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The assets up for auction range in value from $34,500 to more than $7.4 million and are scattered from Hayden, a town of approximately 1,600 situated along Highway 40 between Craig and Steamboat Springs, to Colorado Springs.
The largest of the properties is 38 acres of commercial retail land located in Berthoud. The parcel originally totaled 45 acres, but Safeway purchased seven acres from the borrower. No construction has begun on that parcel.
The wide range in size and location of loans made by New Frontier is a testament to how large the now-defunct bank once was, holding 17.8 percent of the deposit market share in Northern Colorado and $1.47 billion in assets as of June 30, 2008, less than a year before it was shuttered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
By the end of 2008, New Frontier shot past $2 billion in assets, making its mark as the largest agricultural lender in Northern Colorado, just 10 years after it was founded. But the heyday ended when, in the first part of 2009, the FDIC came to town, shut the doors of the Greeley-based bank and began the task of selling some 4,200 active loans worth $1.54 billion.
Nineteen of those loans will be on the auction block this spring, as Mission Capital Advisors attempts to sell a portfolio of residential and commercial properties in a sealed bid auction.
March 21 will mark the first day that bids are accepted, and the bids will be narrowed down until the final bid date on April 11, according to Peter Tobin, managing director of sales and trading at Mission Capital Advisors. All sales must be closed by April 20, Tobin said.
The assets up for sale are mostly raw land, and are a mix of residential and commercial. The sale will provide an opportunity for locals to invest in these assets in a time when the economy is slowly rebounding and real estate prices are firming up, Tobin said.
He could not comment on what kinds of bids he expected to receive for the properties.
The assets being auctioned off are a portion of a $75 million portfolio that Mission Capital Advisors is managing on behalf of Leawood, Kan.-based Mariner Real Estate, which was the winning bidder in the FDIC sale of $762 million in assets from 20 failed banks in 2010.
Many local banks had the opportunity to take over New Frontier loans, but in the vast majority of cases, passed on the opportunity due to the poor quality of the loans.
Agricultural lender New West Bank, headquartered in Eaton, looked at many of the loans at the time, New West Chairman Leroy Leavitt said, but in most cases, the borrowers had been allowed to borrow far more than they could repay.
"We took maybe one out of every 10 requests," he said.
New Frontier's lending practices did serious harm to the Weld County economy, Leavitt said, not only by making bad loans but also by driving up real estate values by allowing borrowers easy access to too much capital that they used to overpay for property.
At the height of its prosperity, New Frontier also made many charitable contributions to various entities in Weld County, Leavitt said, delivering a blow to the institutions the bank had once supported when New Frontier's money was no longer available.
Leavitt's bank, like many others in the region, also took over a lot of deposits when New Frontier folded. Nearly every bank's deposit market share increased in the year following the closure, and First National Bank, which had been the only bank ahead of New Frontier in the market-share rankings, was cemented as the frontrunner.
Most of New Frontier's loans were sold to non-bank investors, such as Mariner Real Estate. Some of the loans that were purchased were called immediately by their purchasers, resulting in some businesses having to close their doors.
New Frontier's failure was attributed to bad loans and unsound banking practices that eventually led to all six of the top officials at the bank being banned from banking by the FDIC. In 2009, nearly 60 shareholders leveled a civil suit against nine defendants, including New Frontier founder Larry Seastrom, in an attempt to get back $13 million they had invested.
The suit alleged that the defendants encouraged policies and practices that led to the bank's failure by making too many loans and permitting transactions meant to circumvent lending limits.
The suit was dismissed without prejudice in March 2010.
To date, no other charges, civil or criminal, have been brought up against the New Frontier officials. New Frontier's failure resulted in a loss of $871.4 million to the FDIC's deposit insurance fund, which is funded by premiums paid by banks.
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Sorry this will be long, there are a lot of pieces to the puzzle ...
Little one is 6 weeks old and breastfeeding has gone pretty well, but there have been some odd changes lately, with green poo being the newest.
So here's the summary:
-- Breastfed right away (home birth), with a good latch
-- Was pissy his second 24 hours, nursing constantly but unsatisfied. Midwife believed he was getting plenty of colostrum but ready for real milk.
-- Milk came in at 48 hrs and instead of losing weight his first week, he gained.
-- Established a 1 poo per day pattern right away
-- At 2 weeks his weight was below his birth weight though I'd been nursing on demand. I'd been seeing green and yellow poo alternating.
-- Started to feed him *more* than he demanded, and he gained 11 oz the next 8 days. Seemed to increase supply, and got a plugged duct.
-- He's continued that rate the past several weeks, hitting about 1.25-1.5 oz a day on average.
-- At 4 weeks I started pumping a little, to store up milk. Dad & I aren't together and I want to store up milk so Dad can give me better breaks now and then. Had a lot of trouble getting anything pumped.
-- At 5 weeks I helped a mom with a medical emergency and fed her newborn alongside mine for a day. Also took hops. Big jump in supply, it seemed (and a plugged duct that resolevd quickly).
For the past week or so I've been noticing the following:
-- He seems starving, latches on, makes a face, and pushes my breast away (I don't see any squirting), then wants to re-latch so badly it's hard to get him to calm down enough to latch
-- While eating he'll squirm a lot, seems really uncomfortable, sometimes stops and shrieks, lets go ... I thought it was gas and would try to burp him, then he's scream and root at my neck
-- He'll refuse to eat any more, then seems starving shortly thereafter
-- Prolific, stinky farts
-- More diapers than usual (about 10-12 cloth per day, up from about 8), sometimes having a totally saturated diaper an hour after we took a saturated one off
-- I can only get milk to eject for a few minutes while pumping, but I can often get 2oz of milk in just a few minutes.
-- It seems sometimes like he's forgotten how to latch. Sometimes it's perfect, and sometimes he'll have my nipple in his mouth and seem like he can't find it - that never happened before.
For the past few days we've had:
-- Sudden increase in poo, from 1 every 1-2 days to several per day. SOme are yellow and foamy, a few have been green, some look yellow and mucousy.
-- Astounding volumes of spit-up
-- Very perplexing cycles of having a very full belly, and seeming starving
It's been typical since the 3rd week that he'll not burp after a feeding, but then later he'll spit up -- sometimes floods of spit-up it seems.
What I have NOT experienced:
-- Seeing milk spray when he lets go of my nipple
-- Leaking other than a few drops if I have no bra on and press the side of my breast with my arm (like during a diaper change), one side only
-- Feeling extremely full all the time (not sure if H cup breasts have anything to do with this ... maybe they can be very full without my noticing much)
-- Sensation of many let-downs (I can never feel my milk let down)
And: I'm having a hell of a time pumping; the past few days it's been tough to even get an ounce. SO I figured my supply was down.
Thoughts? It's easy enough to attempt to feed him from just one breast every 2 hours and help him "finish" that breast. I'm not sure how to mix in the pumping (I'd like to keep pumping once a day, storing about 2oz a day would help this single mom with rest and sanity).
Thank you!!

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what age did you see a reduction in night feedings? Did you try to encourage sleeping thru the night?
what age did you see a reduction in night feedings? Did you try to encourage sleeping thru the night?
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IMO its not about the age its about the development. My son fought night-weaning horribly when he was teething. We backed off, waited til all his eye teeth and first molars were in, and it worked! The magic "age" was 16 months.
