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Two weeks ago at this very moment my water broke. Wow.
It's already going by too fast.
To see my Newbaby.com video about pouch wearing newborns, click here.
i can't believe how much she smiles! What a happy girl...ReplyDelete
Just precious! Shocked its been 2 weeks!ReplyDelete
I was going to say the same thing as Naomi. She's so happy, and super sweet.ReplyDelete
Does that baby girl ever fuss or cry? She looks so content and happy!ReplyDelete
She is darling.
I am glad you mentioned who your videographer was, it did make me a little dizzy! I was hoping it was a kid not the hubby, ha ha!
i am just so happy for you! thanks for sharing on video on Newbaby.com.ReplyDelete
She's adorable!
I watched your videos. Is carrying a newborn in a ring sling really your favorite? I have a Zolowear ring sling that I used with my son when he was a newborn and I always felt like the rings inched down and my shoulder hurt terribly! I was shown how to wear it and it always looked right - it just never FELT right. I ended up with a Mobywrap, which I love, but during my son's first months I just dealt with the discomfort while I wore him in a ring sling.
I'd love it if you'd talk about (on yoir vlog) your favorite kind of ring sling, the keys to making it fit comfortably, and how to tell whether a certain brand is right for you! For example, I'm interested in trying a more padded sling - but is there a downside to using a padded sling as opposed to something unpadded like my Zolowear ring sling?
Thanks! :)
She looks a little like Gray today. Such a happy little girl. I miss her so much...ReplyDelete
Adorable! Love it!ReplyDelete
Time certainly does fly with a new little one around!ReplyDelete
2 Weeks?!?!?! No way!
Enjoy it, it does go fast...
Look at that little baby smile!ReplyDelete
Your little girl is so adorable. I love the pouch sling, and am thankful for your video on how to use it, since I never was quite sure at first. It does go by so fast! I wish they grew slower.ReplyDelete
What a beautiful little girl!!! So precious! Thanks for the video- I have never used a pouch or sling but have a 3rd on the way and may need something like that. I had a baby bjorn with the other 2 but no longer have it. It looks like such a great way to have your hands free!ReplyDelete
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Such a sweet photo! Look at her little face!ReplyDelete
Just darling! I can't believe how the time flies--two weeks already, and mine's already pushing six months.
I watched your videos and totally wished I'd seen them a few months ago--you have a good way of explaining how to get 'em in there and feel secure. We did manage to figure out how to do the cradle hold and the tummy to tummy hold as a newborn in the ringsling and as she's getting older she loves the kangaroo carry as well--she has always LOVED it. Lately, it's the best and sometimes only way to get her to sleep, especially away from home.
oh my goodness, she looks so happy! yes, once they are outside of the womb time flies right by. enjoy every second with your sweet baby girl~
Steph- I watched your sling videos last night and I'll have to bookmark them. I LURVE all my pouch slings and it's sometimes hard to explain to others how to wear them, say, over the phone. So this will be a handy-dandy reference to shell out, thanks!!ReplyDelete
I know what you mean about it going quickly. I've thought the same thing about my little one. Darn time anyways! How come the good stuff always goes by fast?ReplyDelete
oh, she's such a happy, cuddly baby. i bet it's so fun to get some good use out of all of your slings again. :)ReplyDelete
She is so precious! 2 weeks, really! Breath her in.ReplyDelete
I can't believe it's been two weeks for you already - it seems like I was just reading the post that she was here! Wow...ReplyDelete
2 weeks has flown by! I love the video! Great demo.ReplyDelete
Is she smiling?!?
Time goes too fast.
Thanks for the ring sling video. My sister in law is making me a sling for a shower gift, and my husband is terrified that it won't be a secure way to carry our son! I'll show him the video and hopefully he'll feel a little better about it.ReplyDelete
I love the picture! Her smile is sooo sweet!ReplyDelete
aww, look at that smile! I can't wait to see mine do it too! :) :)ReplyDelete
So sweet! Mine only seems to like being worn when she is sleepy...then it is wonderful! I keep trying, though!ReplyDelete
OMG wow I missed her birth - WOW I am so sorry it's been to long! She's amazing, she's just beautiful! CONGRATULATIONS - how wonderful!!!!ReplyDelete
Aw! She looks like she's grown already. She is all sweetness.ReplyDelete
She's a smiley girl!
Watched your ring sling and pouch sling videos. Fly never took to the cradle hold, either -- and it took me too long to figure that out.
If I ever have a second child, I'll probably come crying to you for babywearing advice!
I love your videos-and your son is doing great as camera man!ReplyDelete
That is a lovely picture Steph! love your smile!!!!
Girl time is great!!! you'll have fun more and mopre as she grow up!!!!
Oh I hear ya, 5 weeks later and I'm still in awe! :) She's so cute!
she looks so comfortable all snuggled in there. Adorable!ReplyDelete
Love the photo! It's a great one!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the videos. Now I really want to try a pouch! :) You mentioned that it's really hard to find a pouch that fits right. Do you have any great tips to help that happen.
Do you have a favorite brand?
Prairie Lady
Having a girl is such a powerful thing. I'm such a better woman than before, because I'm constantly reminding myself to talk out loud about how strong I am, how fun to be able to do whatever I want and then go get dressed up, how beautiful and amazing my body is for being able to give birth and then kickbox. Raising girls is a GIFT. Congrats!ReplyDelete
Adorable! That looks so comfy.
I wish I would have consulted you before I purchased my new sling. I'm waiting on it to come in the mail..we'll see if I like it.
aw this pic is perfect!ReplyDelete


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2014 Utah Botanical Foray
Date: August 1-4. Where: Uinta Mountains - Spirit Lake region
More details to come.
Recent news and events
2013 - Another banner year. We added over 6,967 specimens to the collection, almost doubling our previous record. We added 8,105 to the regional and taxonomic networks to which the herbarium belongs and imaged 7,999 vascular plant specimens, both numbers exceeding the numbers for the previous years. At the end of the year, the herbarium had ~267,194 specimens of which 119,189 had been databased.
Working with inmates. Part of our success in 2013 is attributable to the inmates in the Daggett County Jail who have been assisting use in databasing our specimens. This is possible through the support of Ms Sara Wilkinson-Lamb, adult education specialist with the Manila School District, the School Superintendent, and the Daggett County Sheriff, Sheriff Jorgensen. The other part of last year's success is attributable to our student workers.
The Intermountain Regional Web Site now brings you over 2.5 million records from over 60 herbaria. Most of these herbaria are outside the Intermountain Region but nearly all herbaria have some specimens from outside their own region. By contributing their records available to a single network, they offer their users more resources than any one herbarium could provide.
New Regional Web Site now brings you records from herbaria in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, and Texas. Some herbaria are just getting started on digitization- but they are getting started; others are well on their way. Link to site [Nov. 07, 2013]
Svalbard [Norway] Seed Bank [video, downloaded 25 June, 2013]
Bioluminescent fungi [BBC news, Jan 16, 2013]
Grass makes tires greener [Economist, Jan. 5, 2013]
Identification keys: A multiaccess key to the genera of spore-bearing vascular plants (lycophytes, ferns, and horsetails) in the region has been added to the keys made available last year. All are rather plain in appearance at present - and all require Java.
Regional Web Site Link to site.
More networks: The Intermountain Herbarium is contributing records to four networks, for bryophytes, fungi, lichens, and vascular plants of the Southwest, Southeast, Intermountain, Northern Great Plains, and Rocky Mountain Region. All four networks use the SYMBIOTA software so if you learn how to use one, you can use them all. The links will take you to each site.
Now available : Manual of grasses for North America; Grasses of the Intermountain Region. The manual has now been reprinted. The second printing has been spirally bound. No other changes have been made.
Pictures from the celebration of our 250,000th specimen.
Special Features
Fun Facts About Fungi; Interactive keys; Fact Sheets; Grass treatments for North America; Intermountain Fern Guide (.pdf).
