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Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz met with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the royal palace in Jeddah today.
Secretary-General Ban arrived in the Kingdom earlier today for a brief official visit.
During their meeting, King Abdullah and Secretary Ban discussed regional and international issues, in particular the Palestinian situation, the Middle East peace process, Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, Somalia as well as UN efforts to resolve conflicts in the region.
Ban welcomed Saudi Arabia's support for UN relief efforts around the world, most notably its recent $500 million donation to the World Food Program.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Saud Al-Faisal also attended the meeting.
In related news, Prince Saud met today with the newly appointed Director-General of the UN office in Saudi Arabia, Riyadh Al-Ahmed.


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DENTON – Tony Clyde Bean, 67, of 222 George Tysinger Road, died Nov 20, 2012, at High Point Regional Hospital.
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For his debut at Blaffer Art Museum, the artist's first solo museum exhibition, Coolquitt will recombine 60 discrete sculptures and tableaux made between 2006 and 2011 into a site-specific installation which, in its singularity and temporariness, reflects on the condition of the gallery space as a codified place of encounter for people and works of art. The exhibition will also include pieces that occupy a hybrid position between autonomous artworks by Coolquitt and what the artist calls somebody-mades and in-betweens. Somebody-mades are assemblages of objects that are presented just as the artist found them in the streets, while in-betweens combine such found assemblages with interventions of his own. Presented alongside and interspersed with his own work, these elements serve to further complicate the relationship between the contexts of creation and reception, artist and audience, and blur the boundaries between art and life.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated monograph co-published by Blaffer Art Museum and University of Texas Press with contributions by Rachel Hooper, Dan Fox, Matthew Higgs, and Jan Tumlir.
Immanuel & Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival Celebratory Opening Concert!
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After Amina Mazid of Bangladesh meets George Stillman of Rochester, New York, on a dating site called AsianEuro.com, she leaves everything that is familiar and travels across the world to become his wife. In The Newlyweds (Knopf), Nell Freudenberger shows us Amina in all her complexity. She is ambitious, devoted, intelligent, ambivalent and, when alone with George, sexually curious: "When she pressed her body against her fiancé's, a strange sound escaped from George. It was as if there were a tiny person inside him who'd never spoken until now." Amina and Georgekeep secrets from each other that threaten their fragile bond, and the author takes her time letting them unfold. The relationship between reader and writer is always something of an arranged marriage, in the sense that the reader enters a stranger's sensibility, hoping for the best. Amina and George may have a complicated connection, but Newlyweds is an unambiguous success.
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|Idaho takes on UTSA
MOSCOW, Idaho – The progression is logical enough – make one good play, follow it with another. Don't look ahead. Don't look back.
If Idaho's Vandals can do that, interim head coach Jason Gesser says, they can have success on the football field. The Vandals' next opportunity is Saturday – Senior Day and a game at which fans can give a boost to local food banks as the holiday season nears. Kickoff against UT-San Antonio at the Kibbie Dome is 2 p.m.
In addition to the annual Senior Day send-off for Idaho's 19 seniors, fans can receive a $5 discount on a game ticket if they bring a non-perishable food item when they purchase their game tickets – either at the ticket office prior to the game or at the West End booth on game day.
"Things are going in the right direction," said Gesser, who will is heading into his third game as head coach. "You don't see one step forward and three steps back. You see two steps forward."
For the Vandals, Gesser said it is everything from hanging out as a team to positive encouragement on the sideline to "having each other's back."
"Guys are pushing, pushing forward," he said. "We're building that foundation to where we're consistently in ballgames."
While Gesser credited UTSA with a season well-played, he said the Vandals need to first take care of the Vandals.
"We are our opponent this week," Gesser said. "It is doing and controlling things we can control. Executing, making the block, making the catch, making the throw. That's what it's going to be this week.
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During these tough times, how do we manage our time? Football Guy may have an easier time managing himself. He probably has people all around him who do this for him. They're called coaches, trainers, agents, lawyers, accountants; some are even called managers. And their job is to … manage! Brilliant.
In our case, we are our own managers. Whether you are an entrepreneur, employee, or independent contractor, you need to manage yourself and your time. Parkinson's Law says, "Work tends to expand to the time allotted to it." So, if you have all day to write the report, how long will it take? Yes, you may stretch it out all day. But what if you have one hour to get the report done? Yes, it will take an hour. I believe the same rule applies to human resources: "Work tends to expand to the human resources allotted to it." You will have as much work as you can handle.
If you want to increase your workload, hire an assistant. Soon after I hired my first assistant, incoming calls doubled, then tripled. We had to send out more marketing packets and enter more names in the database. After a year, my assistant asked me, "Before I got here, how did you do all this by yourself?" I answered, "Before you got here, I didn't have all this." This follows the philosophy: "build it and they will come." It was an important step forward for me in developing my own "Conscious Competence," the ability to know what works so you can repeat it.
A magic word in managing is delegation. It will open you up to extra time. Remember what you are paid for. I don't do anything my assistant can do. I need to market myself, so I make the phone calls. I touch people. My assistant is a computer whiz, so she touches paper. That's the division of labor in our office.
When it comes to managing your time, remember: Your time is your inventory. It's easy to get distracted or procrastinate. Not only time, but your energy is also your inventory. You only have so much of both. Are you frugal? Observe what you do during the day and you can find out.
If you find yourself balancing your checkbook or looking up the latest game scores (low priorities), rather than checking your e-mail or making marketing calls (high priorities), you are sabotaging yourself. High priorities are business tasks that further your mission: answer that e-mail, research that report, make 10 calls, follow up with that client again, reach that secretary at 7 a.m. so you can speak to her boss. Then, later, after you've accomplished something, you can reward yourself by finding out if the San Diego Chargers won yesterday's game.
To be a Consciously Competent person, schedule high priorities during "prime time," the time when you are at your peak energy. Most people are either night people or morning people. Some lucky ones are both. I am a morning gal. This is great because I live on the West Coast. I can make calls to the East Coast at 6 A.M. and can catch people as they start their business day. I find it energizing.