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Mama to Daniel (12/3/06) and Lucy Jane (8/28/08)
I agree with Lyn - developmental stage is more important than age. For us it was 18 months. He nightweaned fairly easily (there was some crying, but only the first night) and I know it wouldn't have been so easy earlier. We started nursing again at night when his last molars came in & he got sick between 20-22 months, but we were able to nightwean again easily once he was feeling better. And he sometimes sleeps through the night now.
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I tried by Dr. Jay Gordon method when ds was 25 months old... he had been nursing 3-5 times per night every night since birth. From reading others expereinces I thought we might be in for a struggle. I was pleasantly surprised. He whined a little bit but there was NO CRYING whatsoever. I didn't talk to him about it ahead of time or anything, just tried it one night when I had the courage. He's done great for a few weeks now. I'll still nurse prior to bed whenever that is and then start again when it's light out, generally after 6. If he wakes, we just cuddle a bit and then he's all good. We're thinking to transition him to his own twin bed in the coming week (still keep him in our room though).
I night weaned Kate at 15 months, but it was out of desperation. I was in my 2nd trimester with Norah and could not function with the night waking anymore.
I keep threatening to do it when Norah is a year old, but the closer that gets the more I feel like she's not ready.
Honestly, if she'd nurse and go back to sleep, I'd be willing to let her night nurse for much longer, but she wants to wake up completely for hours in the middle of the night and I can barely make it through the next day.
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I agree with PP's that it's about development rather than age. I just night-weaned my daughter 2 weeks ago - she was 18 1/2 months. I felt that she was ready because she is able to understand when I tell her she can nurse in a minute, or when we get in the car, etc. and is generally able to wait with gentle reminders, so I felt like she would understand "we don't nurse in mommy and daddy's bed until the sun comes up." So what I did was play "sleep/awake" games with her during the daytimes so she would understand when I say "mommy's milk is sleeping and will wake up when the sun comes up." Those are the only two things I say to her when she asks for milk during the no nurse hours, which were 12am to 6pm to start and are now 10:30pm to 6am. I do nurse her right before the no nurse time though. The first night, she cried for 15 minutes the first time while I did everything else to comfort her, but once I put on a really high-neck shirt (I thought I had a high enough neck shirt on, but she was clawing at me) she laid down and went to sleep next to me. The next time she woke up, she cried for 7 minutes and then laid back down next to me. Since then, she's hardly cried at all, less than a minute and not every night. I do have a sippy cup of water available though, and sometimes she'll drink from it and other times she doesn't. Oh, another sign I saw that led me to believe she was ready was she was nursing frequently through the night, but only for a few seconds/minutes at a time.
Anyways, you will feel when it's right for you and your little one. Good luck!
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I'm night-weaning DD right now (she's 18 mo.) and so far it is going really well. I agree that this age seems to be a really good window for most toddlers.
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Love them very comfortable I work in a restaurant and I am on my feet for 10 to 12 hours a day these shoes really help.
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the traction on sole is bad ... too smooth ... very slippery
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I'm a nurse, I have bunyons and wide feet. My daughter got these for me as an early Christmas present. After almost 60 years of wearing shoes that hurt my feet all day....I finally come home and still keep them on. NO PAIN! It's unbelievable and I'm so thankful to my daughter for finding these for me. I will never wear anything else. Thank you Crocs!
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I love ❤ this shoe
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I wear these at work in the hospital and they're the best!
Best Uses
- Beach
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I was so disappointed on this product. After wearing them for the first time to the beach. I enjoyed the sun for a few hours and went to put the crocs back on and they shrank 2-3 sizes. I could not find any product info on the shoe, in the box or on site taking about you can NOT wear your shoes in the sun or leave them in the sun AT ALL.. I call the number on the website and they were aware of the issue, but couldn't tell me where to find it. NO help at all. Spending $$$ on two pair and having to give them away now!!!. I would never purchase their product again. Only if they had good customer service, I could of been a customer for life.
- Comfortable
- Lightweight
- Not Non-slip
- Poor Fit
Best Uses
- Casual Wear
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Got these for work based on the reviews figured they would be good for the kitchen..
They are the slipperiest shoes i've have ever warn..
I don't suggest these shoes if your working with any liquids or food products.
- Sizing:
- Feels full size too big
- Width:
- Feels too wide
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Very Comfortable. Highly recommended.
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My husband loves the shoes the width is good with socks and they, he says are true to size.
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Comfortable Ladies Dresses
Three-Quarter-Sleeve Knit Maxi Dress
Like a chic blank canvas ready for you to add your signature style with a belt, a cardi, and a statement necklace. Simple and simply perfect in lightweight jersey with an easy, flattering fit. * Semi-fitted * Scoop neckline * 3/4 sleeves * Ankle length * Cotton/rayon/spandex jersey, garment-washed for softness * Imported
Price: $98.00
Essential Shift Dress
We're drawn to a shift that knows how to shift gears — from season to season, daytime to date night. Our minimalist version has a straight silhouette and a series of seams at the waist, front to back, that define the body beautifully. The fabrication ups the elegance factor (crêpe = drape). * Sleeveless * Knee length * Poly/viscose/spandex crêpe * Imported
Price: Was $138.00
Now $68.00 - $138.00
Juliet Knit Dress
Everyone needs a graceful go-to dress in her closet — and we made sure this one is feminine without being fussy. The surplice bodice wraps smoothly across the front, and the skirt floats gracefully for a very flattering silhouette. * Extended cap sleeves * Knee length * Cotton/rayon/spandex; lined skirt * Imported
Price: $98.00
Cowl-Neck Cocoon Sweater Dress
Our beyond-comfy sweater dress has a wanderlust style that's just right for getting you to ballet class or to a performance at the ballet, with an inviting cocoon shape, a snuggle-up cowl neck, and a textured cardigan stitch. In extra-fine merino wool. * Relaxed fit * Cowl neckline * Long sleeves * Ribbed trim * Short length * 100% extra-fine merino wool * Imported
Price: $168.00
Merino Pocket-Detail Sweater Dress
Cut to fit, and shaped to flatter, our sweater dress features a rolled collar, 3/4 sleeves with fixed cuffs, and slanted welt pockets — it's no wonder this is the darling of our design team. Crafted in soft, draping merino wool, it can be dressed up or down with just a change of accessories. * Relaxed fit * Scoop neckline, with rolled collar * 3/4 sleeves with fixed cuffs * Ribbed trim at nec...
Price: $128.00
Blouson Knit Dress
The dress that belongs in every fall wardrobe. As easy and comfy as your favorite jersey tee; we also made sure it's exceptionally detailed, with braid-trimmed side pockets and a blouson drape. * Relaxed fit * Scoop neckline * Long sleeves * Elastic waist * Knee length * Cotton/rayon/spandex jersey; garment-washed for softness * Imported
Price: $98.00
French Terry Dropwaist Dress
Our French terry dropwaist dress is the ultimate cozy cover-up for your workout wear. With sweet style (a flounced hem), and a sporty edge, with a soft-brushed back and a moisture-wicking interior that feels soft against the skin and keeps you dry post-workout. * Straight fit, with flare below the drop waist * Crew neck * 3/4 sleeves * Above-knee length * Cotton/modal/spandex French terry * Importe...
