be more evenly distributed.
The secondary redistribution pool is a voluntary program that hospitals can participate in to reduce the likelihood of losing money. Through the program, CHA will take money from participants who receive a large amount of it and give it to those who would otherwise lose the money.
Ayoub recommended the EPCHD approve a resolution stating the district will participate in the CHA program, and the board followed his advice.
Updates on new CFO,
physician searches
Progress is being made in the search to find a new CFO as well as a Family Practice physician, reported administrator Ayoub to the EPCHD board at its meeting Monday.
Though no official hiring has taken place yet, Ayoub said he has narrowed the applicant list for the CFO position down to three possible candidates. Interviews are expected to take place within the next week or two, after which Ayoub said he and the board will make their final decision.
An interested physician is coming to Holyoke in April for an on-site interview, according to Ayoub. Dr. John Hall from Illinois has shown an interest in the position, and Ayoub is working to get him in touch with current staff at Family Practice, as well as incoming physician Dr. Danielle McClellan.
In other staff news, MMH is now looking for a new full-time lab manager as well. According to Ayoub, Deb Tatum will continue to work at the lab, but will be taking some time off for personal reasons.
EPCHD, MMHF join forces
to meet mammography goal
One of the goals of the EPCHD board is to one day be able to offer mammograms at MMH full-time. Currently, they are only offered at the hospital through a mobile clinic.
There are two needs that must be met to make this happen. One is the acquiring of the necessary machinery and equipment. The other is a trained staff member who can perform the mammograms.
To meet the second need, EPCHD is joining forces with Melissa Memorial Hospital Foundation to raise money for a scholarship that will be used to train one of the staff members in mammography.
During Dandelion Daze in June, the old hospital building will be opened up for a garage sale-type fund raiser. Ayoub said anything that's still left in the building will be for sale and the money raised will go into the scholarship fund.
Phone survey to take place
A community phone survey, similar to the one held two years ago, will take place later this year, according to Ayoub. It will ask residents questions on various topics about the hospital. The answers will provide the district with hints, tips and suggestions to improve services, as well as comments on satisfaction with current services.
Credentials approved
A long list of credentials that needed to be approved by the board was granted Monday night, pending medical staff approval.
Two-year reappointments included the following: Eric Trefelner, MD—Radiology; Stephen Treat, MD—Cardiology; Carol Deslauriers, CRNA—Anesthesia; Dennis Jelden, MD—Family Practice; Michael Myers, MD—Radiology; Gary Rath, MD—Cardiology; and Doreen Pecar, CRNA—Anesthesia.
New appointments were Lin-Wang Dong, MD—Cardiology; Stephen Volin, MD—OB/GYN; John Harris, MD—PADNET; Maurice Lyons, DO—PADNET; and Gary Bauerle, MD—PADNET.
Those not seeking reappointment included Paul Freda, MD—General Psychiatry; Kathy Meyer, FNP—Family Practice; Robert Devita, CRNA—Anesthesia; Scott Taylor, DPM—Podiatry; and David Slamowitz, MD—Sleep Studies.
Other business
In other business, EPCHD board members:
—agreed to postpone the March board meeting until Tuesday, April 7.
—held a 46-minute executive session.
—approved a five percent raise for administrator John Ayoub, retroactive to January, 2009.
—heard a report from Dietary Manager Linda Alberts.
—received updates on the progress of the hospital and medical staff bylaws committees.
—reviewed a summary of issues brought up by a patient survey conducted by Quality Care Committee. The committee also reviewed with board members its balanced scorecard strategy, and looked into how the quality of each department within the hospital can affect the overall quality of the hospital.


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Tens of thousands of South Sudanese are making the trek from refugee camps back to their villages, only to find that a new beginning includes impassable roads, unexploded landmines, lingering violence, and disease
BORONGOLE, Sudan - The day begins early in Borongole. As a thin pink line seeps across the dark morning sky, the sound of creaking metal fills the air. Behind a long wooden fence, a sturdy woman in a brightly colored skirt hunches over a hand pump at a community well in this remote village in South Sudan. The water isn't coming quickly, and six other women holding empty jugs look on as the hand pump swings.
A few yards away, a different sound rises. A handful of Sudanese villagers with pocket-size New Testaments stand in a dusty circle and begin their day with singing: "Let Your Holy Spirit come and take control / Of every situation that has troubled my mind / All my burdens and cares I roll onto You."
For those living in South Sudan these days, the burdens and cares are great. Twenty-six years after civil war with the Arab-dominated government in northern Sudan began, hundreds of thousands of displaced southern Sudanese are returning home for the first time. Three years after a peace deal promised a new start, their homecoming is bittersweet: The South has few resources, rampant disease, and a local government struggling to start from scratch.
International aid is pouring into the region, and the semi-autonomous government of South Sudan is clamoring for foreign investment to restore basic infrastructure and promote development. But oil revenue continues to flow north, as the government in Khartoum has yet to fulfill all its obligations under the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), which guaranteed freedom from Islamic law to the South and promised the region a share in the country's vast oil revenues.
The work of churches and Christian groups offering both physical and spiritual relief to returnees reeling from the war-which left more than 2 million people dead and another 4 million driven from their homes-has never been more important: At least 286,000 southerners have returned since 2005, and the UN expects as many as 80,000 to return this year alone.
Many refugees return through Nimule, a Sudanese town on Uganda's northern border and the main corridor for refugees coming from Uganda. Tucked behind the concrete walls and barbed wire of a guarded compound near the edge of the town, a small, whitewashed building houses the UN operations for repatriating refugees. (The UN has assisted nearly half the refugees returning to the South since 2005. The remainder have returned on their own.)
Mohan Lamask from Nepal directs the UN office and describes the repatriation process: Sudanese sign up in Ugandan refugee camps (or camps in Kenya, Ethiopia, and elsewhere), then a German non-governmental agency (NGO) provides transport to Nimule: As many as 700 refugees pile onto trucks and buses with whatever they can carry-household goods, clothing, pots, and the occasional goat or chicken.
When they arrive in Nimule, returnees spend the night at a way station nearby that can accommodate up to 1,000 people. UN staff members give each family a survival kit: a bucket, a tarp, sanitation supplies, and a three-month supply of food. Families with infants also receive a small kit with baby supplies.
Then comes a brief orientation: UN staffers warn returnees about the dangers of unexploded landmines, emphasize the importance of proper sanitation, and discuss common diseases. Access to clean drinking water is a major problem, and some communities have only a handful of wells serving thousands of people. "We're seeing a lot of cholera in the villages," Lamask told WORLD.
After a night in the way station, the UN provides transport to the returnees' final destination, a simple but sobering step, said Lamask. Many want to return to their original villages, but the pathway home is overgrown and impassable after 25 years. Most wind up settling along wide, dirt roads. Small shacks with UN tarps and thatched-roof huts built with handmade bricks dot the southern landscape.
Some 30 miles north, it's been three months since Michael Wani Vuni arrived in the Borongole community with his wife, six children, and father-in-law. Fighting forced Vuni from his nearby village during the war's outbreak in 1989, and he has lived in two refugee camps for more than 25 years.
As the sun sets over the scattered huts in Borongole, Vuni surveys everything he owns: It's all contained in two small huts and a lean-to shack with a UN tarp. A small campfire for cooking and boiling water burns next to a small garden Vuni has planted. His family's UN food supply is running low, and he hasn't seen anyone from the organization since he arrived in the village. But Vuni is relieved to be back in Sudan. "We don't have much, but we still have 90 percent of what we need to live on," he says. "Our problems are minor compared with the obstacles we once faced."
Life in Uganda's refugee camps, Vuni said, was "the worst." The camps were overcrowded, unclean, and lacking basic services. Locals confiscated refugees' livestock, he says, and food rations were meager. Local hospitals refused to provide basic healthcare, Vuni said, or asked impoverished Sudanese patients, "Did you bring your brother?"-a reference to money. Living conditions made it difficult for Vuni and others to move beyond basic survival, he says: "It was just unbearable."
