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Elegant Studio near Luxembourg
Size25 m²
Floor No.0
- Kitchen
- Washer/dryer
- Parking available
- Internet/WiFi
Accommodation summary
|Rue Stanislas, 75006 Paris, France
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The studio features elegant wooden floorboards, electric window shutters and a dining table for 2. It consists of a double sofa bed, and a tiled bathroom with a heated towel rack. A kettle and dishwasher are included in the bright kitchenette, and laundry facilities are available.
Tour Montparnasse Building and Le Bon Marché Department Store can be reached within 10 minutes' walk of the studio. There are 2 metro stations within 250 meters, giving guests access to 2 metro lines. A Vélib bike hire station is a 5-minute walk away.
The surrounding area offers a supermarket, cinema and restaurants.
House rules- Linen and towels are provided
Cleaning fee is payable on arrival, 30 €
- Arrival time is flexible between 10:00 and 19:00.
- Departure has to be determined with the owner according to possibility
(if other arrival on the same day and if necessary, the departure must be done at 10:00).
- Late arrival after 19:00: 10 € per late hour added.
- In case of delay: the visitor must inform by SMS or phone BEFORE the agreed appointment to the apartment.
After an hour of wait, 10 € per hour will be charged on arrival.
- Deposit Paypal 200 €, payable BEFORE the stay, returned within 2 to 5 days, according to Paypal transfer time.
- A small basic equipment is provided, dishwashing liquid, sponge, garbage bags and some cleaning products.
A roll of toilet for the arrival of the travelers (but not for the whole stay!) And the non-perishable food that the previous travelers "can" leave, remains at disposal (oil, pasta, coffee ...).
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|Check-out before
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Reviews of this property
I spent there 4 formidable days with my couple. The apartment has everything that is needed: comfortable beed, complete toilet, well-equipped kitchen, well heated, good location, close to a metro stop... Everything was clean at our arrival and everything happened as planned. We arrived at 14:00 pm, called the person in charge of the apartment and appeared immediately to give us the keys and basic information. I would definitely recommend it to anyone planning a tricot Paris ;)
A nice, clean and well equipped studio, somewhat dark as it faces a narrow backyard, but with a terrific location right in the middle of the wonderful Montparnasse quarter.
Kell from Denmark
This is an amazing little flat, perfectly located close to Metro stops, shops, cafes and restaurants. The sofa bed is comfortable & the flat is well equipt-even a Nespressp machine! Due to timing we didn't get to meet the hosts personally but everything went smoothly & they were always in contact. Only downside is the flat is quite close to the bottom of the stairs & entrance to the building so all foot traffic coming in & out goes right past the door. But-a good set of earplugs sorts that out no worries! Would definitely stay here again, we loved it!
I can recommand this studio. The location is superb and the facilities were perfect. Even the sofa/bed was comfortable to sleep on. Note that there is some disturbances from the hall (Close to elevator) and you can also hear the underground. But we did not mind the noises. The place was clean and had all the things we needed. We were also thankful for the flexibility concerning check-in and check-out.
Very nice appartement, nice hosts and the cleaning was excellent. And ther's a very good connection with both bus and metro. I would love to come back.
This is the nicest apartement situated in a perfect place in a very lovely arrondissement. And the cleaning was in top. The hosts vere very nice people, allthougt we've only corrosponded by mail and SMS. Defently a apartement I would visit again.
It was wonderful! Apartment is lovely. Fully furnished and practical. Perfect located, next to the metro station, grocery, luxembourg park. Also great communication with host.
We had just amazing time!
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Woodland Park police shoot, kill suspect
Man identified as 20-year-old Craig Bondo
WOODLAND PARK, Colo. - A Woodland Park police officer shot and killed a man suspected of driving a stolen vehicle.
Eastbound U.S. 24 reopened Tuesday night after being closed near the Woodland Park Walmart because of the officer-involved shooting.
In a news release, police said they were trying to make an arrest around 2:30 p.m. The driver of a vehicle was pulled over and it was determined that the vehicle was stolen out of Colorado Springs.
As the officers attempted to detain the driver, he tried to drive away, hitting one of the officers with the vehicle. An officer then opened fire on the suspect, who has been identified as 20-year-old Craig Bondo of Colorado Springs. Bondo was taken to a hospital for treatment where he was later pronounced dead.
The officer involved in the shooting is on administrative leave. The 4th Judicial District Attorney's office will lead in the investigation.
Robert Williams said he saw police approach the vehicle in the highway median with their guns drawn. They pulled the man out of the vehicle and laid him on the ground, he said, then called paramedics over to treat him.
"I didn't see any movement out of the person on the ground at all," said Williams.
Several people in the area said they heard gunfire. One man said he heard five shots. The back window of the vehicle was shattered, possibly by a bullet.
The name of the officers involved in the incident haven't been released.
The quarter-mile stretch of highway that was closed for the the investigation reopened around 9 p.m. Tuesday. Eastbound drivers were detoured around the Walmart on Old Crystola Road, also known as County Road 21, during the closure.
Stay with KRDO NewsChannel 13 and KRDO.com for further updates.

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text: First time posting in the electronics area. I made this headlamp module out of a computer heatsink and some other odd hardware parts hanging around. It will take any standard p60 dropin, has 46 sq. In. Of surface cooling, is water resistant to a couple of feet underwater, weighs 3.27 oz. , and is 6061 series AL. Anti-reflective glass lens and cree mc-e dropin at present. Should be able to handle xml dropins up to 3a without breaking a sweat. It has a capacitive switch built into the backside... but it's a downer because i use this primarily during the winter, and mittens/gloves are dampening the style My questions and problems are these... - i want to make a battery box for 18650 size batts. I tried to bend some AL to accomodate, but the problem is making it to where the batteries are sealed enough to keep'out rain etc. Also, getting the batteries in and out are a major pain. - dont want to make battery packs, as i'd like to make it where 1,2,3,4 battery combos can be used. 1/2 batteries when attached to back of headstrap, 3/4 for waist carry. - batteries have to be kept separate so they can be used in other devices and charged separately by solar. - be able to mount an inline switch or a switch directly on the box to override the touch switch ( or disable the cp switch completely?). I know mushers put a push switch directly on the putside that can be operated through clothing by slapping the battery box. Seems like a good idea. I,ve got most of the components to do this, but this biggest hinderance is choosing which material to create the batt box out of. Kydex seems like a good alternative, but how to make it where the batts can go in and out easily? There's also this fancy plastic thats boiled and then molded into shape, forget the name of it. Thought about milling out a batt box from AL but its weight and bulk aren't working when it comes to strap mounting. Another option might be to by a couple of 18650 holders and sewing up some velcro laden cases to hold them. Similar to the cordura bags for bike lights.... just smaller. That looks cheesy though. Please, i know there are some cpf'ers on here. What do ya'll think? Thanks evry1


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So got in the car and the morning drove down HWY 270 N to Hwy 55 S and off to Grant's Trail.
The morning drive looked a little like this - pitch freakin black
So let me recap the run for you. Parked and headed out to the trail - I tried to take a pic, but for real it was so dark out that a pic wouldn't even come out. So I turned on my flashlight app (I knew that would come in handy one day) and good ole trooper Laura and I started our run. We got about to mile 3 and I had to pee (dam* water). I NEVER stop because it is just so hard to get back going - but I ran to a nice Johnny and headed back out on the trail. Around mile 4 the rain started - it was light and misty but definitely rain. So we freaked out about our
hair IPhone's and kept on trucking - reached mile 4.5 and turned around for the last 4.5 stretch. I was doing well but then it started raining harder and the air was so thick - thanks Isaac you bitc* - and thanks to my wonderful allergies - STUPID!!!
Laura and I hadn't turned on our music - we were talking the whole time. You know about how romantic our husbands are, how smart our kids are, how AWESOME we are. Kid Kid Kid - our husbands are ridiculous, our kids make us want to rip our hair out - but us being awesome, well that is the total TRUTH. So around mile 7 we couldn't hack the talking anymore and turned on some tunes - well that is where I started to struggle. I am not sure if it was the starting/stopping, the rain pelting my face, me freaking out about my
hair IPhone, lack of oxygen from Isaac, the water/apple sloshing around in my belly, or just plain sheer exhaustion but I was definitely S.T.R.U.G.G.L.I.N.G. I told my self to SUCK IT UP and I made it the whole 9 miles. Laura took off like a bat out of hell - YOU GO GIRL!!! She did so well. I made it slowly but surely. YAY to us and now I look forward to hell 10 miles next weekend. No for real I love running and I can't wait to rock the MO Cowbell on October 7th.
Just for a little visual - here was my ride home - Rain. Rain. Rain. Fun stuff.
So I got home and decided to reward myself - I was starved and the kids wanted breakfast so I made some nice healthy hard boiled egg whites, wheat toast, and BACON! Okay - Okay - Okay you will get to know that I like to EAT and my will power SUCKS - so bring on the BACON!
MEAT - yes I am a fan - a big HUGE fan (look at that lovely grease) Mmmm Mmmm Goodness


