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How to use Fimo Canes: Sweet VS. Bad nail tutorial
So I use 3 things: tweezers, a sharp knife and an old picture frame (you want the glass part to cut on). You can use different things, but most important are the sharp knife and a flat, hard surface to work on. I only use the tweezers because I'm super clumsy and would like to keep my fingers intact :P
I've watched a couple of videos on YouTube to get an idea how to cut the canes, but in the end I just did it my own way. Take a cane you don't like that much to practice with, and after a few slices you will find a way that works for you.
The canes won't deform that easily (they are pretty much like rubber) and eventually you'll pick up a rhythm which makes it really fun to do.
Now it's time to get a little creative!
Bad or Sweet, we start out with a base coat.
For the sweet version, go for a nice pink shade (this just reminds me of strawberry icecream, but you could go for an other light shade as well, like a yellow or brown colour). If you want to go dark, pick a nice black.
Then it's time for some glitter, now the sweet girls have some sugar and the bad girls can honour sparkling vampires ;)
This is an extra step for the Sweeties, I needed a stick for my Lollipop so I just used a sticker. If you have one, you could use a nail art pen as well. (Even paper would work).
Now you can grab your topcoat and pick the slices of Fimo you want to use, I suggest doing one nail at the time because you need to work fast. (Especially if you use a fast drying topcoat like me).
Next, you apply your topcoat and place the Fimo Canes onto your nails. Press them a little so they'll stick to your nail as best as they can.
To give your nails extra protection, apply a layer of topcoat on top of everything. This should be enough to secure the slices of Fimo Canes. I think I did my nails 8-9 hours ago and everything is still in place :)
Here are a couple more pictures of my design:
Fun, easy and definitely cute! I really like playing around with Fimo Canes. I'm not really good with stamping or painting my nails perfectly, so this is great if you just want something that looks awesome but takes little effort. It's also super cheap, like I told everyone in my other post about these canes ;)
I hope this was fun to read! I'm going on a little trip tomorrow so I wanted to keep everyone busy :P I'm going to shop and dazzle everyone with my nails, but I'll be back on Sunday :)
49 comments:
- Stephine said...
These are awesome! I've seen them in quite a few posts, but I never really comprehended how to use them or how cute they would be!
- 16 July 2010 at 15:25
- VenusInVirgo said...
aaah! thats how it's done~! thanks for the tutorial! I can't wait to get my set.I'll post photos after i do that journal craft i was telling you about on twitter
have a great weekend :)
- 16 July 2010 at 15:49
- TIPS ON NAILS said...
very cool!
- 16 July 2010 at 17:35
- Serena said...
Very cute! I might have to try this out. How does it feel on your nails?
- 16 July 2010 at 18:51
- Kimberly said...
I've seen the canes but didn't know what to do next. Great tut and the designs are beautiful.
- 16 July 2010 at 19:26
- ning * star said...
so cute!
- 17 July 2010 at 04:30
- Bailey said...
cute! I have never used fimo canes, but I may have to now!
- 17 July 2010 at 08:51
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- 17 July 2010 at 19:55
- Agnes said...
VenusInVirgo: I can't wait to see the pictures! ;)
Serena: You don't feel them at all, it doesn't give the nails a heavy feeling :) It has been on my nails for 3 days now and I did all sorts of things (cooking, doing the dishes, playing with the dogs etc.) so their 'staying power' impressed me as well :)
- 19 July 2010 at 03:45
- kathyeffingjacobs said...
So awesome! Thanks for the tute - I am totally going to buy some Fimo canes on ebay and have some sweet, sweet nails. :D Yours are adorably sweet! Like the stuff I see in Japanese fashion mag's nail spreads at the salon.
- 19 July 2010 at 08:32
- Jodiekins said...
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- 9 March 2012 at 20:55
Have you ever tried using animal print fimo? I just got some in the mail yesterday and I'm kinda swamped as how to use it lol
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Update: October 2015
Iraq is currently experiencing its worst humanitarian crisis in decades. Increasing violence since 2013 has resulted in the displacement of over three million people, who often have very little access to health care services. A further 250,000 Syrian refugees have fled to Iraq since 2012. Infrastructure and medical facilities in some war-torn areas have been destroyed, leaving the local population with no access to medical care.
Humanitarian response has so far been insufficient—mostly short-term and concentrated in safer areas. Recent cuts in funding have increasingly affected the level of assistance offered to Syrian refugees, displaced populations, and host communities. Some areas are completely neglected, and many people have no access to even basic health care. In those areas, populations affected by the crisis are in urgent need of neutral and impartial humanitarian aid.
Doctors Without Borders'/Médecins Sans Frontières' (MSF's) response to the successive large-scale waves of displacement has been made possible by its established operational presence—it has been working in Iraq since 2006—and its independent funding. MSF is constantly adapting and increasing its medical and humanitarian response to the crisis, which shows no signs of ending. MSF is currently working in 11 governorates across Iraq in order to provide impartial and free medical care to people affected by the conflict.
In the first six months of 2015, MSF teams in Iraq carried out 126,722 medical consultations. From the onset of the current crisis, MSF has deployed mobile medical teams to reach the most vulnerable groups of people. They provide free-of-charge general health care with a focus on chronic diseases, reproductive health, and mental health. Where needed, they also refer patients to hospitals for specialist care.
Most of the health problems seen by MSF's medical teams are related to poor living conditions, including respiratory and urinary infections, gastro-intestinal problems, diarrhea, arthritis, and skin diseases. Others patients suffer from chronic diseases, particularly hypertension and diabetes, but had seen their treatments interrupted due to the security situation and/or displacement.
A team of MSF psychotherapists offers mental health support to people traumatized by recurrent violence. Many face protracted harsh living conditions, fear, and an uncertain future, and still cannot access medical care because their movements are restricted and their security is at risk.
Since September, MSF has worked in collaboration with the Ministry of Health to contain the cholera outbreak in Baghdad district (Abu Ghraib area) and the governorates of Diwaniya, Najaf, and Babil.
Mobile Teams Provide Health Care in Hard-to-Reach Areas
MSF's medical teams are working in northern Iraq across Ninewa, Erbil, Dohuk, Kirkuk, Sulaymaniyah, Diyala, Salah Al Din, and Baghdad governorates, in collaboration with local health authorities. MSF's mobile teams work as close as possible to front lines, where infrastructure has been badly damaged and services are lacking. They provide much-needed health services to displaced people, returnees, and host communities who otherwise have limited access to health care and who often need to travel great distances and potentially risk their lives to access medical assistance.
MSF also works in the southern governorates of Babil, Kerbala, and Najaf, providing humanitarian aid and mental health care to thousands of displaced people from governorates including Ninewa and Anbar. MSF is also contributing to the fight against an outbreak of scabies among the displaced people there.