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The herbarium WELCOMES visitors. It is open from 8
am- 5 pm during the week. If research workers visiting
the region cannot make it during these hours, they should contact
Mary Barkworth. We shall try to accommodate your needs.
Items for Sale
The herbarium is selling note cards with illustrations of grasses and attractive prints made from some of its specimens. All proceeds go to the herbarium.
Also: Set of eight different note cards featuring Utah Grasses. Cost $8 per set plus postage and handling. Order by contacting Michael Piep.
Director: Mary Barkworth 435-797-1584
Assistant Curator: Michael
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Meetings and forays are announced and scheduled on the BMS Facebook page.
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Identification keys for the region
Summer Positions
Search our database (and those of other herbaria)
SYMBIOTA tutorials
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US Virtual Herbarium
(Its getting underway)
Botany news (off campus link)
Cacti, bacteria, and rocks
Biology news (off campus link)
Need a good collecting bag?
Celebrating Wildflowers
Making herbarium specimens
Algae of Utah (PDF)
Sphaeralcea [Powerpoint presentation]
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About three dozen competitors displayed their baseball skills on a recent Saturday at St. Andrew's Parks and Playground's Brinker Field.
They all were hoping to earn a trip to Atlanta to compete in Pitch, Hit & Run, Major League Baseball's official skills competition.
They get six chances to pitch and hit the strike zone, three shots at hitting a baseball off a tee that will be scored on distance and accuracy, and how long it takes to run the bases from second to home.
Each Major League Baseball team holds sectionals. The Atlanta Braves cover a six-state region that includes South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama. Scores from the six-state sectionals are compared, and the top three in each age division travel to Atlanta. The winners then are introduced at a Braves game with their photo and name flashed on the giant scoreboard. Scores from all 30 Major League Baseball competitions then are compared with the top participants invited to compete as part of the All-Star Game festivities.
Two years ago, Jackson White of James Island qualified in the 11-12 age group to go to Atlanta and won the competition. Unfortunately, his score wasn't quite high enough to make it to the All-Star game.
"Jackson was seventh overall. He missed out, but he still did well. I think 500,000 kids participated, so getting seventh doesn't sound so bad," said his mother, Pam White. The entire family, Jackson, his mom, his father, Jim, and older brother Zan, made the trip.
"It's such a gift to be able to do something that unique. It was very exciting," Pam White added.
Jackson White, a Mason Prep eighth-grader who played junior varsity baseball for James Island Charter High School, is hoping for a return trip again this year. He won the sectional title in the 13-14 age group this year by the narrowest of margins, beating Derek Sireci by one point, 1,110-1,109. Sireci, who made it to the sectional event as a Mount Pleasant winner, went to Atlanta last year and finished second in the 11-12 age group.
If White makes it, it will be thanks to his bat. Participants hit from a tee and score based on their overall distance minus the distance from the center line. His first of three attempts sailed out of Brinker Field, slowing down the competition while the judges scrambled outside the fence to measure.
The second one was better, staying within the field but closer to the center line and giving him a score of 246 feet. In the running portion, his time was 6.82 seconds. In pitching, he hit the target two out of six times.
"If I'd hit it 2 feet shorter, I wouldn't have won," White said. "I was trying to get back to Atlanta, but with only two pitches, I'm not sure that will happen."
Following are Pitch, Hit & Run Sectionals results for St. Andrew's Parks and Playground:
7-8 Boys
1. Matty Brown, West Ashley, 494
2. Trenton Handegan, West Ashley, 384
3. Johnathan Gunn, Mount Pleasant, 330
7-8 Girls
1. Jenna Walling, West Ashley, 175
2. Giovanna Plumley, West Ashley, 150
9-10 Boys
1. Michael Petry, Mount Pleasant, 840
2. Nathan Slesinski, Mount Pleasant, 803
3. Anthony Doscher, West Ashley, 535
9-10 Girls
1. Mary Austin, West Ashley, 284
2. Rynne Welch, West Ashley, 150
11-12 Boys
1. Kaedin Grissom, Beaufort, 836
2. Drayton Green, Mount Pleasant, 828
3. Gavin Marler, Beaufort, 712
11-12 Girls
1. Clarke Brunson, Mount Pleasant, 238
13-14 Boys
1. Jackson White, West Ashley, 1110
2. Derek Sireci, Mount Pleasant, 1109
3. Kyle Lanning, Beaufort, 985
Clarke Brunson of Mount Pleasant was the 11-12 girls champion in the sectional qualifying.×
Tim Orvin sets up a new batting tee after Pitch, Hit & Run participants broke one during sectional qualifying.×
Jackson White watches after hitting a ball over the fence at the Pitch, Hit & Run sectional event.×
Jackson White releases the ball during Pitch, Hit & Run sectional qualifying. Tommy Braswell/Staff×


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Higher volumetric productivity is contributing to smaller scale manufacturing. In addition, noted Whitford, volume demand is decreasing, with emerging products such as personalized medicines with companion diagnostics targeted to screened populations, and cancer vaccines generally required in substantially smaller amounts.
Another trend described by Whitford is "scaling out" instead of scaling up, also known as distributed manufacturing. Instead of running one 10,000 L batch, a company might opt to run five 2,000 L reactors in parallel.
Among values inherent in this flexibility, this minimizes the potential loss if one batch were to become contaminated or unusable for some other reason. Single-use systems also simplify geographic distribution of manufacturing capacity. To duplicate a facility in another location would require only purchase of the same devices and transfer of the process, whether to an adjacent building or another country.
Manufacturers of single-use devices are pursuing R&D to create new, cleaner materials for single-use products and new ways of producing these materials. For example, Paul Killian, Ph.D., senior scientist at EMD Millipore, described research under way on new methods for sterilizing single-use materials that would reduce the amount of leachables created. At present, most single-use systems are gamma-irradiated, a process that generates small oxygenated compounds that contribute to the leachables load.
Raising the ceiling for "large-scale" processing in single-use bioreactors from 1,000 L vessels to the new generation of 2,000 L vessels has expanded the utility of single-use systems for commercial-scale batch production. Sartorius Stedim Biotech plans to introduce a 2,000 L scale single-use bioreactor in 2013. Davy De Wilde, director of marketing for fermentation technologies for the company does not anticipate any volume increase beyond that.
"Improved cell strains, media, and process conditions have led over the past years to a significant increase in product yields per volume," he says. "This enables the industry today to reach their required product volumes already at 1,000 L or 2,000 L scale, while previously required bioreactor volumes were up to five times higher."
This is helping to drive uptake of single-use systems overall, according to Alison Rees-Manley, fermentation application specialist at Sartorius Stedim Biotech.
Other factors contributing to the increase in adoption of single-use bioreactors, in De Wilde's view, are reduced cost of ownership and increased flexibility, thus allowing users to switch more easily between processes and to increase capacity rapidly due to reduced lead times and utility requirements.
User needs are a critical driver of technology and product development, and in response Sartorius Stedim Biotech plans to introduce a point-of-use integrity test for single-use bioreactor bags, beginning with a test for its bioreactors up to the 200 L system by the end of 2012 and shortly followed by tests for bags up to 1,000 L.
The issues and uncertainty surrounding extractables and leachables from single-use systems remain an ongoing topic of discussion. "The risks change depending on where the material is used," said Dr. Killian.
An overall lack of standardization and regulatory guidance continues to present an obstacle to more rapid adoption of single-use technology.
"The regulatory agencies still put the onus on drug companies to demonstrate that there is no or low risk to the patients," continued Dr. Killian. With increased use, confidence in the materials is growing among biopharmaceuticals producers.
As the industry has matured, companies have used their experience to modify their approach to performing extractables and leachables studies and evaluating the data.
For example, whereas before companies might have carried out leachable studies across all single-use devices—an expensive and challenging task—now they might take an extractables-to-leachables approach in which they would perform leachable studies only on devices identified as high-risk, explained Dr. Killian.
Similarly, they may be able to limit the scope of the studies required by comparing the results of some initial tests to established standards and use these quick evaluations to define what areas require more extensive data collection and analysis.