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Raising the bar to a glorious result. Epically winning. No competition when the one who possess this attribute shows up. One who lethierres, can easily take your breath away. Charmingly disarm you with one eyebrow raise.
She lethierred that competition. The minute she walked in the pageant, you could tell the judges had high expectations after seeing how lethierre she really is.
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I was working off of the better queens book and ran into a snag right off the bat. I was going to take a white wax frame and let the bees make their own queens and make up a couple of overwinter nucs. I loaded up a divided queen castle with 5 frames for 3 days. And put in a frame of white wax that I put into the brood nest on my good hive in the brood nest. I pulled the supers yesterday to get this frame and got a rude surprise from the bees. The bees backfilled the new frame with honey. Flow is winding down and the weather is getting warm (80s). We are not having a drought like the rest of the country. I got nailed through my jeans to a point that I had to retreat and go get my smoker. Dont know what that was about. I only got stung through my jeans one other time but this time they figured it out.
My nuc box I put in a frame of capped honey, one frame of capped brood. One of mixed brood with lots of pollen, various capped and young (old frame not white wax) a medium frame that has been drawn out by a swarm to a deep with white wax with a nice edge and a frame of new wax to be replaced by a frame of fresh drawn white brood from my good hive. As of day 3 none of the brood was being drawn out to a QC. Am I impatient or did I get my bee mix wrong?
I only have 4 hives to use resources from, all are double deeps but 1(mediums on a deep). Most have a ½ capped super and have backfilled the brood nest to a point my queens have shut down. Suggestions? I want to make up my own overwintered queens off of my strong hive using resources from two swarm catches.


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could jarvis jones fall out of the 1st round? I wouldn't touch that kid with a 10 foot poll in the first.
Walterfootball's latest mock:
1st- Demontre Moore, DE Texas A&M
2nd- Bennie Logan, DT LSU
3rd- Khaseem Greene, LB Rutgers
4th- Dwayne Gratz, CB UConn
I'll take it.. round 5 & 6 though needs to be O-line..


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Let me show you how simple it is to cut uniform cubes with potato and carrot in this video I shot with Vegetarian Times Magazine. Wardrobe provided by my favorite eco luxury designer Linda Loudermilk.
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Let me show you how simple it is to cut uniform cubes with potato and carrot in this video I shot with Vegetarian Times Magazine. Wardrobe provided by my favorite eco luxury designer Linda Loudermilk.
Labor Day marks the weekend my Rhodesian Ridgeback, Kanga, and I rescued one another….9-years ago! How time flies. (and yes, I cake sunblock on my face, as you can see).
Kanga had been at the Humane Society for over 2 weeks, and no one adopted her. Surprising, since she is a beautiful specimen of this breed. Plus, she came fully trained, so someone had spent a lot of time and energy with her. She was skin and bone, and 50+ pounds underweight with kennel cough and dusty fur. Poor baby.
Luckily, a truck intercepted 20 dogs on their way to get euthanized, and brought them back to a no-kill shelter in Portland, OR called Family Dogs NW. This was where I found Kanga early the very next morning. I applied the same raw food principles to Kanga as I do for human healing, and over the next month or two she gained 50 pounds and regained radiant health on a Raw Food diet. You can read more about her journey in Ani's Raw Food Kitchen, where Kanga has her own dog food chapter.
My brother Max saw this photo of Kanga and said she looks like she's "mugging". I had to ask him what the heck that means. Max said "mugging = posing, like rappers do for pics". Hahaa. Yup, Kanga is a superstar, and very popular too. Folks always stop us to pet her, especially young children.
Kanga's from Rhodesia, which is now Zimbabwe Rhodesia, and the Sahara so she loves the sun, warmth, and sand. She hates water, but it was so hot out that Kanga got her paws wet. I love dog beach because here she can roam off-leash, and run free to play with other dogs.
Kanga and I love laying in the sand and soaking up the sun. It's never hot enough for us, and soaking up sun is one of our favorite past times. I'm happy I got to take Kanga to Huntington Dog Beach yesterday on the final hot day of the summer (it was 90 F) to celebrate her 9-year Bday and Dogversary with me. Thank you Kanga for being my family, love, and for hanging out with me for the past 9-years! I love you.
I visited Erewhon Natural Foods in Los Angeles on May 28, 2011 along my book tour for Ani's Raw Food Asia. Erewhon is my favorite Raw Food store. These beautiful photos are courtesy of the very talented Sherman Lee at http://www.digitalslimages.com.
Juan Hernandez, the store manager, makes sure to offer the largest range of Raw Food products and brand, and has created the nexus for Raw Foods here in LA. Juan was one of my earliest supporters of my SmartMonkey Foods packaged and prepared foods products.
Each year's visit celebrating my new book always draws a packed house. I love Erewhon!
I showed everyone how easy it is to make my Mushroom "Bul Go Gi", from Ani's Raw Food Asia, page 186, using mushrooms marinated in tamari or nama shoyu (raw soy sauce), toasted sesame oil, asian pear, and sweetener of choice like agave or brown rice syrup. We topped off these beautiful Lettuce Wraps, from page 188, with my version of a traditional Korean Gochujang Sauce, page 225, made with miso, sesame oil, chile powder, and sweetener like agave.
Following my food demo and Q+A…next, I get to sign books and meet people 1 on 1!
This tour, many people had me sign multiple copies of Ani's Raw Food Asia for friends and family. I do love when people bring their entire collection for me to sign too…..a blessing for me.
My friends Ron Gilmore and Caroline Jue create an awesome animated series called Rawman & Green-Girl. They are doing great work educating and sharing information about our food sources.
Elaine R. Johnson hand delivered this beautiful porcelain sculpture she made to me all the way from Arizona with her mom. Elaine is amazingly talented. I can't even begin to express my gratitude for such a beautiful gift.
This is the beautifully talented Elaine R. Johnson. She told me how challenging porcelain is to work with….cracking as it dries, or cracking out of the kiln during baking. A labour of love, it shows!
Grab a copy of the April 2011 issue of Delicious Living Magazine and enjoy my Raw Power cover feature with 6 raw food recipes for a preview of the flavors I'll be bringing you in my newest East West Fusion raw food book Ani's Raw Food Asia, available everywhere May 10, 2011.
Today was Day 3 of food prep at the Test Kitchen. My GastRAWnomique molecular gastronomy inspired dinner is just days away. Chris Ochs and Josh from SunFood personally delivered a ton of superfoods. Diane Paylor and I were elbow deep in cacao. And Top Chef Alex Reznik was cold smoking my cashews for me.
To cold smoke, Alex uses a smoking gun packed with chips to push smoke into a sealed container of raw cashews. The cashews absorb the aroma of the smoke, but stay raw. Pretty cool. No pun intended.
Restaurant Mo-Chica's Ricardo Zarate and I making Cheddar Kale Chips.
Richi helping me set up 8 Excalibur Dehydrators. These are my favorite dehydrators, and they come with Paraflexx reusable non-stick sheets. Thanks for sending them over to me Excalibur! So much love from the community, sponsors have been super generous and include: Excalibur, Sambazon, Earth Circle Organics, Sunfood, Gold Mine Natural Food, Frontier Natural Products Co-Op, Big Tree Farms.
Chef Seth Greenburg at the Huntley Hotel Penthouse Restaurant invited me into his kitchen where he shared with me some of his favorite molecular gastronomy techniques.
Chef Seth and I compressed melons and cucumbers, and put chemicals into water and fruit puree to create popular spheres or 'caviar'. We even made 'noodles'. See what could be done using chemicals got my creative juices flowing thinking about ways to create similar effects without chemicals, and instead 100% natural and raw.
Test Kitchen brings together the best Chefs in LA, and has become much like a think tank where Chefs share their creativity, ideas, and time. Great energy in this space! Chef Christian Page, a locavore sourcing his ingredients locally and seasonally, is to the left of the photo, and is about to open Daily Dose Restaurant in downtown LA in mid Dec.
A super easy salad to make, this is my go to when traveling. Made by massaging avocado into torn leaves of kale and then adding a squeeze of lemon to soften the leaves, and then tossing in sprouts.
Full of vitamins, minerals, chlorophyll, and antioxidants to combat travel stress (including time zone changes, sitting on airplanes, and living in hotel rooms) while boosting my immune system. I carried this yummy creation onto my last flight from NJ to LA, and took it with me to Las Vegas for my raw food debut at ACAM's medical conference at the Paris Hotel last week, where they served up 5 of my raw food vegan recipes to over 500 doctors!
Kale, Avocado, Sprouts
Makes 2 servings
Into large mixing bowl, place kale and massage with avocado. Squeeze lemon juice, and massage. Add sprouts and salt, if using. Massage and toss to mix well.
Will keep for several hours at room temperature. Store in fridge for a day or 2.
I was invited onto FOX in San Diego for a 6-minute segment on the benefits of the raw food diet and to talk about the Sambazon Warrior Up Campaign. I made host Raoul Martinez a few smoothies including a Banana Butter Breeze with Cacao. I planned to make him a Tomato Tarragon Bisque, but ran out of time.
Weekend anchor Susan Lennon loves my Acai smoothies. She had a glow that shows how well she takes care of your health.
Preparing smoothies ahead of time was a good idea! Thanks for Kaia Lai and Kato for helping me shop, prep, and set up this beautiful shot.
Raoul initially seemed a bit scared of my smoothies, but once he tasted them, he was a believer! He finished off the cacao banana smoothie, and said he was really impressed.
I was invited to Rockefeller Center for a guest appearance on LX New York with hosts Janice Huff and Jane Hanson. I talk about 4 key ingredients in the raw food diet, and made 3 recipes using 'secret' ingredients: Marinara Pasta, Strawberry Tartlets, and Chocolate Pudding "slash" Frosting.
(this video's audio is totally out of synch, and I'm trying to get my hands on a better copy of the segment, which I'll upload later)
I was a guest on San Diego Living with host Erin Mikael's Green Scene segments on June 24, 2010, and then again on June 27th. We make Cashew Kream with Fresh Red White and Blue Berry Parfaits and Fruit Tartlets.
I had the honor of meeting Dr T. Colin Campbell at the Farm Sanctuary Hoe Down last weekend in Watkins Glenn, New York, where we were both invited to speak about vegan lifestyle, health, and diet. He's pictured above with his wife Karen.
Dr Campbell is the author of the best selling book The China Study. Campbell says about his research in the Philippines "In this project, however, I uncovered a dark secret. Children who ate the highest protein diets were the ones most likely to get liver cancer…" A 20-year research project partnership between Cornell University, Oxford University, and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine found that "People who ate the most animal-based foods got the most chronic disease … People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease. These results could not be ignored," said Dr. Campbell.
In the Farm Sanctuary 'People Barn', I spoke to a full house about the benefits of the raw food diet, why whole and unprocessed foods are important, showed everyone how fast and easy it is to make a healthy Strawberry Kream Pie using just a handful of ingredients, from page 267 of Ani's Raw Food Essentials, and then passed out pies to taste. Folks thought the pie was delicious. You can't really go wrong with dates, cashews, almonds, vanilla, and strawberries.
Next, Dr. T. Colin Campbell took the stage, and reinforced many of the same concepts I had presented. He explained why taking supplements doesn't work, and emphasized the importance of avoiding processed foods like all the junk vegan convenience foods on the market. He explained how protein turns-on cancer cells in the body.
In the USA, we promote high protein diets made up of about 80 percent protein. Most Americans eat around 50 percent protein. However, Dr. T. Colin Campbell advocates a diet of at most 20 percent plant-based protein for optimal health and longevity.
My mom and step dad came to the Farm for the weekend, and left inspired by all the great speakers and information, as did everyone! I can't wait to visit the Farm Sanctuary again very soon.