Price: $98.00
Asymmetrical Wool-Jersey Dress
A black dress flatters by nature, but ours goes one step further, with feminine seaming at the waist, flattering 3/4 sleeves, and an elegant asymmetrical hem. Featuring the warmth of wool jersey for comfy stretch and great drape. * Semi-fitted * Scoop neckline * 3/4 sleeves * Asymmetrical hem * Above-knee length to calf length * 100% wool * Imported
Price: $178.00
Bohemian Pocket-Detail Dress
An au courant silhouette with a curved dropwaist and boho print make this dress a real charmer. An ultra-relaxed fit gives the amazing ability to flatter every body type it meets. In viscose crêpe, it's lightweight yet substantial, with delightful drape, to pair with a denim jacket or dress it way, way up. * V-neck * Three-quarter sleeves; cuffs * Above-knee length * Viscose crêpe; lined ...
Price: $138.00
Siren Knit Dress
An update to one of our all-time favorite shapes, this goddess-like dress has great drape with a romantic surplice neck and a single cascade of ruffles down the front. * Deep V-neck front to back * Sleeveless * Knee length * Lightweight cotton/rayon/spandex; lined bodice * Skirt lined in nylon tricot * Imported
Price: Was $98.00 Now $54.00
Banded Maxi Dress
Breezy and bohemian, with oversized kimono sleeves and a meticulously placed engineered print, this surplice maxi dress is long on bold, dramatic detailing. * Open back with oversized tie * Block-style print gives the illusion of banded trim, but keeps the dress lightweight and flowing * Short oversized sleeves * Maxi-length hem * Woven from pure rayon for a fluid drape * Imported
Price: Was $128.00 Now $78.00
High-Low Maxi Tank Dress
We're head over heels in love with this maxi dress in a cotton/modal mix that takes color (and stripes!) beautifully and glides over curves like nobody's business. The simple scoop-neck style is long on dress-up-or-down potential; shift the look with flip-flops one day, wedges the next. The A-line silhouette has great sweep and a subtle high-low hem. * Scoop neckline * Sleeveless (and bra-friendly)...
Price: Was $98.00 Now $78.00
Waist-Detail Sheath Dress
Our new feminine sheath, turned out in embroidered eyelet with flattering cross-body pleats at the waist. Laced with modern style, this is the kind of shift that shifts easily from day to date, from leather sneaks to little heels. * Sleeveless * Invisible back zipper * Knee length * Heavier-weight-cotton embroidered eyelet; lined * Imported
Price: Was $148.00 Now $49.00
Riviera Embroidered Lace Dress
Lace, unlaced — our relaxed and super-easy silhouette gives lace a life beyond the party-dress trope. From its pull-on styling to its tonal lining, this dress has an Indie spirit. And the lining stops short of the scalloped hem for a peek of sheerness just where you'd want it. * Front and back scoop neckline * Bust and back darts * Waistline has a bit of elastic for give * Knee length, with s...
Price: Was $148.00 Now $68.00
Ruffle-Bottom Silk Dress
Silk charmeuse is the sultry star of our demure dress. Subtly flapper-inspired, the dropwaist silhouette features alternating matte and shiny ruffles — the matte ruffles are actually the reverse of the charmeuse (a subtle textural interplay). Whatever invites are on the calendar, this dress will put you in the swing of things. * Sleeveless * Lower scoop neckline * Darts * A-line silhouette * ...
Price: Was $178.00 Now $79.00
Twist-Detail Maxi Dress
A dress that goes to great lengths for easy yet eye-catching style, thanks to a twist-detail sweetheart neckline and pretty ruching at the sides. Strapless or halter, it's versatile with either sandals or heels. * Pull-on style * Double-lined bodice with front twist detail and side ruching * Removable adjustable straps * Pockets * Maxi length * Cotton/modal jersey * Imported
Price: Was $98.00 Now $39.00
Bohemian Maxi Dress
The seasonless dress for varying temps. Well draped in viscose crêpe and designed to wow, from the fluttering sleeves to the flattering waistband. In a mix of woodblock-inspired prints. * Surplice front; U-neckline in back * Short dolman sleeves * Hidden back zip * Maxi length * Viscose crêpe; fully lined * Imported
Price: Was $178.00 Now $98.00
Gather-Detail Faux-Wrap Dress
The allure of this lovely dress lies in the details: it's crafted from a draping jersey knit and features a super-flattering sunburst of pleats and faux-surplice detail at one side of the waist and skirt. * Sleeveless * Scoop neckline * Above-knee length * Viscose/elastane jersey; lined * Imported
Price: Was $98.00 Now $34.00
Cashmere Boatneck Dress
Slip into something comfortable. Our fitted cashmere jersey-knit dress is a flattering backdrop for a statement necklace or a wrap belt. Dress it up with tights and heels, or go casual with leggings and boots. * Fitted * Boat neckline * 3/4 sleeves * Knee length * 100% cashmere * Imported GARNET HILL CASHMERE Garnet Hill cashmere is made from the fine, downy undercoat of Kashmir goats. We create lo...
Price: $248.00
Knit Trapeze Dress
Walk, drive, or fly through your day with the greatest of ease. The unfussy silhouette and flattering drape make it a four-season, for-all-reasons favorite with sandals or boots. * Pull-on style * Scoop neckline * 3/4 sleeves * Knee length * Viscose/elastane * Imported
Price: $78.00
Brianna Knit Dress
Graceful lines give this surplice number the go-anywhere flexibility to take you from work mode to party mood — whether you go for classic black or a statement-making print...or both. In our favorite viscose jersey that drapes the body beautifully. * Three-quarter sleeves * Knee length * Viscose/elastane; lined * Imported
Price: $98.00
Calais Knit Dress
The sailor-style tee grows into a chic dress with a decidedly French flair in solids or stripes. A flatters-all cut with a slight A-line shape, classic boatneck, and on-seam pockets. * Three-quarter sleeves* Above-knee length* Midweight slubbed pure cotton jersey* Imported
Price: Was $68.00 Now $28.00
Bateau Three-Quarter-Sleeve Knit Dress
The sailor-style tee turns into a chic dress with fresh stripes and a decidedly French flair. In a flatters-all cut with a slight A-line shape, a boat-neckline, and — voilà! — on-seam pockets. We've crafted this dress of a heavier-weight cotton so it glides rather than clings. * Three-quarter sleeves * Above-knee length * Heavyweight cotton jersey * Imported
Price: Was $88.00 Now $70.00
Audrey Ponte Shift Dress
There's a shift to the shift in fashion circles and we've made sure our favorite entry is flattering to every body — with strategic seaming and discreetly tucked pockets for a clean fit. Vintage-inspired embellishment at the neckline adds just the right wow. In a midweight ponte that spans the seasons and the occasions, from conference room to cocktails. * Sleeveless* Back zipper* Above-knee ...
Price: Was $128.00 Now $39.00
Velvet Shift Dress
The little black dress shifts into party mode with the alluring texture of velvet burnout. The slim A-line is designed with a form-fitting bias-cut slip to enhance comfort and fit without adding bulk. * Pull-on style * 3/4 sleeves * Knee length * Imported
Price: Was $168.00 Now $68.00
Linen High-Low Cap-Sleeve Dress
Simplicity personified, our linen dress has the kind of clean lines and relaxed fit that can take you from the office to Oahu. We're particularly in love with the sweep of the A-line skirt, the side-seam pockets, and the midi length that seems to flatter everyone who's given it a go. * A-line silhouette * Cap sleeves * Below-knee high-low hem * Midweight linen * Imported GARNET HILL LINEN Our linen...