Unlike for the single-use bag systems developed for upstream buffer preparation, mixing, and storage, and designed to replace conventional glass and stainless steel bioreactors and fermentors, when it comes to downstream processing systems, "single-use" may not mean intended for disposal after a single run.
"We like to call it 'single-use, batch-dedicated,' or 'single-batch,'" explained Makowiecki.
"Prepacked does not mean single-use," emphasized Paul Lynch, production manager for Life Technologies' prepacked Poros® chromatography resins. The main advantage of prepacked columns is time savings, as they are ready to be dropped into a process without the need for validation.
"They save about 80% of the set-up time," Lynch said, as well as the associated overhead of personnel needed to pack and validate the column.
At the June conference in San Francisco, Richard Garretson, business development manager at Life Technologies, led a workshop in which he described the advantages of the company's GoPure™ columns prepacked with POROS chromatography resins.
Garretson compared prepacked columns to disposable membrane absorbers, which can be used in place of anion exchange chromatography, for flow-through polishing of monoclonal antibody preparations to remove DNA, viruses, and host-cell proteins. The high mass transfer capability of the POROS prepacked resin allows for high flow rates, short bed lengths, and small column sizes.
"The resin has the same sort of mass transfer profile as a membrane absorber," said Garretson. Once users have selected the ideal column bed length for the separation they want to achieve, they can then increase or decrease the diameter of the column as desired for scale-up or scale-down, Garretson explained.
In contrast, scale-down—for process modeling, process characterization, and viral clearance studies, for example—is "problematic with filters," he added, due to more limited availability of membrane sizes.
In terms of single-use capability, the prepacked chromatography resin, like a traditional self-packed column, can be re-used multiple times or replaced after a single use. It would typically be used for a single production campaign. In contrast, a functionalized filter is a consummable product intended to be disposed of after one use.
Producing relatively small drug batches or material for toxicology studies or clinical trials can mean switching product streams, and thus chromatography columns, more frequently. In this scenario, the use of prepacked columns can save time and money, contended Michael Killeen, business development manager, GE Healthcare.
Killeen's presentation in San Francisco was entitled "'Out of the Box' Thinking for Process Chromatography." The company's ReadyToProcess™ prepacked columns can be used for multiple runs; however, the resins cannot be removed and repacked and are intended for use in a single campaign.
When combined with GE Healthcare's ÄKTA™ ready disposable chromatography flow path, there is no need to clean or validate the system before use, pointed out Killeen. With flow rates up to 510 L/h, the systems are appropriate for pilot to small batch production.
A side-by-side analysis that compares the cost of processing one batch with a prepacked versus traditional column at pilot scale "can show significant savings," added Killeen. "If you can get ten molecules produced instead of eight," that is a good value proposition for the customer."
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I want to fill our home with books that we will actually read, and music instruments that we will actually play, or learn to play.
For Christmas I'm going to have my guitar re-strung, and search freecycle and resale shops for a djembe (african drum), or some bongos, and Gray really wants a ukulele. How I'd love to have a piano again so I can teach them all to play.
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with tons of mismatched tables and chairs outside in my big back yard that sometimes in my dreams it is in the heart of Chicago, and other times it's out in the country in a forest somewhere. Both settings have lights, and amazing Mediterranean food, and people I love - I'll invite absolutely everyone I know but only the people that are meant to be there will show up. I close my eyes and see the guests at their seats in Chocolat, and the music like the reception from Rachel's Getting Married. And it might last a weekend, not just one night. Here's the one whimsy- I'll wish for it to never end.


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Erie man faces charges in January shooting
An Erie man awaits arraignment this morning on charges of firing a gun on the city's east side in January.
Richard A. Hartleb, 38, was taken into police custody in the 1100 block of Wallace Street Monday night on charges that Erie police Detective Sgt. Barry Snyder filed earlier in the day. The charges include aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person and terroristic threats in the Jan. 13 shooting, which police said happened in the 1100 block of Wallace Street.
Hartleb is accused of firing a .45-caliber handgun near a male victim and threatening to "empty the clip" as he spoke to the victim, according to the criminal complaint filed in the case.
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Twins signed RHP Rich Harden to a minor league contract.
Devon Travis (shoulder) is out again Wednesday.
Nick Castellanos is starting at third base and batting seventh Wednesday versus the Indians.
Daniel Murphy (glute) is out of the Nationals' starting lineup again on Wednesday.
Bryce Harper (thumb) remains out of the Nationals' lineup on Wednesday night.
Tim Tebow homered on the first pitch he saw Wednesday in his instructional league debut.
Bob Nightengale of USA Today reports the White Sox are aiming to bring back manager Robin Ventura.
Athletics activated RHP Sonny Gray from the 15-day disabled list.
Alex Bregman (hamstring) is batting second for the Astros on Wednesday against the Mariners.
Hunter Renfroe went off in Tuesday's 7-1 win over the Dodgers, launching a three-run home run and a grand slam to finish with seven RBI.
Adrian Gonzalez exited Tuesday's loss to the Padres due to a sinus infection.
Tim Anderson went 3-for-5 with a homer, three RBI and two runs scored in the White Sox' 13-6 beatdown of the Rays on Tuesday.


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The term used for rising NBA legend Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks. He recently has led the team to an amazing 5 game winning streak, despite the absence of the star players. He also went undrafted in 2010, and furthermore was waived 2 times.
After emerging literally out of nowhere, he has become a national spectacle. His game winning drives are considered by many standards to be bordering on that of "insanity" and hence
After emerging literally out of nowhere, he has become a national spectacle. His game winning drives are considered by many standards to be bordering on that of "insanity" and hence
A:Dude, you hear the Knicks beat the Lakers? And Jeremy Lin scored 38 points over Kobe Bryant's 34 points?
B: Linsanity!
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B: Linsanity!
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The energy and excitement that is transmitted by Point Guard Jeremy Lin.
Knick Fan: "Linsanity can't be stopped!"
লিখেছেন- toast455 14 de ফেব্রুয়ারি de 2012
The 2012 craze brought on by former Harvard grad and NBA D-Leaguer, Jeremy Lin. After going undrafted out of college Lin spent time in the NBA D-league. Eventually the 2012 NY Knicks picked up the rising athlete to fill the spot of habitually injured Baron Davis. When given the opportunity to play due to injured superstars Carmello Anthony and Amare Stoudemire the young star excelled to the point of becoming a national icon.
Did you just see Jeremy Lin score 38 against Kobe and the Lakers? That was Linsanity!
লিখেছেন- dez88 10 de ফেব্রুয়ারি de 2012
1. the state of mind of Jeremy Lin fans when he steps on the court. and off the court. this highly contagious phenomenon has led to a series of wins by the Knicks, an increased basketball fandom among the Asians, and the creation of other words with 'lin'
2. basically anything that Jeremy Lin does because he's amazing.
2. basically anything that Jeremy Lin does because he's amazing.
The linsanity spread across the court like a forest fire, linfusing the players with lincomparable lintensity to win the game, and linfusing linthusiasm among the linsatiable audience.
লিখেছেন- prplpianotie 14 de ফেব্রুয়ারি de 2012
The rage over the Knicks' starting point guard Jeremy Lin who spontaneously stunned the world with his amazing underdog story. He's become an icon for people everywhere, and is drawing widespread attention over the racial boundaries surrounding him and his astounding playing skill. Is one of the more popular "lin-" terms created by the media. Others include "lincredible" or "linning".
Did you see that Knicks-Lakers game? It really gave me some Linsanity.
I'm really gettin' some Linsanity watching Jeremy play.
I'm really gettin' some Linsanity watching Jeremy play.
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A combination of New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin's last name and the word insanity. It has been used by NBA stars, sports pundits, celebrities and fans alike to describe the phenomenon surrounding the player who went from being overlooked by multiple teams to breaking records in one week. The unlikelihood of this occurrence is what makes it so contagious.
Guy 1: Did you see Jeremy Lin's game winning 3 last night?
Guy 2: Yea man, he's amazing. Linsanity is spreading really quick.