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Much current immigration debate seems based on two misconceptions: one factual, the other theoretical. As talk has increasingly turned from structured work programs with pathways to citizenship to border control and national security, one often gets the impression that virtually no enforcement is taking place. Quite the opposite is true: we are in the midst of a massive, decade-long deportation experiment that is exceptionally harsh by virtually any historical or comparative measure. Indeed, many millions of non-citizens, their families, and their communities have already felt the dreadful power of this system. A second misconception is more subtle, but perhaps more pernicious: it is the idea that the "rule of law" embodies only punishment for mis-deeds, rather than proportionality, procedural fairness, and the rejection of Draconian "one size fits all" solutions to complex social problems.
How might we measure the scope and harshness of our deportation system? The numbers are surprising. According to government statistics, from 2000 through 2005, the number of "deportable aliens" expelled from the United States was over 6.5 million people (including formal removals and so-called "voluntary departures.")1 More than 350,000 people now face formal removal proceedings each year, and tens of thousands more are deported through summary processes, such as "expedited removal."
The system combines two very different forms of deportation—extended control of the border and social control of otherwise legal residents. These are unfortunately often conflated in public discourse over "illegal aliens." Many legal permanent residents have been deported for crimes—sometimes serious, but often shockingly minor. Indeed, the Supreme Court recently ruled that the government had wrongly deported people for misdemeanor drug offenses. But the Court provided no remedy for those deportees or their families.
From 1997 through 2005 more than 672,000 non-citizens were deported for criminal conduct. The majority of such deportations were for non-violent offenses. The government does not reveal how many of these deportees were legal residents, but there is no question that many, probably most of them, were. A 2006 study analyzed the use of so-called "aggravated felony" charges 2 in formal removal proceedings against 156,713 people and found that some 70 percent of those charged had lived in the United States for more than a decade. The median length of residence was fourteen years.3 Human Rights Watch has estimated that some 1.6 million spouses and children living in the United States were separated from their parent, husband, or wife because of these deportations.
Another way to assess the current system is to consider how it functions. For various reasons, deportation has long been a legal anomaly—standing outside many protective norms of the legal system. Tens of thousands of non-citizens face mandatory detention every day with no possibility of bail as their cases meander through administrative courts. Less than half have lawyers and none have the right to appointed counsel. Suppression of illegally-seized evidence is impossible in most cases. There are no "Miranda" rights; no "selective prosecution" defenses for those who may have been singled out for political or religious reasons; and no right to a jury trial. Deportation may be retroactive—you can be deported for something that was not a deportable offense when it happened. For many, there is no possibility of mercy from an immigration judge, no matter how compelling their situation. And, for a wide variety of complicated legal questions, there is no judicial review of Department of Homeland Security decisions at all. The consequence of deportation is frequently life-time banishment from this country. Each year, our system sends many thousands of U.S.-raised young people—now rootless and without social support—to places they may have never known, facing languages they cannot speak, in cultures they do not understand.
Why has this system developed in this way? One might assume that the hardening of the deportation system was a response to the September 11 attacks but this is not correct. Though we can trace its direct roots back to the late nineteenth century exclusion of Chinese workers, the major changes in modern deportation law actually occurred in the 1990s. In the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing—perpetrated by home-grown U.S. citizen terrorists—unusually tough deportation laws were passed by a Congress many of whose members now admit that they had little or no understanding of what they were voting for. "Get tough" policies resonate powerfully until politicians or their constituents personally feel the brunt of harsh, unforgiving laws. Still, it is much easier to enact hard laws than to repeal them, especially in the absence of strong leadership towards a sophisticated, comprehensive immigration policy.
And what of the basic "rule of law" principle espoused by Lou Dobbs, Tom Tancredo and others? Isn't it a simple equation: they broke the law therefore they must be deported? Well, for one thing, the procedural deficiencies in our system might give pause, as we learn of U.S. citizens who have been deported by mistake and of shockingly wide disparities in decisions among immigration judges. More fundamentally, those of us who support a robust vision of the nation of immigrants and a rich, humane version of the rule of law do not—and should not—minimize the concerns about border control and respect for law. These are major, core responsibilities of the national government. But this does not mean that government agents should be given carte blanche to ignore basic legal protections. As James Madison put it, when critiquing the Alien and Sedition Acts, "[even if] aliens are not parties to the Constitution, it does not follow that the Constitution has vested in Congress an absolute power over them...."
True national security requires more than fences, walls, and harsh deportation raids. Consider the recent workplace raids in New Bedford, Massachusetts, not far from where I live. As part of "Operation United Front," the New Bedford raid mobilized hundreds of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from around the country to arrest some 360 non-citizen workers. The irony of the operation's name surely would have struck the deportees, their families, and communities. Mothers were separated from babies; husbands were unable to contact their wives, causing what community groups called "a humanitarian crisis." Many were summarily transferred to detention centers in Texas before lawyers could meet with them. Indeed, in an unusual reversal of the typical state/federal relationship in immigration matters, Massachusetts social workers felt compelled to travel to Texas immigration detention facilities to ensure that the children of the detainees were receiving adequate care. Many of those children and other family members are U.S. citizens. Is our national security really enhanced by the destruction of their families? Shouldn't the law embody at least the possibility of humane discretion and proportionality?
As we continue to debate what it really means to be a nation of immigrants, we must pay more attention to the growing deportation system and its devastating effects on families and communities. Deportation is a clumsy and brutal back-stop for failed border control and ineffective bi-lateral economic policies with Mexico. It evokes the maxim that, when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything tends to look like a nail. Moreover, it continues to have corrosive effects on legal protections we have developed over many centuries. As Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy once wrote: "Only by zealously guarding the rights of the most humble…and the most despised among us can freedom flourish and endure in our land."
1 Voluntary departure is something of a euphemism, as the alternative is forced removal
These charges are the most serious in terms of consequences, but very minor crimes, such as petit larceny and drug possession, can be aggravated felonies. See 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43) (2000).
2 These charges are the most serious in terms of consequences, but very minor crimes, such as petit larceny and drug possession, can be aggravated felonies. See 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43) (2000).
3 TRAC Immigration, How Often Is The Aggravated Felony Statute Used? (2006), http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/158 [2].
Mr. Kanstroom, a law professor, teaches Immigration Law and Human Rights Law at Boston College Law School, where he also is the Director of the Human Rights Program and an Associate Director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice. His latest book, Deportation Nation: Outsiders in American History (Harvard University Press 2007) describes the history of deportation in the United States.