Vuni still has concerns about security in the region but says he's here to stay: "To tell you the truth, if another war comes, I will not leave. I will live and die here."
For those settled in Borongole, living here has distinct advantages. The community is the site for Operation Nehemiah, a Christian ministry to returnees. The small compound off a dirt side road includes an open-air church, a community well, a health clinic, agricultural projects, and a 20-foot radio tower.
Founded by William Levi, a southern Sudanese who fled his nearby village after enduring torture for his Christian faith at the hands of Islamic captors, the ministry began in 1993 to southerners who had fled to refugee camps. Levi, who eventually sought political asylum in the United States, where he now lives, provided support for pastors, scholarships for students, mobile health-care clinics, and agricultural resources in the camps. Today, one of those scholarship students, Luka Gobi Benson, completed medical school this year and has returned to Borongole to direct the ministry's health clinic.
In 2004, Levi and a group of U.S. missionaries opened the road to Borongole to re-establish the community. Since then he has made regular trips to the village to deliver aid and meet with field staff, nearly all of which are Sudanese returnees.
On a June trip to the village, Levi found villagers in the hot morning sun planting peanuts and sweet potatoes in neat rows in the dark, rich soil. The ministry recently acquired a tractor and a tiller, though most villagers will need training to operate the equipment. For now, most plant by hand.
Near a crop of banana trees next to a river, Levi encourages the villagers to be self-sufficient, planting enough crops to help the needy and sell in markets. "You don't need more money," he tells them. "You need faithful men who will work with their own hands."
This is a message Levi repeats often. While U.S. aid is critical to the new work, Levi emphasizes that the goal is self-sufficiency. If southerners work hard, he says, Sudan could become the breadbasket of Africa. Other nations-including Abu Dhabi and South Korea-already see its potential. They have recently approached the government about leasing its rich farmland for their own food supplies, yet South Sudan imports nearly all of its food from other countries.
As some villagers are busy planting, others line up at the ministry's health clinic. Nelly Tebui, a clinician from Kenya who helps operate the clinic, says as many as 60 patients come each day. A large donation of prescription medicines from the United States allows the clinic to treat serious diseases.
Health services in the area are so scarce some people walk several miles for treatment. The UN estimates there is only one doctor per 100,000 people in South Sudan. Poor communication and transportation mean emergencies often turn into fatalities. On a recent afternoon, villagers carried a woman suffering from complications in childbirth nearly five miles on a bed frame to the clinic doors. She recovered, but South Sudan suffers from the highest maternal mortality rate in the world.
The most common health problem is malaria, says Tebui, especially in young children who are often convulsing by the time they reach the clinic. As many as 45 percent of children in Sudan under age 5 suffer from chronic diarrhea caused by waterborne diseases like cholera, and the child mortality rate is high. Babies lie languidly in their mothers' arms waiting for treatment. Tebui says the clinic staff offers information on proper hygiene, preventing malaria, and accessing clean drinking water.
The compound's radio station is another way the clinic is improving community health. Its 20-foot tower can reach as many as 100,000 people, and the ministry distributes small solar-panel radios tuned to its frequency. Mostly the station broadcasts Christian preaching and teaching, and Levi says this is critical to the region's recovery as well. Islamic forces didn't destroy the people, he says, "but the one thing they have succeeded in is the family being broken beyond belief."
Refugee camps became breeding grounds for adultery and alcohol abuse, and depression is common among returnees. Levi emphasizes the importance of "raising up godly men to establish godly homes," and reaching out to widows and orphans. The ministry's focus, he says, is "one family at a time, one village at a time, impacting the community for Christ."
A vibrant Sunday worship service-and a brush with danger-revealed the community's determination to stay in the region. When news surfaced after church that a band of men, possibly from Uganda's notorious Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), had ambushed a village three miles away, a local pastor suggested villagers return home before dark. Instead, the villagers sang, prayed, and danced late into the night. Many slept outside on bamboo mats, while SPLA soldiers with red berets and long rifles patrolled the surrounding streets.
Security remains a concern in the South, though the most volatile area is about 200 miles north in the oil-rich region of Abyei. Clashes between northern and southern troops in May forced as many as 100,000 civilians from their homes. The region lying on the North-South border is still disputed, with both sides laying claim to the land and the lucrative oilfields that produce nearly half of Sudan's 500,000 barrels of oil a day.
Some worry the dispute could spark another civil war between the North and South and warn that continuing instability here will doom prospects for peace in Sudan's other region of conflict, Darfur. But no one here wants a return to war, according to Tiberius Hakim, a member of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), the predominant party in the government of South Sudan: "Neither side would benefit."
From an office in Juba, Hakim advises the government on development and runs a private construction company. Officials are eager to develop the capital city, and Juba looks like a gold-rush town: People from all over the region have poured into the city seeking higher wages and economic opportunity.
Higher wages are a must: Sparse hotels charge as much as $200 a night for foreigners and aid workers willing to pay, and rents remain extraordinarily high for homes situated on the edge of slums. But Juba lacks the infrastructure to support rapid economic development, and the boom could turn into a bust. The city lacks running water, electricity, and sewage systems. Phone lines are unreliable. Customers on competing cell phone networks can't call each other. At the city's airport, workers keep paper records of flights and passengers.
"Today in Juba nothing happens because there is no power," said Hakim. He means electrical power, and he is trying to convince the government to tap into the vast resources of the Nile to develop hydropower. But he could also mean political and financial power. While Arab money flows into Khartoum and other cities in the North, the government provides little support to southern cities and has not made conditions favorable for free markets. Foreign companies won't invest in development, even though most U.S. sanctions against Sudan don't apply in the South. When Hakim recently conducted business with a U.S. company, the transfer of U.S. dollars to a Sudanese bank took months because of local regulations.
He says the government must make conditions favorable for free markets to operate and must resist the urge to retain too much control: "We are trying to overcome the attitude that the government should just provide services rather than helping competitive companies that can develop resources."
While the government focuses on cities, Sudanese exiles returning to rural villages will continue to rely on nonprofit groups and their own hands to produce what they need to survive. Even under difficult conditions and an uncertain future, the Christians in Borongole seem glad to be home. As the sun rose over the tents and huts one morning last month, they finished morning worship singing, "This is the place that the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it."
(Note: This article has been corrected to reflect that Operation Nehemiah began work in 1993.)
War without end
Three decades of conflict and hardship in Sudan-and counting
1983: Arab-dominated government in the North adopts Islamic law. The predominantly Christian South resists.
1983-1984: Southern rebels form the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and a political organization, Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), to bolster resistance.
1989: Lt. Gen. Omar Hassan al-Bashir takes power in a coup-and remains in power today.
1990: Northern forces begin a bloody campaign that kills 2 million and drives 4 million from their homes.
1997: Peace talks begin in Nairobi but soon collapse.
2002-2004: SPLA chief John Garang and international community push peace talks to a final deal.
January 2005: North and South sign Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) to end civil war.
July 2005: Garang sworn in as Sudan's first vice president. Twenty-one days later, Garang dies in a helicopter crash.
August 2005: Salva Kiir, a remaining founding member of the SPLM, sworn in as vice president.
December 2005: UN begins repatriation program to return southern refugees home.


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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- At 79, John Gilbert just bought a snazzy, customized high-performance Chevy Camaro. The speedometer stops at 180 (probably a very good thing).
"I have a need for speed," he said.
He grew up poor in a coal community in Cabin Creek, did two four-year terms in the Marines and discovered the excitement of car racing after a trip to a drag strip in Winfield in the late 1950s.
He started racing with a new 1960 Chevy, bought one Corvette after another, went to hundreds of NASCAR races and spent thousands of dollars on Dale Earnhardt paraphernalia. He saw Earnhardt hit the wall that fateful day at Daytona.
Faced with his ex-wife's family-or-racing ultimatum, he surrendered. Sort of. Now, he feeds that insatiable need for speed with "hot street machines" like his spanking new Camaro.
Once a gearhead, always a gearhead.