Ensuring a Comprehensive Humanitarian Response
MSF is also supporting people living in villages and precarious urban settings by distributing essential relief items, such as hygiene kits and tents, and providing clean water and installing latrines, showers, and washing areas. Emergency interventions are carried out in response to epidemics that range from scabies to cholera. Good sanitation is particularly important in the summer months, when rising temperatures increase the risk of epidemics. As temperatures drop in the winter months, MSF teams have distributed blankets to people in Salah Al Din, Diyala, Anbar, Baghdad, Kirkuk, Kerbala, Najaf, Wassit, and Babil governorates.
Health Care for Syrian Refugees
Since May 2012, MSF has been the main humanitarian organization providing medical services, in collaboration with the Directorate of Health of Dohuk, to Syrian refugees in Domiz Camp, the largest refugee camp in Iraq.
In its clinic in Domiz, the MSF team provides round-the-clock emergency care, with referrals for patients who need specialized treatment. MSF also provides general medical consultations, sexual and reproductive and mental health care, treat non-communicable diseases, and run health promotion activities.
In August 2014, in response to increasing needs, MSF opened a maternity unit in the camp where women can deliver their babies safely and access reproductive health care.
In Erbil governorate, a team of MSF psychologists and psychiatrists provide mental health care to Syrian refugees in the Kawargosk, Gawilan, and Darashakran camps.
Secondary Health Care
Since August 2006, a network of Iraqi doctors has been referring victims of violence from all over Iraq to MSF's reconstructive surgery hospital in Amman, Jordan. The surgical team specializes in highly complex surgery requiring multiple stages of treatment, in particular maxillofacial surgery (dealing with the head, neck, face, jaw, and sinuses), orthopedic surgery, and surgery for patients with severe burns. Patients also receive physiotherapy and psychosocial support.
Training of Iraqi Medical and Para-Medical Staff
Periodically, MSF also organizes medical training programs for Iraqi doctors in association with the Iraqi Ministry of Health. In early 2015, 12 Iraqi physiotherapists attended a 10-week training in early physiotherapy.
Over recent years, MSF has also supported the Baghdad-based Poisoning Control Centre (PCC) by providing antidotes that are difficult for the Ministry of Health to obtain.
Patient Testimony
Raoof and his extended family of 17 arrived in Abu Ghraib, near Baghdad, in April 2014 in search of security. It was not the first time they had to flee violence since they left Dyala Province two years ago. "We left our home when the fighting started," says Raoof. "The worst thing was the bombing, it killed most of our cattle. So we left everything behind, and ran for our lives with just the clothes we were wearing." The family eventually moved to Zeidan, closer to Baghdad, in 2014 "We built a house, moving 1,500 cement blocks. It was hard work, but when we finally finished the rooftop again we were asked to leave—the landlord didn't want us there."
So the family moved again, this time to an unfinished house in Abu Ghraib. "Several families live under the same roof," says Raoof. "Nobody has money or a job. It's a skeleton of a place, and there is no air conditioning, and yet the landlord keeps raising the rent. How are we to manage? We survive on handouts from more fortunate relatives who live in this neighborhood, but it's hard."
Several of Raoof's family members visit the MSF mobile clinic nearby. "When we fled, my father lost all his prescriptions. Now he has been given a health card and gets his regular check-up and medication. Two of my kids have fallen ill since we arrived and I also took them to the clinic, where we don't have to wait all day to see a doctor."
The following is an excerpt from the 2014 in Review update. Click here to download the document.
2014 Activity Highlights
MSF's Care for Displaced Populations
Since IS launched its offensive in Iraq in late 2013/early 2014, MSF has been responding to the humanitarian needs of displaced people who fled en masse from Anbar, Salah–ad-Din, and later Ninawa governorates. MSF teams first supported four referral hospitals in the towns of Tikrit, Hawija, and later Sinjar to ensure a 24-hour emergency service. In June, MSF also began to assist Heet Hospital, and in July, several mobile clinics offering basic health care were established in Kirkuk.
In August, following a massive influx of people from Sinjar and Ninawa, MSF teams provided urgent medical care on both side of the Syrian Iraqi border. Entire communities had fled the violence, and MSF teams ran mobile clinics to offer primary health care and water and sanitation services to thousands seeking refuge.
As the conflict spread across Anbar governorate in October, triggering more displacement, MSF mobile teams provided health care in the cities Al-Qadisiyyah, Kerbala, and Babil Governorates.
Working on the Front Lines
In Dohuk, many displaced have been resettled in new camps, so MSF is now focusing on the sizable population still living outside the tented facilities. Simultaneously, MSF medical teams are spreading their reach across buffer areas in Ninawa governorate, where and when security allows, offering much-needed medical care to the local populations in places where most of the medical infrastructure has been destroyed.
Last July, in spite of the very volatile security environment, MSF started deploying mobile clinics in Kirkuk governorate, Salah ad Din, and Diyala governorates to provide health care to the displaced. Our medical services focus on primary health care, with an important emphasis on non-communicable diseases, reproductive health, and mental health care.
Medical Facilities Under Fire
Throughout MSF's response to the current crisis, teams have had to adapt or close several projects at different times because security worsened and risks increased, health structures were damaged, or staff no longer felt safe working in certain locations. Projects in Hawijah and Tikrit were abruptly shut down due to the deteriorating security situation. In June, the day after MSF completed its primary health care unit in Tikrit, the city was overrun by rebel forces and MSF's clinic was destroyed by an explosion. MSF medical staff had to be evacuated.
A few weeks later, MSF offices in the hospital compound of Hawijah, where MSF had been working since 2010, were severely damaged during fighting, prompting the closure of the project.
Medical staff fled Sinjar Hospital in August when IS militants seized the town; some staff later joined our teams in Dohuk and are still working to provide medical services to their communities. In October, MSF withdrew from Heet Hospital after IS took control of the city, forcing thousands from Al-Anbar who had already fled their homes once to take flight again.
NFI Distributions for Vulnerable Populations
In addition to health services, MSF teams also distributed medicines, non-food items, blankets, and construction kits to the most vulnerable and difficult-to-reach populations across Kurdistan and in Ninawa, Al-Anbar, Salah ad Din, Diyala, Kirkuk, Baghdad, Kerbala, Najaf, Babil, Wassit, and Al Qadiyiah governorates. In total, MSF teams distributed 37,183 relief items and 46,772 blankets in 2014.
Health Care in Syrian Refugee Camps
In August 2014, MSF opened a maternity unit in Domeez, the largest Syrian refugee camp in Iraq. As the population swelled to 60,000 and more and more pregnant women needed proper assistance, MSF augmented its primary health care center to include a delivery room for safe delivery and gynecological services.
Teams had also been providing general health services and mental health care in the Kawargosk and Darashakran refugee camps, until handing over activities (aside from mental health care) at the end of 2014.