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April 17, 2013
This Friday, April 19 at 5:30 p.m., former Tennessee quarterback Tyler Bray will be featured on Jon Gruden's Quarterback Camp. The program will air on ESPNU.
Bray visited Gruden on Wednesday, April 3 in Tampa to round out the 2013 QB Camp Class.
Bray was the 12th and final player in the 2013 QB Camp class to descend upon Gruden's Fired Football Coaches Association office this spring.
Gruden, a Monday Night Football analyst and Super Bowl-winning coach personally prepares detailed lesson plans for every player during his quarterback camps.
Last year, Gruden mentored Andrew Luck, Robert Griffin III, Russell Wilson, Ryan Tannehill and others, arguably the most successful class of rookie quarterbacks in NFL history.
In his junior season, Bray helped spur a Tennessee offense that recorded 434 points, 26th nationally, 5,711 total yards, 19th nationally and 3,787 passing yards, 16th nationally.
Individually, Bray's 34 passing touchdowns tied for sixth most among all NCAA players, while he ranked 11th in passing yards (3,612), 13th in passing yards/game (301.0) and 31st in passing efficiency (146.26).
During his Tennessee career, Bray is and sixth in total offense per play (7.36) and seventh among active NCAA quarterbacks in passing yards per game (265.9). Bray is also eighth among all active NCAA players in career passing touchdowns (69) and 13th in total offense per game (258.5).
In doing so, Bray plastered his name all over the Tennessee record books in just two and a half seasons as the starting quarterback for the Vols. He sits fourth on the Tennessee career passing touchdowns list with 69, and fourth in career passing yards (7.151), pass attempts (888) and completions (520). He also has had 21 multiple touchdown games in his career.
In 2012, Bray set a new school record for single-game passing yards, besting Peyton Manning while throwing for 530 yards against Troy. Bray and Manning account for the top-seven single-game passing performances in Tennessee history while his 34 touchdowns and 3,612 passing yards rank second on the single-season list behind Manning.
Bray joins eight other top quarterbacks and three non-quarterbacks in the draft who are scheduled to participate in Gruden's QB Camp: Matt Barkley (USC)
Zac Dysert (Miami, OH)
Mike Glennon (N.C. State)
Landry Jones (Oklahoma)
EJ Manuel (Florida State)
Ryan Nassib (Syracuse)
Geno Smith (West Virginia)
Tyler Wilson (Arkansas)
Luke Joeckel (Texas A&M)
Marcus Lattimore (South Carolina)
Manti Te'o (Notre Dame)
Each prospect visited Gruden's office in Tampa - affectionately dubbed the Fired Football Coaches Association (FFCA) - for a film session. Most of the players will also participate in an on-field workout.
Gruden's QB Camp alumni:
2010: Sam Bradford (Oklahoma), Jimmy Clausen (Notre Dame), Colt McCoy (Texas) and Tim Tebow (Florida).
2011: Blaine Gabbert (Missouri), Andy Dalton (TCU), Jake Locker (Washington), Cam Newton (Auburn), Ryan Mallett (Arkansas), and, prior to supplemental draft, Terrelle Pryor (Ohio State).
2012: Kirk Cousins (Michigan State), Nick Foles (Arizona), Robert Griffin III (Baylor), Case Keenum (Houston), Andrew Luck (Stanford), Kellen Moore (Boise State), Brock Osweiler (Arizona State), Ryan Tannehill (Texas A&M), Brandon Weeden (Oklahoma State) and Russell Wilson (Wisconsin).


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Voels crowned Miss Nisswa
Carissa Voels, a Brainerd High School senior, was crowned Miss Nisswa on Friday, Feb. 15, at Lutheran Church of the Cross in Nisswa.
Pequot Lakes High School seniors Nicole Traut and Elise Runberg were crowned first and second princesses, respectively. Nisswa Elementary School second-grader Mattie Holst is Little Miss Nisswa 2013.
The nine Miss Nisswa contestants showed a united front when it came to voting for Miss Congeniality. They agreed to a nine-way tie, and each contestant received a pin and the Miss Congeniality sash was cut into nine pieces.
Other Miss Nisswa contestants were Anna Bieganek, Kaitlyn Christianson, Kara Hansen, Megan Hintz, Molly Palm and Samantha Rathman.
Voels won a $3,000 scholarship. Traut will receive a $2,000 scholarship. Runberg will get a $1,500 scholarship plus $350 for being the outstanding essay winner.
Each contestant will receive $50 for her piece of the Miss Congeniality title. And Christianson won $350 for being the outstanding personal interview winner.
Senior escorts were Brayden Campbell, Jack Holland and Zean Baker, all Brainerd High School seniors and former Nisswa Elementary School students.
Stacey Waidelich of the Nisswa Women of Today, scholarship pageant sponsor, was mistress of ceremonies. Miss Nisswa 2012 Mackayla Headlee crowned her successor.
Little Miss Nisswa Carley Maine was the 2012 Little Miss Nisswa.
In addition to Holst, Little Miss Nisswa participants included Janey Janousek, Brooke Jensen, Tori Edinger, Izzy Holmes, Ella Anderson, Cassidy Grimsley, Jayley Jo Andresen, Malina Schiller, Lily Bauman, Jada Klecatsky, Emily Holtti, Shelby Isam, Macey Abramson and Katie Breitbach.
Second-graders William Ingram and Josh Stark were Little Miss Nisswa escorts.
The Miss Nisswa competition included the personal essay and interview, which were completed before the pageant. At the pageant, contestants modeled casual wear and evening gowns, and each answered an impromptu question.
Pequot Lakes resident Arlean Rosemore, of Mother Originals Quilt Shop in Pequot Lakes, provided the backdrop for the pageant — her handcrafted 120- by 120-inch Candyland gameboard quilt. The quilt also was displayed at Saturday's Mini Jubilee at Nisswa Elementary School.
The 2013 Nisswa Winter Jubilee theme was "Candyland Edition."


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Pulaski Technical College Arkansas Culinary School will host Whitney Miller, author and winner of the MasterChef television competition, noon - 3 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 27 at the Pulaski Technical College Little Rock - South site.
Miller will present a live cooking demonstration and will autograph her cookbook, Modern Hospitality: Simple Recipes with Southern Charm (Rodale, 2011) with foreword by Gordon Ramsay. Modern Hospitality offers recipes for southern staples and innovative new dishes such as Shrimp and Sausage with Grits Souffl?Buttermilk Pan Fried Chicken with Creamed Collard Greens, Oven-Fried Catfish, Mississippi Cheesesteak, and Sweet Potato Peanut Butter Blondies. Copies of the book will be on sale at the college's Finish Line Caf?/P>
Whitney Miller was the winner of Season 1 of Gordon Ramsay's competitive cooking reality show MasterChef on Fox Television Network. In order to win the competition, Miller placed among 100 contestants in a nationwide casting call. She then qualified for further advancement over the course of the season by winning consecutive culinary tests, challenges and cook-offs.
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Reconsidering Aluminum
One mold maker sheds light on the advantages of this material from a machining and handling standpoint. Another argues that it can indeed be a viable alternative to tool steel beyond just prototyping and short-run applications.
A hybrid mold—that is, one incorporating both steel and aluminum—manufactured at Wepco Plastics, along with the part it's used to produce. As it does with much of its other work, the company also performs assembly and packaging for this particular job.
David Parmelee of Wepco Plastics says there are two schools of thought about aluminum tooling: Some shops flat-out say "no way," while others view it as a potentially viable alternative to tool steel, so long as its limitations are taken into account.
Mr. Parmelee is firmly in the latter camp. The vast majority of tools produced at Wepco are 100-percent aluminum, and he credits the Middlefield, Connecticut-based company's expertise with what can and can't be done with the material for a good portion of its success. "We have molds that have run hundreds and thousands of parts and they're still good, because we know how to take care of them," he says. "We even run a lot of glass-filled nylons through the molds, and they work fine. For the price difference, it can't be beat."
Beyond price, aluminum is much lighter and easier to handle than tool steel. That's critical for Wepco because much of the company's work is large and unwieldy, he says. He adds that the material is easier to cut and disperses heat better, so machining cycles are faster.
Of course, he emphasizes that the material does have limitations. For example, heat dissipation becomes a disadvantage when it comes to hot runners because the plastic resin at the tip of the runner could freeze. In these and other cases, the company often makes hybrid molds incorporating both steel and aluminum. It should also be noted that Wepco specializes in prototype and short-run work. That's a traditional application area for aluminum molds, and most skeptics of the material seem to focus on production.
Still, Mr. Parmelee isn't the only evangelist for aluminum. Penned by Bob Lammon of Phoenix Proto Technologies, this article from MMT's November issue argues that the material can indeed be a viable substitute for tool steel in production applications.
Meanwhile, stay tuned for more on Wepco. The purpose of my conversation with Mr. Parmelee was to gather information for an upcoming article about the shop's use of a new Mil-Tec cutting tool from Tool Alliance. Featuring high-positive-geometry inserts, the tool has significantly improved productivity on the shop's aluminum frame inserts. That piece is tentatively scheduled to run in our February issue.