Price: Was $118.00 Now $68.00
Mixed-Print Surplice Dress
Good prints come in threes for a cotton dress that's both casual and chic (prints charming, you might say). And the silhouette is our most flattering faux-wrap style, complete with pockets (love!) and a handkerchief hem. Boho with the know-how to take you from work to weekend to wedding. * Sleeveless * Darts at the bust and back * Invisible back zip * Side-seam pockets * Handkerchief hem * Below-kn...
Price: Was $168.00 Now $78.00
Linen Embroidered Sheath Dress
A sheath with a botanical touch. Our feminine silhouette features elegant tonal embroidery replete with florals and scrolls for a very ladylike take on dressing. The fit is just as lovely, with a softened square neckline and front-and-back darts for shape. Ideal for every occasion on the calendar, brunch to the ballet. * Sleeveless * Invisible back zip * Side pockets * Above-knee length * Midweight...
Price: Was $148.00 Now $58.00
Linen Surplice Midi Dress
Channeling the '70s Indie spirit, we created a hip midi that's all kinds of flattering. The intricate bodice features a deep V-neckline, a pleated surplice detail, and a double-layer sash that cinches the waist. The lightweight linen has great movement, whether you're heading to The Haight or a date. * Pullover style * Calf length * Lightweight linen; lined * Imported GARNET HILL LINEN Our linen is...
Price: Was $138.00 Now $54.00
Flutter-Sleeve Sweater Dress
Sashay from season to season in this lightweight blend of silk and cotton. Made to maximize movement, so you'll look especially good on the go. Relaxed A-line shape and short flutter sleeves. * Pull-on style * Scoop neckline * Short raglan sleeves * Above-knee length * Silk/cotton * Imported
Price: Was $118.00 Now $94.00
Everyday Ponte Knit Dress
Three reasons we love this simple sleeveless dress: a modern fit (that looks great on every body); an easy silhouette (to layer with a denim jacket or wear solo later); and a flattering ponte fabric (to give a knit a little structure). Dressing — done. * Sleeveless * Scoop neckline * Darts at the bust * Front pockets * Above-knee length * Cotton/spandex * Imported
Price: Was $98.00 Now $78.00
Celestial Knit Maxi Dress
Our new maxi dress is a constellation of clear and tonal sequins in a trio of sizes that catch the light. With pull-on ease and soft comfort, it looks sensational belted with a duster by day, or solo at night. * Pull-on style * Scoop neckline in front; V-neckline in back * Sleeveless, with bra-friendly straps * Elastic waist * Side vents * Maxi length * Pima cotton/modal; garment-washed for softnes...
Price: $138.00
Wool Turtleneck Sweater Dress
Unlike sweater dresses that are uncomfortably clingy, ours has an easy silhouette, oversized turtleneck, and drop shoulders. Wear it worn loose or belted for a custom fit. It can go casual with sneaks or dressy with tall boots. * Long sleeves * Belt with loops * Ribbed finish on collar, cuffs, and hem * Above-knee length * 100% extra-fine merino wool * Imported
Price: $148.00
Easy French Terry Dress
Eyes closed, our French terry dress feels like a sweatshirt. Eyes open, it's anything but, with a score of delicate details: short dolman sleeves, seaming at the waist, and a supersoft brushed, moisture-wicking interior. * Straight fit * Scoop neckline with exposed zipper behind neck * Short dolman sleeves * Front pockets * Above-knee length * Cotton/modal/spandex French terry * Imported
Price: $118.00
Modern Surplice Maxi Dress
We've tweaked the fit of our favorite flattering maxi so it's slightly sleeker and even more body-beautifying — the better to glide from sandy days to Saturday nights. Fitted surplice bodice; deep V front and back look chic coming or going. * Double-layered fitted surplice bodice * Deep V front and back * A-line silhouette * Slight gathering at the shoulders and waist * Maxi length * Cotton/r...
Price: Was $98.00 Now $38.00
Three-Quarter-Sleeve Lace Dress
Our modern approach to lace dressing maintains the grace but adds a streamlined silhouette. The clean sheath of lace is lined in a weighty, wonderfully flattering ponte knit. Features a scoop neck, three-quarter (unlined) sleeves with scalloped edges, and an above-knee length that keeps the look chic. Wear it from office to opera without missing a beat (or libretto). * Nylon/rayon/spandex* Imported...
Price: $148.00
Garden Party Knit Dress
We narrowed the silhouette of our favorite flirty party dress a smidge: less gathering at the bodice and a less full (but still floaty) skirt. With a graceful gathered knot at the top and a host of pretty prints, it's the kind of ladylike dress you'll wear again and again, whether to weddings or garden parties. * Low V-neckline * Cap sleeves * Fitted bodice * Knee length * Lightweight cotton/rayon/...
Price: Was $98.00 Now $28.00
Ponte Sheath Dress
Our work-worthy, body-skimming (and slimming) sheath is made of our favorite wonder fabric: ponte. The stretchy-yet-structured silhouette features princess seams to accentuate the positives and makes a great backdrop for statement jewels or dashing cardigans. * Scoop neckline * Elbow-length sleeves * Invisible back zipper * Knee length * Cotton/spandex ponte knit; lined * Imported
Price: Was $68.00 Now $48.00
Bohème Easy Lace Dress
A favorite free-spirited lace dress is back, with a trimmer fit based on your feedback. Sleek A-line shape features botanically inspired vine-patterned lace. Distinctive details include a silk chiffon drawcord at the keyhole neckline, three-quarter bishop sleeves and a lacy hem. * Above-knee length * Cotton/nylon lace with satin-finish liner * Imported
Price: Was $148.00 Now $111.00
Eileen Fisher Sheer-Overlay Silk Georgette Ballet-Neck Dress
Eileen Fisher's sleeveless silk georgette dress is lined in silk and finished with a sheer silk overlay for flirty shoulder coverage. The attached sheer overlay wears like a flowing cape that's especially striking when you're on the move. * By Eileen Fisher * Pull-on style * Bateau neckline * Knee length * 100% silk georgette * Imported
Price: $348.00
Eileen Fisher Organic Cotton Ballet-Neck Dress
MADE BY EILEEN FISHER FOR GARNET HILL The basic knit dress in soft certified organic cotton with a little Lycra® to maintain its flattering A-line shape. With its graceful ballet neck and cap sleeves, it's a versatile style that can be dressed up or down. * By Eileen Fisher * Knee length * Certified organic cotton with Lycra® * USA
Price: $138.00
Eileen Fisher Viscose Jersey Three-Quarter-Sleeve V-Neck Dress
MADE BY EILEEN FISHER EXCLUSIVELY FOR GARNET HILL This body-skimming dress adds swing to each step with the feel-good fluidity of polished stretch jersey. A day-to-night essential, it navigates the change of seasons easily with just a change of shoes. * By Eileen Fisher * V-neckline * 3/4 sleeves * Above-knee length * Viscose/spandex * USA/Imported PART OF EILEEN FISHER'S SYSTEM DRESSING A travel-s...
Price: $178.00
Eileen Fisher Silk Georgette Crêpe Ballet-Neck Dress
Eileen Fisher's graceful dress is styled to stand out, no matter the mood, from daytime casual to dressed-up chic. In an airy silk georgette crêpe, with textured sleeves for a mixed-media look. It features a graceful ballet neckline, seaming at the waist, and stylish pockets. * By Eileen Fisher * Ballet neckline * Textured 3/4 sleeves * Pockets * Above-knee length * 100% silk georgette crê...