If you are a morning person, don't schedule your haircut appointment at 9 a.m. Don't file papers at 9 a.m. These are low priorities, and they do not require a lot of energy. Do these when you are tired, during your "lag time." Resist the seduction of doing low priorities during your prime time, just to be able to "check them off." You "check off freaks" out there, you know who you are.
Once you meet with a little success, you'll want to manage yourself and your time even more. Nothing succeeds like success. I think a football guy said that.


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SalGal: Five what?
KK: Let's be honest, Sal, the middle-aged tri-athletes, marathon runners and 'gymnasts' are in the minority here. They are an anomaly, and they have no idea how exasperating it is just to watch them. I've decided to embrace my upper-under arm flaps. They seem to have a personality all their own, don't they?
SalGal: Yours kind of remind me of the bottom of a pelican's beak. Mine hang like elephant ears and are just as wrinkled. I haven't worn a sleeveless dress or blouse since my late forties. And women with big boobs who jog should buy sports bras! The last time I watched one run I got whiplash.
KK: And, you know what? Madonna is just scary looking! I like the way Meryl Streep looks…soft, round, with lots of laugh lines and winks. She probably does yoga, like we do. The only exercise that doesn't make you sweat…at least it's not supposed to. There is a style of yoga where the room is 105 degrees, but the skank of spewing perspiration and bacteria triggered my gag reflex during my ONE visit to that class. We'd rather do our yoga on the living room floor in front of the TV with Oprah on, right?
SalGal: Yeah, yoga and walking and swimming are about all I can do now. There was a time when I could surf twelve-foot waves and run down a beach just for fun. These days I only surf the net and I couldn't run even if an armadillo was chasing me. I have reinvented my exercise program into a daily regimen of simple movements, lollygagging around the neighborhood and treading away from the yellow water near the baby pool.
KK: I think we'd get a lot more benefit from our neighborhood walks if we didn't stop to applaud a house and garden that we particularly like. But, you're getting some good upper arm exercise with those clippers as you steal flowers from a stranger's attractive garden, I guess.
SalGal: Think of me as the Phantom Pruner. They should thank me, and any bloom that hangs over the sidewalk is fair game.
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hi! i have been an abbid pokemon fan since the first game came out, and have had very few complaints for any game. i just recently bought pokemon diamond, and i am kinda stuck. now before someone responds, i would just like to say i do know what im doing. so please dont put stupid comments down.
Situation: saved after beating the Psychic guy of elite four, need to fight cynthia
pokemon w/ lvls
infernape, lvl 47 moves: mach punch; close combat, fireblast, cut
gyrados, lvl 49 moves: waterfall, surf, ice fang, hyper beam
murkrow, lvl 47 moves: fly, wing attack, defog, sucker punch
graveler, lvl 47 moves: rollout, earthquake, rock smash, rock climb
luxray, lvl 48 moves: lightning fang, spark, crunch, strength
kadabra, lvl 47 moves: psychic, psybeam, psycho cut, flash
problems: no healing items other than berries (ik i used them up! i had like 30 to start with.) 8 revives, 2 full revives, more than enought ether/elixers
all most all available tms other than the ones you have to buy. (only x1)
8 rare candies
items to improve the power of almost every type (no dragon) and all the obscure ones such as full incesnce, and lead? ball.
what ive already attempted doing, and probably will do to begin with
teach flamethrower to infernape in place of flame wheel
teach thunderbolt to luxray in place of spark
teach ice beam to gayrdos in place of ice beam
teach grass knot to Kadabra in place of grass roots
lvl up graveler to 49 (x2 rare candies) and teach stone edge in place of rollout
what i know i can do:
i put infernape in first, will finish off spiritomb, then she sends gastrodoon, send kadabra (grass knot), afterwards, sends gible thingy (i can beat with gayridos), then usually send lucario. that is where i get my butt handed to me. if i could get past him, i could easily take milotec, and the bronzer guy i can take, roserade is a prob, but i can take with either gayrdos or infernape usually, its just the dang lucario!
thats essentailly what this is about. i need a way to take out lucario without losing all my pokemon, and/or all my revives. the main problem is he is faster than all my poke mon and im not wasting precious phases using crap like scary face (which luxray can learn at 49, fyi). anyways if you can help it would be very benifitical.


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We've all heard or told our fair share of the endless list of "blonde" jokes, but one local blonde became one when she and her husband were on a road trip to Idaho. Their four-minute debate about how long it would take to go 80 miles at 80 mph has caught the attention and laughter of millions of people across the world over the past year or so.
We included the video below. Try not to get dizzy as you try to follow the hilarious logic behind her answer to a simple question.
Chelsea, as the blonde YouTube star is known, has had her formula for calculating distance, "just wack it in half."
Now she and her husband are taking it one step further by teaming up with Blondes Make Better T-Shirts and Norwegian graphic designer/artist Lise Ellingsen to create a wittily self-deprecating tee:
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Like anyone who has sent kids off to that anxious first year of college, I steeled myself for panicked e-mails, texts and calls from my freshmen (I had three). When those distress signals didn't come, I wasn't sure whether to feel relieved or rejected. But I definitely felt confused. If they were having such an easy transition, why was I having such a hard one?
I lay awake at night dogged by the questions college counselors had warned me to stifle: Are they fitting in with their hall mates? Getting enough sleep? Surviving the cafeteria?
When I found myself filling out a form for a Snack Attack basket—as if the only way to ward off starvation would be with chips, gummy bears and chocolate—I realized that my world had tipped dangerously off-kilter. I'd spent my adult life proudly childless by choice. Suddenly, at the age of 65, I was sending junk food to dorm rooms, worrying about grades and lamenting the rising cost of tuition.
A bit of background is in order.
As a nonparent, I was a natural, never speculating about what my own little Rachel or David would have looked like or become. Put bluntly, the thought of having children sparked only one feeling in me: utter lack of interest. For years I assumed this was a transient phase, taking for granted, with neither eagerness nor angst, that my biological clock would eventually sync with those of my friends. I might not even have noticed that mine was ticking to a different rhythm if people hadn't felt the need to grill me about my childless state. After decades of being hectored, pitied, quizzed and warned about my disinclination to breed, I finally gave up, rather than give in, and declared my independence from the last lingering stereotype about women by writing The Baby Boon, a manifesto for the rights of the childless.