"I was born near the head of Cabin Creek in a community called Laing. My dad was a coal miner for 44 years. I was the oldest of five boys. As the oldest, my mother made me the domestic in the family.
"It was so hardscrabble in those days up on Cabin Creek that you never took time to think about your future. We never had any idea whatsoever that we would ever get an education beyond junior high.
"We were poor as church mice. When school was out in the spring, our mother required us to take our shoes off, and we wore no shoes during the summer. Come fall, we would start with the shoes we completed with in the spring. Somewhere between the start of school and Christmas, we would get a new pair of boots for school and bib overalls.
"We had no automobile. My dad actually got arrested by the revenuers for running moonshine up Cabin Creek. His license was suspended for life.
"I didn't have a driver's license until I went in the Marine Corps in 1951. In the Marines, I was not associated in any way with transportation. Evidently it was inborn in me, what speed and sound and a racing motor can do for your psyche.
"When I became 17, about three months from high school graduation, a recruiter kept coming up to the old East Bank High School and insisting that we go in. They needed people in Korea. I finally relented. I passed the physical even though I weighed only 105 pounds, the minimum weight.
"I knew my mother would never sign my enlistment papers. I told my dad what was going on. I had the papers in my underwear. He reminded me there was a war going on.
"I told him I didn't want to be addicted to the coal mine. It was against his better judgment, but he signed for my mother and him."
"I was in the infantry, a grunt. I was in the Marine Corps for eight years, two four-year active duty enlistments.
"You could enlist for four years then get released and become a member of the active reserves. I decided to stay full time. The military fit my MO.
"My mother taught me how to keep house and cook and sew. The professional drill instructors think they're tough. They should have met my mother.
"I was all over the world as a Marine security guard. I did two tours with the Sixth Fleet.
"I was in Korea 17 months. I decided to get out while the getting was good. Vietnam was on the horizon, and I would be right out front with some infantry company.
"Within a year, I got married and moved into an apartment near Lock Six. On a sunny September day, a guy there asked if I wanted to go to a drag race. I said, 'Drag race? What's that?'
"There was a little drag strip at Winfield. That day, there were two '59 Chevrolets. Those two Chevrolets just cleaned everybody's plow. They ended up with the trophies.
"On the way home, I told him I had to get one of those '59 Chevys. I went to Landers Chevrolet in Hurricane. It was too late for a '59, but they ordered me a 1960 Bel-Air two-door hardtop with a 348-cubic-inch motor and a 4-speed transmission, and I turned it into a race car.
"I raced until 1975. My former wife and I had identical twin daughters. When she told me to give up racing and take care of my family, I sold all the racing equipment I had.
"I won my share of trophies. Racing was exciting as hell. In Winfield, you were in dirt all the time. The only paved surface was the drag strip itself. Flagging on both ends was done manually. Today, it's all sophisticated electronics.
"I could not get racing out of my blood. So I began then to buy hot street machines. I had three new Corvettes, a '61, '62 and '63, all from Landers Chevrolet.
"The most expensive Corvette I ever had was $6,800, brand new. We used Sunoco 260 gasoline, your highest octane, for racing and it was 30 cents a gallon. Regular gasoline was 19 cents.
"I went to my first NASCAR race in 1960 in Charlotte, the first race on that track. The track came apart coming out of turn four. They continued to race but put barricades around those holes.
"Every one of those drivers is a millionaire. I first saw Dale Earnhardt race in the early 1980s. He drove a Ford sponsored by Wrangler. He did better for his time in racing than anyone. He was the first who knew how to market himself.
"Earnhardt was a good 'ol boy. He didn't graduate from high school. He worked with his father in a little garage in back of the house and drove whatever anybody would let him drive until he proved he could race, and then it just took fire.
"He sold more memorabilia and apparel than anyone except Jeff Gordon. I probably had at least $3,000 worth of his stuff. I gave it all away and put some on E-bay. I had three leather Goodwrench jackets and T-shirts by the drawers-full, and caps.
"I was sitting on Turn 4 at Daytona, on the 44th row, same seats I'd had for 27 years, and Earnhardt came out of Turn 3 and got bumped and hit that wall. We didn't know he'd died until we were coming back and heard it on the radio.
"I went the next year, but I never could go back. It wasn't as interesting to me anymore without Earnhardt's threat. It wouldn't matter if he was four laps down, he was always a threat to come back.
"I've seen enough NASCAR races to do me for 300 years. My current wife likes it. We go to Bristol and Charlotte and Dover.
"On one of my birthdays, my daughters bought me a ticket to drive a NASCAR car at Charlotte Speedway. I went with a friend and we spent a whole day driving cars.
"I retired in 1994 from the West Virginia Department of Transportation as assistant director of construction, statewide. I retired with 37 years of service.
"When I started, there was a one-mile section of I-81 under construction over in Berkeley County, all the expressway we had. I was there the entire period of Interstate and Appalachian Corridor construction.
"Part of my responsibility was issuing bidding documents to the contracting industry, accepting them and reviewing them publicly and awarding the jobs to the low bidder.
"Nobody could ever imagine how far we have come in terms of transportation. We have fabulous highways in this state compared to states near here. Our money has been managed decently.
"I've been lucky. I've had two good wives who kept me on the straight and narrow, hardheaded as I was. As I've had time now to reflect on my life, if it hadn't been for those two people, I wouldn't be as far as I am.
"I wouldn't be alive today if it weren't for my current wife. Two years ago, I had brain surgery. She slept on that couch for three months every night, and I slept in that chair. She would set her alarm clock to get up and give me medication.
"I continued to fool around with hot street cars. Before I had this car, I had a 2007 Chevrolet Blazer with a Corvette engine and transmission package.
"I just bought a 2013 Camaro SS-RS, two different packages with different features in each package. I got practically every high performance accessory I wanted. It's a 2-door hardtop coupe. It's got a 180-mile speedometer. I don't have what it takes to do that, but if I could get out where there weren't many dangers, I could probably run 160.
"It's a six-speed automatic shift that you can paddle shift. You can make a manual transmission out of it. It gets about 12 miles to the gallon, but I knew that when I ordered it.
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it is really cute
I just love the purse it is really cute but I do hate that the color is rubbing off of it rather than that I really like the purse
<3 xoxo
I absolutely LOVE this bag! It is adorable and a great size. My only complaint is I wish the straps were a tad longer so I could wear it all the way up on my shoulder. It would also be nice to have an inner zipper compartment. Aside from that, I am in love :) it's my third TokiDoki bag and by far my fave.
Cute and colorful!
This bag came and I was so excited! I had a hard time deciding between something bigger or the handbag, but glad I decided on the handbag. My bad has all the toki doki characters on it and is very cute! Love how colorful it is and how the nude contrast goes with everything. Love the little key chain characters too. The only reason I give this bag 4 stars is because I feel like for 52 bucks, this bag should definitely be made of real leather and should be higher quality. I thought that because it was designer and so expensive that it would be made of better materials - nope, just cheap plasticky stuff that will crack and wear over time like any other cheap purse I've had. Kind of lame for something so cute. Still... glad I got it!
Too Small
The Reason I'm Giving This 3 Stars BC It's Way Too Small I Can Barely Fit Anything In It But It's Still Cute
I love this purse! I am a huge Hello Kitty fan (and the other Sanrio characters are adorable), so I loved the design of this purse. Also the size is perfect for my personal needs. It has plenty of room for my wallet, phone, and other items. My only disappointment with the bag is that Hello Kitty is not on it :(. She seems to have been at the cutoff of the print. I think each bag is slightly different. I got the matching wallet thing and she's not on that either. Only the chain has her. Overall, seems Good quality and nice.
loved it but too small
I really love the pattern of the purse. But the dimensions were too small. Only good to carry and handle small items inside the purse. Overall, loved it.
My Favorite Purse!