Guy 2: Yea man, he's amazing. Linsanity is spreading really quick.
লিখেছেন- Linglorious Basterd 15 de ফেব্রুয়ারি de 2012
Refers to the huge popularity-boom over Asian-American basketball player Jeremy Lin.
Jeremy Lin's my favorite Chinese guy!
You, sir, have linsanity.
You, sir, have linsanity.
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PARSONS?—Tucker County coach A.J. Rapp knew his squad was going to have its hands full in opening round action of the Class A playoffs on Saturday....
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A Trinidad man showed no reaction Tuesday when a Carson City jury found him guilty of raping and killing 18-year-old Sheila Jo Harris more than 25 years ago.
The jury deliberated for just five hours over the course of two days before finding David Winfield Mitchell, 62, guilty of first-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon in the January 1982 death of Harris.
The jury will decide today whether Mitchell will serve two terms of life in prison with parole after 10 years or life without parole following statements from Harris' family and a woman victimized by Mitchell in 1979.
"We are able to move forward now," said Harris' sister Shannon Harris, now 33. Shannon was 7 years old when her sister's body was discovered hours after her killing.
Shannon and her younger sister, Jamie Bratton, just 6 months old in 1982, were in the car outside the Foothill Gardens apartment where their mother, Linda Bratton, and family friend Jan Broderick discovered Harris' body face down on her bed with just her head showing from beneath a comforter.
An autopsy revealed the community college student had been raped with her hands bound behind her back, beaten with a board that left splinters throughout the apartment and on her body and strangled with what appeared to be an electrical cord that had been wrapped twice around her neck. The cord and board have never been recovered.
Shannon said her life has been colored by the loss of Sheila.
"My mom is able to just move on now and rest. She has worked so hard, for so long, and if it wasn't for her strength and determination, I don't know where we would be," she said.
The sisters and mother were in the courtroom every day since the trial began July 31.
When the verdict was read, the three women, supported throughout by numerous friends, wept and clung to one another.
Broderick, who found Sheila's body and prevented Linda Bratton from entering the bedroom and seeing her daughter, punched the air and shouted, "Yes!"
"I feel relief," said Linda Bratton.
It was Bratton's phone call in 1999 to Carson City Detective Bob White that prompted the then-new investigator to take a look at the case file. He decided to submit swabs taken from Harris' body during the autopsy for DNA comparison. The results found Mitchell's blood matched semen found in the victim's body and on her clothing.
"I know Sheila is looking down on myself and her sister, she knows justice is finally done," Linda Bratton said.
Scott Burau, a retired chief deputy with the Carson City Sheriff's Department, worked the case in 1982 when it happened.
He testified that he immediately suspected Mitchell after the groundskeeper was evasive during questioning.
"What really strikes me is the fact that David Mitchell was free for 25 years " longer than Sheila Harris was even on the face of this earth. It's a tragedy that he was allowed to go about his business and live his life in the wake of this brutal, brutal murder," said Burau, who'd sat in on the jury's verdict. "This was not only a loss to the family, but to us (detectives) because of our inability to solve the case as rapidly as we would have liked."
He said the murder of the "strikingly beautiful" former Miss Douglas County was a hard case to forget for those who worked it.
"It just haunted everybody. It was a part of our lives," he said. "We all feel for the family and we have since 1982."
District Attorney Neil Rombardo made a compelling argument in closing that many saw as the clincher to the DNA evidence.
The defense suggested that the killer was Steven Furlong, a former boyfriend to Harris who killed himself in jail on a lewdness charge a month after her murder. Public Defender Diane Crow told the jury on the morning Harris' body was found, Furlong was soaking a cast off his broken arm and throwing it away.
"What we were pushing was just common sense," said Rombardo following the verdict. "The defense was arguing that Steve Furlong committed this crime with a cast on his arm which was physically impossible. The doctor testified that it was impossible. It was a crime that took severe violence, severe strength. He couldn't have done it. Mr. Mitchell's hair was found at the scene, his sperm was found at the scene, so really it came down to him. There was no one else that it could have been."
The freshman district attorney, victorious in the biggest case of his career, said he was confident that the jury would return the correct verdict.
"There's no doubt in my mind that David Mitchell was the person who committed this crime," he said. "It's hard to imagine the family had to live with that for 25 years. And now, that finally, justice is served, I hope that (Harris' mother) gets a good night's rest tonight."
"The Carson City District Attorney's office did an excellent job. Neil Rombardo and Gerald Gardner inherited a cold case that they tried with all the passion and dignity that Sheila deserved. The jury should be pleased and proud of their decision. Mitchell is a repeat offender and is off the streets once again. They knew nothing of his past and they did the right thing."


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Vienna Girardi just got a nose job, and she couldn't be happier.
"I want my surgery to be looked at as positive reflection of how I feel. If it makes you feel better about yourself then DO IT. xoxo," the former Bachelor winner Tweeted.
The only downside to the plastic surgery, says Vienna, is the recovery. "Couldn't wear makeup during my ET interview bc of surgery... Dnt judge me lol," she Tweeted.
Girardi, 25, will be back in front of the cameras beginning Aug. 8, when the second season of Bachelor Pad premieres on ABC. The dynamic should be interesting, as she'll be joined by both her ex, Jake Pavelka, and her current boyfriend, Kasey Kahl.
Kahl has ratcheted up the tension for Bachelor Pad 2 by both declaring his love for Girardi and his disdain for Pavelka. He Tweeted: "Im so happy that every 1 that recognizes me says 1. Congrats with V. 2.happy u are happy. 3. Can see past jakes fakeness and he's evil."
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Windows Phone Design 101 covers the philosophy, inspiration and visuals that are Windows Phone Design Language. Starting with the basic terminology of design, this boot camp will take you from its early origins to the Design Principles each screen in Windows Phone was measured against. From there, we will show you the design process that guided its creation. Lastly, we will discuss the larger Microsoft Design ecosystem including Windows 8.
In Windows Phone Design 201 focuses on the skills necessary to implement "pixel-perfect" Windows Phone UI. 201 will cover the "system" including basics of the phones navigation model, interaction with the shell and an overview of gesture system. Next it will cover "composition", which is about how to clearly define when it is appropriate to use a page template and when to use a particular animation or page transition or how to harness screen orientation. Lastly, we will cover, controls and APIs available for creating your own experiences and give tips on how to do simple prototyping.
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The results of a new survey by the Pew Research Center on the issue of human-caused global warming reveal several fascinating patterns.
Americans with college degrees are far more likely than those with less education� to say there is solid scientific evidence of global warming. But this education pattern gets a bit skewed when political partisanship is added to the equation.
For example, a whopping 87 percent of Democrats with college degrees agree with mainstream scientific theories on global warming, but the figure drops to 57 percent among Democrats with less education. And here's the stunner: Only 28 percent of ...
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LOCKPORT – Niagara County Manager Jeffrey M. Glatz filed a tentative 2013 county budget Thursday that raises the tax levy by 3.7 percent while cutting 40 jobs, most of them vacant positions.
"It's a fantastic budget. I think it's a balanced one," Glatz said, but legislators didn't necessarily agree.
Majority Leader Richard E. Updegrove, R-Lockport, said his caucus will work to reduce the tax increase, although he called the proposal "a good starting point."
Minority Leader Dennis F. Virtuoso, D-Niagara Falls, said the Democrats' goal would be to eliminate any tax increase.
The budget does call for spending $10 million of the county's $27.3 million surplus, and projects a $2.5 million increase in sales tax receipts.
Although the state has a 2 percent property tax cap, there are several exceptions to it. Budget Director Daniel R. Huntington said Niagara County's "real" tax cap for 2013 is 5.08 percent.
That's because one of the situations that causes an exception is the loss of income from payments in lieu of taxes, or PILOTs, granted by industrial development agencies.
The revised PILOT approved earlier this year for the former AES Corp. power plant in Somerset cost the county $2 million in revenue for 2013, so its tax cap is increased by that much, Huntington said.