That was that.
Then I met the trio of young men who wouldn't exactly become my three sons but would just as surely lay claim to my time, my concern, my money and, yes, my reluctant, independent heart.
In 2005, I accepted a Fulbright professorship and moved from New York to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, a sort of perverse reverse migration from the First to the Third World, comfort to deprivation, calm to chaos. I intended to teach journalism, not bring back three kids in need of higher education. Then again, I also didn't intend to make a documentary about an Afro-fusion band composed of eight musicians who have disabilities, which is what I wound up doing after I heard their amazing group, Liyana, play at a concert.
During the months of filming, three of the young people—the marimba players, whose typically Zimbabwean first names were Honest, Energy and Goodwell—became my friends, enlivening my days with their biting, self-deprecating humor. Amused by his addiction to shoe shopping even though he cannot walk, Energy Maburutse vamped about being the Imelda Marcos of Africa. Goodwell Nzou, the serious one, on occasion jokingly threatened to remove his wooden leg in the middle of the street and use it to punish rude passersby. And Honest Mupatsi, who has hemophilia, warned his friends not to mess with him too hard, lest he bleed all over them and die at their feet.
They tutored me in isiNdebele slang, taught me how to curse in Shona and led me through the contradictions of their lives in a country that sees people with disabilities as cursed.
Shortly after the film, iThemba, was released internationally, Energy, Goodwell and Honest confided, shyly, that they dreamed of studying in America. It was a wildly quixotic fantasy for these reticent teenagers from tiny villages in one of the poorest countries on the planet. As Energy put it, they were "like three ants dreaming of becoming kings when they're the smallest animal in the jungle."
The average ant probably has a better life than the three boys did. When doctors diagnosed Energy with osteogenesis imperfecta—brittle-bone syndrome—and explained that his legs would never hold his weight, his father's family accused his mother of engaging in witchcraft and demanded that his father divorce her. Honest can walk but only with difficulty, because his father refused to believe he had hemophilia and thus kept him away from essential medical care. Goodwell lost his right leg to a snake bite because he lived in an area so remote, it was two weeks before a doctor at the local clinic was available to see him, even as his leg turned gangrenous.
It was a miracle they'd come as far as they had, since in Zimbabwe few children born with disabilities receive any education at all. Many are hidden away in the huts of parents ashamed of their conditions. Others wander the streets of the capital, Harare, literally tied to relatives who use them as begging bait. Honest and Energy were lucky: Their parents thought they should at least finish primary school. Goodwell, however, faced serious resistance when he pleaded to continue past fifth grade. None of his 21 siblings had, and when Goodwell emerged from the hospital bent on further schooling, one aunt asked, Why spend money on a boy who was now useless?
Determined to prove her wrong, Goodwell persisted until his parents found him a place at a school for the disabled, which is where he met Honest and Energy. The three egged one another on and competed all the way through secondary school. Their blithe disdain for self-pity humbled me, as did their tenacity.
But their longing for something more was chilling; in Zimbabwe, more isn't really available. Failed government policies have wreaked havoc on the once-prosperous nation. The economy has collapsed, leaving some 90 percent of adults jobless. A cholera epidemic recently killed more than 4,000 people. Life expectancy has fallen and is now among the lowest on earth.
When I met them, Goodwell was limping around with a 20-pound wooden leg as his prosthetic. Honest often returned from visits home barely able to walk, because he constantly ran out of the factor that keeps his blood clotting. And Energy, who uses a wheelchair, couldn't go to the store, get on a bus or visit any public buildings: Nothing was accessible. Even if their parents had believed in higher education, none of them had the money or the savvy to help launch these boys' futures.
The afternoon the three admitted they were dreaming of an American education, I looked around the tiny, roach-filled cottage they shared with six other boys while attending high school and imagined their adult lives in Zimbabwe. Goodwell, who'd pulled himself up by his fingernails to master chemistry and calculus, would never work in a serious research laboratory, a goal he'd clung to during the year he spent in the hospital after his amputation; local university labs had neither chemicals nor equipment. Energy, an eloquent young man I'd always imagined as a powerful voice for human rights in Africa, would be stuck back in his village, since no local university was wheelchair accessible. And Honest could forget his dream of learning computer science, because the newest local technology was 20th century.
I didn't think. I didn't weigh the options or consult with my husband. There was nothing to consider beyond the simplest of equations: They needed out. I could help pry open the exit door.
I smiled at Goodwell, the bold one who'd pushed them all to dream. "You're not ants," I said all too confidently. "If you want to go to university in America, I'll help make it happen."
It was a reckless, risky offer to 18-year-old boys who'd only begun learning English five years earlier and often lacked the money for bus fare, much less tuition. I had no special "in" at any university, no friends in high places. All I had was simple faith that if the college admissions committees could glimpse what I did—the intellectual spark and unrelenting drive of these young men—they would open their doors.
I hired a math tutor to prepare them for the mysteries of the SATs. Then, twice a week for five months, I picked them up from school and, after the mandatory snack, tutored them in En-glish and essay writing. (They laughed at the American "need to feed," as they dubbed it, but happily learned to lick my cake-batter bowls clean.) By the time exam day arrived, they were strong and confident; I, of course, was a wreck.
We spent another five months combing through college catalogs. Big universities or small ones? Could they stand the cold of the Northeast?
Like good Zimbabweans, who seem to have a genetic ability to stand in line for hours without complaint, they were patient as we waited for news. A true New Yorker, I prodded the admissions committees to watch iThemba and listen to the boys' music.
In April 2011, we celebrated their admission to a range of schools suited to their individual interests. Then the panic set in: Goodwell and Energy received less scholarship money than they needed. The boys asked us for nothing, their pride overwhelming their pain. I looked at my husband, Dennis, who simply nodded his head.
"We'll sort out the money," I told them. "Just get ready to leave."
I persuaded Zimbabwe's Minister of Education to ask the presidents of the universities for more scholarship money. When Dennis and I returned to New York, where we spend half of each year, I begged not only my friends for contributions but also my local bank, supermarket, area churches, even the garden club. I set up a fund-raising website. I showed my film to pull at heartstrings and sent letters of appeal to every foundation, every rich person, I could find. And I tapped our savings—the gift of a lifetime of childlessness—knowing that I'd have to do it all again the next year, and the next year, and the one after that.