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Remember that $190-million shortfall in the current two-year state budget that the state's interagency Revenue Forecasting Committee warned us about last winter? The yawning gap anticipated between tax revenues and the state's planned expenditures dominated the news coming out of the past legislative session. Governor John Baldacci and lawmakers — painfully and reluctantly, they said — filled the hole primarily by slashing community services for the mentally ill, the developmentally disabled, kids in trouble, the elderly, the sick, and the poor. They also cut funds for public schools and higher education.
Surprise! When the 2008 fiscal year ended, on June 30, the state had a General Fund surplus of $56 million, so the shortfall in reality was considerably smaller than predicted — $134 million. That's still a big number, but the most severe social-service cuts could have been avoided. The dire forecast was way off the mark.
Here's another revelation: Key bureaucrats and legislators weren't surprised by the surplus. Before the legislature adjourned, on April 18, they knew, by the volume of tax money tumbling into the treasury, that the $190-million-shortfall prediction was wrong. But they kept the public in the dark; they didn't open up discussion on how the surplus should be spent; and they didn't suggest reversing the cuts, which could have been done either at the end of the session or, later, in a special session. They had other plans for the $56 million.
With disarming frankness, Rebecca Wyke, commissioner of financial and administrative services, now says that the administration assumed all along that there would be "somewhere between $20 and $70 million" in a surplus. "We always have a surplus," she explains, because "the Revenue Forecasting Committee tends to be a little conservative."
Members of the legislative Appropriations Committee, the lawmakers who cut the budget, were also in the know. The committee's cuts passed the legislature and were signed into law by the governor on March 31. Committee member Janet Mills, a Democratic representative and candidate for attorney general, however, recalls Michael Allen, the chief state-tax economist, telling the group, possibly as early as March, "that things might be better." By the end of March, revenues were, in fact, already $22 million more than forecast.
And things continued to get better. Allen says that, prior to adjournment, members of the Appropriations Committee were aware "that April 15 revenues were coming in stronger." April 15 was income-tax-filing day. By the end of April, revenues were $45 million more than forecast.
While the actual size of the surplus wasn't confirmed until after adjournment, according to Grant Pennoyer, director of the legislative Office of Fiscal and Program Review, finances appeared so promising toward the session's end that the Appropriations Committee decided to put $10 million of the expected surplus into a reserve fund before it was used for something else.State secret
But the good news was not widely circulated. There were no news stories about the rosier financial picture until late May. Even usually well-informed social-service lobbyists were unaware that officials knew early this spring that the state's financial picture was not so dim.
"We were under the assumption that it would be a tight squeeze to break even," says John Hennessy, a lobbyist for several community agencies. If he had known the surplus would be substantial, he says, he would have fought for some of it for his clients.
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I went last weekend to harvest honey from 2 of my hives and to my surprise one hive had moths fly out as I opened the lid the worms and moths where everywhere in the brood, medium and small ruined the whole hive.
I checked the hive for a queen she was gone. so I took the hive apart and took the frames stuck them in a trash bag and froze them to kill the worms. the rest of the bees went to the hive next to theirs and I didn't see them fighting with the hive they were going into, so was this the right thing to do and what do I do with all these frames destroyed and froze?
My second problem was I went to harvest from the second hive and found brood in all the honey. I had a queen excluder and a medium it looked like most of the brood is spotted and drone cells but just enough to screw up the honey could the queen from the moth ridden hive escape to the hive next to hers and climb in the top opening and lay eggs??? I looked for a queen above the excluder didnt see one.
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The images of destruction from the record-setting number of tornados that blew through the Midwest and Southeast this past week are hard to fathom, and heart-wrenching.
More than three dozen people were killed in states from Illinois to Virginia, and through Alabama and Georgia. As the worst of the storm speared Friday evening through west Georgia, the line of the approaching front spanned all the way into our community.
With so much crime drama inexplicably taking place this past week in Columbia County, the Feb. 24 conviction and subsequent life sentence of Thomas Bradford for the murder of Raymond Lee might seem like ancient history.
Sure, there's still a multi-million-dollar civil suit pending in the case. And no one would be surprised if appeals of Bradford's murder conviction are forthcoming. But before the dust settles, there's one nagging aspect of the case that shouldn't escape comment.
There is a right way to use a gun. There is a wrong way to use a gun.
Michael Starnes did it the right way. Monday morning, he saw a suspicious man walking around his neighbor's home. Starnes got his gun, confronted the burglar and held him at gunpoint until Columbia County deputies arrived to make an arrest.
More good neighbors like Starnes would make the world a far safer place.
Thomas Bradford did it the wrong way. One man is dead as a result, and Bradford likely will spend the rest of his life in prison.
It's enough to make you shake your head. Or your fist.
We've all heard this week about the five teens calling themselves the "Charlie Rape Gang." Members of the "gang" briefly were suspended from Lakeside Middle School recently after complaints, and social media postings, that they had been corralling unsuspecting fellow students, holding them down and pretending to "rape" them.
Ha, ha. Really funny.
One of the common excuses used by non-voters is that it isn't convenient. Elections are held on Tuesdays, and work schedules get in the way.
The ability to vote by absentee long ago debunked that rationale. In addition, the state of Georgia in recent years further undermined that excuse by instituting early and advance voting days that stretched elections out for nearly a month before each election.
Is the danger of a Georgia charter school constitutional amendment in the state Legislature so dire that it should draw the opposition of the local board of education?
Not only is the answer "yes," but it raises a bigger point: There should be more such outspokenness, not less, from local elected officials.
Columbia County's government has done a good job in recent months looking for cost savings by consolidating staff positions and constantly re-evaluating job descriptions.
Another move toward consolidation underway involves quasi-governmental agencies rather than employees, and is even more good news for the county.
If a school principal had to give pupils a warning about their behavior prior to their bus leaving school, it's probably a safe bet that those kids bear at least a little responsibility for that driver having to pull over and cool off during the ride home.
After that fateful ride last week, some Euchee Creek Ele-mentary parents complained about the driver's behavior based on tales from their children. Some of that carries the self-serving whine of enabling.
This has been a frightening, devastating time for police officers in our community.
Richmond County Deputy J.D. Paugh was shot and killed last October. Aiken Public Safety Master Officer Scotty Richardson was killed in December. Then, just a few days ago, Aiken Master Cpl. Sandy Rogers was shot and killed.
Deaths of police officers in our community typically are rare. This tragic trio has made their jobs seem all the more dangerous.
There seems to be a lot of confusion over a state effort to rein in local governments attempting to establish broadband Internet service.
Republican State Sen. Chip Rogers, fueled by generous contributions from telecommunications companies, has filed a bill in the Georgia Legislature that, he claims, would protect private service providers from unfair competition by government-subsidized broadband systems.
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John Clarence Eagle, 50, of Crosslake, died Wednesday, May 22, 2013, at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. Services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 1, at Crosslake Lutheran Church with Pastor Greg Larsen officiating. Family and friends are invited to gather one hour prior to services.
He will be missed by his mother, Lois Eagle, of Crosslake; sister, Helen (Dan) Swanson, of Baxter; niece, Maria, of Brooklyn Center; nephew, Christopher, of Baxter; and uncle, Henry Wheeler, of Ham Lake. He was preceded in death by his father, Raymond; maternal grandparents, Clarence and Helen Wheeler; paternal grandparents; and his aunt, Lorraine Kuhn.
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The Last Windrow: Winter reluctant to leave farm country
There had been reports that the first robin of spring had arrived. The small creeks were bubbling their way toward the distant Missouri River and the first sprigs of green grass were to be seen in the pasture below the farmhouse. Dad was oiling the chains on the oat end-gate seeder in preparation of the first of the planting season.
The year was 1952 and I was enjoying my first year of country school, Lincoln Township No. 2. It was to be one of the last of my country school experiences as within two years this school would be consolidated into the Hinton Community School in Hinton, seven miles away.
It was the second week of March after a brutal and long winter. Snowdrifts were silently disappearing from the landscape. Only those of huge size were yet to be seen melting in the ditches and among the shaded creases in the landscape. It was still too early to start fieldwork, but tilling was only a month away, maybe even sooner.
Our teacher, Mrs. Stansbury had the country school kids outside on the ball diamond that morning for recess. We hooped and hollered as one of the big kids hit one of her pitches out of sight in left field. Mrs. Stansbury left something to be desired as a pitcher, but she made sure even we lower grade kids had a chance to get a hit. We reveled in the morning sun, feeling its warming rays which we had not felt for sometime.
After emptying my Lone Ranger lunch box at noon, outdoors alongside the white schoolhouse, we all were called back in where my class was instructed to lie on our mats and take our usual one half hour nap. The older kids got to work on their tablets and Mrs. Stansbury busied herself correcting papers at her desk at the front of the room. All was quiet and peaceful.
I was awakened by the back door of the schoolhouse bursting open and one of our neighbors entered, walked up to Mrs. Stansbury's desk and whispered something in her ear. He left quickly. We were all called to attention at our desks and we heard the news that a blizzard was approaching from the southwest and we were to get our things in order to be picked up by our parents.
In the warm spring air, none of us had bothered to wear our heavy coats or boots to school that day. Within an hour parents began arriving to pick up their kids and my dad was one of them. He packed me into the 1951 Chevy and headed the mile and one half back to our farm. It was still hard to believe we were being released when the weather had seemed so gentle.
Two hours after we arrived home the sky darkened, the wind began to howl out of the northeast and a fine mist descended on farm country. Soon the mist turned to sleet, then to ice and then it snowed. It snowed for three days and nights. Drifts piled up to the height of the barn roof and packed as hard as concrete across our farmyard. Livestock was kept inside barns. All chores slowed to a crawl and there was no traffic on the gravel road in front of our farm.
It was March. Spring was just around the corner and we had felt her caress. But like a jilted lover, she had turned her back on those who had rejoiced in her coming. It was March. Winter was not yet ready to cede its territory. It would be another month before we played another game of softball outside the schoolhouse.
Those of us who share a love of winter also share a love of seeing it go back home. I'm wishing for that to happen very soon.
It is March.
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Tri-Lakes, Blackforest voters decide on a $4.5 million tax increase November 2013
MONUMENT, Colo. - The Lewis-Palmer School District Board of Education approved sending a $4.5 million question to taxpayers this November 2013.
We asked for a $4.5 million increase, said John Borman, Superintendent for School District 38 who believes the community will vote in favor.
The funds will be used to restore areas in the science, technology, engineering, math and arts department, said Cheryl Wangeman, Assistant Superintendent for District 38.
If voters in the Tri-Lakes and Black Forest area vote yes in November 2013, taxpayers will see an increase as early as 2014.
Essentially, $100 per $1 million will be paid each year per taxpayer, said Borman.
"I know they have had to cut teachers and special educations programs," said Shelley Bethany, a mother with children in the school district. "If we don't give our teachers salary raises and supply the kids with the resources they need our education will suffer."
A longtime resident in the Monument area, who asked that we not use her name said she is skeptical funds would be misdirected.
"A lot of the taxes are used in the wrong way," she said. "They just need to learn how to budget."