The job cuts include 35 full-time positions, four part-timers and one seasonal job.
Fourteen of the full-time positions are currently filled. All are being eliminated because of privatization of nonmandated programs: eight at the jail through a contract for medical and mental health services for inmates, and six at the Health Department through the sale of the county's home care program for seniors to Catholic Health System.
The vacant posts being eliminated include 12 in the Health Department, a total which includes four per-diem nurse positions. The department saw many nurses leave ahead of the privatization of home care, approved by the state Health Department Nov. 1.
Other cuts of vacant positions include three jobs each at Public Works and Social Services, and one each in the Sheriff's Office, the Refuse Disposal District and the Sewer District.
Two part-time jobs are being eliminated at the Office for the Aging and one each at Health and Emergency Services, the latter being a deputy fire coordinator's post. A seasonal intern job in Information Technology also is being cut.
The proposed budget totals $321.9 million, an increase of nearly $5.4 million or 1.7 percent in spending over this year.
However, that figure includes almost $45.9 million in "shared sales tax" that the county collects and passes on to the cities, towns and villages. The county is required to include that in the budget total. Leaving that out, the spending figure is $276 million, an increase of $3.5 million, or 1.3 percent.
Glatz and Huntington said they cut significantly in nonmandated programs. The nine major programs mandated but unfunded by Albany and Washington total $77.7 million in net county costs. That would have equaled a 4.8 percent increase in the tax levy without countervailing cutbacks in other areas, Huntington said.
The largest of all is Medicaid, rising $1.7 million, to a total of $47.2 million.
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Rodent proofing is the process of denying rodents entry into a building or home by improving the building integrity. Rodent exclusion is the best long term and cost effective method of rodent control. You want to eliminate dead spaces, cracks, crevices, and other openings so that pests cannot hide in, enter, or leave a specific building, room or piece of equipment.
Mouse and rat exclusion begins with Copper mesh. A Copper mesh product should be used when trying to prevent entry into a hole and opening. Rodents do not have the ability to chew or gnaw through the copper mesh fibers.
For successful rodent exclusion openings around pipes and doors should be corrected. Wooden doors are often gnawed trhough by rats. Ventilation grill should be covered with 18-gauge mesh. Sidewalk gratings should be also closed.
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Sufjan Stevens, the Michigan-born, Brooklyn-dwelling indie idol with a restless and expansive musical imagination, has finally played a show in Buffalo.
He walked onto the stage at Babeville's Asbury Hall on Tuesday night in a festive robe, which he later took off to reveal a T-shirt advertising Buffalo's erstwhile "Talkin' Proud" tourism campaign, and declared himself "Captain Christmas." And the sold-out crowd filled the venue with its pent-up applause.
Stevens went on to more than return the favor across an ecstatic evening that caromed from beautiful a capella versions of ancient German hymns and sensitive acoustic ballads about winters long past to techno-futuristic fantasies that seemed only vaguely connected to the holiday.
The occasion for Stevens' visit was a cleverly engineered and totally unhinged holiday concert, tongue-in-cheekly dubbed "Sufjan Stevens Christmas Sing-A-Long: Seasonal Affective Disorder Yuletide Disaster Pageant on Ice."
If the title seems purposely overdone, that's because the show was, too. After a brief and often-hilarious opening set from comic Sheila Saputo as a holiday-obsessed woman who can't help but over-share, Stevens took the stage, named himself "Captain Christmas" and was off and running.
He kicked the show off with the mystical "Christmas Woman" from his recently released 58-track project "Silver and Gold," followed by the bouncy fan favorite "Come On! Let's Boogey to the Elf Dance!"
He took a tour through his dozens of original Christmas tunes (though ostensibly no fan of the holiday, he's been releasing yearly Christmas EPs for quite a while now). The best of these, bar none, is a strange, attenuated and digitized version of "Do You See What I See," as if sung by Johnny-Five from "Short Circuit." At times it seemed to pause and resume in skitters, buffering itself like a YouTube video.
The sing-along portion of the evening, much to the crowd's delight, featured a gargantuan spinning wheel with various Christmas classics painted on it. A member of the band spun the wheel and sang the song it landed on.
This being Stevens, however, these were not the normal renditions of the beloved tunes of old. His band changed keys in the middle of "Joy to the World," rearranged "I'll Be Home for Christmas" into a strange waltz and turned "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" into some manner of military dirge.
Though he clearly was having fun screwing around with the classics, he didn't make it too hard for the crowd to follow along. So everyone in that crowd, which viewed from above became a sea of demurely bobbing Santa hats and ironically ugly sweaters, ate it up.After the sing-a-long, Stevens and his capable musicians treated that crowd to "For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fathers in Ypsilanti," one of his most beloved songs from Michigan, the album that put him on the indie/folk radar in 2003. The gorgeous "Sister Winter," a song Stevens said was about seasonal affective disorder but which plumbs other emotional depths as well, was beautifully wrought.
The whole bipolar evening – even the kitschy stage flanked by huge sheets of silver Mylar and bedecked with animatronic angels and flickering menorahs – seemed just right.
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on December 8, 2012 - 11:21 PM
LOCKPORT – For John Fuerch, the business of selling Christmas trees is as much about creating holiday memories as it is about selling Douglas, concolor and canaan firs, as well as the other five varieties he grows at Treetop Acres on Lower Mountain Road.
"I like to keep it natural. I like to keep it friendly and easy to walk," he said. "People are coming to us now and building traditions with their families."
Fuerch, a former physical education teacher who has been retired for nine years, started selling trees 30 years ago after he and his wife decided against building a house in the country. They kept their house in Lewiston. Instead, he decided to farm the rural land.
"My parents always had vegetable gardens. My father was into roses and into horticulture as well," he said. "I like to be outdoors, and this is something [that] worked together with all those things I like to do."
Over the years, he has learned about farming and tree varieties by consulting with the Cornell Cooperative Extension and the New York State Christmas Tree Association. The association's website, www.pickyourownchristmastree.org/NYxmasw.php, offers a county-by-county listing of local farms and their offerings.
Fuerch, whose own website is www.treetopchristmastrees.com, now knows how to help match the right tree to the right person, considering the color preference – blue? or green? – and even smell.
"What they'll mention is, 'I want the tree that smells like citrus,' " he said. "They always go to concolor. They're a very slow-growing tree. I only have those in the 6- to 6ø-foot range."
I didn't realize that certain kinds of Christmas trees have fallen out of fashion.
Years and years ago they used to take Scotch pine. They used to harvest them from the Adirondacks. I'm talking 30 years back. There's hardly anyone in the industry that harvests pines. … They have a tendency to turn "off" in cold weather. Almost like a yellow look. A lot of times they'll actually paint, which is something I'll never do.
It is a good needle-retention tree. It's not an "in" needle tree. It has long needles. People are into shorter needles.
What else is in now?
Most people, at this point, are actually looking for firs. Many people can grow Fraser fir, and some cannot. It's a high-mountain tree that needs a lot of moisture and a lot of fertilizer. I've tried to go to trees that have drought-tolerant needle retention. Frasers are tough.
What about tree stands? What do you recommend for setting up a tree inside with water?
We have gotten into selling straight stands. It's good for display. It's a spike that goes in the bottom of the tree. A long, 4-inch, very firm spike. We have a drill that actually drills the tree bottom, drills the hole.
We've also said that it saves marriages, because of the ease of putting this tree up. This straight stand can almost be used in any setting. [It's] a four-legged stand; the bowl goes right underneath the peg.
You got started in the tree business because you and your wife changed your minds about country living? And you liked to buy the kind of Christmas trees that you could plant after the holidays ended?
We're both teachers. We had a daughter, and we wanted to physically walk around the neighborhood. I had this property for a year. I said, "I want to do something with it." Over the years, I took balled and burlap trees. I started planting more and more and more. I did this for nine years. The last one I planted was in 1986, and that particular tree now is 50 feet tall.
I taught physical education in Lockport. My wife was elementary, first- and second-grade reading, math. My wife taught in Niagara Wheatfield and the Tuscarora Indian reservation as well.