The three arrived in America with one small suitcase apiece. By the time they left my house in the Catskills three weeks later, they had each gained weight, had received repeated lectures about condom use and were staggering under a load of down jackets, boots, irons, bedspreads, towels, dishes, cups and laptops, thanks to the generosity of our friends.
We sent Honest off first, to the University of Kansas, and I fretted about how he'd manage his plane connection in Washington. Energy was next; if all went according to plan, a new electric wheelchair that I'd persuaded a California group to donate would be waiting when he arrived at Lynn University, in Florida. Dennis and I personally delivered Goodwell to Nazareth College, in Rochester, New York, and as we drove away, the immensity of what we, and they, had done crashed down on us. Yes, we worried. We had to. That was part of our new job. We also wept, with joy.
The boys didn't e-mail, text or call in alarm, because they adapted beautifully. Energy can't stop smiling as wheelchair-ready ramps lead to doors that open automatically. Goodwell loves his chemistry and calculus classes and laughs at the attempts of the school's percussion ensemble to master the Shona songs he's been teaching them. Honest giggles about the "funny gods" he learned about in Greek and Roman mythology; he's also learned to shout himself hoarse as a proud Kansas Jayhawk.
And me? I've traveled, in a compressed period, at an unusually late stage in life, the parental arc from making everything happen to letting it be, from being needed in an urgent and imminent fashion to simply being on standby. As countless moms and dads out there know, it's a strange transition.
I suspect my three "sons" will remain in my life long past their college years. I didn't give birth to them, but in a sense I did bring them into the world—the world they now inhabit—and I'm as stuck with them as they are with me. Some might say I've finally become a parent. I would just say I've been given a gift.
To help Energy, Honest and Goodwell with their college expenses, click here.
Elinor Burkett has reported from and/or taught in Cuba, Kyrgyzstan, Iraq and elsewhere. She won a Documentary (Short Subject) Oscar for Music by Prudence, which was also about the band Liyana.
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A cerebral aneurysm (also called an intracranial aneurysm or brain aneurysm) is a bulging, weakened area in the wall of an artery in the brain, resulting in an abnormal widening or ballooning. Because there is a weakened spot in the artery wall, there is a risk for rupture (bursting) of the aneurysm.
A cerebral aneurysm generally occurs in an artery located in the front part of the brain which supplies oxygen-rich blood to the brain tissue. A normal artery wall is made up of three layers. The aneurysm wall is thin and weak because of an abnormal loss or absence of the muscular layer of the artery wall, leaving only two layers.
The most common type of cerebral aneurysm is called a saccular, or berry, aneurysm, occurring in 90 percent of cerebral aneurysms. This type of aneurysm looks like a "berry" with a narrow stem. More than one aneurysm may be present at the same time.
Two other types of cerebral aneurysms are fusiform and dissecting aneurysms. A fusiform aneurysm bulges out on all sides (circumferentially). Fusiform aneurysms are generally associated with atherosclerosis.
A dissecting aneurysm may result from a tear in the inner layer of the artery wall, causing blood to leak into the layers. This may cause a ballooning out on one side of the artery wall or it may block off or obstruct blood flow through the artery. Dissecting aneurysms may occur with traumatic injury. The shape and location of the aneurysm may affect what treatment is performed.
Most cerebral aneurysms (90 percent) are present without any symptoms and are small in size (less than 10 millimeters, or less than four-tenths of an inch, in diameter). Smaller aneurysms may have a lower risk of rupture.
Although a cerebral aneurysm may be present without symptoms, the most common initial symptom of a cerebral saccular aneurysm is a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). SAH is bleeding into the subarachnoid space (the space between the brain and the membranes that cover the brain). A ruptured cerebral saccular aneurysm is the most common cause (80 percent) of SAH. SAH is a medical emergency and may be the cause of a hemorrhagic (bleeding) stroke.
Hemorrhagic strokes occur when a blood vessel that supplies the brain ruptures and bleeds. When an artery bleeds into the brain, brain cells and tissues do not receive oxygen and nutrients. In addition, pressure builds up in surrounding tissues, and irritation and swelling occurs. About 20 percent of strokes are caused by hemorrhagic bleeding.
Increased risk of rupture is associated with aneurysms that are greater than 10 millimeters (less than four-tenths of an inch) in diameter, a particular location (circulation in the back portion of the brain), and/or previous rupture of another aneurysm. A significant risk of death is associated with the rupture of a cerebral aneurysm.
Currently, the cause of cerebral aneurysms is not clearly understood. The formation of cerebral saccular aneurysms has been associated with predominantly two factors: an abnormal degenerative (breaking down) change in the wall of an artery, and the effects of pressure from the pulsations of blood being pumped forward through the arteries in the brain. Certain locations of an aneurysm may create greater pressure on the aneurysm such as at a bifurcation (where the artery divides).
The forming of a cerebral aneurysm has also been linked to risk factors that are inherited or may develop later in life (acquired risk factors).
Inherited risk factors associated with aneurysm formation may include, but are not limited to, the following:
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A risk factor is anything that may increase a person's chance of developing a disease. It may be an activity, such as smoking, diet, family history, or many other things. Different diseases have different risk factors.
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The presence of a cerebral aneurysm may not be known until the time of rupture. However, occasionally there may be symptoms that occur prior to an actual rupture due to a small amount of blood that may leak, called "warning leaks," into the brain.
The symptoms of an unruptured cerebral aneurysm include, but are not limited to, the following:
The first evidence of a cerebral aneurysm may be a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), due to rupture of the aneurysm. Symptoms that may occur at the time of SAH include, but are not limited to, the following:
The symptoms of a cerebral aneurysm may resemble other problems or medical conditions. Always consult your physician for a diagnosis.
A cerebral aneurysm is often discovered after it has ruptured or by chance during diagnostic examinations such as computed tomography (CT scan), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or angiography that are being done for other conditions.
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For the past five years, the Museum of the Arkansas Grand Prairie has participated in the celebration of Black History Month.
This year is no exception with the celebration at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, in the Links Room of the museum at 921 E. Fourth St. Refreshments and cookies will be served.