Secondary Health Care
MSF has had a network of doctors across Iraq since 2007 and currently works with eight doctors to refer patients in need of specialized reconstructive surgery to MSF's hospital in Amman, which offers orthopedic, maxillofacial, and plastic surgery, along with physiotherapy and psychosocial support.
MSF had also provided assistance to Al-Zaharaa Hospital in Najaf since 2010, helping to improve the quality of the neonatal and obstetric care, until it ceased working there in October 2014.
Our Work
This is an excerpt from MSF's 2014 International Activity Report:
A rapid escalation in conflict in Iraq caused massive internal displacement in 2014. Nearly two million people have fled their homes in search of safety.
Continual fighting hampered the delivery of humanitarian assistance to displaced people in northern and central Iraq. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) launched emergency interventions and found that most of the health problems were related to poor sanitary conditions, particularly the lack of latrines and clean water. Staff routinely treated people with respiratory and urinary tract infections, gastrointestinal problems, and skin and chronic diseases.
Emergency Relief for Displaced People
The Islamic State (IS) group and allies launched major offensives in Samarra and Mosul in June, and around Sinjar, near the border with Syria, in August. During this period people fled for safety, mainly into Iraqi Kurdistan. MSF responded by launching emergency interventions to provide basic medical care and relief for displaced families in several locations.
In June, four mobile clinics started to operate across Dohuk governorate, providing basic medical care and distributing relief items to displaced people. Teams supplied over 1,000 wash kits (soap, shampoo) and undertook water and sanitation activities, including the construction of latrines and showers in Dabin to help maintain a basic standard of hygiene.
In Kirkuk city and the surrounding areas, two teams ran mobile clinics in five locations providing basic health care, focusing on chronic diseases, maternal, and pediatric care. More than 20,000 blankets and 2,200 wash kits were given to displaced families. Mobile clinics reached displaced people in several locations between Mosul and Erbil from June to August and MSF was the first health care provider to arrive and set up a basic health clinic at Bharka camp, where displaced people were gathering. The clinic was handed over to the International Medical Corps several weeks later.
In October, MSF began offering basic health care in a clinic in Diyala governorate, focusing on the needs of people displaced by the conflict in the region. Teams conducted more than 4,700 medical consultations. As winter was approaching, they distributed relief items, including blankets, tents, and shelter construction kits to more than 400 families living in makeshift camps and informal settlements in northern Diyala.
Between November 2014 and January 2015, MSF assisted displaced people coming from the north of the country and from Najaf, Karbala, Babil, Wassit, and Al-Qadisiyyah governorates, by running mobile clinics and health promotion activities, and by providing relief supplies. More than 14,000 kits containing blankets, cooking utensils, and hygiene items were distributed, and 1,387 consultations took place.
As fighting intensified in Anbar, Ninewa, Salah ad-Din, Diyala, and Kirkuk governorates towards the end of the year, people trying to leave unsafe areas were finding themselves trapped. MSF has repeatedly asserted that protection, access to humanitarian aid, and the right to reach safer areas must be guaranteed for all communities.
The Consequences of Conflict
In June, the day after MSF had completed its basic health care clinic in Tikrit, the structure was destroyed by an explosion, and international and Iraqi medical staff were evacuated from the area. The IS group took control of the city and MSF has not been able to return since.
Teams had been working in the general hospital of Hawijah, supporting the emergency services, since 2010. In August, MSF offices in the hospital compound were severely damaged during fighting and this prompted the closure of the project. Also in August, staff had to flee the Sinjar Hospital when IS forces seized the town; some staff members later joined the MSF teams in Dohuk and are still working to provide medical services to their communities.
In December, MSF withdrew from Heet Hospital after the IS group took the city. Most of the members of the medical team left, and thousands of people from Al-Anbar who had already fled their homes were forced to move on once again.
Iraq | Surge in Violence Triggers Large-Scale Displacement
Assisting Syrian Refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan
In addition to the newly displaced Iraqis needing assistance in the region, more than 200,000 Syrian refugees have been living in Iraqi Kurdistan, many in Erbil governorate, and have ongoing health care needs. MSF was the main provider of basic health care to Syrians in Darashakran and Kawargosk refugee camps, until activities could be handed over to the International Medical Corps in November and December, respectively. MSF had carried out more than 64,000 outpatient consultations. There is still a great need for psychological support among camp residents who have fled violence and are living with fear and uncertainty. MSF has continued to provide a program of mental health support in these camps and the team carried out more than 1,100 consultations during the year.
MSF remains the main health care provider in Domiz camp, Dohuk governorate, home to some 60,000 Syrian refugees. Services include sexual and reproductive health care, management of chronic diseases, and mental health support. MSF also ensures emergency services and referrals to Dohuk Hospital around the clock. In August, MSF opened a maternity unit and had assisted 571 deliveries by the end of the year.
Reconstructive Surgery in Jordan
Many victims of war are unable to access reconstructive surgery in Iraq because of the cost and the security situation, and post-operative care such as physiotherapy is lacking. MSF offers wounded Iraqis reconstructive surgery, psychosocial support, and physiotherapy through its project in Amman, Jordan. A network of eight medical liaison officers refers patients, and more than 150 Iraqi victims of violence needing these specialist services were referred in 2014.
Program Closures
In February, MSF ended its support of the neonatal unit in Kirkuk General Hospital. MSF also completed a program of training and support in Al-Zahra Hospital, Najaf governorate, in October.
At the end of 2014, MSF had 627 staff in Iraq. MSF first worked in the country in 2003.
Patient Story
Syrian refugee, Domeez camp
I arrived with two of my children, but had to leave my husband and my two other daughters behind. We walked for more than six hours to cross the border. We don't have our own tent yet, so we must share with another family.
I have a kidney stone and it is very painful. Since we arrived here I have been lying down all the time because of the pain. I need surgery to remove the stone. Here, we Syrians suffer from sickness, but also from the difficult situation we have gone through.

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KENTFIELD, Calif.— December 9, 2009 —Last night at the monthly meeting of the College of Marin Board of Trustees three board members were sworn in, including two incumbents, Wanden Treanor and Barbara Dolan; and one new member, Diana M. Conti. Conti won the seat that was formerly held by Annan Paterson in the November 2009 general election.