I love this purse! I was excited when this collection finally came out after waiting what felt like forever! This bad is so roomy, but not too bulky. The print is adorable but gets dirty easily. I wish there was metal pegs on the bottom as well as a another review. The leather is different. It feels more flexible than the leather from the 2012 collection. The keychain is adorable and you can take it off. I love that because if I don't want this purse one day, I'll take the keychain and put it on another purse of mine. Overall, I love this purse! My favorite!
Too small for me
I was really excited about the collection but when I received the handbag it was a bit too small for everything that I wanted to put inside. I got the wristlet, pouch and wallet and not all of the pieces fit in the bag. Will be returning for the larger size bag.
nice character handbag
This is a cute character handbag it fits allot of stuff! The interior is very roomy the lining is a nice hot pink color things stand out in it. There are two slip pockets if you have a small phone It will fit in one pocket an small mp3 player will fit in the other with ear buds. The handles are nice but I added a clip on shoulder strap for hands free. The bag is not lightweight so when you add your stuff it's going to be heavier. All in all it's a nice bag.
Tokidoki/Sanrio purse
Absolutely in LOVE with this bag. Definitely my favorite one out of the tons I collect. A must buy! Characters are adorable.


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Background: One of the employees at my company left and very likely deleted a good number of emails that we would like to retrieve. We do not yet have a archiving setup in place, however we did have a VMWare snapshot of the machine far enough back that we feel confident we can recover some information. We created a virtual machine and restored to a snapshot, then isolated the server in a sandbox with another machine to prevent any possible issues with it being on the same network as the production server. I am able to ping the two computers, but when I attempt to navigate to the webpage administration so I can get started - I am not able to connect to it. I try to start the services but I get the error:
Unable to determine enabled services from ldap.
Unable to determine enabled services. Cache is out of date or doesn't exist.
Convinced this is an issue with the server's connectivity to the ldap server I went ahead and took precautions and brought it back onto the same network as the ldap server and tried again. Rebooted server, able to ping it, but the problem persists.
Could someone help direct me with what I need to do to resolve this? I am hoping I can use this opportunity to get to know the innards of Zimbra a bit since I am hoping to spearhead an archiving project in the near future for the function of keeping people from vengefully deleting their emails and SOCKS compliance.
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Queen of the Damned
|Release Date: February 22, 2002
|Running Time: 101 mins.
|MPAA Rating: R
|Box Office: $30,307,804.00
|Genre: Action, Adaptation, Horror, Romance, Sequel, Thriller
Stuart Townsend
Marguerite Moreau
Vincent Perez
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Summary:Legendary Vampire Lestat has risen from a decades-long slumber, determined to step out into the light. No longer content with being banished to the shadows, moving among mortals who never truly see him for what he is, Lestat has re-invented himself as the closest thing to a god on Earth: a rock star. The intoxicating lure of his music has snaked its way around the globe, ultimately finding the ear of the slumbering ancient Queen Akasha in her crypt beneath the Arctic ice. Mother of all Vampires, Akasha has been resting for centuries, waiting for the right time to rise again and seize dominion over the world. Lestat's music is the revelation she has been waiting for, and she desires that he r... Full Summary >>


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Things to see and do - Lübeck
Leaving for Germany
Lübeck :
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Lübeck Hotel tips
TOP CityLine Klassik Altstadt Hotel Lübeck from47 €Book
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With its fine patrician houses and numerous Gothic, Renaissance and neo-Classical monuments, the old capital of the Hanse, now a World Heritage site, is still the most dynamic German city in the Baltic. Surrounded by water, the old town is largely traffic-free and used mainly by pedestrians and cyclists. For centuries Lübeck has been famous for its marzipan and for its cellars which are used to mature wines imported from France.
Tourist attractions Lübeck : Things to see and do
St Mary's Church, Lübeck
Fünfhausen D - 23552 Lübeck
First build as a hall without a transept in 1250, the church was changed during construction. In the style of French cathedrals, the central hall was high (38.5 metres) and held up by flying buttresses. The 125 metre high steeples were completed in 1..
Kolk 14 D - 23552 Lübeck
Hidden away in one of the most picturesque parts of Lübeck's old town, in a gabled building dating from the 16C, the Theatre Puppet Museum presents one of the richest collections of puppets in the world. Fritz Frey has brought together pieces from th..
Holstenstr. D - 23552 Lübeck
This fortified gate, with its enormous twin towers, was built between 1469 and 1478, before the city wall was constructed. More than a simple defensive structure, this prestigious building now houses the town museum. If you look at the tower from the..
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Hotel Haase
Glockengiesserstraße 24 D - 23552 Lübeck
Prix Prices from : 93 €
Dating back to 1304, this charming hotel is located in the heart of Lübeck. It offers a private garden behind the hotel and spacious suites with free Wi-Fi. Your room at Hotel Haase also features a minibar, seating area and CD player. Your bathroom ..
Hotel Anno 1216
Alfstraße 38 D - 23552 Lübeck
Prix Prices from : 134 €
Located 300 metres from the Holsten Gate in Lübeck's Old Town, this elegant non-smoking hotel offers contemporary-style rooms in the city's oldest brick building. Rooms offer a flat-screen TV and free calls within Germany. Equipped with high-speed i..
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Beckergrube 71 D - 23552 Lübeck
Roy Petermann continues to prepare classic cuisine that brings out the flavours and aromas of the excellent produce on which it is based. His restaurant occupies a charming 16C patrician house featuring wonderful bronze figures and high stucco ceilin..
Außenallee 10 D - 23570 Lübeck-Travemünde
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The ideal lunch venue after a little shopping, as the location is convenient and the food excellent. The cuisine is international and everything is made on the premises - even the ice. Lovely small interior courtyard.
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Königstr. 5 D - 23552 Lübeck
This restaurant is in the atmospheric old town, has a tasteful, modern yet elegant interior and good food to boot! Occupying a 13C merchant house, Die Zimberei serves fresh, contemporary yet classic dishes, such as lamb fillets with mixed vegetables ..
Park Inn by Radisson
Willy-Brandt-Allee 1 D - 23554 Lübeck
Außenallee 10 D - 23570 Lübeck-Travemünde
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May 25, 2016
By: Mike Springer
January 29, 2013
Tallahassee, FL-The wife of FSU football coach Jimbo Fisher saluted those who are helping to find a cure for a rare disease that affects her youngest son.
Candi Fisher was the guest speaker at the Capital City Apartment Association's luncheon Tuesday.
The association is working to raise money for Fisher's Kidz 1st Fund.
The fund works to raise money for research towards a cure of Fanconi Anemia.
"The Tallahassee Community has been faithful and not let the interest in our charity fall apart. I'm very grateful for that because this community is what's allowed us to be so successful," said Fisher.
The association is hoping to raise about $2500 for the fund.
Fisher's son Ethan was diagnosed with the rare blood disease back in 2011.
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· "47 Percent"
· "30 percent"
· Loopholes
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· Refers to the moderator by their first name.
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· President Obama says: "Ummmmm"
· Candidate gets caught checking their watch.
· Either candidate kisses the moderator's ass
· Audience member asks a dumb question but the candidates pretend it's a good question.
· Calls President Obama "Barack" instead of "President Obama".
· President Obama calls Governor Romney "Mitt" instead of "Governor Romney"
· A candidate gets interrupted by the moderator.
· A candidate whines about the other guy getting more time than he did.
· Someone refers to Vice President Biden as "Joe."
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Wednesday lineup; Trey to All-Star Game
The All-Star Game is coming up on July 14, and today we found out that Royals manager Trey Hillman will help "Turn St. Lou Blue." Trey will be a coach for the American League! Congratulations to Trey on this wonderful honor.
Tonight is the "Summer of '69" Retro Night with a special pre-game party in the Outfield Experience. Select lower-level tickets are just $6, so come on out and watch Zack Greinke take on the Diamondbacks!
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DeJesus – LF
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Butler – 1B
Jacobs – DH
Guillen – RF
Teahen – 3B
Callaspo – 2B
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Columbus, OH (Sports Network) - Artem Anisimov scored a pair of goals and the
Columbus Blue Jackets handled the Detroit Red Wings, 4-2, on Saturday.