At the past celebrations, there have been a variety of informative programs on influential African Americans of the Grand Prairie, plays and skits of interest during the fight for civil rights in America and special guest speakers from across the region and state.
"We always have a wonderful time with history and a number of musical selections," Gena Seidenschwarz, archivist at the museum, said. "This is our annual salute to the black heritage of the Grand Prairie."
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Friday, August 14, 2009
****It's our Birthday: Me n My twin****
Thanks for all the comments.
Thanks for accompanying me into my twenties. I can't believe it. I'm 20 today and I suddenly feel like I need to be achieving more and making plans for my future. With Dione Mauve in the bag, I feel I'm starting and with my Make-Up, hopefully I'm growing.
My twin n I are on a way to a bright future by God's grace. And we are getting married on the same day! I figure, my dad will only have to cry once. Dunno if the traditional wedding will be together though. We'll see. So,
20 Quick thanks
1. To God for my life 2. To the Parents for love and sacrifice and to the fam for love, anger, laughter and tears 3.To Debs-lee because she`s simply the best little sister any cougar can be an example for. 4. To JB for being him 5. To you bloggers for sharing a part of me 6. To friends for loving me and caring 7. To Frenemies: Ummm 8. To my co-workers for making work not seem so so bad 9.To my High school the best ever 10. For success in school 11. To the models in all my photoshoots 12. For a roof over my head 13. To McDonald's for wonder ful fries.lol 14. For Twix, Sun Chips and sour gums for the couple of pounds on my hips 15. For Afro kinky, the perfect hair-do ever 16. For the talents, I'm blessed with 17.For my sewing machine, creating purses and outfits 18. For my laptop and all our late nights! 19. My Camera for the memories I can now treasure 20. To just living and loving life in the best way I can.
So I tried to get my sister to blog; and if you know her, you'll know that she refused flat-out. But here are pictures of us this year. Thank God for his mercies!!
Thanks and have a blessed weekend!
40 comments:
- Lolia said...
Happy birthday my Beautiful! I'm very proud of you and the lovely lady you have become and continue to be everyday.
My prayer is that God continues to guide, bless and keep you always and that you remain an inspiration to everyone you come in contact with.
I love you and Ifeoma always and always and always!
- August 14, 2009 at 2:01 AM
- Tinu said...
Happy birthday to and ur sis!!!
May God continue to bless and guide you,many many many more fabulous years for both of you!!
- August 14, 2009 at 2:02 AM
- Sugabelly said...
Happy Birthday. You both look gorgeous.
- August 14, 2009 at 2:03 AM
- Lolia said...
That said, *sigh*, this first business is becoming a bit too easy...Everyone else is slacking hehe :)
And lol @ twix and sunchips!
- August 14, 2009 at 2:04 AM
- Nice Anon said...
Happy birthday to you. You look great in your photos.
- August 14, 2009 at 2:12 AM
- bob-ij said...
Lolia: Amen. Thank you so so much! Reformed from short-hair Loyola days..lol even though the hair is still resilient. And I know you're just the best!
Tinu: Amen Amen Amen. Thank you for the birthday wishes!
Sugabelly:Thanks.. :D
Nice Anon:Thanks and Thanks!
- August 14, 2009 at 2:27 AM
- Chari said...
wow didnt realize u had a twin!
mehn happy birthday oh....may God hold you by your hand and take you to that 'hood of fulfilment in all that you do, kiddo...
btw many happy returns oh!
- August 14, 2009 at 3:37 AM
- ~Sirius~ said...
Happy Birthday...........Many more years with fulfilled heart desires.
- August 14, 2009 at 4:01 AM
- August 14, 2009 at 4:50 AM
- Gee said...
awww ijoema nd ifeoma...oh i do miss u lovely girls!
too bad i culdnt be in ott this summer as i had originally planned!
hve a funfilled bday loves!!!
- August 14, 2009 at 5:55 AM
- LG said...
lov'ly pics
*Happy birthday, may God grant ur heart desires (amen
Now where's dat cake????????? :-)
- August 14, 2009 at 6:10 AM
- StandTall-The Activist said...
Happy birthday to these gorgeous and fabulous ladies!
- August 14, 2009 at 6:36 AM
- AJ said...
Happy birthday to both of ya!
- August 14, 2009 at 7:19 AM
- leggy said...
happy birthday to both of you
- August 14, 2009 at 8:39 AM
- ChinChin said...
Happy Birthday IJ!
Wish you both an awesome amazing day!
- August 14, 2009 at 10:23 AM
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- August 14, 2009 at 11:09 AM
- bob-ij said...
Chari: LOL Hold me by the hand... thanks a lot though! I do oh! I have a twin!!
Sirius: Amen; even though there are many!
GGO: Hurry back jo! ah ah we miss you. Hope you're having fun though!
Gee: I know it's all good. We shall see you another time. LOL Thanks so much!!
LG: thanks oh! Ah all theses prayers, I am truly blessed. And umm.. the cake shall be sent your way! lol
- August 14, 2009 at 11:10 AM
- bob-ij said...
StandTall:Aww thanks a milli!
AJ: Thank you
Leggy: Thanks even though I've left my teens..lol
ChinCHin: Amen our birthday may be awesome just cuz of your best wishes!
- August 14, 2009 at 11:12 AM
- Good Naija Girl said...
Happy birthday to you and your twin, Ij! Wishing you all the best in the next 20, 40, 60 and 80 years in Jesus' name!
- August 14, 2009 at 11:52 AM
- Penelope said...
awww happy birthday!! I llove sunchips and ur pictures r cute!! didnt kno u had a twin!!
God bless boo...x
- August 14, 2009 at 12:08 PM
- bob-ij said...
GoodNaijaGirl: Amen oh!! Thank you for the prayer!!
Penelope: I do oh!! Lol thanks a billion. And I do love sunchips!!!
- August 14, 2009 at 12:44 PM
- Vera Ezimora said...
Happy birthday, ejima!!! Awww, y'll are so cute!! Hehehe.