Price: Was $308.00 Now $246.00
Eileen Fisher Viscose Jersey Square-Neck Short-Sleeve Dress
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Made in the USA, Eileen Fisher proves once again that basic is breathtaking. The silhouette is slightly tapered at the hips to complement the fluid fit. * By Eileen Fisher * Square neckline * Cap sleeves * Drop shoulders * Above-knee length * Viscose/spandex * USA
Price: Was $178.00 Now $142.00
Eileen Fisher Viscose Jersey Flare Dress
This USA-made dress has flare to spare. In a body-skimming knit, the go-anywhere basic is exceptionally detailed with a beautiful ballet neckline, well-placed pockets, and a swingy silhouette accentuated by creative seaming to complement curves. * By Eileen Fisher for Garnet Hill * A-line silhouette * Pull-on style * Ballet neckline * Long sleeves * Pockets * High-low hem; short in front; below kne...
Price: $188.00
Velvet by Graham & Spencer Philippa Maxi Dress
A relaxed, blousy silhouette in a tribal-inspired print. This boho beauty hits the right summer notes, from a strapless silhouette to a graceful ankle-grazing length. * From Velvet by Graham & Spencer * Includes practical pockets without the bulk * Woven rayon * USA
Price: Was $158.00 Now $58.00
Market Sundress
We designed each element of this sundress to shine, from its modern silhouette with yoke seam to our chic take on a paisley print. A forgiving fit, in crinkled cotton gauze with just the right amount of stretch for ease. * Pull-on style * Banded split neck * Slight gathering at center-back yoke * Sleeveless; bra-friendly straps * Above-knee length * 100% crinkled cotton gauze; lined * Imported
Price: Was $138.00 Now $78.00
Lilla P Crinkle Cotton Sleeveless Shirtdress
A dreamy shirtdress to break out on a spring or summer day. We're fans of the details that set the silhouette apart, from the mandarin collar to petite pleats at the shoulders. The fit floats away from the body for ultimate flattery, or cinch it with a belt for a more tailored take. A seam down the back adds a little structure and shape. * By Lilla P * Sleeveless * Button placket with mother-of-pea...
Price: Was $168.00 Now $134.00
Signature Summer Sundress
The ladylike way to float through a summer's worth of soirées, our lovely dress is fitted through the bodice and flared at the skirt (we've slimmed the silhouette a bit from past styles). * Sleeveless * Hidden side zip * Fabric sash * White has a lace-trimmed hem * Knee length * Cotton voile; lined * Imported
Price: Was $128.00 Now $48.00
Phoebe Maxi Sundress
This globe-trotting go-to delivers drama with its striking batik print, high neckline, and tie closure. For errands or evenings out, it looks equally good with casual sandals or your dressiest heels. * Pull-on style * A-line shape * Adjustable tie-back drawstring neckline * Keyhole detail in back * Sleeveless * Maxi-length hem * Rayon; lined * Imported
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THX tune-up features custom video test patterns, carefully selected photos and tutorials to help you adjust and confirm the best picture settings on your display based on your room lighting. Using special test sounds, THX tune-up also lets you check your external speakers to make sure they are working in phase and are connected properly for 2-channel stereo or 5.1 surround sound systems.
THX tune-up is completely interactive and you will be able to go through it at your own pace and in any order. Use your iPad 2 (or later) or iPhone 4S (or later) to connect to your display or sound system with an AppleTM Digital AV Adapter and HDMI cable or through a wireless Apple TV. NOTE: 5.1 audio tests are only supported with an HDMI connection.
To get started, locate the adjustment buttons on your television and audio video receiver (AVR) remote controls and then simply follow the THX app tutorials which will walk you through your "THX tune-up." The app offers tips about your remote control, room lighting, viewing distance and other helpful advice.
THX tune-up uses your iPad or iPhone camera to set color and tint with a special built in color filter. Just point your device camera at the TV screen and see if your color or tint is adjusted correctly.
Compatible with iPhone 4 (only with an HDMI cable connection to TV or AVR), iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (4th gen), iPod touch (5th gen), iPad 2 Wi-Fi, iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G, iPad (3rd gen), iPad Wi-Fi + 4G, iPad (4th gen), iPad Wi-Fi + Cellular (4th gen), iPad mini and iPad mini Wi-Fi + Cellular. Requires iOS 6.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5 for use with HDMI adapter to your AVR/HDTV. All of the above devices except iPhone 4 can be used with Airplay Mirroring and Apple TV (3rd gen). 5.1 audio tests are only supported with an HDMI connection.
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Zapping Migraines
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Today, there's good news about a potential new treatment.
In a small Belgian study, a wearable nerve stimulator provided good migraine relief.
The device is placed on the forehead, and delivers electrical stimulation to the supraorbital nerve.
67 migraine sufferers took part in the study. The first month they weren't treated at all. Then, for the next three months, they received either electrical stimulation 20 minutes a day or sham stimulation where levels were too low to have any effect.
People who received the real stimulation had fewer days with migraines in the third month of treatment compared to the first month with no treatment. The number of days with migraines fell from 6-point-9 days to 4-point-8 days per month, a 30% decrease.
And there were no side effects from the stimulation.
The number did not change for those who received the sham treatment.
Larger studies are still needed to confirm the positive effects of the stimulator treatment, but researchers say the device appears to provide hope.
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as an added bonus, the WIN Baseball Clinic is Saturday 3/28/09! Here is the link to the event:
Click where it says "Camelback Ranch Glendale WIN Clinic for more information.
The event will be hosted by Maury Wills, Ron Cey, Mike Davis & Bobby Welch! I am not sure If I mentioned why Bobby Welch became one of my favorites back in the 80's. I told him at the 80's luncheon and he was like "Me?" I hope I can get tickets there for this event as it was too late to buy online.
Click on the photo album for pictures from prior events. See the lady wispering to Jeff Kent from the 2007 pictures? She is Maybelle Blair from the All American Profesional Baseball league. She was portrayed by Madonna in the movie "A League of Their Own". Maybelle was a lot of fun at all the WIN events. At work I have a picture with all the ladies from the AAPBL that attended these events.
The second picture from 2008 is me throwing the ball to a friend that gets down in position to catch the ball. You can see the ball in the air. We had a nice luncheon after the baseball clinic and Jamie McCourt, Russell Martin, Don Mattingly, Joe Torre & Matt Kemp were at the luncheon fielding our questions. The lady with the Jeff Kent shirt in the next to the last picture is me. I miss my ponytail when I wear baseball hats.
Russell Martin and Matt Kemp were asked to show their tatoos and no, that was not me asking that! . I directed my comment & question to Mr. Mattingly. What do you all think of Don Mattingly's picture?
Looking back at the pictures reminds me that I will not see Jeff Kent anymore :-( I will miss you Jeff! Thank you for hosting the WIN baseball clinic at Dodger Stadium for the last 4 years! -Emma (crzblue)
ok, now I really need to get off the computer as we leave very early tomorrow morning. We changed our plans of leaving at night to early morning because of heavy traffic on the 10 & 210 freeways.