What don't people understand about Christmas trees?
This is a recyclable, renewable resource. People say, "We hate to see a fresh tree come down." These trees are actually grown for that purpose. I have been planting 10 to 12 trees for every one I cut.
After Christmas, you set up your cut tree as a bird feeder?
I'll take it outside. Some of my Doug firs, they won't drop needles until about May. I'll tie it to the tree, and I'll put peanut butter on it. You can just put peanut butter on the limbs. That's the first place birds go to run and hide.
Any funny customer stories?
One year, I had a 13-foot tree that this one fellow said, "I want to cut this tree." I said, "I have a hand saw. You can cut it." As they were watching, the tree fell on top of him. It was hilarious. We got a good laugh out of it.
You say a little girl's reaction long ago has stayed with you all these years?
What comes back to me is, the girl was in the back of the truck. She had this look on her face. She was looking through the back of the glass. You could hear her: "Dad, we have a blue tree!" You could just see the joy on her face because of that. I remember I said, "This is what I want to do for the rest of my life."
I have another one. I actually have a friend that comes up. His grandson came. He came out. We took a picture. He put as the caption on the picture, "When I grow up, I want to be like Mr. John and grow Christmas trees." It doesn't mean a lot to any-body else, but it means a lot to me.
We also have Santa Claus. There's nothing like the looks on kids' faces. You just see wide-eyed, big-eyed children. There's nothing like it. It's just great. For a person who wants an extra business, this is one of the best jobs I've ever had. It's so much fun. People are so happy. People are lot happier this time of year, coming to get a Christmas tree. That's something that brings joy to me as well. We have enjoyed that for so many years.
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There are roughly 16,000 people who live near the Bees Ferry county landfill in West Ashley.
Last week, Charleston County Council got a petition signed by 160 of them — about 1 percent — asking them to please not build a new recycling facility next to the landfill.
So why didn't more people sign?
Well, probably because they didn't know about it.
A couple weeks ago the council's Finance Committee voted, 5-4, to put the recycling center at Bees Ferry. But the discussion about whether to build there or in North Charleston happened in executive session, which is closed to the public.
They said they were discussing contracts, but there are no contracts at this point. Alas, the private chat kept things from getting stirred up — until word leaked out.
And then, instant controversy.
The county's high-priced waste management consultant had recommended Bees Ferry, and several West Ashley council members went along with the idea in the name of consolidating services.
It could have all gone down this past week, petition or no, if not for a couple of things: Charleston Mayor Joe Riley and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Sticking points
The West Ashley site made so much sense, at least in terms of consolidation, that Colleen Condon was willing to take the political heat for building at Bees Ferry.
Everyone from that side of the county — save for Vic Rawl, whose district includes the landfill — voted to put the new facility on one of two sites in the city's fast-growing suburb.
Truth is, no matter what the county said, neither of those sites was going to fly easily.
One of the parcels is owned by some folks who are suing the county over the height of the current landfill. That looked like a good option — buy the land, the lawsuit goes away.
But that property is in the city, and Riley would make sure the county never got the industrial zoning it needed.
The other site is in the county, but includes about 5 acres of wetlands. The county would have had to go through a lengthy permitting process to fill in those wetlands, and then might not get approved. At the same time, because of federal law, the county would have had to find 5 acres of wetlands somewhere else to preserve forever.
As much sense as it made to stick recycling and garbage in the same area, it was going to be a pain either way.
It's a wonder the consultants recommended the site.
Councilwoman Anna Johnson, who had initially supported the Bees Ferry recycling center option, was under the impression that the city supported the idea.
Maybe she took that from their silence. In truth, they didn't know — Riley never even got a courtesy call, and found out only after the Finance Committee vote.
When Riley explained all this to Johnson, she switched her vote. (She really has to be tired of being the swing vote.)
But the mayor was persuasive.
"I felt that the city's future was on the line," Riley says.
Maybe so. And even if it wasn't, plans to stick a major industrial entity in an area that's gone suburban was certainly worthy of a public debate.
"They started on the wrong foot, trying to do it in secret," council Vice Chairman Elliott Summey says. "It never should have happened in executive session."
So now the new recycling center is probably headed to Palmetto Commerce Parkway, and council Chairman Teddie Pryor says they are done with the issue.
That's good — the county has enough on its plate these days, and has suffered through more than its share of controversy in the past year, between I-526 and that TIF district thing.
If they'd learned anything from those flare-ups, they might have avoided this drama.
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Designer, patternmaker and sewing instructor Steffani Lincecum teaches you how to identify and use 11 of the most common sewing feet. Start with zipper and buttonhole feet, then learn how to use blind-hem and rolled-hem feet to finish your work like a pro. Finish with a tour of popular optional feet that help you achieve perfect topstitching, gathers, couching, free-motion stitching and more. Whether you're new to sewing or a longtime sewist, you're sure to learn some tips to improve the speed and accuracy of your sewing projects by starting off with the right foot in this free mini-class.
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Meet your instructor, Steffani Lincecum, and get started learning about sewing machine feet.
Most sewing machines come with a standard zipper foot. Learn how to use yours, then meet the invisible zipper foot and the buttonhole foot. They can make sewing closures quick and easy instead of daunting.
There can be more to sewing a hem than turning up the edge and sewing straight across. If you don't want that hem stitching to show on your fashion fabric, you can use the blind hem foot instead of hand-stitching. Meanwhile, delicate fabric looks great with a rolled hem - and the rolled hem foot is just the ticket.
Are you a quilter? You might want to invest in a quarter-inch guide foot so you always have precise seam allowances in your piecing. Or maybe you like working with tricky fabrics such as leather, vinyl, suede, velvet or satin. The roller foot will keep your project moving smoothly under the needle.
Steffani demonstrates some fun feet that you can use in quilting or embellishing your sewing projects. The darning or free-motion foot allows you to quilt or sew in a freestyle manner, or use it to add some lace. If you want to use couching or braiding in your work, there's a foot for that. And gathering? That's a great tool to use for adding ruffles or pleats. Steffani will show you how!
"I've sewn for decades off and on and am currently getting back into it. This is a great course either for the beginner wondering what all those weird looking feet are or as a refresher for somebody who hasn't been using a lot of the feet that are with their machine. This was a great class with clear instruction and great video. I really appreciated the close-up of the foot she's working with since some of them have very unusual shapes. Great job, Steffani, you've inspired me to play with my feet. ;-) "
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Thank you for the live links!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for the live links!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
how soon is the next event?
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I've been watching the LTV7 stream, but it went down just as they were about to show Penny and Nicholas' highlights. Grrrr!!!
Any ideas, anybody? I'm using Firefox. Would it be different on Internet Explorer?
Because I've made a mistake - first post with a link - and I was banned for a few hours, I want to tell you to look at the page number 2 where I have posted a link to Romanian Television TVR HD, and the schedule of the live Euro. I hope it'll work for you!
it's geo-blocked.
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But thank you so much for being so thoughtful as to tell us the TVR HD link. It's just a pity that it turned out to be geo-blocked.
Just wanted to let everybody know that the link for LTV7 that we were watching yesterday for the Short Dance is working for the Mens Short
Gotta go - just about to start
Last edited by CaroLiza_fan; 01-24-2013 at 06:38 AM. Reason: Didn't have enough time to finish typing comment before Men's Short started
SVT is good, if you can find a VPN, to get past the geoblocking, that can handle the bandwidth. The stream usually uses a lot of bandwidth that some VPN services cannot handle. Mine has a hard time handling it. The only reason I stick with them is because they have a VPN server in China, which I use at times to watch the few CCTV5 streams left, all geoblocked to China.
I am watching Euros on SVT today, becuase CnopT2 has chosen to pre-empt nearly everything today for soccer and basketball, though they will still have the final groups of the pairs free live, starting at 12:45 PM US Eastern Time.
Part of the problem with some VPNs keeping up with the stream is that SVT uses a very high definittion stream that runs at about 3 megabits.