I'll tell people to dash you both to me as pets. LOL
- August 14, 2009 at 12:59 PM
- GiDiPwInCeSs said...
happy birthday dearie!!!!!!!!! welcome to the twenties!!!!i hope you guys have the most amazing time today!!! its friday so party like theres no tomorrow!!! wishing you and your twin the very best in life!!! love the pictures!! you guys look amazing!!!!
- August 14, 2009 at 1:13 PM
- Mz. Eniola said...
Happy bdayyy!now i want to b 20 too so i can feel all d yummy stuff :( haveee loads of fun...nd may God keep granting ur heart desires!
- August 14, 2009 at 4:06 PM
- *Diane* said...
happy b-day to you lovely ladies! you guys are sooo cute!!i hope it was fantastic!
- August 14, 2009 at 5:09 PM
- histreasure said...
Happy Birthday, girl...awwww, so thee's two of you!! that's cool and your pics are fab..
Wish you a glorious new year
- August 14, 2009 at 7:39 PM
- BSNC said...
awwww so you are a twin too. Happy birthday to you and your sista.
- August 14, 2009 at 9:06 PM
- Princess said...
I love you both very very very much. Yes, I must sound like a broken record at this point! Always remember you are fearfully and wonderfully made, God's own masterpiece and I am always rooting for you both! Bisous!
Ps Ifeoma the stingy twin refused to give you the phone when I called at midnight! Lol.
- August 14, 2009 at 9:28 PM
- Bibi said...
you both look gorgeous. happy bday and have fun with it. must be nice to have a twin right?
- August 14, 2009 at 9:57 PM
- bob-ij said...
Vera: LOL We are a lot to handle oh..ah !..lol Thanks a lot though!
Gidipwincess:LOL thanks thanks! Yes oh. Thankd goodness it's friday. Last one was a thursday. On my way out soonest!!!
Mz Eniola: Trust me boo, you don't want to be! It's a huge does of reality...no more fooling around..lol thanks a lot! Wish I could invite you to Mavericks.. :(
Diane: Thanks a lot. It was nice. Full of surprises. Good good birthday!!
- August 14, 2009 at 10:57 PM
- bob-ij said...
BSNC: You're just realising. And I've been telling you since... ah ah. I am totally a twin...lol Thank you!
histreasure: lol @ there's two of us...hehehe is that good or bad, Thanks a lot though!!
Princess: Thanks, don't mind the mango head And I was even wide awake...lol Thankd you for all the prayers and support. Luv u!!
Bibi: Well what can I say?? It has its ups and downs...All in all it is a blessing. thank you or the wishes!!
- August 14, 2009 at 11:01 PM
- BSNC said...
lol i know you have been telling, but i thought its blogsville now( you know how everybody is a twin to the other person..lol)..
this is too cute, lol okay i will stop now..
- August 15, 2009 at 7:48 AM
- Tay-mee said...
Happy belated birthday!!
You both look fab!
- August 15, 2009 at 9:19 AM
happy birthday! God bless!
- August 15, 2009 at 11:59 AM
- mizchif said...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you both.
August babies rock!!!
- August 15, 2009 at 7:06 PM
- bob-ij said...
BSNC: lol!! hehehe you're talking about the E-twins..lol We're the real deal and my own is also WSNC(isn't that the name of urs?) Lol don;t stop jo we must flaunt our twinness!
Tay-mee; thanks a milli. The thought is golden!!
anon: Merci beaucoup!
mizchif. We really are the ish!...yay!
- August 15, 2009 at 10:13 PM
- Buttercup said...
Happy belated birthday to the both of you! Sowee I'm late, hon. Hope you had a fab day? Wish you all the success and happiness you deserve! Mwah!
- August 17, 2009 at 12:47 PM
- Original Mgbeke said...
Awwwww happy happy birthday to you and your twinnie. August babies are the absolute bestest. I wish you many many more years...I'm sure your 20's will be tons of fun! :-)
- August 18, 2009 at 10:50 AM
- http://myspiltink.blogspot.com said...
I was loving y'all from the overseas... hope you guys had a blast... I trust you sha!!!
Pix soon yea?
- August 19, 2009 at 4:43 PM
Happy Birthday twinnies, I knew your sister had to be pretty, after seeing your pics...Keep up the natural look, Afro kinky rocks!!
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You've had a successful career as a journalist and memoirist. What made you decide to try your hand at fiction at age 60?
Maran: A decade ago, a friend I'll call "Sue" told me her story. In 1985, she'd left a happy relationship with another woman because she wanted to have children, and she couldn't imagine doing that without a husband. A few months later, when Sue was married to a man and pregnant with her first child, the two women reconciled as friends, and Sue, her husband, and her ex-lover ended up raising the child together. When I heard this story, I thought, "If only I were a novelist, that would make a great plot."
As I watched the story unfold in real time my friend's real life, the itch to write it finally overcame my fear of attempting fiction. After a lifetime of writing only nonfiction, that fear was epic—and, as it turned out, well-founded. The novel took two years to write, five years to rewrite, and many gnawed fingernails to sell. And it's been the most thrilling experience of my writing life. Je ne regrette rien.
What moved you to write this particular novel?
Maran: I started Earthquakes in 2004, when same-sex marriage was briefly legal in California, and not yet allowed anywhere else in the United States. As I watched brides marrying brides and grooms marrying grooms at San Francisco City Hall, many of them with their children between them, I was struck by how things had changed since I first fell in love with a woman in 1983—when confessing my new love put me at risk of losing custody of my kids.
Since high school, I've written about the dance between the personal and the political. I was curious to explore how changes in social attitudes affect our innermost feelings and decisions. It seemed the best way was to follow a bisexual woman and her family through a lot of changes, over a long period of time.
What surprised you most about the differences between writing nonfiction and writing fiction?
Maran: Fiction is so much harder! Of course, I also made the project about as difficult for myself as possible. Follow a family over twenty years? Incorporate the headlines of the times into their everyday lives? Write believable, compelling sex scenes between a woman and a woman and the same woman and a man? All great concepts. All incredibly tough for a newbie novelist to pull off. Which is why I'm so grateful to the small army of editor-friends who read and critiqued draft after draft…after draft after draft.
What would you tell aspiring writers with a hot true story to tell? Should they throw caution to the wind and write it as a memoir? Or preserve their relationships with loved ones and turn it into a novel?
