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11:31 AM Wednesday Mar 20, 2013
Another high is moving in – but as we mentioned in our videos in late February there are now plenty of signs of cracks around the edges of these highs. We see rain in the forecast for the West Coast this weekend and perhaps a few showers around the top of the country before the working week is done. Despite the dry weather for most places this week – the Southern Ocean is finally waking up and producing more and more rain bands, we take a look at that and what it might mean for NZ.

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UTSA student chapter of Engineers Without Borders
Engineers Without Borders: UTSA students to build Bolivia clinic
By Lynn Gosnell
Special Projects Writer
(June 26, 2009)--The UTSA student chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB), a registered student organization, is raising funds for its first international, humanitarian project.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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Engineers Without Borders is a nonprofit organization that designs and implements sustainable engineering projects worldwide. The national organization comprises 300 student and professional chapters active in 47 countries. A group of UTSA students formed a student chapter in 2007.
After a year of organizational groundwork (and a false start on a project in the town of La Ligilla, Mexico, that had to be put on hold because of escalating violence in the region), EWB-UTSA has established a partnership with the town of San Lorenzo, Bolivia, to "adopt" an engineering project.
Located in a largely rural area of southern Bolivia -- a country with one of the highest infant mortality rates in South America -- San Lorenzo (pop. 7,100) is seeking improvements to its only medical clinic, which has gone years without updates and is in poor condition.
"The project entails updating and helping them build a new health clinic to serve their growing community," said EWB-UTSA president Krista Paredes, a senior civil engineering major. More than a dozen students participate in the UTSA chapter.
The cost of each EWB project is shared by the community in which the project takes place and the chapter adopting the project. The town of San Lorenzo has already set aside $10,000 of an estimated $30,000 tally. The UTSA chapter must raise the remaining $20,000.
To raise monies, Paredes and other students have been holding small fundraisers on campus, and they also are planning a fundraising car wash and events that the community can participate in. The student engineers also have picked up sponsorships from engineering firms Pape-Dawson, Bain Medina Bain, and Lockheed, Andrews and Newnam.
>> UTSA's Engineers Without Borders chapter will hold a fundraising car wash from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., July 11, at the Zip-In Car Wash, 4514 DeZavala Rd. The cost for a full detailed car wash will be $15. All proceeds will go toward funding a pre-assessment trip to Bolivia.
"EWB allows the students to learn applicable engineering skills and use what they learn in the classroom through working on projects in developing countries such as water treatment or building structures," says faculty adviser Heather Shipley, assistant professor of civil engineering who consulted with Engineers Without Borders while studying at Rice University.
With just $500 in their coffers for this project, the group has a ways to go to raise the $3,000-$4,000 needed for the pre-assessment trip, which is the first step in the project.
This initial site visit should last three or four days and will be led by civil engineering student Albert Garcia, who is serving as project manager. Another faculty adviser, Manuel Diaz, a structural engineer, is planning to attend, along with a health care professional.
Based on their site visit, the UTSA chapter will submit a report to the national chapter of Engineers Without Borders. Once given the go-ahead by the national group, UTSA can begin the project as early as December 2009.
>> For updates on UTSA fundraisers, visit the Engineers Without Borders Web site. To learn more about supporting the work of UTSA's Engineers Without Borders chapter, e-mail email@example.com.


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If you're looking to head south to the Florida sunshine but want to stay far from the crowds and far from the noise, have we got the getaway for you! Set your sights on the beautiful Florida Keys for a few days of rest, relaxation, and endless fun in the warm waters of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. This getaway – ideal for divers, watersports enthusiasts, families and couples – features a stay at the tropical Hawks Cay Island Resort, located midway between Key Largo and Key West, about 90 miles south of Miami. Enjoy a 2-night stay in an island-view guest room for 2 guests from $289, - this low price also includes free WiFi, use of fitness center, taxes and other features. Travel is valid through August 20, 2013 – so you can make this a winter, spring or summer escape – your choice! Just make sure purchase your voucher now to save up over 60% on this fabulous island-style getaway!
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Islamorada's first claim to fame is as the sport fishing capital of the world, and people come from far and wide to "land the big one" in these waters. But there's more to this region than just fishing. Divers and snorkel enthusiasts are fascinated by the History of Diving Museum. Music lovers enjoy concerts under the stars on the lawn at the TIB Amphitheater at Founder's Park, while theater aficionados can take in a first-class performance at the Coral Shores Performing Arts Center. And if you do want to go into the water, head over to the Maine Mammal Park with its swim with the dolphins attraction!
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In which I argue that Globe management's proposed ten-percent wage cut for union employees just might happen. Plus, I take a look at HBO's new Iraq-war miniseries, Generation Kill.
One correction to the Globe piece: I wrote, incorrectly, that Dan Totten--president of the Boston Newspaper Guild, the Globe's largest union--works in travel advertising at the paper. Totten worked in travel advertising until 2005; now he's a full-time union head.


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Dateline — Somewhere over the Atlantic on my way to New York
We have been shooting for over seventy days now and I can start to smell the end. It's been going very well for the last few weeks. One of the main reasons is that we are back shooting near Paris and I am seeing dailies (or rushes as they are called in France) on a regular basis and projected on film again. We were on the road for eight weeks and for four of them I could only get taped dailies.
Even though the tape was Beta, it was so different from seeing an anamorphic image on the big screen that panic set in every time I saw dailies. After about four viewings I decided to do something that I have never done before—I stopped watching the tapes.
I felt that it was better to not see images that were so unrelated to the finished product because I could have started compensating for what was on the tube. That was more dangerous than trusting my instincts and the close relationship I have with my grader (this is very common in European labs). The worst thing I could have done was to have worked from the tape: that would have been a disaster!
Let me throw in this caveat: if you are shooting for a video finish, ignore what I am saying—you have to watch the tape. (Then there's the age old problem of getting representative transfers, isn't there? But that is all we have for many lower budget films these days.)
The one-on-one relationship that shooters have with their graders in European labs is really a great service. I am working at Eclair Lab and my grader is Olivier d'Fountnoy. He is unusually young for a grader but his skill is beyond his years. We had talks before we started, and during tests, that led him to understand some of my artistic goals. Olivier read the script and had a real grasp of the story. When I was in the field I could say to him on the phone, "We are shooting the scene where Brasack is preparing the explosives on the bulldozer and it is still dawn [or orb as it is called here]. I exposed more for the sky and let everything fall lower in this one. And it is overcast, so the coldness that we need is built in." He knew exactly what I was talking about.