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IT was in the year 18—, the year of the great rains.
I, a young girl of sixteen, was going home from the South where I had been at school.
We travelled in a Cobb & Co.'s coach, nine passengers inside and four out; and all day and night it rained. We did in two days the journey we should have done in one; and when they changed horses they gave us no time to sleep. Night and day we travelled. On the evening of the ninth day we stopped on the banks of a full river. The greasy, coffee‐coloured water flowed level with the banks, and the heads of half‐drowned willow trees showed themselves on either side. We should not be able to cross that night, it might be not for days.
We looked out through the pouring rain. Beside us was a little mud house, the only habitation within thirty miles. It was square, with a divided door and one small window. The man to whom it belonged came out to meet us; he lived there alone and sold liquor to the passers‐by. It was arranged between him and the driver we should stay there for the night. page: 84 We alighted from the coach and streamed into the house; we found it consisted of one small room. I and the woman who was my only female travelling companion stood before the fire drying our clothes which had got damp in the passage from the coach to the house; the men stood round the table drinking bad brandy and whisky in cups and glasses, while the driver went out to see to his horses. There was nothing to be had to eat but some stale biscuits from a tin and some leathery roaster‐cake. Some one brought up the one chair the room contained and an empty soap box, and the woman and I sat down before the fire. By and by the driver came in, and the night darkened down quickly. The men still stood smoking and drinking round the table. The rain was falling less heavily. After a while the men conferred together and they decided, with that gentleness which rough men travelling alone with women always show, that they should all find shelter in the coach and the hut be left to us alone. The owner put the large stump of an uprooted willow tree upon the fire and in half an hour the men stumbled out; we could hear them swearing and grumbling in the rain on the way to the coach; and for an hour we caught broken peals of ribald laughter or obscene songs through the sound of the falling rain; then gradually all became quiet.
The room in which they left us had a bare mud page: 85 floor on which was only a white sheepskin that lay before the fire; on the brown mud wall there was a rack with two guns and a pistol, and in the centre of the room stood the table with empty bottles and glasses, and in the corner was a stretcher with one band broken and a thin mattress and three dirty blankets. There was no place in which one might lie down. The firelight flickered over the walls; the three inches of tallow candle they had left in a black bottle on the table had burnt itself out.
I grew tired of sitting on the soap box and slipped down and crouched on the white sheepskin before the fire. The woman sat in the chair on the right, her head so far back that the firelight did not shine on it. One could hardly tell whether she was awake or asleep.
She was a tall, slight woman dressed in black, and might have been any age between thirty and forty‐five. She had been very kind to me all the way; in the night when, without my knowing it, I grew sleepy and my head dropped, she laid it on her shoulder and I woke with it there in the morning. When it was cold she made me put on her great fur cloak, such as women from England have, and we talked of the scenery we passed through and of books, and we were friends, though neither of us had asked any question or knew anything of the other.
The rain still fell heavily, and far off one could page: 86 hear the rush of the river. I stared into the fire till the blaze from the glowing coals almost scorched my eyelashes.
Suddenly I turned to my companion.
"Life is very wicked; it is very unjust," I said.
I raised myself on my knees.
She looked down at me and leaned forward. She had seemed almost asleep. She did not speak.
"It is very cruel; it is very unjust!" I said. "It is no use trying! Some people have everything and some people have nothing; and things are not as they should be!"
She put out her hand and I felt it on my head for a moment. Then she drew it back.
I was young, and I was suffering my first surprise at my first shattered ideal.
The woman raised herself and looked down at me. I laid my clenched fists upon my knees.
"I have found no balancing interrelation between the material and mental world," she said. "If you go with love in your heart to fetch a cup of water for your friend, there is no relation between the intensity of the love and the cup's fracture; if that is what you mean by justice in life, then there is none. But, in the emotional and intellectual spheres, human nature has a deep power of working out compensations; what is taken from us on the one hand works itself back to us on the other. There is nothing mysterious page: 87 in this, just as there is nothing mysterious in one scale of a balance going down and another up when you move matter from one to the other, though it might seem so to a little baby. There are times, thinking over life," she said, "I have almost seemed to see the terms in which this balancing process might be stated so as to be clearly grasped intellectually. I think it is there."
I sat looking into the fire. My heart was very bitter. I had had my first ideal shattered, my great plan for what was beautiful broken. I was beating my wings against the bars of the inevitable in life as young things do, battering the wings but not hurting the bars.
"Yes, but you do not know," I said. And after a while I told her my story. It was a long story, and seemed to me then the only one in the world. There is no need I should repeat it fully:
Three years before I had gone to school on a farm in the South; it was a mixed school where boys and girls were taught together. There was one boy three years older than I. He and I were always at the head of the school. He worked hard at first to get up to me because he could not bear a girl should stand higher; but afterwards we became great friends.
(Note by S.C.C.S.—There is evidently a page or so missing here; the narrative would introduce the other girl and begin the delineation of her character in her attitude towards the lad; the delineation page: 88 is, however, clear enough in the passages immediately following. Apparently they had been having, were having, school holidays when the tale continues.)
... taught him to make flutes of reeds; sometimes she sat in the fork of the apple trees and he lay below and she threw down fruit to him; sometimes she brought her books to him and asked him questions, and she said he was so wonderful when he could explain; and the one thing he had never needed was praise. Then the holidays came to an end. We had brought much work to do that he might pass the last examination; but, when I came to look for him, he was walking laughing with her, and I hid the books under my arm. The last day of the holidays she came to me and said he was not going back to school. Her father had offered him £20 a month to oversee the wine farming. They could have got anyone else for five, she said, but her father had done it because she asked him. "All this is mine," she said. "There is no one else to inherit it; my father lets me do what I like with it and I want him to have it." I talked with him once. He seemed a little sorry, but he could not refuse £20. I did not go back to school for the next quarter; I came straight home; I was on my journey up. I sat beside the fire and told the story.
"You see," I said, when I had finished it, "he is lost, his beautiful possibilities are dead; she will page: 89 drag him down, down. It would have been better if she had killed him!" And I laid my clenched hands on my knees. It would have been easy for me to have killed myself, I so hated that girl as I stood there.
The woman said: "Are you quite just? Are you sure it is she who has dragged him down?"
"I hate her, oh, I hate her so!" I said. "I would have forgiven her if she had killed him, but not for this."(Note by S.C.C.S.—A gap occurs here.)
"... study more. You see," I said, "I don't mind that he hates me, but I mind that he will never do anything more; he will marry and settle down. She has killed him. It is as if she were a soft greasy snake, and she had crept over him, and put her tooth into his body and the poison has crept in and in and he is dead, he is asleep for ever."
She said: "Can other people ever poison us?"
I said: "They can! But I could wake him. That is the terrible thing. If I could tell him what she was, if I could have had one half‐hour's talk with him (and he had sought it), I could make him fling her off as a man flings off a toad when he wakes and sees it sitting on him. That's the terrible thing! That's why I've asked my friends to get me home at once because I dare not stay there. If once I were to page: 90 talk against her to him, then my soul would be lost, as hers is now. You see I can't," I said. "I must go away where I can never see him any more and leave him to her!"
I looked up, but the woman was sitting motionless on the chair and the firelight was dancing on the guns in the rack.
"You see," I said, "people say she is a clever woman; she is strong; they say she can have every‐thing; it's the poor, weak, gentle, little women that need looking after, that must be taken care of. It's a lie; it's we that are weak! If the snake once thinks it wrong to use its poison fangs and begins to develop feet, and makes a noise with them as it comes on, is it stronger? It's higher, of course, higher! What is that higher? It is weakness. Is there anything so strong as the snake when it creeps on noiselessly with its fangs and its silent glide? The horse, the elephant, the lion, are nothing to it. Take this from it and what has it left? It has not the speed, the claws, the thick skin of the others! A snake without its poison bag, who gives notice when it is coming," I laughed,—"every creature can put his foot on its head and crush out its poor unused poison bag that it has never used. It will never be a lion or an elephant for all its feet. A woman with intellect and strength and the ideal of acting strictly by other women—haugh! She is dirt beneath everyone's feet. There is nothing page: 91 so weak on the earth. She will never be a man! Life gave women subtlety and lying and meanness and flattery that they might defend themselves. They have all things if they will use their tools."
We were silent for a moment; then she said: "Do you think any strong, intellectual woman ever really wanted to be a weak one? Is it not better to have half‐developed hands and feet, and be trodden on? Does it matter so much what one has as what one is?"
And she said after a time: "Does one really ever gain anything by subtlety? Is it not seeming?"
I said: "Oh, it is such a terrible thing to be a woman. You can do nothing for those you love. You must wait, crush out, kill, in yourself. The old passive women who took indirect means, they are happy."
She said: "Do you think so?"
Then she said after a time: "I knew two women in England; one was older, and the younger lived with her; she was her cousin. The younger was what the world calls a strong, intellectual woman; she painted. The other was what the world calls a gentle, womanly woman; she had married, when she was young, a rich man, and had three children. She had a very beautiful home, and she always pictured herself to herself as the central image in it, the most beautiful of all. The younger woman knew an artist who worked at the same studio; she loved him as only page: 92 people can love who love the work and the objects of others, not only their persons. Every day she went to his studio and criticised his work; when he was satisfied, she was not; she wanted something better; she had a greater dream for his future than she ever told him. They were very near to each other. She never spoke of love to him: what need is there to talk of love to a man, when he knows his work is more to you than your own; and you love your own?"
"And then?" I said.
"After two years he came to the house where she lived with her older cousin. At first the woman took little notice of him; then she used to have glasses of jelly ready for him when he came, and let him lie on the sofa in her great room in the garden. He took her to his studio: she stood still a long time before one picture, and said, 'Oh, please don't speak to me; it makes me feel like a beautiful summer's day to look at it'; and the young woman had told him to burn it; it was unworthy of him. She said she wanted her picture painted with her little baby, and he painted her as a madonna with her child in her arms with their cheeks touching. I do not think he cared for her then. He simply painted her. She gave the picture to her husband, and asked the young man to come to her house oftener."
"And then?"
"Then one day she talked of him to the younger page: 93 woman. I do not say she told the younger woman she loved him; that would have been wrong in a married woman; but she knew the nature of the younger woman; she spoke so that she implied that she liked him. When she wanted to go for a drive she did not say to the younger woman, 'You stay at home. I want to go this afternoon.' She said, 'You go, dear, I don't mind staying at all; I'm sure you'll enjoy it more than I do'; and then the younger woman stayed. And that night it was moonlight and the younger woman was walking in agony on a terrace that ran beside the house. It was terrible another woman should love the man she loved; in a moment all the lovely beauty was gone ..."
I said, "I hate that woman!"
... "and then the older woman and the man came out and stood under a great tree to hear the nightingales sing, and she talked of the younger woman, and the young man said, 'Yes, she is too restlessly energetic,' and so they talked. The elder knew that the younger was there, and the younger knew she knew it. Then she went into the house. You see her love was broken. She thought what was best to be done. You can't cope with such women, you can't touch them, you must leave them. The day you touch them you sink to their level; you don't only lose your love, you degrade it: it was white as far as she was concerned. So she thought the thing out; page: 94 and that night she packed her things; the next day she left. She did not say good‐bye to the man. She came out to Africa; for many years she lived here. After a while, seven or eight years, she married a man who was dying of consumption and took care of his two children when he was dead. She had a happy life. It was nice to take care of the children. She had plenty to do."
The woman sat still.
"And the other woman?" I asked.
"She lived on in her beautiful house with her husband and children and was very happy. The young artist never understood why his friend left; he came often to the house; and lay on the great sofa, and the woman gave him jelly and soups to strengthen him for his work. He never worked much, but he always came to see her; they were very intimate friends till her husband died,"(Note by S.C.C.S.—The page numbered 16 by Olive ends here; what follows is on page numbered 18.)
"... Need you envy a man for holding dust in his hand? What is the use of possessing a man if you hold him and possess him through flattery? Is a man worth having who desires it?"
I said, "Yes, but she had what she desired. When her husband died she could have him always with her; the last little restraint was gone; she could wait page: 95 on him and help him. That is what we women want when we love a man."
She sat still, twirling the ...(Note by S.C.C.S.—Here ends page 18. What follows is on page numbered 20 by Olive.)
I said, "What?"
She said, "Pity her, she married him."
We sat still in the firelight.
I said at last: "Did those two women ever meet again?"
She said: "Yes, once, after years. The elder woman came out to South Africa and they met once."
I sat looking into the fire.