Mark Letestu and James Wisniewski also lit the lamp for the Blue Jackets, who
snapped a two-game skid. Wisniewski left the game early in the second period
following an awkward fall into the boards.
Steve Mason made 32 saves for Columbus, which improved to 3-5-1 on the season.
Johan Franzen and Damien Brunner scored for the Red Wings, who had won two in
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — More than 600 women's rights protesters have crowded into the Texas Capitol as lawmakers prepare to vote on some of the toughest abortion restrictions in the country.
The Republican-controlled Legislature is scheduled to vote Sunday on the new laws as time was running out in a special session.
The bills would ban abortions after 20 weeks, require that they take place in surgical centers and restrict where and when women can take abortion-inducing pills. Part of the new law would also require doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles.
Supporters say the measures are intended to protect women's health, but opponents call them needless regulations to make abortions more difficult to obtain.
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May 29, 2016
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Farmers and others who lost money because of Michigan crop failures last year have until the end of this month to seek loans under a state relief program.
Fruit growers and processors were hit especially hard by the early thaw and late freeze last spring.
Under a law enacted in 2012, those with qualified losses are eligible for 1 percent loans of up to $400,000 for individual farmers, $800,000 for individual processors and handlers, and $1 million for processors with multiple locations.
The loans come from private lenders, who determine eligibility based on the percentage of loss to the producer or processor. The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development says arrangements with lenders must be completed by March 31.
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Let's go, State!!
Kick-off at 6:00 p.m.
Online stream (thanks, freerockhere): 1600AM KGYM - ESPN Sports Radio - Cedar Rapids, IA - Home
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Originally Posted by Firefighter4Cy
I got 99 problems but angie isn't one.
Why are they showing UT cheerleaders for the pregame?
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin 1775
Come on, Cyclones. Let's see some fire in the belly today.
Almost dinner time....I'm hungry.
Oh ya..Go State!
Down there at Burger King, Revkah already had the fish sandwich, so that's taken care of (only $440 for it!).
No more pain, on to victory!!!!
Kansas Must Be Destroyed
Sic Semper Jayhawks
Anyone hear how the tailgating atmosphere was today?
Exaggeration is a BILLION times worse than understating.
Yes!!!! We have streaming audio!!First game we've had this sort of thing for all month long!
Did everyone avoid the goalpost as the team ran on to the field.
Looks like a decent crowd, corners are kinda sparse.
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Looks like a decent crowd, corners are kinda sparse.
You can only play so many corners at once, mon.
Gotta get off to a fast start.
anybody have a internet radio link?
good to see you prepared C-Erik
what station has streaming audio. Website or name please
here's to hoping for us to continue the highscoring trend of big 12 teams today! (and not A&M)
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BELLAIRE - As J.R. Battista begins his second season at the helm of the Bellaire basketball program, he's looking at the upcoming season as a process.
The Big Reds, who are coming off a tough 4-17 campaign trying to replace four starters.
''We're working at it,'' Battista said. ''The kids are working hard, we're pretty young and we're building. It really is a process for us.''
The familiarity between the players and Battista is something the Big Reds hope to build on as the new season gets under way.
''We're further ahead this year, at this point, than we were last year because all of the kids know me and what I expect,'' Battista said.
''We've got 12 or 13 kids back who practiced every day and they understand the effort, energy and attitude required.''
The kids aren't the only ones with a better understanding of things because Battista, who is in his first head coaching assignment, has a better grasp on what he expects from himself.
''Honestly, I think I expect more from this year,'' Battista said. ''I really didn't know where the bar should be put last year since it's your first go-around. You don't want to give too much gas to the car, take off and wreck, but now I've got a better feel for how hard I want to push things and where we need to be.''
Gone from last year's squad are nearly all of the Big Reds' scoring production in Shaheim Price, Derek Feller, Manny Ray and Juwan Whetstone.
''We lost a lot of scoring, but we feel we've got guys who can step up and fill some of that void,'' Battista said.
The Big Reds were a few days behind many teams, but that's OK with Battista. Many of the Big Reds players didn't report until late in the first week of practice because the football team qualified for the Division V playoffs.
The winning mentality is highly important, as are players who can score the basketball. The search for those guys has been ongoing throughout the preseason for the Big Reds, but Battista has seen some signs.
Junior Nick Patrone (5-foot-9) leads the list of returnees. He was a starter on the interior last season. A blue-collar player, Patrone scored around eight points and eight rebounds a game.
''Nick is probably one of the top athletes in the Buckeye 8, but unfortunately, he's only 5-8,'' Battista said. ''He'll give you everything he has on every possession, which is highly important.''
Junior Ryan Callarik (6-3) came on late in the season for the Big Reds and was averaging nearly a double-double down the stretch. Battista is hoping he builds on that success after a productive summer of play.
''Ryan's a big, strong kid,'' Battista said. ''He did well at the end of the last season.''
After those two pieces, it's been an all-out battle for minutes in scrimmages and practices.
''We've got some kids who are doing well,'' Battista said. ''We've still got some spots to fill, though.''
Senior Elliott Ellison is expected to log valuable minutes on the interior. He's a long and lanky 6-2 and saw some action a season ago at the varsity level.
Battista is also high on junior Kenny Hess (5-10), sophomore Nathan Steele (5-9), junior Wyatt Back (6-0), sophomore Hunter Westlake (6-0) and junior Colin Kimbro (5-9).
Steele has really caught the coaching staff's eye and is expected to see a lot of time at the point guard spot for the Big Reds.
The balance of the roster, which will see time both on the varsity and jayvee units, includes: senior Mason Bentz (6-0), juniors Kyle Hess (5-10), Robert Kovalyk (6-3), Seth Pickens (5-10), sophomores Nick Hall (5-10) and Tyler Ramsay (6-3).
''This is a really nice group of kids that works extremely hard,'' Battista said. ''We need to increase our skill level, which in basketball is important, but these kids have done whatever we've asked of them, they practice and work as hard as they can. They want to get better and they're putting in the time to do so.''
The biggest concern the Big Reds could face this season is scoring the basketball, but Battista expects his club to make up for that on the defensive end.
"We had guys put in some time over the summer, but basketball is a game of skill and you have to put a lot of time into it for it to translate well in the season," Battista said. "These kids have gotten better every day they've been here and I expect that to continue to be the case throughout the season."


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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - It was finished early Wednesday night at Ohio University Eastern. Top-seeded St. Clairsville scored the first 21 points and never looked back en route to a 84-50 victory against Edison in Division II sectional play.
For the Red Devils (20-2) it's the first step in what they hope will be another extended postseason run.
''I am really pleased with how we came out and our guys understand that it's the tournament and you have to play,'' St. C. coach Kim Clifford said. ''I was happy with our focus and the fact that we weren't too on edge or anything.''
It was St. Clairsville's first game since claiming the OVAC Class 4A title on the very same floor inside the Health and Physical Education Center earlier this month. The wait for their next game won't be nearly as long as the Red Devils return to OUE for a 1 p.m. Saturday tip against Steubenville, which dispatched Minerva in the nightcap.
''We were a very, very fatigued team at the end of the season,'' Clifford said. ''But, it's a tribute to our kids and how they sucked it up at the end of the season. We've re-fueled and hopefully, we can carry it on a little further.''
St. C. saw four of their five starters dent the scoring column during the game's opening spurt and were never challenged by a Wildcats squad that finishes 2-21.
''We knew what we were getting into coming down here,'' Edison coach Nate Moses said. ''Playing against a state-ranked, well-coached, senior-dominated team, we knew what we were up against.''
Senior Riley Carlton showed no ill effects from a knee injury suffered late in the regular season as he scored 10 of his 17 in the opening quarter.
The Red Devils took a 48-18 lead into the dressing room as senior Dan Monteroso asserted himself in the second quarter, scoring 14 of his 26. He had a double-double in the first half and finished with 17 boards to go along with his scoring production.
Clifford sent his starting back to the floor to begin the second half and took it out for good with less than four minutes showing on the third-quarter clock.