How about this one. "Sharkov and his Henchman are sitting in his office in the Bastille. It is late day, the light is really streaming in, and the camera is facing the windows. I have a 6K par hitting Sharkov from out-of-frame right, but nothing on the Henchman. I know it will flare around the Henchman somewhat, but let me know how much. Print it cold and down to control the flare. Be careful not to loose Sharkov too much."
There was some lost sleep over that one. But Olivier knew exactly what I was talking about and what my concerns were. He also knew that I had limited access to light some of the sets because during one of his visits to the location (something else I've never had from a timer in the States) he learned that the director, Patrice, likes to have real (unmovable and low) ceilings built. And he often chooses the 35mm (anamorphic) lens in these situations, and then makes moves with it to boot-doesn't give me many places to light from.
Patrice feels that it adds a sense of reality and makes you solve problems in innovative ways…I'll say! I've really wanted to take a chain saw to some of those sets to get some light in overhead. But noooooop! I went along with it and accepted it as a challenge.
But in this situation the 'halo' around the Henchman was just enough to make it mysterious. How many years have I been doing this and I still get anxious? Just goes to show that what we do is nowhere near an exact science. Sometimes I think it is more like magic, alchemy and mysticism all thrown in together to make our love potions.
So what was I doing on a plane to New York? Actually we are back home now (oops—back in Paris—oh, the life of the traveler). We were in the States shooting the end of the movie. The last scene takes place in Central Park. At one point in the shoot we were standing in front of the Plaza Hotel. The Paris Theater next door was showing Truffaut's Day For Night. How ironic…here I was standing with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon in front of a marquee for Day for Night. I thought I was living Day For Night.


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November 16, 2002
Today's FreezeFrame takes us back to a memorable North London derby in November 2002.
Arsenal had made an encouraging start to the Premier League season after 13 matches and headed into this fixture just a point behind leaders Liverpool.
Arsène Wenger's side had already opened up a seven-point lead over Manchester United, who had stuttered early on in their bid to take the title back to Old Trafford.
There had been disappointments up to this point of course - defeats against Everton and Blackburn had threatened to derail the title charge - but the Gunners clearly meant business.
This match proved it and for most Arsenal fans there one special moment elevated this derby above many others.
When Thierry Henry covered 75 yards of the pitch to leave Matthew Etherington in his wake, glide past Stephen Carr and fire home with aplomb, Highbury knew it had witnessed something momentous.
Commemorated in bronze outside Emirates Stadium today is the record goalscorer in celebratory pose in front of the travelling Spurs fans after putting Arsenal in front that day.
Henry's early strike sent Arsenal on their way to a comfortable victory as Tottenham struggled to stay in the game. Simon Davies' sending off in the 27th minute only made matters worse for them.
Second-half strikes from Freddie Ljungberg and Sylvain Wiltord capped a glorious afternoon for Wenger's side - and Arsenal could easily have had more.
Arsenal: Shaaban, Luzhny, Cygan, Campbell, Cole, Gilberto, Vieira (Van Bronckhorst, 78), Ljungberg, Wiltord, Henry (Jeffers, 75), Bergkamp (Pires, 26). Subs not used: Taylor, Toure.
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SANTA CRUZ -- Nat Young has spent the past couple months riding the roller coaster of believing, but having no confirmation, that he had done enough to qualify for the 2013 Association of Surfing Professionals World Tour.
The tormenting ended Monday, when the Westside native received an emailed validation that his name would be listed next year among the top 34 surfers in the world.
"He has qualified for the 2013 ASP World Championship Tour," wrote Dave Prodan, the ASP international spokesman, in an email to the Sentinel.
For Young, it seemed surreal to not have to wonder anymore.
"It's kind of been ... I've been told since September that I was on the WCT. This happened, and It's been weird. It hasn't really sunk in yet," he said. "When I'm at Snapper Rocks putting my jersey on, it will really sink in."
Young's first World Tour event will be the Quiksilver Pro at Snapper Rocks on Australia's Gold Coast on March 2-13.
Young will become just the third Santa Cruz area surfer to reach the World Tour and the first since Adam Replogle retired from it in 1997.
Young has been hovering around 30th in the ASP men's world rankings since September and was sitting at 29th on Monday. The top 22 surfers currently on the World Tour and the top 10 who aren't on the tour, plus two alternates, make up the 34 invited to surf for the world title.
The results of surfers competing in the Banzai Pipeline Masters contest Monday solidified his position among the 10 non-tour surfers who will be brought up to the tour. Young said he had calculated how well or poorly he needed other surfers to fair at Pipeline to secure his fate, and when he saw the results, he had an inkling his call-up was official.
"It felt really rewarding," he said of the call-up. "It's weird to have to wait to see what other people did. If had to get a result and got the result right then and there, it would have hit me there and then. Waiting around to see what other people had to do was a strange feeling."
But when he saw the results, he added, "It felt really good."
A new level of competition won't be the only change for Young, who gets about a month of working out and surfing at home before he begins traveling again. He also will be riding for a different team, in name at least. His sponsor, Nike, informed him a little over a week ago that it has decided to pull out of surfing. For the time being, all of its surfers will be riding under a split Nike-Hurley label. Nike purchased Hurley in 2002.


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The parts below illustrate how additive manufacturing helps improve the design of medical components. The metal parts in these images were all produced by Innovative Medical Device Solutions (IMDS) via direct metal laser sintering. Learn more about IMDS in this article.
Digital Porosity
Implants such as these acetubular cups have a porous surface layer for "osseointegration," or for the patient's bone to grip by growing into it. In the past, adding this porous layer has involved a special step such as plasma spray. But an additive process allows the intricate layer to be made with the rest of the part, bringing advantages that go beyond just simplifying production. For example, the additive part can be designed to transition to the porous layer gradually, improving the integration with bone. In addition, the part's structural strength can be augmented with features that plasma spray would have precluded, such as the ribs seen in the implant on the right. Michael Siemer, additive manufacturing engineering manager with IMDS, says software from companies such as Netfabb or Within Technologies can be used to digitally design this complex organic geometry. Software such as this generates complex forms from user-defined boundary conditions.
Hollow Victory
Part weight, a critical factor in aircraft or automobile parts, is an important detail of medical parts as well. Patients carry implants within them, and surgeons need to manipulate medical implements easily and comfortably. The medical part seen here would have been much heavier if the part had been machined, but the additive process enabled it to be grown hollow for weight savings. The part even has through-holes from the OD to the ID, but the hollow spaces inside the part's walls are still airtight. The through-holes were simply grown into the component as part of the additive process.