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text: Dec 26, 2012 11:35 Loves win Father-Son Challenge Loves win Father-Son Challenge Australian Daniel Popovic poses for a photo with the winner's cup after his victory at the Australian PGA in Coolum, Australia, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012. First-year tour player Popovic took victory at the golf tournament, shooting a 3-under-par 69 on the final day for a four-stroke victory. (AP Photo/Denis Passa) The Associated Press Comments ORLANDO, Fla. — Davis Love III had a nice pitch shot on No. 18 and son Dru finished off the birdie to capture the Father-Son Challenge title Sunday. With Larry and Josh Nelson already in at 22-under for the two-day scramble format, both Loves misfired in trying to reach the green in two at the par-5 finishing hole. Dru, an Alabama freshman who won five Georgia state titles in high school, went long and right near the grandstand at the Ritz-Carlton Grande Lakes. Davis watched his ball roll onto the bank of a greenside pond. But the elder Love found the right touch on his pitch from Dru's position and his son made the winning putt. The Loves teamed for an 11-under 61 in the final round. Alfred Dunhill Schwartzel romps to 12-shot win: In Malelane, South Africa, Charl Schwartzel was a runaway winner for the second straight week, coasting to a 12-shot victory Sunday at the Alfred Dunhill Championship on the European Tour. The 2011 Masters champion finished with a total score of 24-under 264 — the lowest at Leopard Creek Country Club. He won by 11 strokes in Thailand last weekend. Schwartzel was three shots off Tiger Woods' record for the biggest victory margin on the European Tour. Woods won the U.S. Open in 2000 by 15 shots. Schwartzel won for the eighth time on the European Tour. The South African also captured this tournament in 2004, his first title on the tour. He entered the final round with a 10-shot lead and closed with a 69. The runner-up was Sweden's Kristoffer Broberg, who finished at 12 under. First-round leader Gregory Bourdy shared third with Scott Jamieson, Garth Mulroy and Andy Sullivan — 13 shots behind Schwartzel. Schwartzel was surprised that he won by such lopsided margins in consecutive weeks. "That doesn't happen often," he said. "Normally after a win by such a big margin, it's hard to put up the same show the next week. It's satisfying to continue that form and play the same sort of golf. I keep talking about consistency, and mine is back where I like it to be." The only thing that slowed Schwartzel on the final day was a brief weather delay. This was his first title on the European Tour since his Masters victory two years ago. Australian PGA Popovic wins Australian PGA: In Coolum, Australia, Australasian Tour rookie Daniel Popovic completed an improbable wire-to-wire victory in the Australian PGA, shooting a 3-under 69 on Sunday for a four-stroke victory. Popovic finished at 16-under 272 at the Palmer Coolum resort. The Australian opened with rounds of 64, 70 and 69. Rod Pampling birdied the first six holes to take the lead after nine holes, but dropped four strokes on the final three holes — making bogeys on 16 and 17 and a double bogey on 18 — to fall into a tie for second. with fellow Australian Anthony Brown. Pampling had a 69, and Brown shot 71. Popovic nearly quit golf earlier this year to care for his seriously ill father. "I just can't believe this is happening," Popovic said as he walked up the 18th fairway with his ball safely on the green. "I am just going to try to enjoy this now." Moments later, he tapped in for par, did a left-handed fist pump and doffed his cap to the crowd. "It has just hit me all over suddenly," he said after accepting the winner's check for $225,000. "I was just so confident, and that never left me. Sure I made several stupid mistakes, but I bounced back quite nicely." Pampling looked set for his first win since the Australian Masters in 2008. He has two wins on the U.S. PGA Tour, the last in 2006 at the Bay Hill Invitational. This year, he finished just outside the top 125 — 127th place — to lose his PGA tour card, then failed at qualifying school two weeks ago, meaning he will have only conditional status next year in the U.S. Errant tee shots on 16 and 17 led to bogeys, then his approach on 18 went into the water. Australia's Geoff Ogilvy fell short in his bid to finish in the top three to ensure a top-50 finish in the year-end world ranking and a spot in the Masters. He shot a 69 to tie for fourth. Get The Advocate in your inbox Subscribe


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A FIRE at a 'lovely and friendly' pensioner's bungalow is being treated as deliberate.
The blaze which broke out at Dorothy Kaye's home on York Street, Cudworth, early last Thursday, is thought to have started in a wheelie bin.
Ian Boid, 45, told the Chronicle how his son Jake, 18, was first on the scene and alerted the fire service.
Ian said that Jake was asleep at his home on Manor Road, when he was awoken up by the smell of smoke.
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As expected snow is picking up across central Indiana, and will remain steady through this evening. Quick accumulations are likely within the initial burst that's moving through the Indy metro. Afternoon road conditions will vary from wet to possibly slushy in heavier bursts. Traveling after sunset will be tricky, as icy patches become more numerous.
Most locations fall within a 1″-3″ range, but locally higher amounts of 4″ can't be ruled if any mesoscale bands develop.
Most accumulation occurs between now and midnight, but with only snow showers and flurries expected for early New Year's morning.
Though snow today/tonight is a big story in the 7day forecast, I'd argue that morning low temperatures Wednesday & Thursday are more noteworthy. The combination of fresh snow/clouds clearing/light wind could result in the coldest temperatures for Indianapolis in nearly two years. February 9th, 2011 was the last single digit temperature (7°) for Indy, and January 21, 2011 was the last sub-zero low (-3°). This cold spell will carry into the weekend, though some long-range model data suggests warmer than normal conditions for the 2nd week of 2013. Stay tuned


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Sony has claimed a trio of full-frame firsts with its latest announcements. The title for world's first fixed lens 35 mm full-frame digital camera goes to the palm-sized Cyber-shot DSC-RX1 fixed lens camera, while the world's lightest full-frame interchangeable-lens digital camera crown rests on the head of the new Alpha SLT-A99 and the NEX-VG900 takes the world's first consumer 35mm full-frame interchangeable lens camcorder.Read More
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Sony's translucent mirror technology - which directs incoming light to the image sensor and the AF sensor simultaneously - continues to advance with the introduction of the company's new SLT-A57 digital camera. The new camera trumps the α55 it replaces in a number ways, most notable of which is the 12 images per second continuous shooting with full-time continuous autofocus in Tele-zoom Continuous Advanced Priority AE mode. The new, faster, more powerful image processor that makes such an impressive performance boost possible also ramps up the sensitivity to a very low-light-friendly ISO16000, and the camera is fit to bursting with creative photography options.Read More
Sony has revealed that its faithful α700 mirror-based digital SLR (DLSR) is being put out to pasture and replaced with a powerful new model featuring the company's Translucent Mirror Technology first seen last year in the α55. The new SLT-A77 features a 24 megapixel APS-C size sensor, an OLED electronic viewfinder that's said to provide the kind of image previewing experience previously only available with optical viewfinders and an incredibly fast full resolution continuous shooting rate. Joining the α77 is the SLT-A65 consumer-level digital camera which shares many of the newly-introduced features of the flagship model but costs $500 less.Read More
Sony has announced a smaller and lighter replacement for the NEX-3 interchangeable lens camera announced last year, and a new member of its innovative translucent mirror Alpha camera range. The NEX-C3 gets more megapixels, has been given a new user interface with redefined photographic terminology and battery life - a weak spot on the first NEX models - is said to be up to a fifth longer. The A35 replaces the A33 and has also been given an image quality boost, gains some new live-shot effects and offer seven frames per second burst shooting (although at the expense of some resolution).Read More
If you've suffered a missed photo opportunity due to the short time your digital SLR takes to get its mirror out of the way, then Sony reckons it has the answer. The mirror inside the new α33 and α55 digital cameras doesn't move out of the way at all, it's just semi-transparent and simply allows the light from the lens through to the CMOS sensor while also redirecting some to the camera's autofocus sensor. Whether shooting stills or high definition video, Sony says that its new technology allows for simultaneous image capture and fast, accurate autofocus.Read More
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Silver: Data Shows Public Supports Agenda in Obama's Speech
This item by J.P. Green was originally published on January 23, 2013.