''I wanted to make sure we got plenty of playing time, but thankfully we got out of this free from injury,'' Clifford said. ''You're always walking a tight rope in this type of situation, but we talk about getting better, whether it's in practice, a game or whatever, and I just thought we got better.''
Dylan Campbell came off the bench to net 10 for the Red Devils.
Edison was led by Alec Jones and Skylar Wilken, who evenly divided 24 points. J.D Howell closed with eight.


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Buying and Selling in the World's Bazaars, Souks, and Markets
In The Bazaars of Hyderabad
What do you sell, Oh ye merchants?
Richly your wares are displayed,
Turbans of crimson and silver,
Tunics of purple brocade,
Mirrors with panels of amber,
Daggers with handles of jade.
Quissa Khawani Bazaar, Peshawar, Pakistan
What do you weigh, Oh ye vendors?
Saffron, lentil and rice.
What do you cry, Oh fruitmen?
Citron, pomegranate and plum.
What do you call, Oh ye pedlars?
Chessmen and ivory dice.
What do you make, Oh ye goldsmiths?
Wristlet and anklet and ring,
Bells for the feet of blue pigeons,
Frail as a dragon-fly's wing,
Girdles of gold for the dancers,
Scabbards of gold for the king.
Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949)
Known as The Nightingale of India
I will open thee a merchant's store, furnished with the costliest stuffs,
and thou shalt become famous amongst the folk, and take and give,
and buy and sell, and be well known in the city.
– The Arabian Nights
Part of the old Bamiyan bazaar, Afghanistan
Carved into the mountainside by Buddhist monks between the second and fifth centuries, the
Buddhas of Bamiyan were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.


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How-to: Sew a Stuffed Fabric Alphabet from Upcycled, Recycled, or Natural Fabrics
My girls and I have made plenty of smaller moveable alphabets for their homeschool and their play, but when I sewed them a large stuffed alphabet out of a collection of old bottomweight fabrics that I've thrifted or collected here and there, they were as thrilled as if they'd never seen real, live letters before.
Sewing an entire alphabet is a lot of work, but I've also found that just sewing a few letters here and there, a monogram for a new couple or a child's name for her birthday present, doesn't take any more time than it does to make or purchase any other gift, and it makes for a much more personal and well-appreciated gesture.
You can sew this alphabet out of organic cotton fabric and organic plant-based stuffing, or out of absolutely anything that you can pick up from the thrift store and poke a needle through–I've sewn letters out of vinyl shower curtains, for goodness sake! Neatly sewing up those letters with holes in them can be very tricky, however, but let me show you how, and you'll be off and running.
You can freehand your alphabet, or use any font that you can print and cut out from your computer or cut with a die cutter–I'm using my favorite font from one of my Cricut cartridges for this particular project. Fold your fabric in half (I'm using a skirt that I picked up for free from our local Recycling Center) with right sides together, and sketch each letter BACKWARDS and about 1/4″ wider on all sides to accomodate your seam allowance.
Pin each letter in several places through both thicknesses of fabric, then cut out along the lines.
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I like the fact that it is homemade and care when in the making of this and also the organic materials.
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thanks so much, have been taxing my tiny mind trying to turn R and D inside out! Am glad now because I found your site.
There are definitely WAY more math skills involved in sewing than I ever thought there would be when I first picked up the hobby!


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WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- A suspect hospitalized after a late-night officer-involved shooting in Northwest DC has been charged.
Metropolitan Police officials say shortly before 11:00 Wednesday night three plain clothed officers were patrolling near Georgia Ave and Kenyon St. NW when they were approached by a male holding his side. When he spotted the officers, he ran east on Kenyon Street. The officers followed him into an alley in the 400 block of Kenyon Street. The man then pulled a handgun, say police, and one officer fired. The man was hit several times.
The man was taken to a local hospital for treatment. No officers were injured in the incident.
Investigators recovered the man's weapon at the scene.
The man, whose name has not been released, is charged with assault on a police officer while armed with a gun and criminal possession of a gun without a license.
The 400 block of Kenyon Street was shut down for a few hours after the incident, but has since reopened.
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It is impressive that Klorane Laboratories' chief preoccupation over the past fifty years has been to develop effective beauty products using plant extracts in gentle formulas. Klorane Eye Products display the best of these ideals.
In 1966, Pierre Fabre was a pharmacist interested in botany. He turned his passion for all things herbal into a beauty line, christened Klorane. Hair shampoo with chamomile was the first Klorane product, but soon after, Fabre widened his focus to consumers with sensitivities, especially around the eyes.
It wasn't until 2003 that Klorane Eye Products refocused on eye care with a new soothing eye patch. By then Klorane Laboratories was internationally renowned, but even more dedicated to the preservation of plant heritage for today and future generations. Trust your eyes to Klorane Eye Products.
In the 1960s, many beauty products were harsh on the hair and skin. Fabre chose a path of strict pharmaceutical procedures and testing to ensure safety, and pulled in what were then avante garde ingredients from flowers of the field, such as the humble cornflower. This was the active ingredient for the first of the Klorane Eye Products: eye makeup remover with cornflower extract.
After a long day, or a long night, eyes need a break. A natural, soothing experience awaits the consumer who seeks an organic avenue to relief in Klorane Eye Products.
Have you ever sought help from sliced cucumbers, hoping for improvement from dark under eye circles, baggy, puffy eyes, and a general improved appearance around your eyes? Let's be honest. Cucumbers don't always deliver the results we're looking for. Klorane Cornflower Smoothing and Relaxing Patches for Tired Eyes, however, offers impressive improvement when used consistently (recommended use is every day for one or two weeks). Relax with the eye patches positioned over the inner contour of your eyes for 20 minutes. When you are finished you'll not only feel refreshed, but your eyes will appear brighter and smoother, with diminished dark circles and bags.
If you experience consistent fatigue, or perhaps seasonal hay fever, Klorane's Patches for Tired Eyes has three herbal active ingredients that target the ocular symptoms: chamomile, cornflower, and Arnica. Chamomile (Matricaria recutita L.) appears in Klorane hair products as a brightener for highlighted hair, but it is also known as a calming herbal. Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus L.), the "poster" flower for this line, soothes and softens. Mountain Arnica (Arnica montana) is an anti-inflammatory, found in clinical studies to have similar properties to ibuprofen when used topically.
Klorane Patches for Tired Eyes are moisturizing, hypoallergenic, and free of sulfates and silicones. Packaged in pairs, they are perfect for travel, especially when jet lag is on the agenda.


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Ottawa, ON (Sports Network) - Cory Conacher scored the tying goal late in
regulation and Kyle Turris won it at 2:32 of overtime, as the Ottawa Senators
claimed a 3-2 victory over the Montreal Canadiens in Game 4 of this Eastern
Conference quarterfinal.
Turris was harassed by a Canadiens defender in the left circle, but the Sens
forward escaped long enough to send a wrister to the Habs' net, which
deflected off the elbow of defenseman Raphael Diaz and caromed past Peter
Budaj -- who began the extra session in place of the injured Carey Price -- to
end the contest.
Mika Zibanejad also tallied for the Senators, who took a commanding 3-1 series
edge with Game 5 set to return to Montreal on Thursday.
Craig Anderson stopped 26 shots for Ottawa, which can advance to the second
round for the first time since 2007 with one more victory.
PK Subban and Alex Galchenyuk lit the lamp early in the second period for the
Canadiens. Price ended up with 30 saves, but Budaj was saddled with the loss.
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If you've got a whole gang (well, a whole gang of three) heading into the backcountry and don't feel like drawing straws to decide who gets to sleep in the tent and who's bear food (it's been real, Steve!), bring along the Big Agnes Copper Spur UL3 3-Person 3-Season Tent and let Stevie survive to hike another day. Even though it sleeps three comfortably, has a full-coverage fly, and pitches using a two-pole hub system, the Copper Spur weighs in at just under four pounds, making it easy to load up and take with you. If you're looking to drop even more weight, bring just the poles, fly, and footprint (sold separately) for a waterproof setup that weights a full pound less.