Polyaxial Locking
Surgical screws fasten bone sections together by locking into a plate. Typically, the screw has a set of threads at its head for mating to this plate. Because surgery is a manual process, the threaded hole in the plate should allow the surgeon some degree of play in the direction of this screw. Seen here is a plate concept that maximizes this play. Produced additively, this part features an engineered mesh form that finds, guides and locks the screw head across a broad range of angles, maximizing the surgeon's hope of finding the ideal angle of attachment during the procedure.
Can Your Drill Do This?
This demo part illustrates one of the most important freedoms additive manufacturing provides: the freedom to control and tailor hole profiles. No drill could decide halfway through the hole to start cutting a square hole instead of a round one, but this effect is easy to achieve with an additive process. Internal channels that are winding instead of straight are easily possible as well.
Zero In On Design
Dozens of variations of this orthodontic part were produced before the design was finalized. The creators were experimenting to get just the right form for optimal fit and functionality. Producing the complex part through this many iterations would have been impractical if molding or machining had been used, but additive manufacturing provided a natural way to refine the product. Siemer says that though this part might be made additively in full production, the quantity is still unclear, so IMDS has designed it to preserve production options. The design avoids undercuts so that metal injection molding remains a possibility.
Additive on Additive
This additively manufactured metal part receives finish milling for dimensional tolerance and finish. The fixture that holds the part for machining was also made additively (using a 3D printer). The part is a sternal closure—essentially a buckle for closing the rib cage after surgery. Its locking mechanism relies on the slots arrayed around the part's inner circle, and these slots are angled rather than square with the part. Thus, the part's geometry is 3D rather than 2D, making it too complex to be made through a cutting process such as wire EDM. Siemer says the angled features achieve a lock so secure that an assembled closure mechanism would be needed to match it. In short, if not for additive manufacturing, this component would need to be several pieces instead of just one piece.
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Program Memorandum - OVAE/DVTE FY 99-15
|June 24, 1999
|State Directors of Vocational-Technical Education
State Directors of Community, Technical and Junior Colleges
|Patricia W. McNeil
|Status of Perkins III Financial Status Report Form
This memorandum provides States with an update on the status of the Financial Status Report (FSR) form to be used to collect information on the financial activity of grants awarded under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act of 1998 (Perkins III).
The draft Perkins III FSR form has been developed and distributed to financial contacts in the states and other interested parties. Numerous comments have been received regarding the line items in the draft form and possible constraints to collecting the necessary data to report on these items. Additional comments are still being accepted and will be considered in the final decisions made for the information collection efforts made by the Office of Vocational and Adult Education.
During two technical assistance meetings in August, state personnel will have a final opportunity to provide input on their concerns of the data collection in the FSR. The meetings will take place in Washington, DC on August 16-17 and in Chicago on August 23-24. The goal is to have a final FSR form approved by the Office of Management and Budget by December 1999.
Because there will not be an approved FSR in place by the time the FY 1999-2000 grants are awarded for Perkins III, states will be required only to report aggregate outlays as set forth in Section 112 (Within-State Allocation) of Title I - Basic Grant to States. For example, states will only be required to report the 85% distribution to eligible recipients as an aggregate amount on its interim report due December 31, 2000, and its final report on December 31, 2001. In addition, states will not be required to separately report funds it reserved under Section 112(c) for the FY 1999-2000 Basic Grant to States award.
Any additional reporting requirements for subsequent years' awards will be decided after the August meetings.
If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Shane Dunne, Financial Management Specialist.
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Lockheed Martin and the Sequester
Lockheed Martin's (LMT) first-quarter earnings came in ahead of analysts forecasts, and the stock is up 1.5% today in wake of results. But despite the good performance, there's a cloud on Lockheed's horizon in the shape of Pentagon budget cuts forced by the budget sequester.
The Bethesda, Maryland-based company said the automatic reductions known as sequestration may trim full-year sales by about $825 million, holding 2013 revenue to the low end of the range from $44.5 billion to $46 billion forecast in January. It maintained its forecast for a profit of $8.80 to $9.10 a share.
"While the impact of sequestration on our business has been limited to date, we continue to work closely with our customers to better understand the future impact sequestration may have on our programs," Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed's chief executive officer, said in the statement.
We'll see what happens when General Dynamics (GD) and Raytheon (RTN) report their earnings on Wednesday and Thursday respectively, but I'd say add a very real (if so far small — so far) impact on the defense industry to airline delays and a likely cut in U.S. GDP as the cost of failure by our politicians to reach a sensible budget deal. Don't forget, the whole point of the sequester was that it would be so indiscriminate and unhelpful that no sane politician would let it come into force.


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We've updated Excel Online: What's new in April 2014
"Hi Michele,
Excel Online does support Apps for Excel, but they have to be inserted into the spreadsheet using Desktop Excel. Once you do that, they will show up in the spreadsheet when you view it in Excel Online. We plan to add the ability to insert apps using Excel Online in the near future."
We've updated Excel Online: What's new in April 2014
"We've got a similar function in desktop Excel - the WEBSERVICE function. We want to bring that to Excel Online as well, and we will - once we've addressed some of the more commonly requested features.
In the meantime, there are some Apps for Excel that grab stock quote data that you can try. You need to insert them into the spreadsheet using Desktop Excel, but once you do, they will work in Excel Online.
Here is a few that might be interesting: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/store/results.aspx?qu=stock&avg=zxl150"
We've updated Excel Online: What's new in April 2014
A year ago we announced that Excel Online and each of the applications that make up Office Online were destined to become a comprehensive productivity experience on more browsers and devices—not just companions to the desktop applications. Since then we've released several major updates and many minor updates, and today I'm sharing another significant step forward! (Note that these changes will roll-out worldwide over the course of the next few…


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I went on the internet and found a quilt like yours and every other row has the double whites. So you did read the pattern correctly, it is just a variation of the Irish Chain you weren't expecting.
When I made a double Irish Chain there were two different blocks and this one just has the one block, so it appears easier - maybe it was, don't know. But it will be pretty the more rows you get together. I don't think you will need the sashing, but it would give you another variation.


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National MP Aaron Gilmore has given a personal statement to Parliament, and said the media scrutiny he has been placed under prevented him from functioning properly as an MP. Mr Gilmore admitted he had been so angry he had wanted at times to exact utu. His voice wavered in what was an emotional personal statement. "Today I'm not surrendering, I'm retreating. I'm sorry I did not meet your expectations."