Now that all the pundits have had their say about President Obama's second inaugural address, Nate Silver brings the data to show what really matters: The public supports the president's agenda. On climate change:
The PollingReport.com database includes two polls on global warming conducted after the Nov. 6 presidential election. An Associated Press-GfK poll in the field from Nov. 29 to Dec. 3 found that 78 percent of respondents said they believed the planet had warmed over the past 100 years, and 49 percent said they thought global warming would be a "very serious" problem for the United States if left unaddressed (31 percent said they thought it would be "somewhat serious").
Fifty-seven percent of the 1,002 adults surveyed said the United States government should do "a great deal" or "quite a bit" on global warming...A United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection poll conducted Nov. 8 to 11 found that 57 percent of adults said they thought global warming was increasing the likelihood of storms like Hurricane Sandy.
On same-sex marriage:
The percentage of adults who favor same-sex marriage has been rising steadily for some time...Five polls on same-sex marriage have been conducted since the election and are included in the PollingReport.com database. Each poll uses slightly different question wording, but an average of 51 percent of respondents favored same-sex marriage and 44 percent opposed it.
On Immigration reform, Silver cites four recent polls, two showing strong majorities favoring a path to citizenship similar to what the president supports and two showing healthy pluralities supporting the president's proposals.
On gun violence, different polls on various reforms bring a mixed message, but more favorable to Obama's proposals than not:
...a New York Times/CBS News poll found that 54 percent of respondents favored tighter gun laws, up from 39 percent in a CBS News poll last April...A Jan. 17 Gallup poll found 53 percent of adults said they would want their representative to vote for the package of gun law reforms that Mr. Obama proposed. Forty-one percent said they would want their representative to oppose the laws.
...The most recent Fox News poll found that 51 percent of respondents said that "protecting the constitutional right of citizens to own guns" was more important than "protecting citizens from gun violence." Forty percent of those surveyed said protecting citizens was more important...In the same Fox News poll, laws requiring criminal background checks and mental health checks on all gun buyers were both favored by more than 80 percent of respondents. (That's in line with virtually every recent poll on guns. The Times/CBS News poll found that 92 percent of respondents favored background checks on all potential gun buyers.)
...Recent polls have found that support for a ban on assault rifles and semiautomatic weapons as well as a ban on high-capacity magazines usually falls in the low 50s to low 60s.
In his speech the president said, "Our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote." Silver cites "a solid majority favoring such laws." Silver did not discuss restrictions on early voting opposed by Democrats in general. But heavy participation rates indicate that it is overwhelmingly popular with voters.
Republican commentators are still parroting their message du jour that the president's speech was somehow polarizing. Not really. Their knee-jerk response is to oppose everything he proposes. But the public clearly supports the president's speech agenda in almost every instance -- often by overwhelming margins.


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Probably saw this in the 80's. A commercial started out with a straight on shot of a Porsche 911 at the starting line of a race track. As the car accelerated (driving straight forward, toward the viewer) a voice-over stated that the Porsche 911 was the fastest production car in the world, and continued to give statistics on the speed of the car. After a few seconds, a motorcycle leans out from behind the car and proceeds to pass it. The announcer starts telling the stats for the bike. The final line of the commercial: "How fast is the [name of motorcycle]? Ask the guy in the Porsche."
I've been trying to identify the make of the motorcycle and can't find anything.


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Before you start reading about this social/cultural experience, check your calendar. If you are reading this and it's still summer, we are on the same page. But I swear, some people out there might not be!
It was July just a few weeks ago, and I really thought we were in midsummer! But then I had this impression that my Google calendar had freaked out and we are in October! This happened when I went to a couple of stores looking for a watering can. A simple, small watering can to water my little house plants!
Much to my chagrin I did not found my watering can in the first four stores I went to. Instead, I found a plethora of Halloween décor, and - gasp! - some Christmas décor, too!!!
Where are we going in such a hurry? It's still summer! It doesn't matter – or, it shouldn't – if it's midsummer, or end of summer. It's summer. Period! It's not fall, yet. Labor Day hasn't even arrived, yet! Why in the skies do we have to see Halloween stuff in July?
Retailers have been three months earlier this year! And three months means a whole season! That leads us to not fully enjoy the present season with all what is brings, because we are driven into planning and expecting about what is coming next.
In fact, it seems that for the last few years there has been an increasing mania for preparing for the next season. Always for the NEXT - never fully living the current one.
During the long and freezing winter people keep wishing for spring. Then, in February stores start carrying spring items while I am still enjoying my hot cocoa by the fireplace. When spring finally comes, people hurry up for summer sales, and when finally summer is here I cannot easily find a simple watering can, because the stores are already renewing their stock and putting Halloween and Christmas items on their shelves - side by side, even!
The point is: why are people negating themselves the pleasure of fully enjoying each season in its due time?
Why such a hurry? To get where?
No wonder people keep saying that "time is passing so darn fast!" Why, of course! They are anticipating everything! Can't we just live summer in summer, and fall in fall? And so on and so forth? There will be plenty of time and shelf space later, and of course, consumers, too (never a lack of them in this country!), to buy all possible junk in the stores, in any season! I don't understand the haste. One could tell me that it's just how the commerce functions. But it doesn't convince me! I think it's sick!
Halloween loses its magical sense when ghosts and spiders and lovely witches prematurely sit down on the shelves that should be still displaying flowers, garden fairies, and watering cans!
We are here talking about CULTURE! Halloween is related to autumn, to transformation, to the end of a cycle. So, it cannot be anticipated and brought to the maturity of life that is summer!
We are all missing the boat as we live our days in tomorrow, letting today escape. That ought to be at least one of the reasons why many people in our modern society are unhappy, sensing that they are missing something (and they are, indeed!) while thinking that time is passing too fast. Such people have not found out yet how to live the NOW moment. They keep going with the masses, with the media, with the brainwashing, with the trends, with what is "out there". And forgetting what is "in here"... inside themselves. The Essence. The real purpose and meaning of things.