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"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..
that said Eli was interviewed and said that it is a known thing, it's something QB's and defenses do, the QB will walk up to the line and tell them that they are kneeling.
what Tampa Bay should have done was told them that they aren't backing down or something...I mean Eli is going out of his way to inform them that they aren't running a play (as all QB's do) the least Tampa bay could have done was respond letting Eli know that they are so they can be ready for it, just for safeties sake.
"we've decided that you lost so don't do anything to try to make a play" And then somehow its your view that the defense is somehow obligated to explain to the offense what their intent is.
I say thats nuts! The defense made it absolutely clear what their intentions were when they lined up. Eli didn't notice and "assumed" they were quitting on the game. Thats completely on him. They made it clear they were coming and Eli didn't see what we all saw as they were lining up.
Now who's to blame for that?
And then for TC and Eli to whine about the fact that the Bucs didn't quit when "they" instructed them to is also rediculous.
"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..
(and it's ridiculous not rediculous)
TC and Eli got caught with their pants down and their false outrage is just an attempt to cover that up. This whining about other teams not quitting when they are supposed to is embarrassing.
And its.......B L O W M E. (I think that's the correct spelling)
"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..
he didn't say it in a whining fashion he just said it matter of factly...said that he told them it was a kneel....he didn't outright say they did a bad thing but you could tell he thought they did.
and I agree with him.