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Discussion in 'The Trash Can' started by TheIronLady, Jun 8, 2013.
I have this nightmare that Sarah Hughes will show up again somewhere and do that Bob Fosse number.
I agree with this observation. I never felt like Sarah loved skating the way some of her peers did. Sure she had outside activities, and that was great, but to me it goes further than that. I read once that Robin talked her out of retiring in the summer of 2000 before she finally relented and returned to the ice. She had just finished 5th at worlds and was 2 years away from the Olympics and someone had to convince her not to retire. That seemed strange to me. Of course, there may have been more at play there.
But I disagree strongly that she had one brief shining moment. That sounds more like wishful thinking or sour grapes. I was never her fan but I saw her personally receive roaring standing ovations several times: 1999 Skate America short, 2000 Skate America long, 2001 Skate America long, 2000 nationals short and the 1999 winter proam. And by roaring, I mean most people were standing and many were hooting, hollering and stamping their feet. Then there were competitions I didn't witness in person but remember her getting big applause and/or standing ovations: 99 worlds long program, 2000 worlds short program and 2001 worlds long program. She skated many, many "clean" programs and was drowned with cheers at the end. Never a fan and never stood myself but I remember those moments well.
IMO, this pretty much describes Michelle's programs.
I don't especially LIKE either, but let me put it this way: I can, without trying, REMEMBER particular skates of Tara's. I might not adore her skating, and frankly I don't think EITHER girl was especially pretty, but Lipinski had a spark and energy that made her engaging as a performer.
True to some (great) degree.
Relative to Tara she had only one shining moment. Tara quit at 15 and fit in Nationals Champion, 2 time Grand Prix final Champion in the same year, Olympic Champion, World Champion. All won in very memorable fashion to boot. On top of that her exciting debut in 1996 and making Worlds at only 15, and her great comeback skate at Nationals 98 after falling in the short. Sarah has nothing close to that string of memorable moments in her career. She won only 3 international events and one was a C level tournament top skaters never enter after they are 14. She never won a U.S Senior title, which Tara managed well before her driving license and would likely have managed quite a few more if she continued even with Kwan to battle, while Sarah could have continued and probably still never won her own Nationals.
Tara made the Worlds team at 13 and won Worlds at 14.Sarah also made the Worlds team at 13. While Tara's eligible career was a short one, she has quite a resume.
Tara at her peak beat Michelle Kwan 4 times out of 5. She was an incredible skater and the level of skater Sarah could only dream of being. She had perfect pencil jumps with great air position, rotation, ascent, descent, landing position and flow out. Her triples were even way better than Sarah, even the flutz was a way better jump overall than that thing Sarah called her triple f(lutz). She skated with great speed and assurance, and her pro routines showed her huge artistic potential. Had she continued she would have been artistically a true 5.9 skater easily by 2002.
Sarah was a good skater, and had a fine career herself, but she was no prodigy like Tara Lipinski. She went to Worlds in 1999 only due to a younger skater who beat her at Nationals being too young by the rules. Had her Olympic win not happened she probably wouldnt have ever won a bigger title than a regular grand prix, not a Nationals or Worlds ever, even if she continued skating until 2006 (or beyond which is very unlikely with COP which was bad for her skating to begin with getting tougher around then).
Cannot care less, both of them. At least I was glad they've beaten kwawn when it counts ...
I never understood Sarah.
She seemed as a type of athlete that was just getting into liking what she was capable of. And that is when she turned her back to skating.
With Tara there was never doubt where she would rather be.
Does the Winter Olympics include a beauty contest?
Whether or not the Olympic judges score based on beauty and looks, some fans do. Well most fans do. Michelle Kwan was repeatedly in People magazine's most beautiful people list. That I know this is sad, but it's a fact.
Repeatedly? No. I think Michelle was in People's Most Beautiful Issue just once and only following a big letter campaign from her fans. I know because her fans kept emailing me a form template to send to People Magazine demanding they include her in their 1999 issue and the magazine finally did. While I love Michelle, I felt there were better ways to spend my time than accuse People of being racist if they didn't select her. It was Katarina Witt who was in it more than once. Lu Chen also made the issue the year she controversially lost worlds to Michelle. I too am surprised by all the references to looks when comparing which skaters were better. My two favorite skaters are Michelle and Tara. Neither was the prettiest skater of their time or is even classically pretty (countdown before an irate fan jumps in to argue but it's my opinion so ) but they are beautiful to me for reasons that go much further than their physical looks. And the judge snever cared that they weren't the prettiest girls in the competition when they skated, so I don't know why that's even entered the debate here.
That's interesting. I am as big a Kwan fan as there ever was and I never knew about any e-mail campaign to have her in People Magazine, I never received any e-mails, templates, etc.
Consider yourself lucky in that regard. I finally put filters on my AOL account to stop the insanity.
I think she got in legitimately. She also said something about having a flat butt I think in her profile.
What I'm saying is that some of her crazier fans were angry she wasn't chosen for the 98 issue and campaigned tirelessly for them to include her in their 99 issue. Their barrage of emails couldn't have gone unnoticed but they didn't have to choose her so that's something. I just disagreed with those fans' tactics. I have the issue somewhere and remember the flat butt comment and that she looked gorgeous in a candlelit profile shot. I'm sure People didn't regret their decision one bit.
I just recently re-watched Sarah's Olympic LP and it was a lot better than I remembered. I then watched Tara's winning program as well- I think they are very difficult to compare because at the time, Tara was a co-favorite for gold and defending world champion. She had already "grown" into her style of skating. Sarah was still developing and really didn't own her style. I also agree with you on the quality of Tara's jumps.
As for the level of competition and skating quality- I think it has gone down a lot and the level of consistency isn't there which is why Caro is in the medals with the kind of errors that she makes. I also think that under the 6.0 system there was more emphasis on a complete set of jumps. Now there seems to be more repetition in an effort to play the system and hide weaknesses. That's just my opinion based on what I saw in the ladies competition at worlds this year. I'll qualify my opinion that due to reduced television coverage and increased work load- and decreasing interest in the current crop of skaters, I don't consistently follow figure skating these days.
It sure helped Witt get those 5.9s and 5.8s for artistic impression
Gotta go with Hughes on this one, although her posture drove me nuts. I thought she was much more interesting than Tara. Also had the only illusion spin I could ever stand, and that's compared to everyone, I hate that move. Wonderful layback. Tara had zero sense of music, which I consider important to skating. Neither one of them had particularly great technique.