I am out of this craze! I am not buying or decorating for Halloween until the first week of October. The mood is not set yet! And Christmas, only in December! Never before Thanksgiving!
For everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven!
Happy Summer! It's still here, and will be until the last minute.


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April 19, 2013 - Industry News
A trucking provider to the air cargo industry, Forward Air, reports both income and revenue during the first quarter of the year moved higher, despite a more challenging operating environment than expected.
Tags: Earnings, Forward Air, Fleet Financials
April 18, 2013 - Industry News
While Omaha, Neb.-based Werner Enterprises is hardly in any danger of going into the red, it didn't pull in as much money in the first quarter of the year as it did during the same time in 2012, thanks to tougher winter weather conditions.
Tags: Fleet Financials, Werner Enterprises
April 17, 2013 - Industry News
Truckload and refrigerated carrier Marten Transport has reported a 32.2% increase in net income to $7.2 million for the first quarter this year compared to $5.4 million compared to the same period in 2012.
Tags: Marten Transport, Fleet Financials
April 16, 2013 - Industry News
The Iowa-based truckload operation Heartland Express reports it saw a first quarter uptick in profits while revenue was mainly unchanged.
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February 10, 2013 - Industry News
The parent of trucking companies YRC Freight and others, YRC Worldwide, has posted its first positive yearly numbers in six years, but things overall still need improvement in order to forget the company coming close to bankruptcy more than once in recent years.
Tags: Fleet Financials, LTL, YRC, financials
February 7, 2013 - Industry News
Three more carriers released their earnings reports. Con-way's fourth quarter profit took a big decline but was up for the year, while Roadrunner Transportation broke through the $1 billion revenue barrier in 2012 and Old Dominion Freight Line posted record numbers.
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February 6, 2013 - Industry News
Recent financials from two different fleets show very different results, but both mentioned their success in adding drivers and cutting down on unseated trucks.
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February 1, 2013 - Industry News
Covenant Transportation Group, Chattanooga, Tenn., saw its revenue rise nearly 10% over last year's fourth quarter and its net income turn positive compared to a loss.
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Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission have discovered the three smallest planets yet detected orbiting a star beyond our sun. The planets orbit a single star, called KOI-961, and are 0.78, 0.73 and 0.57 times the radius of Earth. The smallest is about the size of Mars. All three planets are thought to be rocky like Earth, but orbit close to their star. That makes them too hot to be in the habitable zone, which is the region where liquid water could exist.
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CSA vs. SafeStat
What's the difference between SafeStat and the new Safety Measurement System?
There are six important differences between the new Safety Measurement System (SMS) and FMCSA's former measurement system, SafeStat:
- SMS is organized by seven specific behaviors (BASICs) while SafeStat is organized into four broad Safety Evaluation Areas (SEAs).
- SMS identifies safety performance problems to determine the intervention level, while SafeStat identifies carriers for a compliance review.
- SMS emphasizes on-road performance using all safety-based inspection violations while SafeStat uses only out-of-service and selected moving violations.
- SMS uses risk-based violation weightings while SafeStat does not.
- SMS will eventually be used to propose adverse safety fitness determination based on a carrier's own data while SafeStat has no impact on an entity's safety fitness rating.
- SMS includes two distinct safety measurement system, carriers and drives, while SafeStat assesses only carriers.
View FMCSA's SafeStat vs. SMS comparison (PDF, 113KB)
Examples of key differences
The following examples are based on real data although the carrier information is blacked out. The results seen in the examples will likely be displayed differently upon national roll out but substantively, these screens show the comparison of SafeStat to SMS scores as well as information available in DSMS.
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Harriotta raleighana
|Scientific Name:
|Harriotta raleighana
|Species Authority:
|Goode & Bean, 1895
|Regional Assessments:
Common Name(s):
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Dagit, D.D.
|Kyne, P.M., Fowler, S.L. & Compagno, L.J.V. (Shark Red List Authority)
This species appears to be the only chimaeroid with a widespread, global distribution. Occurs in deep waters of the continental slopes in depths of 380 to 2,600 m in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Also occurs in the Indian Ocean (off southern Australia). They seem to be somewhat common in the Northern Atlantic, Northwest Pacific and Southwest Pacific, however, very little is known about the biology of this species. They are oviparous but nothing is known of spawning and reproduction and very few juveniles have been collected. As with many other chimaeroids adults and juveniles may occupy different habitats. Known to be captured in deepwater research trawls and as bycatch in deepwater commercial trawls. Data from the South Tasman Rise Trawl Fishery (south of Tasmania, Australia) indicates that this species is a negligible component of bycatch. Increased deepwater trawl fisheries could pose a potential threat to habitats and populations in the future. At present this species appears to be widespread geographically and bathymetrically and relatively abundant with no immediate threats to the population and is thus classified as Least Concern. However, bycatch data from other fisheries and the monitoring of expanding deepwater fisheries are required.
|Range Description:
|Range appears to be widespread and worldwide (although not widely recorded in the Indian Ocean at present), with the largest numbers recorded from the western Pacific and northern Atlantic. Nothing is known of population structure, although molecular evidence may support regional populations. Other species of chimaeroids appear to have wide ranges (e.g., R. atlantica and R. pacifica), but H. raleighana is the only chimaeroid that may be global in its distribution.
Harriotta raleighana has been recorded from the Canary Islands, however it should be noted that references to the species from that location by Bigelow and Schroeder (1953) may in fact be referred to as H. haeckeli.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Australia (New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia); Brazil; Canada (Nova Scotia); China; Japan; New Zealand; Peru; South Africa (Western Cape); Spain (Canary Is.); United Kingdom; United States (California, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia)
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Atlantic – eastern central; Atlantic – northeast; Atlantic – northwest; Atlantic – southeast; Atlantic – southwest; Indian Ocean – eastern; Pacific – southwest; Pacific – northwest; Pacific – eastern central; Pacific – southeast
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|Appears to be fairly abundant in areas where they are known to occur.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|Occur primarily in deep waters of continental slopes at depths at 380 to 2,600 m.
Oviparous but nothing is known of spawning and reproduction and very few juveniles have been collected. As with many other chimaeroids adults and juveniles may occupy different habitats. Diet may consist of a variety of benthic invertebrates and fish.
Life history parameters
Age at maturity (years): Unknown.
Size at maturity (body length): ~35 cm BDL (estimate) (female); ~25 to 30 cm BDL (estimate) (male).
Longevity (years): Unknown.
Maximum size (total length): 120 cm TL (females larger than males).
Size at birth (cm): Unknown.
Average reproductive age (years): Unknown.
Gestation time (months): Unknown.
Reproductive periodicity: Unknown.
Average annual fecundity or litter size: Unknown.
Annual rate of population increase: Unknown.