Maran: I couldn't have written this novel until I'd written the memoirs that were burning inside me. Unfortunately, many humans were harmed in the making of those memoirs, which finally convinced me the satisfaction wasn't worth the price.
To my mind, a memoir has to pass two tests to justify its existence. First and foremost, it has to be of use to someone other than the author. Second, some stories' power can only be captured in truth. Jaycee Dugard's memoir of being abducted, for example, wouldn't have been as strong in fictional form.
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The exhaust system is installed. I had to reverse the "kick" in the "Y" pipe to correct the angle to the muffler, so it would sit level.
I can move the front and rear headers with my hand. Nothing is "bound" between the headers or the flat-pipe or the "Y" hubs and spigots. It feels custom installed.
Let's go visit every area of junction:
The front header has a 1/32 of margin around the entire top of the hub. The hub is not bound to the spigot. If I wanted to pull the header down, I would find 1/16" of free play. You can see where I ground too much material off at the top of an old slot we filled. I'm going to cut (4) 0.060" squeeze-slots, 1/2" long, in the hub with that grit-blade. Re-cutting the fill welds in the two slots we filled and then two more in new metal.
The front header spigot fully seats in the flat-pipe hub. There is plenty of clearance between the flat-pipe and the crankcase.
The rear header has at least a 1/32" margin around the entire perimeter of the hub. If I wanted to move the pipe or pull it away from the head a 1/16 of an inch, that would be possible. The rear header is not bound-up. (4) squeeze slots will be cut, 1/2" long.
This is the flat-pipe bracket we re-positioned. I needed to elongate the hole a little, but we were close. This bracket position is important. It is an alignment position anchor. You may need to order this piece in two parts, un-chromed, mark your own custom bracket position and TiG weld to suit. You might be able to have the flat-pipe chromed later at Dennis Corso.
This turned out to be one of two rub areas. The backside of the brake arm makes contact with the flat-pipe during part of the swing action. I'll probably need to grind off a little material to cure the problem.
We closed the cuts in the pipe with a clamp, tacked the #2 and #3 cuts then released the clamp. Stett filled cuts #2 and #3.
Cuts #1 and #4 remained open, with no closure. He filled those. (Where would we be without the dedicated craftsmen with the tools, know how and mechanical discipline necessary to do the job right the first time ) http://stettsironhorseranch.com/ Minimum, we'd be lost.
The transmission is positioned fully forward because I needed to be sure the trans. didn't strike the rear header. With the transmission positioned fully back, there is 5/32 of air gap between the top of the pipe and the bottom of the kick cover.
The arch of the "Y" pipe seats the rear header almost completely.
This is the other rub area. The muffler makes contact with the frame rail. I've seen rectangular indents in some of the pipes. I think I'll use a piece of rectangle brass stock and smack the muffler in a calculated spot to provide relief from this malady. Note: The only way I'm going to make the tool box fit, is to custom make some "reach" brackets. This bracket is nowhere near correct placement.
And I needed a spacer to keep the muffler and "Y" pipe in straight alignment. I'm using the bottom-most hole in the bracket, which leaves the top hole hanging out. I may cut off the top part of the tab and round it off.
You may not have the same problems I did, but we kicked this cantankerous exhaust system's silly ass.


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This map shows the new four Storm Distribution Regions that should be used with the new county rainfall tables for the new Engineers Field Handbook, Part 2 (EFH-2) method. When watersheds are close to the boundary of the regions, the appropriate quad map can be examined to determine the appropriate storm region to use. Conservative design would use the higher region (A over B for instance) when the region cannot be determined with confidence. Specific design can be done with Win TR-20 where a more precise prediction is desired. The Win TR-20 software and training materials can be downloaded from NRCS's Hydrology and Hydraulics Web page.
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For starters: Miami Heat at Golden State Warriors
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Inactive: Udonis Haslem, Mike Miller, Dexter Pittman.
Center: Andris Biedrins
Power forward: David Lee
Small forward: Dorell Wright
Shooting guard: Reggie Williams
Point guard: Monta Ellis
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Dissolve sugar with sake and mirin, then whisk in the miso, a little at a time. In a saucepan, over low heat, cook for 30 to 45minutes, stirring frequently. Set aside 1 or 2 cups for glazing. Cool completely.
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Boulder B-cycle today announced that James Waddell has been named Executive Director. He will be responsible for running and growing Boulder B-cycle, Boulder's non-profit public bike-sharing system.
"We are delighted that James has joined Boulder B-cycle. His experience and success in this burgeoning movement will strengthen our ability to provide Boulder residents, workers and visitors with a world class bike-sharing system" said Chris Hazlitt, Boulder B-cycle Board Chair.
According to Waddell, "Bike sharing is rapidly gaining popularity in cities around the world as a viable element of the transportation network. We are literally changing the way people get around. I plan to build out the system and get more people onto bikes for errands, meetings around town, recreation and visitor fun."
Waddell was the Sponsorship & Marketing Director with Denver Bike Sharing, the owners and operators of Denver B-cycle. Previous to that he was the Membership Manager with the Downtown Denver Partnership.
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Men in skinny ties and horn-rimmed glasses and women in A-line dresses and fur stoles squeezed their way through the silent auction hallways during the Friendship Shelter's 2012 Annual Gala on Friday night in the ballroom at the Balboa Bay Club & Resort in Newport Beach. The "Mad Men" theme and auction items like a Steven Tyler autographed Aerosmith guitar and tickets to "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" were a hit for the organization's record-breaking fundraiser; it grossed $400,000 gross in three hours. "The generosity in this room... I'm speechless," said Keiko Sakamoto, Friendship Shelter's gala committee chair. "You've all shattered our record."
Attendees included local council members, school board representatives and graduates of the homeless rehabilitation program the Laguna shelter has been operating for almost 25 years. "Three months before (joining the shelter) I'd lost my apartment and my car," said Cat Saxon of San Clemente, a shelter program graduate and Friendship Shelter Artist Collective member. "It's been two years since I left the shelter, and I was able to find an apartment, save money and find a job."
Colin Henderson of Laguna Beach, founder of Friendship Shelter, was happy to see the organization evolve into a county-wide support system. It started with a group in need sleeping in a church. "It took awhile, but that's how it started, and now it's grown to this," he said.