The Spur pitches using a single hub-style DAC Featherlight aluminum pole, and has one cross pole that attaches overhead, combining with the steep-wall design to give you plenty of space to sit up without having to brush against the tent walls or jam your head into the roof. Even if you touch the walls occasionally (and you will, let's be real here) moisture won't be a worry, since the walls are primarily polyester mesh, allowing plenty of air to circulate, and the PU and silicone-coated fly has fully-taped seams and zipper-covering storm flaps to ensure that no water can sneak in and soak your gear in the middle of the night. The Spur has all the comforts of home, too, (fine, maybe not quite all) like four mesh storage pockets, individual media pockets with cord ports to keep things neat and organized, and reflective guylines and webbing to make circumnavigating your tent in the dark a little less hazardous.
- Ultralight 2-pole hub design
- Featherlight DAC aluminum poles
- Two doors and vestibules
- Steep wall design for extra headroom
- Media pockets with cord port
- 8 mesh pockets
- Reflective guylines and corner webbing
- Gear loft and footprint sold separately
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You can trust this tent
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
I've used this tent on five trips in varying conditions: two with soaking rain, one with very high winds, and two were just nice weather. Every time this tent performed superbly. It keeps the rain out. It held up in a roaring forties wind storm on the South Coast Track in Tasmania, when we really thought that the tent might fail in some way. You can trust this tent.
The tent is sufficiently roomy for 3 people that one doesn't feel crammed. With two, there's acres of room. The spreader pole makes for plenty of volume inside, which means that one doesn't have the problem of inadvertantly pushing the inner against the damp fly.
Some complaints:
- Insufficient tent pegs. The tent requires 13 to 15 pegs to pitch with the guy ropes, yet only 8 are supplied.
- Groundsheet is very thin and won't withstand any sharp objects. I use an underlay of Tyvek HomeWrap from Du Pont.
- Dust blows into the tent. Camping in a dusty area in very high winds, we got showered with dirt inside the tent.
- Difficult to pull the vestibules tight to reduce flapping in higher winds.
Overall, highly recommended.
Does the colors (orange and white) represent the new version and early version? If it does, which one is new?
This is the current version of the copper spur tent. A few seasons ago, Big Agnes updated the Copper Spur. But in regards to new verison and early version, I'm not entirely sure I understand (feel free to email me and we can chat).
pack in elk hunt
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Bought this tent for two on our wilderness pack in elk hunt. It weighed same as my one person tent. Hunted three areas so packed it in, set it up, and took it down three times. What a breeze. easy to set up. plenty of room for the two of us we actually set our backpacks inside tent end of our pads to use as pillows. Not a lot of room in vestibules, but enough with packs in tent. great having two exits and entrances. we didn't have to bother the other to get in and out. Rained two nights we kept dry and warm. No condensation. really happy with this tent. I would recommend it strongly. As a three person it might be a little tight. But I think most are. The extra room over the two person really made it nice. For the little bit of weight it was worth it. Seems we are always tracking dirt and debris in, when we took fly off, pulled stakes, just lifted it up shook debris out open doors. then zipped them shut, took out poles and rolled it up, easy.
Eric Watford, Gearhead
The Best Tent
- Gender: Male
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I have now had the Copper Spur for 3 years and have used it on many different trips from backpacking to week long river trips. This is not just a backpacking tent - it is crazy spacious and comfortable.
Structurally this tent is solid and taught through high winds and hail storms, the Copper Spur has withstood the elements with glory. The tub design keeps the rain out and the big/tight vestibules keep your boots and gear dry. The ventilation is unmatched especially with the guy lines and vents on each end of the fly.
If you know that a rain storm will not be rolling through at night and want to keep the fly off, the high walls are really nice to keep a little privacy for snuggling with your partner or getting a nice morning wakeup.
Setup and takedown is simple and fast even with only one person. After spending a few days in the tent you are bound to get some dirt and sand in the floor. When packing up I love to take the fly off, opening up both doors, pulling out the stakes, and shaking the tent out completely before taking the poles out.
Let's chat about tents!
Give me a shout directly if you are looking to get a new tent soon.
Eric Watford
Expert Gearhead
Instagram: @ericwatford
Lexi Dowdall, Employee
Beast Mode
Eric Watford, Gearhead
3 years old and going strong
Copper Spur UL3 Plan and Profile Views
Stayed Dry during Thunderstorms
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
Had a great backpacking trip in the Smoky Mountains with the new Big Agnes Copper Spur. It is very easy for one person to put together. Had daily thunderstorms but stayed warm and dry. Rain got between the footprint and the tent bottom but didn't seep into the tent. I think the Footprint is a must. Bottom seems a little thin without it. Air vents are great as well as I had to sleep with the rain fly on. My husband and I preferred the 3 person size vs. the 2 person-a lot of extra room for not a lot of extra weight. Look forward to backpacking again soon!
Awesome review, Lisa!
Jared D.
Expert Gearhead
Is this particular item a 2013 or 2014 model?
Hi Greg! This is the 2015 version.
Grant Kates, Gearhead
20D body, 20D fly
Fantastic, well balanced tent
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
We used the UL2, but the UL3 is so similar, that we feel the review is still applicable.
This is a fantastic tent. It's really the best balance between comfort, weight, and price that we've ever used. You can get a tent that's lighter, cheaper, or bigger (more comfortable), but no tent balances all those aspects like the copper spur. It's light enough that you can take it on long backpacking trips. It's big enough that 3 people will have plenty of room, and with 2 doors and vestibules you won't be crawling over each other to get in and out and will have plenty of space to store your gear. It won't break the bank either. Another great feature is that it is truly freestanding and doesn't require to be staked out unlike other ultralight tents (Big Agnes Fly Creek, NEMO Hornet, or REI Dash).
Truly one of the best tents we've ever used!
For a more in depth review, please check out our website!http://backcountrygeareview.com/2015/04/16/big-agnes-copper-spur-ul2/
To see how it compares to other backpacking tents out there:http://backcountrygeareview.com/2015/03/23/backpacking-tent-review/
Does what it needs to and then some.
- Gender: Male
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Got this tent a year or so ago. Since then kept it fairly mild, 2 and 3 day hiking trips. My initial impressions were great: it sets up extremely fast, it's lightweight (no need to split it into different people's packs), and it's functional with it's dual doors/vestibules, mesh pockets, as well as the long floor and tall ceiling which I love at my 6'2" height. Plenty of room for 2 people + all gear including packs, or enough room for 3 people with some gear like clothing COMFORTABLY, packs in vestibules (you could put them inside, but be less comfy).
All in all this tent has served every purpose and lived up to every expectation I have of it.
Then I took it up Aasgard Pass in the Enchantment Lakes area this last weekend...
We chose this route as there was a decent storm moving into Western Washington and the Cascades and hoped that with Aasgard, being on the eastern side of the Cascades, would be less of a storm. While the precipitation levels remained low, the wind did not.
At the top of Aasgard we were greeted with temperatures in the teens (F) and ~40mph winds, and 60+mph. With night approaching we decided to dig a spot out for the tent, bunker down for the night, and hope for the best. I did not have high hopes for my 3-season tent handling 60mph gusts in snowy conditions.
The speed at which this tent goes up was more valuable than ever at this point. The 60mph gusts turned into pretty constant wind. With all guylines and stake-points snow-anchored in, the 3 of us huddled inside the tent. Packs went in a vesitbule. The tent took a beating all night and morning (14 hours) while none of us could sleep due to the wind noise (not necessarily of the tent, just the wind in general). Several times you could feel the wind get under the tent and try to lift, in fact multiple times one of our heads, arms, or legs, would raise slightly for a second or two.
In the morning, our packs were buried in a snow bank in the vestibule and another snow bank about 1.5 feet high had built up on another side of the tent between the tent wall and fly. We had about 1/4" of snow inside the tent, on our sleeping bags, etc. I won't knock the tent for any of that though, after all it's only a 3-season tent and the winds were quite high with more than a pleasant amount of snowdrifts. In fact I'm surprised we didn't have more snow inside the tent.