Natural mortality: Unknown.
|Major Threat(s):
Not known to be targeted in any commercial fishery but caught as bycatch in commercial deepwater bottom trawls, although the only such data on bycatch available is from the South Tasman Rise Trawl Fishery (STRF). The STRF targets orange roughy and other deepwater teleost species south of Tasmania as a straddling stock between Australia and New Zealand. Harriotta raleighana was a negligible component of bycatch with an estimated catch of 0.31t in 545 tows between November 1998 and September 2000 (<0.1 of total catch) of which 8% was retained (Anderson and Clark 2003).
Seem to be relatively common in deepwater survey trawls. Increased deepwater trawl fisheries could pose a potential threat to habitats and populations in the future and monitoring would be required.
|Conservation Actions:
No management or conservation measures are known to be in place. Data from specimens collected incidentally would be helpful in understanding population structure and life history of this species.
The development and implementation of management plans (national and/or regional e.g., under the FAO International Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks: IPOA-Sharks) are required to facilitate the conservation and sustainable management of all chondrichthyan species in the region. See Anon. (2004) for an update of progress made by nations in the range of H. raleighana.
|Dagit, D.D. 2006. Harriotta raleighana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2006: e.T60140A12312075. . Downloaded on 28 June 2016.
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Copying surveys
A copied survey contains all of the questions from the original survey. Copying is a quick and simple way to create a survey that assesses prior and current understanding of course materials.
Note You can only copy surveys within the same course.
Copy a survey
- On the Manage Surveys page, click Copy from More Actions button.
- Select your survey from the Survey to Copy drop-down list.
- Edit the survey copy's name in the New Survey Name field.
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Samford University, Caroline Summers, Associated Press
CORDOVA, Ala. — Rachel Mitchell drove through what was left of her small northwest Alabama town, pointing out the places where familiar landmarks have been all but obliterated by one of last week's tornadoes.
The Methodist church on the hilltop was totaled, its steeple lopped off. The stately former hotel her great-grandmother once owned was broken and in pieces. And the potent tornado punched a hole through buildings all around.
"This is really hard. This is where I grew up and now nothing is here that I remember," said Mitchell, a 19-year-old college student.
As Mitchell lamented the loss of her hometown as she knows it, thousands of others still reeling from the second-deadliest day of twisters in U.S. history prepared to mourn the hundreds killed as a Sunday of somber church services dawned across the South. All told, at least 342 people died across seven states, including 250 in Alabama. Thousands more were injured.
In Rainsville, Ala., Deacon Calvin Thomas said leaders of the Victory Baptist Church were still searching for a place to hold Sunday services after the church was shattered, the broken bricks littering a parking lot where a picture of Jesus praying was found amid the rubble.
"We're still not sure what we're going to do," Thomas said. "One way or another, we're going to keep going forward."
Across the region, Sunday church services were expected to fill with those mourning the dead and seeking healing and consoling as a community.
These communities are now trying to recover, but it's not easy. Nothing is as it was. Loved ones are gone; neighbors are missing. Search operations continue for the missing, and curfews are in force to prevent looting. Thousands of homes are still without power.
Seeking to speed recovery, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and other Cabinet members were scheduled to tour the debris-littered landscape in Alabama and Mississippi later Sunday. President Barack Obama, who visited Alabama on Friday, already has signed disaster declarations for those two states and Georgia.
Meanwhile, the Red Cross has opened emergency shelters and the enormous task for authorities of finding more permanent housing for the thousands without homes now begins in earnest this week.
Authorities also are seeking the missing, aided by cadaver-sniffing dogs, amid fears the death toll could yet rise.
Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddux said late Saturday that 434 people were unaccounted for, down from 570 hours earlier.
"My sense is that we will have more fatalities," Maddox said.
Maddox said the storms had damaged more than 5,700 buildings and homes in the Tuscaloosa area alone. Mississippi emergency officials said its latest survey showed damage to more than 2,500 homes and 100 businesses there. Virginia officials reported that last week's storms damaged about 500 structures in five counties, destroying 55.
Survivors counted themselves fortunate.
In Ringgold, Ga., 66-year-old Mary Lou Brown survived a tornado Wednesday night that killed eight people as it rolled over her neighborhood. As she fled down the stairs of her home for protection, a large oak fell onto the wooden roof over her sturdy front porch.
"It's a blessing. My daddy built me this house," said Brown, who began crying. "If I had not had that porch on there, it just would have gone through and I would probably have been killed."
Brown and her neighbors marshaled volunteer chain saw crews to slice up felled trees over the weekend. Parts of Ringgold still lacked power. Police were blocking roads. Residents said opportunistic contractors were on the prowl, and there was a shortage of heavy equipment.
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I was wondering if it were possible to know the key if you already know the original value and the hashed result.
For example, let's say :
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`$hmac_key` = 0123456789
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In simple basic math, it's quite obvious, but with HmacSHA1, is it also possible?


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Thanks for all the (Glass)Fish!
By alexismp on Nov 30, 2010
As you've probably read in this recent post, Eduardo is moving on to new adventures. While he has been mostly visible as the editor in chief of this blog, Eduardo was also a key contributor to the GlassFish project and I believe I can speak for the entire team and thank him for his commitment getting the community off the ground some five years ago and driving it to places where most of us didn't think we could go.
Kudos to you Eduardo!
While we'll miss Eduardo, the community is now vibrant and the team at Oracle remains focused on keeping the communication channel wide open and maintaining the quality posts here on TheAquarium as one example of that. Of course we are also as committed as always to delivering a standards-based and innovative product to all our users starting with a fully-clustered GlassFish 3.1 real soon now.
As you may have seen, in addition to recent new faces, Oracle is hiring for GlassFish. Beyond the great team of engineers blogging about their work and helping out on mailing lists, you can count on Arun Gupta, John Clingan (Product Management, formerly from Sun), Pieter Humphrey (Product marketing, an Oracle "Classic" as Eduardo would say) and myself (Alexis) as your points of contact for anything GlassFish-related. As one of our once favorite coopetitor would say - onward!


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Job satisfaction
Over 75pc of Mena staff 'passionate about work'
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While 90 per cent of employees in the Mena region claim to be loyal to their company, 58 per cent are satisfied with their current employment with 27 per cent of these being 'very satisfied', a report said. However, 61More…
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Forty-two per cent of the employees in the energy sector who took part in an industry poll are satisfied with their current positions, said a report. As the global skills shortage continues to challenge many organisations, 33 per cent of rMore…


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The gun came up, and Breias hand moved. The knife she held was only 75 mm long. But she had forged the blade herself. It went through muscle, bone, and the grip without even slowing down. Corona stared at the hand as the blade came back, removing three of the fingers from the other hand, forcing him to let go.