I only remember her being in the 2000 issue because it was after she had won Worlds in Nice.
And it was a bubble butt.
So basically, her fans instituted a letter-writing campaign to get her on a magazine. Unless one is a mega star like Brad Pitt or Matt Damon, that seems to be the best way to get a publication's attention. It's all about PR and who would help sell magazines anyway. Look at those New York Magazine's Best Doctor's of NYC. That's all the work of a publicist unless someone did something incredibly ground-breaking.
Exactly. Beautiful, in this context, is someone who has generated hype in some way during the time frame of the particular People publication -- via personal achievement and/or good old-fashioned PR. Exactly the same as what goes on with the Oscars. There are all out campaigns for the Oscar candidates. It's a matter of popularity to some extent. If some fan group managed to get their favorite skater in People magazine by way of a letter-writing campaign, I'd say the skater in question was extremely popular and beloved. Best picture and most beautiful will always be a matter of taste.
I work with celebrities and can tell you People's Most Beautiful (and Sexiest Man/Woman Alive) issues are completely agenda-driven. They are total PR campaigns.
People also has historically had a hard time featuring minorities in these issues (they ALWAYS go to their standbys Beyonce and Jennifer Lopez).
Rabid fan letter writing or not, Michelle had accomplishments, was the biggest name in the sport, was a minority, etc. She checked many boxes.
I don't know what the big deal is...it's not like she landed the cover or anything.
For what it's worth, I think Tara and Michelle grew into their looks and both are pretty.
I also think Sarah Hughes grew into quite a lovely young lady (That makes me sound so old and she's only less than a year younger than me, haha). Her longer brown hair is so much better for her than her Robin Wagner look.
Yep to all of the above.
What was that "Robin Wagner" look? It seemed like an attempt at Dorothy Hamillishness, and given Wagner's age perhaps it was Wagner's idea.
The 2002 look was Jef Billings from the top of her head to her toes.
Not her fans. Maybe her agent or USFSA.


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Generation Y In Canada: Millennial Dreams Hijacked By Unflinching Reality Of The Great Recession
Call it Generation Interrupted.
Bystanders to the economic train wreck of the Great Recession, members of Generation Y have acutely suffered the aftershocks and a painful recovery four years in the making.
Although past generations faced much more daunting challenges — global wars, deeper and more widespread economic depression — this rising crop of Canadians, also known as millennials or echo boomers, has also seen its future hijacked by events not of its own making.
Of the nine million Canadians born since 1980, about five million are over the age of 18. This should be prime time, when careers are launched, résumés built, families begun, and power assumed. Yet millennials are struggling, consumed by worries over jobs and the future, an exclusive poll conducted for The Huffington Post Canada by Abacus Data shows.
The poll paints a complex portrait of Canadian millennials. They are engaged citizens, connected by technology but disconnected from traditional politics. They're more tolerant than their parents, yet cling to goals that would resonate with their elders — from owning a house before turning 30, to marriage and children, to early retirement.
Above all, the findings suggest that the past four years of economic turmoil have left a profound scar on their collective psyche, most likely shaping their outlook and politics for years to come.
The poll, which surveyed 1,004 Canadian millennials between Oct. 23 and 25, firmly vaults jobs, unemployment and personal finances — the toll of a hobbled economy — to the top of Y's to-worry-about list. Asked what their biggest challenges are, nearly half of the millennials in the poll ranked jobs first or second.
"We've heard a lot about it, but I didn't expect to see it so clearly in the data — how pessimistic and worried the generation is as a whole when it comes to the economy and their future jobs," said Abacus' David Coletto, a card-carrying member of Generation Y.
"It really does confirm a lot of the discussion that's been going on about the whole notion of 'Generation Doom.' It's not just true of people looking at us [millennials], but there's a sense among the generation that times are tough."
Can you blame them? Expectations were high; the collision with reality hit very hard.
Mom never said it would be like this.
Many millennials were raised in the 1980s and 1990s by doting parents who embraced praise over criticism, success over failure. The education system took the same approach: a child's self-esteem was paramount; deficiencies were played down.
You can do anything. You can be anything.
For children, it spelled an unprecedented sense of security.
Fully 85 per cent of respondents to the HuffPost poll agreed with this statement: "Growing up, many people told me that I could achieve anything I wanted to."
Is it any wonder, then, that as the recession took hold and good jobs disappeared, millennials found the landing harder than most?
It's not that they lack the skills for Canada's modern information economy.
In fact, the majority of millennials — 79 per cent — say the use of technology is what makes them different from their parents' generation.
They may not have invented computers or the internet, but as digital natives born into connectivity, they've exploited them in ways Steve Jobs and Bill Gates had only begun to imagine.
It's no longer about setting up email or online banking. Now, it's chatting live from buses, bars, classrooms. It's mapping each other's locations. It's peer-approving (or disapproving) restaurants. It's flash-mobbing. It's ordering a pizza on your phone — without actually having to talk to anyone.
There is, indeed, an app for almost everything.
A study published earlier this year by the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C., found a resounding 95 per cent of people aged 17 to 19 were online. Compare that with people between the ages of 50 and 64 who weighed in at 74 per cent.
That same study found the rate of teens using social media exploded between 2006 and 2011 — from 55 per cent to 80 per cent.
Not to kill the buzz, but there may be a point when social media become downright antisocial.
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The Huffington Post Canada and Abacus Data surveyed 1,004 Canadian millennials from across the country on a variety of issues. Here's what we found:
We asked 1,004 Canadian millennials to rank the biggest challenges facing their generation.
2% rank the decriminalization of marijuana as No. 1 or 2.
5% of millennials rank internet regulation and online privacy as one of their top two issues.
7% rank bullying as the first or second biggest challenge.
8% of millennials rank retirement security No. 1 or 2.
11% of millennials say access to quality health care is one of the generation's top two challenges
20% of millennials rank pollution and environmental protection as No. 1 or 2 of the biggest challenges faced by this generation.
20% say affordable housing is in the top two.
24% of millennials peg the cost of education as their first or second choice for the generation's biggest challenge.
27% say the cost of food, gas and consumer goods are in the top two.
32% of millennials chose "student debt and personal debt" as the first or second biggest challenge.
We asked 1,004 millennials between the ages of 18-30 what it takes to be a good Canadian citizen.
15% of millennials say it takes being active in political parties...