Does anyone know if SVT will have any of the GP series next season? I like the high-definition picture they have, much like what I used to get on NTV+ and WebTV when they had the GP series.
Sorry I didnt get a chance to post before the Pairs Free competition started.
Firstly, the link for LTV7 is still working.
Secondly, I wanted to remind everybody who wants English commentary that Eurosport will be joining the Pairs Free straight after the football is over (approx 19:55 GMT)
I usually use www.day.to for my Eurosport streams.
The first Europort link on the list is for Eurosport International 1
ONLY International, Deutschland and France are showing the Pairs Free LIVE on Eurosport 1 (British 1 is showing Tennis).
The Figure Skating will instead be LIVE on British Eurosport 2, which is the second Eurosport 2 link on the list.
However, as they will both be joining half-way through Yuko and Alexanders FP, I suspect they will show highlights until the end of the final warm-up.
Hope this helps
Last edited by CaroLiza_fan; 01-25-2013 at 04:44 AM. Reason: Gave wrong info about British Eurosport 1
Just a quick note to let you know that the LTV7 link is working and they are currently showing the warm-up for the first group of ladies.


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this is the goldilocks bag -- it's just right
and believe me, i've carried a number of other briefcase, bags, folios, and totes, and none have ever come close to the quality, the practicality and the elegance of this...Read complete review
and believe me, i've carried a number of other briefcase, bags, folios, and totes, and none have ever come close to the quality, the practicality and the elegance of this one.i purchased one in espresso several years ago, and i use it almost daily. the high quality leather has held up through my abuses as i drag it around, bouncing it off whatever i bang into. the only permanent marks on it are from my cat who also thought it presented an interesting surface. i really am amazed at its endurance.in addition to being so well made, the pockets and pouches are practical and well-designed. both main pockets are accessible with double zippers, so i can open them a little or all the way. the middle pouch of the outside pocket is perfect for my cell phone, and, being right where the two zippers meet at the top, keeps it within easy reach. i did, however, add one more pen loop; two just won't suffice for me. i can pack an unbelievable amount of junk in just that outside pocket without it looking bulky or stuffed. the main pocket can hold herds of files, a bottle of water, lots of little flotsam and jetsam, in addition to my little purse. i can even carry my small laptop in it and still have room for other things. because of the two zipper design, if i need to overstuff it, i can by leaving the zippers open. there's also a roomy inside zippered compartment as well, but i don't use it much since the front pockets are so convenient.for all its utility, this is one handsome bag. i can't tell you how many people have commented on it and how many more i've noticed just eyeballing it. it is very professional looking and has a slim profile. i have wasted an enormous amount of money on so many bags in the past. some too large, too small, too heavy, too cheap looking, poorly designed. but this is the goldilocks bag -- it's just right!
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Acceptable at the Clearance Price
I just received my red briefbag. Though I will be keeping it, I was somewhat disappointed after reading all of these reviews.To begin with, the picture of the red briefbag is...Read complete review
I just received my red briefbag. Though I will be keeping it, I was somewhat disappointed after reading all of these reviews.To begin with, the picture of the red briefbag is misleading. Rather than a smooth-finished, crimson color, my briefbag is a VERY bright red and in a pebble finish.The lining is NOT the levenger fabric depicted in other pictures on this website. My bag is lined in a very cheap-looking nylon. I once bought a Gucci bag on eBay that turned out to be a poor fake, and this lining reminds me of that bag.It is a shame, because the bag is truly well thought-out in terms of design. Because of this, and at only 65 dollars, I will be keeping it....but I am truly relieved that I didn't order a second bag for a friend as a birthday present, as planned, because it is not as nice as pictured.I wonder if Levenger decided to manufacture some briefbags with cheaper leather and lining, then sell them on "clearance"? If so, shame on Levenger! The other, non-sale briefbags look to be of better quality. Maybe someday...
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Always the best Quality
By poefan48
from Atlanta GA
A very good price for such a high quality bag. It is a bit large so I bought the smaller brief bag for when I am not carrying my laptop.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Perfect for College Graduate
By UofMissMom
from Spring, TX
I purchased the red Majorca Briefbag for my wonderful daughter-in-law who graduated Saturday with her Master's degree. The color is great, making a bit of a statement while still projecting a professional image. I wanted something of quality which isn't like all the rest...quality with just a hint of "attitude" and confidence. Most importantly, she loves it so that makes it perfect in my book!!!
Finally bought one!
By KCJohnston
from Colfax, CA
I have been considering this bag for quite some time but told myself that I already have too many wonderful bags. So when it went on sale, I decided to go ahead and get the saddle colored one.It is very well styled and of the quality I expect from Levenger. It holds my letter-sized bomber jacket planner with a grid-it attached, my iPad, iPhone, keys, a lipstick or two and my bomber jacket international briefcase (I use as my wallet) and a few other items. I don't think I'd carry my macbook pro in it. Although it would fit, I am concerned the weight might cause the bag to loose it's wonderful form. So it's good sized but it won't carry EVERYTHING...It looks professional, organized and feminine all at the same time. I hope Levenger decides to expand the color options beyond the black, red and saddle. The saddle color with the white stiching is very classic looking. As an artist though, I think it would still be stunning in a cordovan, light blue, sage green or even eggplant.
Lovely slim bag
By Josefine
from Jacksonville, FL
I highly recommend this bag to anyone looking for a professional bag that isn't just another messenger bag or briefcase. It holds my macbook air laptop and iPad easily, and I can also fit a slim volume with the two of them. The outside pocket is quite flat, so anyone with a large wallet or sunglasses case might not prefer the bag. I have enjoyed the fact that it encourages me to carry less stuff, as I have always tended in the direction of the "loose baggy monster," which is bad for your back! Exceptional quality leather, as usual from Levenger.
iPad carrier my solution
By rhubarb
from Pa.
I'd been looking for a bag to carry my iPad for some time. Needed something with a strap, large enough to carry the iPad and separate keyboard, and a bright color so can't forget it's there and lose it.This is perfect on all fronts. Can double as a regular purse/iPad carrier when in my home area, and holds keyboard as well when travelling. And not bulky.Everything I've been looking for, and hoped to find from Levenger due to previous high quality items purchased.
Favorite Bag
By Vicky
from El Dorado Hills, CA
I've had my Majora bag for over 4 years now and love it. It is perfect for business trips where I don't need to lug my laptop to meetings. This bag does double duty as my breifcase and purse - and the slim profile makes the bag both easy to carry and classy enough to carry off as my only bag. I own the saddle color - which is a classic carmel/tan in rich, durable leather. After 4 years, my bag still looks new. Would highly recommend to anyone who doesn't want a big bulky "man-sized" briefcase. This beauty is streamlined yet hightly functional - and practical. I'm back to purchase another in black,
Useful, Beautiful Bag
By Scout
from VA
Like other Levenger products I have bought over the years, this arrived wrapped in a soft cloth bag fastened with a silky braided rope. The case is high quality leather with edged leather details on interior pockets, leather tabbed zipper pulls, nice cloth lining and firm handles, all stitched well and edges perfect- a high quality product. The wide top opening allows me to carry my 15 x 101/2 inch laptop, although I don't do that often, and the case is capable of carrying my large scheduling notebook and work files, books, wallet, gloves, keys, pens, cell phone, etc, in a zipped neat case. It will stand up when zipped open for easy loading and checking contents. Since I am not fond of a shoulder strap, I only wish it had slightly longer handles for slinging over my shoulder when hands are full of other bundles. The saddle color is a vintage medium brown. Professional - lightweight.
this bag is worth it...every penny
By Suzie
from Spokane WA
it is with a heavy heart that I finally lay to rest my first redMajorca Briefbag...it has served me faithfully for 10 years, through overloading, rain, and snow. I cannot tell you how many compliments I received on this bag, I always looked pulled together (whether I was or not). ...the bag makes it look like you are. I recently noticed the red chewed up drink circle on it, where did that come from???, the scuffing from years of use....I am actually talking myself out of getting another bag. Maybe a trip to the shoe repair man and a good polishing could salvage it?
lovely at first, but falls apart
By saltango
from Oregon
I ordered this bag because I have been so pleased with the Majorca laptop bag I have had for nearly five years now, which looks as beautiful and works as well as the day I received it. When my job changed so that I did not need to tote my laptop around I was happy to be able to size down. The leather and color are beautiful, but I started losing zipper pulls within a few months, and now three years later there are none left, and the main zipper is broken and irreparable, making the bag completely unusable. Given the way the zipper is inserted (which makes it very functional and allows the bag to open wide for loading) the zipper is essentially impossible to replace, so it would cost nearly as much to fix as it would to replace the bag. I am disappointed, because I invest in quality leather goods with the hope they will last, and that I will be able to get them repaired.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Merchant response: This is disappointing to hear. I'm sorry you had to go through this. Our 100% guarantee states, "if you are not 100% satisfied, let us know and we will make it right." This includes products with or without defect. I will be more than happy to replace your bag for you. We will be sure to inspect your replacement although I am sure this is a singular issue.Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We would love to hear your feedback on your replacement as well.