So am I correct in understanding Breia made two cuts? The first cut off part of his hand that held the pistol and the second cut off three fingers of his hand that was holding onto her robe. The first time I read this I got the image that she threw the knife and it cut through one hand and then came around like a boomerang and cut off the fingers of the other. That didn't seem right though.
Very interesting that Antilles' sensor officer was willing to face death when he very well could have just let the two spacecraft peacefully land aboard the ship and Antilles would probably have never known that Queek was moonlighting for Tokara Company.
One dead, two wounded from the shuttle crew, eh? I have a bad feeling about this...
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College Hockey:MIAC 2011-12 Season Preview
We can agree to disagree. The MIAC Coach's Poll has the University of St. Thomas as the school to beat in the conference this season. Meanwhile, back at USCHO, we still have last year's champs, Hamline University, as the highest-rated team. The Pied Pipers of Hamline did receive one first place vote in the poll, but are ranked to finish fourth in the conference. Concordia (Moorehead, Minn.) received three first place votes, but only fared as well as number 3, making the Golden Gusties of Gustavus Adolphus the No. 2 choice in Minnesota's D-III conference, with no top ranking votes. Agree to disagree is indeed the unofficial slogan for the beginning of this hockey season in the MIAC.
Concordia (Moorehead) Cobbers
2011-12 Coach's poll: Third
2011-12 USCHO prediction: First
2010-11 Overall record: 12-11-4
2010-11 Conference record: 7-5-4
2010-11 Finish: Fourth
Key returning players: Andrew, Neamonitis, Erick Galt, Marc Harrie, Jaren Collen
Outlook: Coach Chris Howe, the 2010-11 MIAC Coach of the Year, has a solid 1-2 punch in the crease with goalies Kelly Andrew and Chris Neamonitis. The Cobbers also rely on solid team defense and strong special teams play.
University of St. Thomas Tommies
2011-12 Coach's poll: First
2011-12 USCHO prediction: Second
2010-11 Overall record: 14-10-4
2010-11 Conference record: 9-5-2
2010-11 Finish: Second
Key returning players: Robby Phillip (Sr.), Chris Hickey (Sr.), Matt Lipinski (Jr.).
Key freshmen: Alex Altenbernd.
Outlook: Coach Jeff Boeser begins his second campaign behind the Tommies bench after having the interim tag removed from his coaching title. Twenty returning players will support the Tommies quest for the MIAC title.
Gustavus Adolphus Gusties
2011-12 Coach's poll: Second
2011-12 USCHO Prediction: Third
2010-11 Overall record: 14-9-3
2010-11 Conference record: 8-6-2
2010-11 Finish: Fifth
Key returning players: Ring-Jarvi, Dane Erickson.
Key departure: Mitch Carlson (D).
Outlook: Coach Brett Petersen will lead the Gusties this year with a team that is deep in the front lines, led by Captain Ross Ring-Jarvi. One major loss was at defense with the graduation of All-American Mitch Carlson.
Hamline Pipers
2011-12 Coach's poll: Fourth
2011-12 USCHO prediction: Fourth
2010-11 Overall record: 17-7-5
2010-11 Conference record: 9-3-4
2010-11 Finish: First
Key returning players: Brian Arrigoni, Jordan VanGlider, Beau Christian.
Key departed player: Chris Berenguer.
Outlook: First year Coach Scott Steffen replaces Scott Bell behind the bench. Hamline does have a solid team returning, but will miss MIAC Player of the Year Chris Berenguer.
St. Olaf Oles
2011-12 Coach's Poll: Fifth
2011-12 USCHO prediction: Fifth
2010-11 Overall record: 11-10-4
2010-11 Conference record: 5-7-4
2010-11 Finish: Sixth
Key returning players: Derek Grogan, Charlie Raskob, Ben Leis, Jack Nicoll.
Outlook: Coach Sean Goldsworthy's Oles have a chance this year to break into the upper echelon of the MIAC. With a solid group of scorers, if defense and goaltending holds up, this group could surprise.
Augsburg Auggies
2011-12 Coach's poll: Sixth
2011-12 USCHO prediction: Sixth
2010-11 Overall record: 14-9-3
2010-11 Conference record: 8-6-2
2010-11 Finish: Third
Key returning players: David Hines, Justin Lochner, Trevor Doden.
Outlook: Coach Chris Brown lost many talented scorers due to graduation. The Auggies will have a solid defense, and if the Auggies can find some new firepower, they will be better off than the projected sixth-place finish.
St. John Johnnies
2011-12 Coach's Poll: Eighth
2011-12 USCHO Prediction: Seventh
2010-11 Overall Record: 6-17-2
2010-11 Conference Record: 5-9-2
2010-11 Finish: Seventh
Key returning players: Joe Harren, Trent Johnson, Josh Gross.
Key departures: Pat McClure, Brent Brodersen, James Olmscheid, Mike Walgren.
Outlook: Coach Doug Schuller hopes the Johnnies can have a fast start to the season and not repeat last year's sluggish beginning. That could propel St. John's to better its seventh-place finish. The defense will have a different look since graduating three from last year's squad.
St. Mary's Cardinals
2011-12 Coach's poll: Ninth
2011-12 USCHO prediction: Eighth
2010-11 Overall record: 6-17-2
2010-11 Conference record: 5-9-2
2010-11 Finish: Eighth
Key returning players: Kevin Wentland, Austin Balko, Tom Healy, Nate Peterson.
Outlook: St. Mary's does have an experienced team. Coach Bill Moore's crew displayed glimpses of hope toward the end of last season. Here's hoping the Cardinals can put that experience to good use and move up the ladder in the MIAC.
Bethel Royals
2011-12 Coach's Poll: Seventh
2011-12 USCHO Prediction: Ninth
2010-11 Overall Record: 4-17-4
2010-11 Conference Record: 3-9-4
2010-11 Finish: Ninth
Key returning players: Jack Paul, Jon Crouse.
Key freshmen: EJ Gann, Grant Dye, Tyler Swanson, Robby Brown.
Outlook: Coach Charlie Burggraf is hoping for an improved season after finishing last in the 2010-11 MIAC campaign. A deep incoming class could give the Royals the shot needed to escape the cellar.
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Polar climate areas of the world
are very cold with lots of snow and strong winds.
It is so cold that only research
scientists, Polar bears and Seals live there.
The land is flat and covered
with snow & ice. In warmer areas exists vegetation called the Tundra.
The Tundra is on top of a thin
layer of ice called permafrost, which will never melt.
Small plants, like Lichen, a mix
of algae & fungus, and red leafed plants (absorbs heat) appear in the
The temperature is always very
cold and averages 10 to 20F (-12C to 6C).
The North Pole is called the
Artic Region.
The South Pole is called the
Antarctic Region.
The first man to reach the South
Pole was Roald Amundsen (from Norway) along with four men and dogs on
December 14th 1911.
for more information on world climates.
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