28% of millennials say donating money to charity makes a good citizen..
35% of millennials say that being active in social organizations is important to citizenship..
63% of millennials say being informed about current events is important..
64% of millennials say being able to fluently speak one official language is important..
74% of millennials say a good citizen is someone who always votes in elections.
81% of millennials say good citizens honestly pay their taxes.
43% of millennials rank the availability of quality jobs as their first or second choice.
We asked 1,004 Canadian millennials what were their generation's biggest health challenges
3% say pollution
4% say sexually transmitted infections
7% say disease
11% say poor nutrition
16% say obesity
17% say addiction
19% say mental health
26% say lack of physical activity
Some views from 1,004 Canadian millennials on marriage and family..
18% of millennials are in a common law relationship
66% of millennials are single
15% of millennials are married
63% of unmarried millennials say yes 13% say no 24% say they are unsure
65% of unmarried women say yes 13% say no 22% say they are unsure
61% of unmarried men say yes 13% say no 26% say they are unsure
33% agree 67% disagree
12% of millennials surveyed have children 88% do not
64% of millennials say yes 12% say no 24% are unsure
Huffington Post Canada's series on millennials, Asking Y. Visit it here.
When Carleton University Professor Eileen Saunders stands in front of a class of fresh-faced millennials, she often asks this question: "Where do you feel most comfortable in terms of engaging with peers?"
Uniformly, students say they would rather communicate through text or instant messaging, Saunders said. Second choice? A phone call.
If all of the above fail, students will grudgingly agree to meet someone face-to-face.
"That mediated interaction becomes the common currency rather than face-to-face interaction," she said. "To me, that's incredibly depressing information."
For a millennial, however, the gadget is simply an extension of them.
Consider the findings of yet another youth study. Last May, McCann Worldgroup took the digital pulse of 7,000 young people around the world and got a telling diagnosis.
If they could save just two items from a list, the millennials were asked, what would it be?
Nearly half of those between 23 and 30 indicated that they would rather give up their sense of smell than an item of technology — typically their smartphone or laptop.
As of yet, there is no app for that.
But it's not just the physical senses that some millennials would surrender in order to breathe online. Many more surrender their privacy.
"Their emotional lives are often lived online in very public spaces," Saunders said. "What's interesting to me is that it's almost like social networks have become the foundation on which intimacy is built. What happens in that process is young people are losing certain skills. They're losing the skills of direct interpersonal interaction."
But they are a well-travelled generation. Sort of. No one circles the globe quite like a millennial — and in so few clicks.
"We can think of all kinds of benefits in terms of access to information and cultures, that they wouldn't normally have been exposed to in a previous generation," she said.
But Y's devotion to digitalia may actually be narrowing social horizons.
"I think we are more self-absorbed," consultant and millennial Daniel Canestaro-Garcia said. "In social media, you're at the centre of various circles, it feels like you're the happy buzzing nexus of life, watching people intersect ... wherever they are in the world."
Generation Y's devotion to technology has helped feed the stereotype of the perennially distracted technomancer — not to mention a clever marketing campaign or two. But real life takes more than 140 characters to express ... much less live.
"I speak Facebook, partially because of my job, partially just to keep up in my social circles," Canestaro-Garcia noted.
But he also tires of "friends diving into their phones when we are at the bar, and they will surface saying, 'Sorry for being so rude,' and then diving back in."
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"It seems like we were raised by a world that told us we could be anything we wanted, gave many of us the space to do just that, but was often a little foggy on the details of parlaying that into a life. I'm just trying to find a way to make my dream work for me."
"My family helped drive me forward to make my dream my reality." "I had many jobs growing up, most I hated, but got them because you need money. I learned everything I could and tried new things." "I have a laundry list of jobs that would make you laugh, but I learned a little bit about a lot of things."
"Generation Y has always been dubbed as a lazy, culture-less and tech-addicted group of young people. Screen time has replaced face-to-face time but most of the time, we're okay with this. We have become a young group of entrepreneurs, and use social media as an advantage to find jobs."
"My dreams have only gotten bigger growing up, absolutely no concessions. If you aim low, you won't get far in life, and it's your own fault. If you aim high and don't succeed, at least you tried!" "You won't go far if you don't try. My dreams have grown from just being a teacher, to becoming prime minister."
"F**k the economy. It doesn't matter if the economy is up or down or whatever, you've got to find ways around it to make your passion work. "Once you have your mind set on something it doesn't really matter. "I feel like everything's coming into play. It's not going to be easy, but I'm willing to push and get past it. "Most people don't push. They give in and give up."
"I constantly think about where my next trip will be. It's not because I want to flee my local surroundings, but to feed my curiousity to see other great cities. Sure there are concessions — vacation allowance, frequency of travel, money — but in the end, it happens one way or another. "The good thing about dreams and ambitions is that they are forever evolving. Not all are realistic, but it's okay to keep trying to achieve them."
"I took too much time off from the primary career. I've got to do something else now with my life. I'm working on trying to start an industrial design company now rather than be a scientist. "I don't throw parties like I used to. I don't buy new clothes."
"My life is not at all as I envisioned as a child, but I'm completely at peace with that. At my age I thought I would have a nice big house, married with the 2.5 kids and the white picket fence stereotype Barbie had made us young girls dream of. "This said, I'm extremely happy living with the love of my life and our two cats! Lol! I don't have the urge to buy a house given my nomadic nature. I think people just get into the condo buying, house purchasing in part to fit in a certain status quo. I never really felt the need to prove to others my worth by the possessions I had. "Every generation blames the previous one for their own individual fate, when in reality, it's just an excuse to explain why we have left our dreams behind."
"I'm very optimistic and hopeful about our generation. Our generation is so smart technology-wise and being able to find solutions to things and just being creative and innovative."
"I remember reading PC World when I was a child, calculating the cost to build a computer from scratch, part-by-part. This seemed like the only way I could have my own computer with the going rate of allowance at the time. "All I wanted was to do was consume the endless knowledge… and download tracks from Napster."
"I find when we're younger, we have no interest in our culture and that we don't embrace the fact that we speak another language and eat different food. It's all part of that phase in life when we all just want to fit in. But with age, I find that many of my South Asian friends begin to really appreciate what it is that makes us different. "As we continue to embrace our cultural and religious differences, I'm sure we'll pass it all onto our kids, because no one wants these amazing traditions to die."
It's the kind of scene that has spawned many a myth surrounding these multi-tasking millennials. An earlier Abacus survey asked Canadians what words they associated with the generation. More than half saw a generation half empty — branding them "materialistic," "coddled," "lazy" and "entitled."