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How great that you got to meet one of the women who played in the All American Professional Baseball League! Wouldn't it be great if we had a league like that now? Good luck getting tickets!
i had a lot of funs at this event! Got pictures that when I get home I will share. I'll probably be hurting tomorrow though. Still it was all worth it.
When you come back you need to write a blog saying… "I'm going , going , back, back to Cali, Cali". lol
~ King of Cali
You are seeing much too much of baseball already this year : ) Lol, we should all be as lucky as you. Hope you had a great time.
LOL KofC, As we were approaching the California border, we were singing that. haha.
Tom! I know! I am little tired but we love going to Spring Training. Let's see we saw 7 games and 3 WBC games. I am ready for this Thursday's exhibition game against those red devils (Angels) OLOCR (Dodgers Stadium).
I am taking a little break from taking traffic school.
How lucky were you to see so many baseball games before regular season started. I thought I was doing good with 2. We tied the first game against the Marlins which was the spring opening game and beat the Mets 8-7 in the second game I went too. I know it was only ST but it was nice to beat the Mets at Tradition Field. Good luck to your Dodgers this year Emma.


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Emily Hurd
Daytime Fireflies
The very things that attract us to a potential mate – tend to be the same things that eventually become the most annoying habits or affectations that person possesses.
Emily Hurd is a smart and gifted songwriter who has released a collection of bold and textured songs. Her quirk is a lisp that whistles at times while it is almost completely inaudible on other songs.
I am not – by any means – making fun of Hurd – I am curious why she plays it up on some cuts and downplays it on others. She creates these sweet little moody pieces of music that draw you in either through a rolling melody that tugs at the heartstrings or by visual images that read like Don Robertson vignettes.
There are moments where her dramatic flair delves into the melodramatic – but her lilting voice and the innocence in her delivery forgive any misstep.
The title cut "Daytime Fireflies" combines a vintage show-tune with some later Beatles' orchestral fidgeting. Lyrically it is filled with irony (literary irony as opposed to the misnomer that Alanis M. sang about a number of years ago) that makes the listener think – and then smile to themselves as they unravel the idea within the musical context. [Read more…]


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Via Planet PHP comes this interesting tidbit from Markus Wolff, the original author of PEAR LiveUser. After briefly lamenting over-engineered ACL (access control list) systems in PHP, he talks about a much simpler concept that holds some interesting nuggets of joy. Might Drupal benefit from some of them?
Oy, what a year it's been! Aside from the excitement of the election and the economy, it's been an exciting year for me in the professional realm. (Personal realm, if you don't already know then you shouldn't know. :-)) And of course, it's been a crazy crazy year for Palantir, too, but in a mostly good way.
Let's see, one new job, two new Drupal jobs, two conferences, one sprint, three camps, six new colleagues, two foreign countries, eight other US states, one book... and a partridge in a pear tree, probably. Oof!
Via Planet PHP I stumbled across this article decrying Singletons. It's not a new argument, really, but one of the comments pointed me toward a Google Tech Talk video entitled "Global State and Singletons". To be honest I don't agree with everything said in either the article or the video, but both are spot on about the problems of global state, something I've lamented before in relation to testing.
That is especially relevant now, as we consider the question of Handlers in Drupal. Why? Because the most controvercial part so far, the environment variable, is designed to address exactly this problem, a problem that is currently prevalent throughout all of Drupal.
Permit me to explain.
Unless you've been living under a rock for the last six month, you should have already heard about Drupal 7's new-and-shiny database layer, DBTNG. That was only the beginning, though! Much has happened since then to the database, and there's much yet to do. That's where you come in...
Some time ago, I posted an RFC for pluggable "system handlers". It generated a fair bit of feedback, nearly all of it positive. That was followed up with a presentation in Szeged, which generated even more positive feedback.
So what's happened since then? Well, a fair bit. There's working code, but there are still some key gotchas to sort out. That gives us a couple of options for how to proceed, for which I would like feedback, particularly from core developers and maintainers. (Dries, webchick, this means you! :-) )
So apparently I am destined to bring light to the world and spend the rest of eternity regretting it. Figures. Any Oracles out there?
Your result for The Greek Mythology Personality Test...
This site has been running Drupal 5 for over a year now, even though Drupal 6 has been available since February. I kept meaning to update it, but never got around to it. Of course, then along came Acquia and a pressing need to try out the new kid on the block (for purely professional reasons, of course). So, armed with proper backup tools and a fast Internet connection, I set about to sacrifice my blog on the alter of experimentation. Onwards!
I need to not have spare time. When I have spare time, I do crazy things. Not crazy things like your mother told you not to do, but things like write modules on a lark.
Like I said, dangerous. But, useful. In this case, it was a conversation over on Ryan Szrama's blog that kinda got out of hand and gave me another idea for a module, which I am happy to announce is now available for download.
Weird things happen when I travel. Like, I spend several hours sitting around in airports with nothing to do but write documentation. I am therefore pleased to announce the immediate availability of both upgrade docs and usage docs for the DBTNG system.
With the Drupal.org redesign process well under way and moving along at high speed, it's become apparent that some of the details of the "Why" of it all were never quite established. To be honest, I didn't understand the full scope of what "Drupal.org redesign" meant either until recently.


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I have read that it is a good idea to supplement with formula after 3 months for nutritional reasons. This seems like it would reduce my milk supply but I don't want to deprive my child of proper nutrients. Any thoughts?
I have read that it is a good idea to supplement with formula after 3 months for nutritional reasons. This seems like it would reduce my milk supply but I don't want to deprive my child of proper nutrients. Any thoughts?
nope bad advice!
your milk has everything in it that your baby needs! well past their 1st birthday.
there was a good article in the last new beginings about what is in breastmilk.
human milk is designed for babies, it has anti-infective proberties,and it contains Eseental fatty acids.
Human milk is 1.1% protien 4.5% fat and 6.8% carbohydrate
compaired to cows milk 3.6% protien 3.5%fat and 4.7% carbohydrate.
The womanly art of Breatfeeding has a whole section on Why the breast is best.
I second that! Horrible advice!
Formula does NOT have all that your baby needs, only your breastmilk does. That's the way God designed it. Your breastmilk is the prefect food. So perfect in fact, that it's all your wee one needs for the first year of life if you choose not to start solids until later. Can't say that about formula! Definitely read the arcticle that Andrea mentioned!
Sounds like you were talking to the pedi I had to take dd to last week. He actually told me to stop BF and that after 3 months human milk goes bad and is mostly just water. He also tried to tell me that LLL doesn't care about their babies, only the moms and we were all selfish for BF past 3 months and doing it for ourselves only (obviously a man who never was exhausted from all night nursing sessions or had couch-glued-to-butt syndrom)I am glad that I have the LLL to turn to when someone comes up with those ridiculous out dated theories. I was also wondering if there was somewhere I could report him to? I have the LLL but worry about other mothers that have not found it that he may be discourageing to BF. Neddless to say, I left before he examinted dd.
FYI, anyone in Arlington, TX avoid Dr. Edward E Moyaad.
Amanda Mom to James (2/25/04) and nursling Alice (8/24/05)
sounds like a man who has many issues with females -possibly his mom never breastfed him!! What is he - 80 years old?! Good call leaving & I'd warn others about him along with writing him & his practice a letter telling him he is giving incorrect advice. You may want to also look into sending a complaint to the medical board.Originally Posted by amandalynn
As for responding to the post - formula is not necessary!! Even the formula companies admit that "breast is best" - their claim to fame is trying to get as close to breastmilk as possible!! So why give an imitation of breastmilk, when you baby can have the real thing?