Best purchase ever!!
By Esther
from Brooklandville, MD
The Majorca Brief Bag has been the greatest briefcase I've ever had!!! It's perfect! Don't change it! Mine is over10 -15 years?, and still looks new!I love the soft leather!!thank you!Esther
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Can be used in a variety of ways to describe a bad situation; something ugly or unpleasant; a general negative term
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Taken from various people in Santa Barbara, CA
"Being stuck inside on a beautiful day is railer."
"That person is so railer."
"That person is so railer."
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The term used for a blowjob where the blower slighty bites down with there teeth causing red lines and pain.
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Virtually any drug you snort in the form of a line of the powdered or crushed form of said drug.
Dude, watch me sell this kid a railer of laundry soap.
โดย Bill Burrows 11 กันยายน 2009
Railers are people who believe high speed rail is the panacea for reducing traffic and cleaning the environment. Despite all evidence showing high speed rail being a waste of money in both its initial cost to build and then the ongoing maintenance. Who would use it often, not one person we know.
Want proof of high speed rail being a boondoggle - check out Seattle's light rail.
Many Railers have the same religious zeal as many of the Warmers, Truthers and Birthers.
Want proof of high speed rail being a boondoggle - check out Seattle's light rail.
Many Railers have the same religious zeal as many of the Warmers, Truthers and Birthers.
Barack Obama, Joe Biden, democrats, and socialists are most often Railers.
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When you see a girl who is so hot that you just wanna rail her.
Damn, she is such a railer!
โดย sh@n3dissonance 12 มีนาคม 2009
A person who is part of an audience during an online videogame.
I was playing a pokergame the other night. When i reached the final table the chatbox was taken over by railers giving comments on every single hand.
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High Frequency Trading and the New-Market Makers
Albert J. Menkveld
VU University Amsterdam; Tinbergen Institute - Tinbergen Institute Amsterdam (TIA)
May 13, 2013
Journal of Financial Markets, Vol. 16, 2013
This paper characterizes the trading strategy of a large high-frequency trader (HFT). The HFT incurs a loss on its inventory but earns a profit on the bid-ask spread. Sharpe ratio calculations show that performance is very sensitive to cost of capital assumptions. The HFT employs a cross-market strategy as half of its trades materialize on a large incumbent market and the other half on a small, high-growth entrant market. Trade participation rates are 8.1% and 64.4%, respectively. In both markets, about four out of five of its trades are passive, i.e., its price quote was consumed by others.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 49
Keywords: high frequency trading, market fragmentation, liquidity, market making
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
On Feb. 7, three candidates for the United States Congress stood in the freezing rain by a CARTA bus stop sign behind the Arbys near Bowman Road. Teddy Turner (R), Mathew Hoffman (R) and Larry Carter Center (G) were getting the sort of education about the problems and opportunities of public transit east of the Cooper that reality pounds into the mind with the intense impression John Cameron only dreams of when he's cooking up blue aliens flying through the third world of Pandora.
Since then, with somewhat better weather, Elizabeth Moffly (R), Tim Larkin (R) and Ric Bryant (R) have also taken a ride with the Hungrneck Straphangers.
Linda Page, of the CARTA board and Mount Pleasant Town Council has met with candidates for Congress to talk about Transit. So has Elliot Sumney.
What they need to know, is what East Cooper has learned in two years of intense effort to develop public transit, lessons our community is about to apply to two new bus routes. On Feb. 23 regular CARTA bus service to the Isle of Palms and Sullivans Island ended. The 401 bus route, which served Belle Hall and Long Point Road was also terminated. Neither route met ridership standards. It was time to redeploy precious transit resources to areas where the cost per rider would be lower.
One bus was added to the #40 Route between Wando High School and downtown, improving service to every 40 minutes Monday through Saturday and every hour on Sunday. Some runs of that bus are now standing room only in the morning and evening. The 40 is critical to delivering labor to the businesses along Johnnie Dodds Boulevard. It helps Wando students get home after extra curricular activities. With improved sidewalk systems to feed its stops and a history of reliable, on-time service delivered by determined drivers throughout the entire construction period, the 40 is a proven producer, now outperforming some downtown, West Ashley and North Charleston routes.
A new route was started on rapidly redeveloping Coleman Boulevard, the 41, which now connects directly to the Visitor's Center in downtown Charleston and the Mary Street transit hub there. The 41 runs every 70 minutes out to the BI-LO Shopping Center near Page's Thieves Market. This route makes a circular loop through the Ravenel Gateway District at the foot of the bridge, serving Patriots Point, Waterfront Park and Wingo Way.
The loop this bus makes is critical because it solves a major problem Mount Pleasant has discovered with the 40. We have 10 hotels in Patriots Point and along Wingo Way full of tourists who would like to ride public transit into Charleston, but they couldn't do that without crossing a highway choked with lethal, roaring traffic. Hundreds of people also work long and hard at those hotels.
Now they have stops they can reach safely. Soon, thanks to the generosity of Mayor Swails, they'll have a bench to sit on beside Wingo Way.
That loop allows Mount Pleasant to finally fully activate the "Park Pleasantly, Play Downtown" system where visitors stay in our hotels, generating employment and paying tourism taxes in Mount Pleasant.
It's good for the visitor. They save $80 a night on their room and their kids get a pool. They can enjoy Waterfront Memorial Park and Patriots Point.
The Red Roof Inn has been promoting this for years, as have the other hotels where guests could safely walk to a stop on the 40 bus line (including the three near the IOP Connector and Hungryneck Boulevard).
As our town expands living options for residents, large new multi-family projects such as The Boulevard on Coleman Boulevard have been approved for locations near bus stops.
Our town needs more people to work and live here so our economy will work, but we don't need more cars on our overcrowded roads. Residents of these new projects won't need two cars for a family.
It is perfectly practical for some people to live in the Ravenel Gateway District or along parts of Coleman or Johnnie Dodds without owning a car now, as I've done for 13 years.
East Cooper Transit will be smarter soon. We've had online trip planning via Google Transit for more than a year. That's being upgraded with more accurate information and new stop locations.
However CARTA is also on the verge of releasing real time transit information, based on GPS data transmitted from the buses through the cellular network to a system where you can know where your bus is and when it is expected to arrive at your stop based on what is happening now. The year long project to make this work circumvented an expensive established option to leverage new technology in Veolia's own operating software, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars. (Veolia is the private operating company which actually runs the CARTA buses and is the largest transit operating company on the planet.)
The system crashed this morning, but the technical people were under the hood sweating with it when I sat down to write.
Transit will work if our town comes together now to use these tactics and tools. We need tourists to ride the buses. We need politicians to ride the buses. We need you and your kids to ride the buses.
We need everyone because we're going somewhere together in Mount Pleasant now.
(William Hamilton is the coordinator for Hungryneck Straphangers, East Cooper's Public Transit advocacy organization. Connect with the group at www.busec.org or 843-870-5299.)
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