The evening concluded with a live auction, dinner and dancing to music by Alec Milstein and His Mad Men eight-piece band. The best part of the night, according to Dawn Price, executive director of Friendship Shelter, "all the money raised tonight will go immediately to help people tomorrow."
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Miami Dolphins Wrap: Keep it in context
There's absolutely nothing that gets under my skin more in this industry than when media outlets/members take things out of context.
We are the gatekeepers of information, and if we don't disseminate it properly then we're feeding the masses garbage (bad information). When garbage goes in, garbage comes out.
The point of this finger waging is to point out the South Florida media, and the public have taken Tony Sparano's "I don't have any answers for it" comment about the team's struggles at home out of context.
It's unfair, and irresponsible to take that one sentence, pull it out, and run with it, and it was done repeatedly on TV, radio and in newspapers.
The question was: How do you explain being 1-11 over the past 12 games at home?
Sparano's answer was: "It's baffling to me, it really is. I don't have an answer for it. We've just got to do a better job," Sparano said.
He then continued, without delay: "I told you before if you look back last year its turnovers, and a high turnover ratio. Today [vs. Houston] we turned it over twice and I don't know if we [got a turnover] so its two more in the hole. Last week [against the Patriots] we wound up one behind, so you're minus three in turnovers again, and those things [turnovers] hurt you. There's some other things out there that we have to take ownership of. There are some things out there that we left out there on the field that we've got to take ownership of. It starts in practice and our team has to do a better job in practice."
It's one thing to challenge Sparano for in-game decisions and mismanagement of the roster, which I've recently done in one of my more critical blogs in years. But it is completely irresponsible to use that quote out of context against Sparano as evidence he's clueless, and in over his head.
The next day Sparano even reiterated his initial point, explaining that costly turnovers are the reason the Dolphins keep losing at home….
"Criticism doesn't bother me one way or the other, ok. But the question that I was asked is that we're 1-11 at home or something to that affect. I still don't really have answers for that. I mean I gave you the answers that I gave you. All I know is that when we play home games, for whatever the reason, we are behind in the turnover ratio. And when you turn the ball over in this league, particularly when you turn it over in their end of the field and give them the ball on the seven, eight yard line, whatever it is, you're struggling.
"You got to work your way out of those things and it's hard. Those people ended up scoring points there and in that situation you can't do those kind of things. That's the only thing that I can give you that's tangible," Sparano said. "When I look at all the numbers and I look at the all the things that are out there on paper right now, the turnover ratio is what sticks out at me."
But nobody cared! We're too busy finger pointing, claiming he's in over his head, and that's disappointing.
Again, most of you know how I work. I don't have a horse in this race. I'm nobody's boy, or puppet. All I care is accuracy and getting people the right information. What was done following Sunday's game was wrong.
Sparano has enough working against him right now. He has fall guy written all over him. But there's no need to charge him with a quote taken out of context.
Here's what else the Sun-Sentinel has to offer you today.
Sparano admits "I have my team's full attention" on the road, where the Dolphins will play 5 of the next 6 games.
Dolphins receiver Brandon Marshall says "It's the same story from last year' when referring to the team's red zone struggles.
The Dolphins are seeking confidence after 0-2 start. Where can this team turn to for improvement.
Here are Sun-Sentinel columnist Dave Hyde's Ten thoughts on Dolphins loss to Houston.
Kevin Burnett says the Dolphins defense must simiplify things. OR, you could just replace the players that keep making mistakes and aren't performing at a high level.
Dolphins 'concerned' about Karlos Dansby's groin injury and could be forced to play without him. It's also possible Vontae Davis might be limited. Here's the options.


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The Brazilian Wandering Spider is the name given to any number of spider species that belong to the Phoneutria genus. Large, intimidating, and infamous for having the most toxic spider venom in the world, these spiders actually occur in many areas outside of Brazil, including the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica south to northern Argentina. Nevertheless, the Brazilian Wandering Spider (Phoneutria nigriventer) is the most well known member of this group of eight species due to its tendency to live near human habitations and occasionally bite people. It gets its name from being a familiar spider in many parts of Brazil as well as its behavior of actively searching for prey rather than lying in wait at a spider web.
Although the Brazilian Wandering Spider doesn't actually occur in the Tambopata rainforest, there are at least two other closely related species that live in the Peruvian jungle that surrounds the Rainforest Expeditions lodges. However, despite the hype that the Brazilian Wandering Spider has received from the press, this creature rarely bites people and the species in the Tambopata rainforest do their best to stay hidden at all times. As with most other small creatures that make their home in the Amazon rainforest, the wandering spiders of Tambopata are preyed upon by everything from large birds to peccaries and would much rather hide in the leaf litter than rush out and bite someone.
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Nov 18th 2011
Park City Dog Jog 5K this weekend!
According to PATA Manzanillo, an organization that started in Mexcio dedicated to the spaying and neutering of household pets, there are thousands of homeless dogs and cats that struggle daily to find food, rest and safety. Exposure to the nastier side of the world quickly brings diseases, injuries and premature deaths. Stray animals can also be a source of trouble in our communities as well, spreading disease, creating messes and posing a danger to innocent passersby. Read More


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Credit Card Slip Oak Natural Leather Was £95 Now £66
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Oak Natural Leather
A practical design featuring four slots for credit and business cards. A concealed slim middle slip pocket is ideal for receipts or tickets.
A slim line design that fits easily in your pocket.
- Four card slots
- Grosgrain lining
- Embossed tree branding
- Height
- 7cm
- Width
- 10cm
- Depth
- 1cm
This product's code is RL3433-342G110
Natural Leather
A Mulberry favourite, Natural Leather is tanned using a natural vegetable tanning technique. The soft leather retains the individual grain pattern of the skin, and is left untreated. This beautiful skin ages wonderfully, taking on unique patina with age and use. Many of our Natural Leather products are left unlined, to show the characteristics of this leather inside and out.
Caring for this product
Collonil Leather Gel is a solvent-free gentle gel to improve the water resistance of certain leathers. It can help leather to resist dirt and moisture.
Worldwide delivery
free returns
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