They didn't ask Eric Moran.
"I would define myself as evolutionary, dynamic, and versatile," the Toronto artist and entrepreneur said. "My girlfriend would define me as the love of her life. My friends would define me as a crazy, eccentric bearded man. My enemies would define me as an asshole."
He isn't the only one bucking the brands.
"I clearly see where they [non-millennials] come from," said Kyle Allen, a high-schooler who grew up in Kapuskasing, Ont. "They don't realize we have a lot on our plate. We feel extremely pressured to succeed at all we do."
Reality doesn't dote. It doesn't negotiate. And, as Gen X learned in that seminal 1994 film, reality can bite.
A poll for Sun Life Financial Canada released this month found 90 per cent of people aged 18 to 24 reported feeling excessive stress, compared with 72 per cent of all adult Canadians.
Why? Economic instability and underemployment, the survey said.
HuffPost's Abacus poll mirrored those concerns.
Asked to rank the biggest challenge facing their generation, 43 per cent of millennials cited the availability of quality jobs as their first or second choice. That compares with student and personal debt by 32 per cent, the cost of education (24 per cent), affordable housing (20 per cent), pollution and environmental protection (20 per cent), health care (11 per cent), and retirement security (8 per cent).
According to the C.D. Howe Institute, Canada's latest recession officially lasted seven months, from November, 2008, to May, 2009. The same report marks the U.S. recession lasting 18 months -– more than twice as long.
While Canada fared better in the downturn than many other industrialized nations, young people were hit hardest. Youth employment remains 250,000 jobs below the prerecession high, and 2012's summer jobs were at the lowest level since 1977.
Youth unemployment peaked at 15.2 per cent, though, "noticeably below" the worst experienced in the downturns of the early 1980s and early 1990s, when the jobless rate among youth climbed to 19.2 per cent and 17.2 per cent respectively, a recent paper by the Certified General Association of Canada said.
Of greater concern for Generation Y is underemployment — the problem of part-time and temporary jobs, or jobs that don't match one's training. In the Sun Life poll, 30 per cent of Canadians said they were underemployed, but the numbers were highest among young Canadians, with 39 per cent of 18- to 24-year-olds feeling they are not being used to their full potential.
Tara Topp has been there — for years. At the time, it seemed like she was running to stand still at work.
"I had a job as a front-desk manager at a hotel and I was trying to tell myself it was only for a little while," she recalled.
"Fast-forward eight years and I was still in the same job, doing the same thing and telling myself only a little while longer."
Topp was weighed down by an economic reality that felt "like a hot bag of nickels," she said.
But she held tight to her dream of becoming a makeup artist, networked with the right people and moved cities to make it happen. In a sense, she credits hard reality for galvanizing her dream – narrowed choices only pushed her to fight harder for it.
"I am doing a job I love," she said. "And, who knows, if the economy, my parents, my skills and environment were different, I may not be where I am now."
Not everyone catches that kind of break. Many millennials are still waiting for meaningful work – with mounting frustration and resentment.
All that millennial angst, however, could go a long way toward transforming Canada's political scene if someone knew how to tap into it.
According to pollster Coletto, there's a fairly simple cipher for decoding Y.
"When a candidate goes out there and says 'I need you. You are important. Get involved,' then a lot of young people, a lot of millennials, will take up that call," he said.
"We saw shades of it with [late former NDP leader] Jack Layton. But I don't even think he took full advantage of the opportunities the generation provided. No one has come to us and said, 'I need your support' and 'We can do this together.'"
Millennials don't appear to play politics like past generations. A dismal 38.8 per cent of voters aged 18-24 cast a ballot in the last federal election, despite the fact that 74 per cent of millennials polled by HuffPost said regular voting in elections is "very important" to being a good citizen.
The majority of millennials said they are good citizens, but few thought it was important to be active in social organizations (35 per cent) or to donate money to charity (28 per cent).
"Honestly paying your taxes" was ranked first on the citizenship question by 81 per cent of respondents.
More telling was the percentage of millennials — just 15 per cent — who felt that active participation in political parties was a very important part of citizenship.
That may jibe with evidence linking low voter turnout to the decline in young people's attachment to political parties, most recently cited in a study on Canada's youth vote.
"Young people don't really think it's important to be involved with formal political parties," Coletto said.
"Why pay attention to someone who doesn't really care about us? If somebody — a party or candidate or movement — were to latch on and really ask the generation to get involved, and it was meaningful and authentic, you could see a big change in Canadian politics."
The student protests in Quebec this past summer offered a master class on the political perils of underestimating Y. It all began with a seemingly modest tuition hike — a bid by then-premier Jean Charest's government to push tuition to $3,793 from $2,168 over five years. No one expected riots, Molotov cocktails and emergency law. No one thought that protesting students could eventually lead to toppling one of Canada's longest tenured premiers.
In Quebec, you saw an "explosion of activism that demonstrates that there is a core activist inside [millennials]. Maybe not the way it was in the '70s, but nevertheless it can have a huge impact and spread wildly through social media," Coletto said.
Generation Interrupted had simply... erupted.
Millennial tension isn't likely to ease any time soon. This generation is just entering its prime years and looking for a slice of an ever-elusive future.
In a sense, their arms are already tied.
Many polled by HuffPost said they doubt they will be able to retire as early as they had hoped. They worry about debt. Their savings are scant – and, as the survey suggests, millennials don't even see it as a priority.
Even issues of traditional importance to youth, such as the environment, social equity and the desire for more liberal drug laws, have fallen by the wayside to the all-encompassing pursuit of the most essential goal of all.
Getting a job. Putting a roof above their heads.
And not getting buried in debt along the way.
If millennials have already proved one thing, it's that they aren't easily discouraged.
David Coletto sees them as strategists, carefully biding their time, plotting their future course – and yes, worrying a great deal about it.
And yet millennials are equipped like no other generation to navigate these economic straits. They are technomancers, clicking with minds and movements across the globe. They are activists, transforming their social environments in fresh and innovative ways. And they are a potential powder keg of a political bloc.
Interruption or not, this is their time.
For all those who think they won't meet this challenge, remember: Millennials are their parents' children – children who were infused with that one abiding mantra.
They can do absolutely anything.
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— With a file from Rachel Mendleson
— Abacus Data has focused research on the Canadian Millennial. Read more here.