The bottom line for me: this tent held up without a single tear or broken piece in winds and temperatures that I wouldn't expect it to. It's a phenomenal 3-season tent that handled duty as an emergency shelter in rough 4-season conditions.
To the durability, everything has held up fine. I've caught the material with the zipper several times and it's never a problem. I've found sticks pointing upwards the morning after setting up in the dark, the never punctured. The tent took a beating during the storm just due to the speed we were trying to do everything, cold hands causing rough movements, we weren't gentle with it at all.
I don't think I will be buying another tent for quite some time, this is the one for me.
Great review-- we were in the 'chants end of last September in almost the exact same conditions. What crappy luck for such a beautiful place!
What is the difference between Packaged Weight, Trail Weight and Fast Pitch Weight (Fast Fly Weight as Big Agnes calls it).
Also what does the footprint weigh?
Here is how Big Agnes defines the different weights for their tents:
Packed weight:
This is the heaviest you can expect your tent to weigh, straight out of the box or from the store. This weight refers to all packaging, hang tags, as well as the stuff sacks, fly, body, stakes, poles, and guy lines.
Trail weight:
This is the lightest you can expect your tent to weigh, stripped of everything but the essentials. This number reflects the weight of just the fly (no guy lines), body, and poles.
Fast-fly weight:
This is the weight of your fly, footprint and poleset only.
Copper Spur UL3 info:
Packed Weight - 4lb 0 oz (64 oz) or 1810grams
Trail Weight - 3lb 11 oz (59 oz) or 1670grams
Fast Fly Weight - 2lb 14 oz (46oz) or 1300grams
Footprint Weight - 9 oz or 255grams
Anytime you have a Big Agnes question, shoot me an email and I'll make sure to work with you 1-on-1!
Jared D.
Expert Gearhead
Great Tent. $$$
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
I've used this tent a handful of times so far and it has worked great every time. I've used it primarily as a luxurious 2 person tent and boy is it roomy. I used it once as a three person tent and the room was adequate and the per person weight is exceptional. The 2 door feature is great and allows for easy entrance/exit from the tent. Easy and quick setup. Great gear pockets on the inside.
1) Loud. The thin rain fly fabric gets blown around easily and is quite noisy even with all of the guylines staked out.
2) $$$ I got it on sale but I don't know if I could justify full retail price.
Justin Henderson, Employee
Best Tent Ever
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
I love this tent. I've never been able to set up a tent with more ease. My first time setting this up was at night in the middle of a rain storm. I was able to pull it out of the bag and have it set up in under a minute. It's THAT easy! The weight is nothing to gripe at either. It's the lightest tent I've ever owned. I have nothing bad to say about this tent.
Where is the Big Agnes Copper Spur tent made?
Travis Tzioumis, Gearhead
it is made in China.
Wayne Christoffersen, Gearhead
Copper Spur UL Tent Series
Jeff talks about the Copper Spur
hi there, I was wondering what differences...
hi there, I was wondering what differences between 2014 version and older version?
Travis Tzioumis, Gearhead
the biggest difference is that they shaved 8 ounces off of the weight. Dimensions are all the same.
Thanks for your reply, so both versions have the same fabric, right?
Roomy, Sturdy, and Easy to Pitch
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
We took our brand new Copper Spur UL3 to the 7,000 ft. level on Rainier for a test spin over the weekend. The tent was roomy enough for the two of us plus the full mountaineering gear pile. It also goes up fast - we had the tent, with rain fly, up in less than five minutes. The vestibules are impressive, big enough for a pack, and zip up almost to the ground level. This was hugely important to block the night time wind.
The only negative was some noise issues during the night. The winds coming off the mountain were 15 - 20 mph which whipped the rain fly into a frenzy. Earplugs would have been great to have. It otherwise held up great with the use of snow anchors. We're sold.


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Hi. Newbie here. My neighbor asked me to help in some issues he has in some system (nothing related with Zimbra) but my investigation lead me to review their entire email system. Now he has his network (actually two locations and one server in one of them). They are using Zimbra as follows:
One email account for all the people in their office. All of them receive all the request for the business in that email account and the first available agent took the one email and act upon it. They mark the email accordingly and proceed. In that way all of them knows what is pending, what is covered, etc.
The issue is their invoice system produces the invoices and somehow most of the emails are not reaching their customers, (even copies to another local account) so my first suggestion is to move the web page and email externally. This company is a very small one, they rent equipment and they have their ISP with dynamic IP and using also dyn to solve the DNSs.
They are using Zimbra within the web browser.
We are located in Mexico
Well, my questions are:
Can I have this "architecture" working as today with Zimbra desktop with an IMAP server? or Do I have to install Zimbra server?
Can they use the browser to replicate this environment instead a local app?
Any advise is appreciated.
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We live in a world that thirsts for energy. As the population rises, the need for energy grows ever greater. So it should come as little surprise that a corporation is seeking to construct a liquefied natural gas platform in the Atlantic Ocean, 17 miles south of Jones Beach, partly in waters where an offshore wind farm has also been proposed.
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1st Year Result 2013 Hyderabad Board Date: Board of intermediate and secondary education Hyderabad arranged inter part I and part II annual (1st year and 2nd year) examinations in April 2013. The result of these examinations will be announced on 7th October according to the Hyderabad Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education. Board of intermediate and secondary education declared conform date for inter results. So it is considered that the result will be announced as soon as possible. As According to our sources the result of Bise Hyderabad Board Intermediate Part 1 will be announced on 7th October 2013.
In 1954, to conduct fair and unbiased result an organization with the name of board of intermediate and secondary education is arranged. Before this organization university of Punjab is responsible for the examination of intermediate. Board of Punjab is responsible to taking, controlling and managing examination of metric and intermediate. Nowadays board of Punjab takes examination for the district of Lahore, Okra, Sheikhpura, Nankana sahib, Kasur. There are nine boards which are working under the Punjab board. It is the duty of board of intermediate and secondary education to declare a unbiased and impartial result. Board of intermediate and secondary education is doing his job very well.
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Richard J. Stoos, 71 years old, of Remsen, Iowa passed away surrounded by his family Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at his home in Remsen after a lengthy illness. Funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, August 18, 2012 at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Remsen with Rev. William McCarthy and Deacon Rick Roder officiating. Burial will be in the St. Mary's Cemetery in Remsen with an escort provided by the Patriot Guard Riders Graveside military honors will be conducted by V.F.W. Post 3328 and American Legion Post 220 of Remsen. Visitation will be anytime after 2:00 p.m. on Friday, August 17, 2012. There will be a parish rosary at 3:00 p.m. and a vigil prayer service at 7:00 p.m. followed by a Catholic Order of Foresters Rosary all at the Fisch Funeral Home and Monument at Remsen. Condolences may be sent online to www.fischfh.com
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Explores developments in mapping the human genome and figuring out the implications that such developments have on society in the future.
A dynamic, 3-D, computer-animated video that takes you "inside" for a close-up look at how we're made. Watch as the mysteries of the human genome are literally "unraveled."
A list of student-submitted discussion questions for Human Genome.
This Possible Sentences strategy activates prior knowledge of specific science content by creating sentences using pairs of key vocabulary words.
To stress understanding of a concept by summarizing the main idea and applying that understanding to create visual aids and generate questions and comments using a Concept Matrix.
Investigation of whether molecular techniques have advanced far enough that laboratory animals are no longer needed. Covers what animals are used, how, and why.
Covers human gut biome and current research relating to its importance in human health and disease. Looks at the use of molecular techniques to study these organisms.
Covers new work with DNA looking at control of DNA expression and the inheritance of acquired characteristics. It also addresses the bigger issue of how scientific theories change as new knowledge is acquired.
This study guide reviews the human genome, chromosome type and structure, and genes.
These flashcards help you study important terms and vocabulary from Human Genome.