Amandalynn--I work for an insurance company and we have a system specifically for reporting poor treatment by doctors. I would call your insurance company's customer service department and ask how to go about filing a complaint against this doc. The insurance company I work for investigates this stuff very seriously, and we have "de-credentialed" doctors if we continue to receive complaints about them. That means they are no longer contracted and may lose patients over it.
Just a thought!
Amandalynn--almost forgot--you also need to watch the EOB's you get from your insurance company. I'd be willing to bet that he will still file a claim to get paid by your insurance company. If you left before he examined DD, that is fraud. I also hope you didn't pay your co-pay while you were there!!!
Wife to Barney (nope, he doesn't hang out w/a guy named fred, nor is he a purple dinosaur!!)
Proud mommy to Justin Reed
Ada Grace will arrive sometime in July
DD is still on medicaid, I am sure he will file, but I don't get any EOB and as for reporting him to them, they don't really care.
Amanda Mom to James (2/25/04) and nursling Alice (8/24/05)


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Frontofacionasal dysplasia is a rare genetic disorder that is apparent at birth (congenital). The disorder is primarily characterized by malformations of the head and facial (craniofacial) area and eye (ocular) defects. Craniofacial malformations may include an unusually short, broad head (brachycephaly); incomplete closure of the roof of the mouth (cleft palate); an abnormal groove in the upper lip (cleft lip); and underdevelopment (hypoplasia) of the nose with malformation of the nostrils. Affected infants may also have abnormal narrowing of the folds (palpebral fissures) between the upper and lower eyelids (blepharophimosis) and an unusually increased distance between the eyes (ocular hypertelorism). Additional eye abnormalities may include partial absence of tissue (coloboma) from the upper eyelids or the colored regions of the eyes (irides) and an inability to completely close the eyes (lagophthalmos). The signs and symptoms of frontofacionasal dysplasia are highly variable. Frontofacionasal dysplasia appears to be inherited as an autosomal recessive trait.
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Hi. I posted this in the tandem nursing section but this might be a better section to post to.
I am nursing my 5m old and would like to start pumping for my 2.5 y/o who weaned when her sister was born but asks for "pumped mama". Can anyone give me any suggestions? I've read that is best to pump in the am but realistically noon would be much easier. Does it make a big difference?
I am mainly wanting to do this for the immune benefits. She has gotten sick more since weaning than ever before. Will even just a little provide lots of immunity? How much is enough?
With my oldest daughter I pumped for donation so I am thinking this would be similar.
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We've reached galaxies far, far away without leaving our reclining theater seats while clutching our buckets of popcorn.
But we've been there before. In 1902, we took "A Trip to the Moon."
And Kathleen Cuyler doesn't want you to forget that.
"Once you're interested in films you can't get away from it," Cuyler said.
"When I was a little girl, we went to the library, and we saw the making of "The Empire Strikes Back."
"And as a little girl, I was like, 'Wow, that's how they do it. They can make magic happen.'"
Love of film
Cuyler, a full-time English professor, also teaches a film appreciation class at the Coastal Bend College Beeville campus.
In the class, students analyze major film elements such as cinematography, editing and sound.
Students are even encouraged to bring in snacks for extra credit – to complete the movie-going experience, of course.
"One of my passions has always been film, so I thought, 'Most schools like Del Mar and San Antonio have a film class.' Almost every college has a film class, and it's in the catalogue for accredited transferable courses, so I was wondering why we weren't doing it."
Cuyler graduated with her degree from CBC before transferring to the University of North Texas in Denton, where she got her bachelor's and two master's degrees.
When she returned to Beeville, she saw a job opening, applied and began teaching English in the fall of 2010.
Her sisters, who had gotten degrees in radio, television and film, recruited her while she was at UNT to help make a feature-length horror comedy spoof titled "Unscared."
"I helped them with writing their scripts or whatever I could.
"For me, it was a lot of work, because I was going to school and teaching and doing this at night, so I wasn't getting much sleep."
But the process never seemed daunting for Cuyler, having watched many making of dvd special features and behind the scenes documentaries.
"I felt like it was kind of normal. I've always been interested in the filming process.
"A lot of the cast said it was the best thing they've ever been in, so I thought that was pretty good."
And the feature, though never released, won the award for best trailer at the Texas Sundance Film Festival.
Starting from scratch
So, having some hands-on experience is more than likely a plus for someone trying to get a new college course that no one at the college probably had even thought about.
"My boss, Mr. Jeffrey Massengill, is really receptive to us having new ideas, so he said, 'If you do the legwork, we'll try it out and see if it works'.
"Then we have to go through the process of it being accepted and put in to our catalogue then, hopefully, eventually being added to a core component, which takes a while."
And, though it may seem any student would jump at the chance to watch movies for a class, Cuyler mentioned that one of the many problems she's facing is just awareness.
Most students aren't even looking for a class like this to be offered at CBC, and the few who fall upon it think it won't be transferable if they go off somewhere else after.
"Right now, I have three students in my class, and I do it as an independent study.
"A lot of people think it's not going to fill anything on their degree plan, but it does.
"It transfers as a literature elective at this point. So, it does fill that little block of electives.
"Because it's an independent study doesn't mean it won't transfer. It means you get more attention."
The class
During her classes, Cuyler will discuss certain elements and show a PowerPoint of things students should be aware of while the film plays.
"The one thing that I do establish with my class at the beginning is that we're not going to look at it like that was then. That's old or that's cheap, were going to look at with what I call the anthropological view.
"When an anthropologist goes to a tribe, they don't say, 'Oh, you are all savages. You're running around naked, how disgusting.'
"You have to become part of the tribe to notice what they're doing and there's a purpose for that, so let's learn what that purpose is.
"We look at movies the same way. We're watching 'A Trip to the Moon.' This is the first time there's ever been special effects.
"Before, you could go in and see a girl jiggling her hips, and it'd be awesome.
"But for the first time, you had things disappearing in smoke and flames.
"Put yourself in their shoes and now how do you feel? You don't just say that's old and that's cheap, it's not like what we have now.
"And that's the way you're really going to get into the movie experience – by thinking what it was like back then.
"I think it's fun. Just looking at it and being able to say, 'Did you guys notice this? This is really cool, look at that.'"
And, while introducing old films isn't as daunting as it is fun for Cuyler, it does come as sort of a head scratcher.
"I'm really surprised that a lot of these students have not seen things besides the most modern releases.
"They don't explore some of the older movies. They're not aware that there are movies that are interesting out there."
Books to films
Cuyler's being an English instructor is another one of the reasons she was drawn into creating a film class.
And not just because so many books get turned in to movies, either.
"I was asking another class I was teaching, 'What's the difference between seeing a story in a movie or reading it?'
"They said, 'You don't need as much imagination with a movie,' and I said 'no, that's not it.'
"You do need imagination, because we have these series of cuts, and you start realizing that this close-up shot of this person and a close-up shot of a train coming at us have a relationship.
"Somehow, our brain automatically formulates our imagination, and it works without us to say that there's a relationship between those shots."
What's next?
With some feature film experience under her belt and a love for film, she has no intentions of closing her English books just yet.
"I really am happy with my job right now.