What do you think about this story? Join the conversation below or tweet us @HuffPostCanada with the #AskingY tag. We may feature your comments in an upcoming post. You can also check out our Tumblr, and our dedicated page for more from the Asking Y series.


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Has anyone had any experence with the SMR-breeder queen from Glenn Apiaries? DO NOT buy one!!!!!! AFTER you spend $70.00 for this USDA queen you are told that only 20% live to be ONE year old!!!!!! Mine lived for 5 WEEKS!!!!!
Has anyone had any experence with the SMR-breeder queen from Glenn Apiaries? DO NOT buy one!!!!!! AFTER you spend $70.00 for this USDA queen you are told that only 20% live to be ONE year old!!!!!! Mine lived for 5 WEEKS!!!!!
"only 20% live to be ONE year old"
Wow! What is the reason for that? Do you think that they are placed under so much stress with the instrumental insemination and whatever else they do to them?
I came very close to getting one this spring, but re-considered after I saw some spectacular queens in my own yard. I have been raising them for three years now. I have several beekeeper friends (commercial/sideliners) and I am always looking for new stock from them.
I live in Central lower Michigan and so far, this has been a great year for the queens. The last two weeks have been tough on my mating nucs...they're honey bound! I've had to split several of the nucs due to over population also. I guess if I'm going to have problems these are the kind to have.
Mites, chalk brood and foulbrood have been extremely rare this year...let's hope it stays that way.
Would you be interested in exchanging one or two good queens for the same from my apiary?
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I know a guy in north GA that sales smr queens, for $10.00 each. He has been chemical free for 3 years now. All of his queens are kept in a starter box for about a month to make sure they are good laying queens. I'll ask him if it's OK to put his info on the net.
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The reason for the high supercedure rate is the amount of inbreeding required to fix the trait in the queen,plus AI queens are known for this.By babying the breeder hive,and regularly cutting cells,you could raise thousands of daughter queens before losing her.Just remember ,these are breeder queens being used to introduce a certain set of genes into your own stock,and are NOT production queens.
This breeder queen started out laying 100+ eggs per day and went down from there. The other problem was that the grafts were rejected by the queen-right cell builder (during a nectar flow). Twice I put in 34 grafts and each time all were removed right away. I was only out to make 100 queens. If I had known she would only live 5 weeks I would have been more aggressive. I did set up a queen-less cell builder with extra nurse bees for the next grafts, thats when I found she was gone. And I did cut queen cells-not knowing I should have kept them.
a hundred eggs is pretty lousy,I agree.Ive bought 4 so far,and lost 2 immediately,but was able to raise queens out of the others.I guess its just a crap shoot,but thats no consolation when you didnt get anything.Ive wondered if Tom Glenn would make good on the poor queens or just shrug it off.I dont know ,because I was aware of the problems and was able to get queens raised so didnt ask.
As for queenright starters, I never had much luck unless they were already building supercedure cells.They are ok for finishers.My favorite cell builder is the queenless starter finisher(free flying)using NO brood,but made up from nurse bees shook from open brood .These will make nice big cells if you get the nutrition right.And when you are done just let them keep a cell,and you have another colony.Simple.(well maybe not quite)but you get the drift.


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Graziano is a very nice person! WiFi is very good! Some teas and sweets were very nice! Beds comfortable, the location also very good!
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If you come to Milan, Graziano's room is a nice place to stay because it's close to the main railway station where you'd arrive when you come from Bergamo Airport by Bus. You can also easily get to the city centre where you find most of the sights of Milan.
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"Tom has provided outstanding leadership during his tenure here at Binghamton, both as dean of the School of Management and vice president for external affairs," DeFleur said. "I have relied on his talent, commitment and understanding of the University and community throughout his tenure. I deeply appreciate all he has done for the University and I will personally miss working with him."
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MaryJane, I am working on your last block. I love the row I am making for you. It really looks nice. I just have to finish the applique and sew the blocks together. I think you will be very pleased with your top. All the rows are just beautiful. I will take a picture when I am finished. Then I will start working on setting up the round robin.
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Ok, I am getting those instructions put together to pm you ssnare. The menu we followed was that we all started with the same size center, 12"block, then we added a 2" border, then turned on point with a log cabin variation 4" for next border, then had to do a 4" applique border, then another 2" border, then the finishe outer 6" border. That was what we all had to work with so would end up the same size or thereabout in the end. Hard to see that all this happened on each quilt because of the variation from the colors and creativity for each round. The fish quilt was finished like that because the owner wanted to add a bit more to it to make larger than the 60" square.
How would that work out if you chose to have a rectangular quilt?...say 12"x 18"? For those who've done one are there any special tips?
I do not think we are going to go by that menu. I would rather have more freedom as to what to do. So you can still have your rectangle tops. I think we are going to add 3 1/2" - 6 1/2" borders. I also think the center can be from 12 1/2" -24 1/2", square or rectangle. I will post rules soon. I am trying to finish Mary Jane's top first and I want to measure something I have first.
It is what worked for us in our group to be sure fabric and such was all fair. We had a couple of beginners in our group and they did very well. There are so many fun ways to do them. You have fun ssnare, I am sure you will come up with a terrific plan.


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But don't go expecting any disco-era Jacques to intone wisdom about life and death (or, for that matter, about taxes): Love, Sex & the IRS is pure, unabashed, escapist slapstick. The closest you'll get to cultural commentary is the much-maligned tax man Spinner remembering a tea bag that a disgruntled taxpayer once stuck to the seat of his pants ("Some people think they're so original," he sneers). Instead, be prepared for loose, bouncy Wilson, who has the energy of the Energizer bunny, putting on an aggressive falsetto and a series of house-dresses that seem strategically chosen to reveal a maximum of body hair. As his blonde and beleaguered straight-man, Luening ably enables the chaos, and if your comedic druthers run to splayed male limbs in hose and innuendo-laden dramatic ironies (including one that involves a hockey mask misunderstood as a marital aid), this show may well comically relieve you of your tax woes.
Director Jeff Wax updates the script for the 2010 tax season with a peppering of allusions to Tiger Woods and other modern calamities, but the comic ethos remains firmly planted in the '70s: Anyone who grew up watching John Ritter's simpering evasions of Mr. Roper will have a flashback or two before the evening is through.
Given what now feels like the era's rather coarse stereotypes of women, it's refreshing that the women in this show provide the anchoring needed to counterbalance all the high-flying antics. Fulton and Trentalange both have grounded, sharp, and exasperated wits that play beautifully amid the shrill humor of all the cross-dressing gags.
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