"I mean, you get to stand up and talk about what you enjoy, and I have a good boss."
The film course is the one that may be getting a wardrobe change for next semester.
Having a one-hour and 20-minute class, it seems hard to cram films and lectures into that block.
"I'm actually thinking about trying the film course as a night class, because, in a three-hour segment, we can get the whole movie in."
And surely, once the word gets out about the class, eager film viewers are more likely to sign up.
"I think it's an awesome class. You get extra credit for bringing popcorn.
"My job isn't to dissect the movie and ruin it for them; we're not going to over-analyze them.
"It's like when you see an attractive person and you want to get to know them better.
"The same thing when you fall in love with a movie; you want to know more about it."
For more information about the film course visit www.coastalbend.edu.
Paul Gonzales is the entertainment writer at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 116, or at email@example.com.


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WASHINGTON — The boom in oil from shale formations in recent years has generated a lot of discussion that the United States could eventually return to energy self-sufficiency, but according to a report released yesterday by the International Energy Agency, production in the United States and worldwide will provide only a temporary respite from reliance on the Middle East.
The agency's annual World Energy Outlook, released in London, said the world oil picture was being remade by oil from shale, known as light tight oil, along with new sources like Canadian oil sands, deepwater production off Brazil and the liquids that are produced with new supplies of natural gas.
"But, by the mid-2020s, non-OPEC production starts to fall back and countries from the Middle East provide most of the increase in global supply," the report said.
A high market price for oil will help stimulate drilling for light tight oil, the report said, but the resource is finite, and the low-cost suppliers are in the Middle East.
"There is a huge growth in light tight oil, that it will peak around 2020, and then it will plateau," said Maria van der Hoeven, executive director of the International Energy Agency.
The agency was founded in response to the Arab oil embargo of 1973-74, by oil-importing nations.
The agency's assessment of world supplies is consistent with an estimate by the U.S. Energy Department's Energy Information Administration, which forecasts higher levels of U.S. oil production from shale to continue until the late teens, and then slow rapidly.
"We expect the Middle East will come back and be a very important producer and exporter of oil, just because there are huge resources of low-cost light oil," van der Hoeven said. "Light tight oil is not low-cost oil."
Predicting energy trends is notoriously difficult. For example, hardly anybody predicted the revolution in oil and gas production created by fracking in shale.
The energy outlook, which makes projections through 2035, does not anticipate breakthroughs, although it expects continued reductions in cost for electricity from renewable sources. Electricity from wind and the sun, though, may command less revenue going forward, as it becomes harder to integrate into the electric system, because it cannot be turned on at will.


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- Title
- An energy consumption model and analysis tool for cloud computing environments
- Author(s)
- Chen, FeiFei; Schneider, Jean-Guy; Yang, Yun; Grundy, John; He, Qiang
- Abstract
- Cloud computing delivers computing as a utility to users worldwide. A consequence of this model is that cloud data centres have high deployment and operational costs, as well as significant carbon footprints for the environment. We need to develop Green Cloud Computing (Gee) solutions that reduce these deployment and operational costs and thus save energy and reduce adverse environmental impacts. In order to achieve this Objective, a thorough understanding of the energy consumption patterns in complex Cloud environments is needed. We present a new energy consumption model and associated analysis tool for Cloud computing environments. We measure energy consumption in Cloud environments based on different runtime tasks. Empirical analysis of the correlation of energy consumption and Cloud data and computational tasks, as well as system performance, will be investigated based on our energy consumption model and analysis tool. Our research results can be integrated into Cloud systems to monitor energy consumption and support static or dynamic system-level optimisation.
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- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
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- Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software Engineering (GREENS), Zurich, Switzerland, 03 June 2012, pp. 45-50
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- 2012
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- Cloud computing; Energy consumption; Green computing; Performance analysis
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I t seems there isn't much left on the planet that humankind hasn't tried to domesticate, and if not attempting to domesticate, mankind has tried to keep most everything in captivity at one time or another, with varying degrees of success.
In some cases, pulling creatures out of the wild is actually doing them a favor by postponing or preventing extinction. In other cases it is done just because it can be done.
But captive housing is not to be confused with domestication efforts, which can get a tad bizarre.
The list of critters people have and continue to try and turn into pets — we tend to call them "exotics," which seems to cover almost anything that's not a dog, cat or farm animal — is long indeed and sometimes causes ire if not outrage.
Included on the list are things like venomous snakes and insects and vicious lizards that grow bigger than dogs, and then there are the more benign reptiles, turtles and amphibians.
And of course there are little nectar eating nocturnal marsupials, monkeys and even prairie dogs, squirrels, possums, skunks and raccoons.
From cockroaches to zebras, camels, or tigers, you name it, people keep them.
For those who aren't quite ready to go full "exotic," some breed a touch of the wild into domestic cats and dogs in the form of wolf hybrids Bengals and Savannah's.
Given all the strange pets out there, Lucy Sparkles shouldn't seem all that unusual.
Yet she has hopped all the way to national headline news in the week since Thanksgiving.
It does make sense that she would attract attention though, because even though people have a lot of strange pets, it isn't every day a family chooses a joey, or for that matter, a little girl names her joey something as unique as Lucy Sparkles.
Of course the story was prompted when the 11-month-old, 2-feet tall kangaroo youngin' disappeared from home during the holiday bustle, but her family got lucky in a sense because, while missing pets aren't usually news, missing kangaroos kind of are.
So needless to say, the residents of their Oklahoma City suburb have to be keeping their eyes, and minds, open to the possibility they might cross paths with a kangaroo — albeit a beloved, timid and probably frightened family pet kangaroo.
Who knew — a kangaroo is one of those creatures that you can imagine being on a child's list of dream pets, but struggle to fathom actually being a pet, yet apparently they are available from breeders in the U.S. and around the world.
Though often identified by the general term "kangaroo," there are more than 50 species in the macropod family. Wallabies are most likely to be kept as pets, with sizes comparable to small to medium dogs as opposed to the potential of an 8-foot, 200-pound kangaroo.
Driven by mild, somewhat skittish and fearful traits, they are touted to be affectionate and pleasant pets, for a conscientious owner who takes the time and does the research, of course.
Those same traits make Lucy Sparkle's disappearance almost predictable, yet also mean she is built to survive in unforgiving lands — cut from highly adaptable cloth.
And although she hit the road less than a day's distance away and would probably LOVE the eastern plains, there's no need to be on the lookout for kangaroos in these parts because despite hopping speeds of up to 45 mph. Kangaroos tend to pick a place and stay pretty close, so chances are good Lucy Sparkles is still within a mile or two of home.
Coming from an American breeder who raises kangaroos to be pets, and having spent more than half her short life with her human family, it is more than likely that home is where Lucy needs to be. Because though it's a far cry from the grasslands of the outback, for her, home is a house with kids and a yard and a little girl who apparently think she sparkles, as well she may.
Sharna Johnson is a writer who is always searching for ponies. You can reach her at: firstname.lastname@example.com or on the web at:


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Manitou project extended
Posted on August 01, 2014
A construction project to replace leaking metal panels at Manitou Hall will be delayed by a few weeks.
The project, originally expected to be completed by mid-August, will be finished in early September because of a shipment delay.
James Moyer, associate vice president for Facilities Planning, said the work will not affect the operation of the building, but the building will be partially enclosed in scaffolding until the work is finished.