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Advanced Terrain Texture Splatting
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terrain splatting texture
One of the most common ways of terrain texturing is blending multiple tiled layers. Each layer has an opacity map which defines the extent of texture presence on the terrain. The method works by applying an opacity map to the higher levels, revealing the layers underneath where the opacity map is partially or completely transparent. Opacity map is measured in percentage. Of course on each point of a terrain the sum of opacities of all layers makes one-hundred percent as the terrain can't be transparent. Instead of tile textures, the opacity map stretches entirely on all terrain and therefore has quite a low level of detail.
Now we will pass to the most interesting part — algorithms of blending of textures. For simplicity and obviousness our terrain will consist of sand and large cobble-stones.
Simplest way of blending is to multiply texture color with opacity and then sum results.
float3 blend(float4 texture1, float a1, float4 texture2, float a2) { return texture1.rgb * a1 + texture2.rgb * a2; }
Such a technique is used in Unity3D in the standard terrain editor. As you can see, the transition is smooth but unnatural. Stones look evenly soiled by sand, but in the real world it doesn't happen like that. Sand doesn't stick to stones, instead it falls down and fills cracks between them, leaving the tops of stones pure.
Let's try to simulate this behavior in Excel plots. As we want sand to be "fallen down" between cobble-stones, for each texture we need the depth map. In this example we consider the depth map is generated from grayscaled image and stored in the alpha channel of a texture. In Unity3D it can be done in the texture inspector by setting the flag "Alpha From Grayscale".
First of all we will consider the simplified model of depth map of sand and stones.
The blue line on the plot symbolizes the depth map of sand and red is cobble-stones. Notice that tops of stones lie higher than sand level. Considering this fact, we will try to draw pixels of that texture which is above.
float3 blend(float4 texture1, float a1, float4 texture2, float a2) { return texture1.a > texture2.a ? texture1.rgb : texture2.rgb; }
Excellent! Tops of cobble-stones remain pure whereas sand lies in cracks between them. But we didn't consider layer opacity yet. To use it we just sum depth map and opacity map.
float3 blend(float4 texture1, float a1, float4 texture2, float a2) { return texture1.a + a1 > texture2.a + a2 ? texture1.rgb : texture2.rgb; }
At the expense of summation less transparent texture will be higher than usual.
So we have a more natural transition from sand to stones. As you can see, grains of sand start filling cracks between cobble-stones, gradually hiding them. But as calculations happens pixel-by-pixel, artifacts begin to appear on the border between textures. To get a smooth result we will take several pixels in depth instead of one and blend them.
float3 blend(float4 texture1, float a1, float4 texture2, float a2) { float depth = 0.2; float ma = max(texture1.a + a1, texture2.a + a2) - depth; float b1 = max(texture1.a + a1 - ma, 0); float b2 = max(texture2.a + a2 - ma, 0); return (texture1.rgb * b1 + texture2.rgb * b2) / (b1 + b2); }
In the code above we at first get part of a ground seen at a certain depth.
And then we normalize it to get new opacities.
As a result we found the algorithm of textures blending, which allows us to reach close to a natural terrain image.
In summary I want to explain what this algorithm was developed for and how we use it.
The shader was developed for turn-based strategic indie game Steam Squad. As engine and developing platform we use Unity3D. And as the Unity IDE is extremely flexible, we made our own level designer extension. In general the level designer is a simplified Unity3D terrain editor with some features of Titan Quest Editor.
When you paint the texture on a terrain there is a recalculation of the opacity map corresponding to this texture. And as the sum of all opacities has to make 100%, the editor automatically normalizes opacity maps of other layers.
Here is short YouTube video showing how it works.
Shader which uses this algorithm in Unity3D Asset Store


text: I started last year with 2 swarms I bought from a guy with 77 years experience. I didn't treat with chemicals. I did dose with HBH a few times last fall, only because I thought it couldn't hurt. I had planned on expanding this year with package bees, but since stumbling across this site I'm wondering if I would be better off taking splits from mine or going back to the guy who got me started. He didn't say anything about sc but I do remember him saying I could have saved myself some money by cutting my foundation into strips and letting the bees build the rest of it. Is it possible his bees regressed themselves long ago? Main question: where do I go from here?


text: Through another thread I was asked if I would eat rats , I said yes. The the question came up of whether I had eaten squirrel. Again it was Yes. So I thought it would be interesting to see what others have eaten that is considered exotic, strange, or just wrong. Please stick to meats, root veggies and such . Here are a few that I have eaten; Dog, cat, porcupine, Armadillo, Gator, Rattle snake, Blow snake, Garter snake, Pot guts, Prarrie Dogs, Ground Hogs, Skunk, Squirrel,Crow(Bird and otherwise), Sparrow, Turtle along with more standard game like; Mule Deer,Elk, Bison, Buffalo,Antelope,Rocky Mountain big horn,Bobcat, Cougar(Yes both four legged and .....),Mescal worm. Well I have eaten more but you get the idea , so get posting and lets have fun with this.


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We arrived in LAX on time, and it seemed that we were through customs and had our bags in no time at all. We then realised that we were a man down - Dan was having a lengthy discussion with a Customs Official. We suspect that it was no coincidence that the member with the biggest beard was held up for so long. 45 mins later, we were out in the open.
We were picked up by Caitlin, excited about our week staying with the Larkins family, and left feeling pretty cool riding towards Newport Beach in a gleaming Cadillac
Today was Jake's birthday, and we spent most of the day recovering from jet lag and preparing for a party in the evening. It was a great evening, and we enjoyed meeting a host of Jake's friends along with many others!
Depsite the overcast sky we headed to the beach, eager to attempt surfing. 'Attempt' being the operative word - Jake gave us a quick lesson and we spent a good while trying to stand up on the board with little success. We hope to get better. We did come away with one thing from the beach though - sunburn. Stef has some corking red lines where he missed with the suncream.
That evening we went to a fashion show involving Jake's girlfriend
Shortly after we made a quick exit and stopped at Yogurtland where we ate some awesome frozen yoghurt before heading to Casey's house, one of Jake's friends. This guy had one incredible house, and we spent the evening relaxing on his rooftop terrace overlooking the beach. We rounded off the night with our first 'In n Out' burger. Probably the best fast food burger you'll ever have.
Today was another chilled day, and we decided to hit the shops here. With Molly's guidance, we ended up buying yet more clothes and then had a quick pizza down by the beach. Late in the afternoon we enjoyed a church service at a lively American church before heading out in the evening to the cinema with the Larkin gang with Tim, Dan, and Ollie seeing Toy Story 3 and Stef watching Eclipse
The main news of today is that Dan has shaved his beard. Can you believe it?!
Other than that, today has been relaxed as ever and finally the sun has come out in full force! We spent hours in the neighbour's pool (who happens to be a Brit) and ate far too much homemade pizza in the evening. We have been treated so well!
We're having a great time here, feeling really chilled out and glad not to have to be on a coach everyday moving from place to place. Tomorrow it's Stef's birthday and we plan to get up early for some surfing, hopefully with more success this time. We have also confirmed plans to go to San Francisco later this week with Jon Kiani so are really excited for that.
Apologies for the lack of photos, Ollie's camera doesn't seem to want to upload at the moment...
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Happy birthday Stef. Interesting artwork on your back. Have a great time surfing and we'll expect some good action shots of you all tubing or hanging off the lip or whatever...or just falling off! Hang loose, guys...
Can't wait to see you in a couple of weeks
Love from us in la belle france
Si and julia
Just caught up - pictures from New Zealand are wonderful - can't wait to hear about all the experiences in person. USA will be great too. Make the most of every minute. Lots of love x
Happy Birthday Steph! Ouch that back looks sore. You look a bit like a piebald man!
So, my son looks the most like a terrorist eh? Now after a shave he looks like a facebald man!!
I know you guys aren't looking forward to coming home but we can't wait to see you, hear the tales in full and pore over the pics. Will certainly miss these blogs though - never has food been so interesting! From curry to chicken feet to World class burgers!
Enjoy the sun and surf.
Loads of love,
Sue and JV, Matt and Nick xxxx
Great to chat on skype just now Ollie. Happy Birthday Stef - enjoy the surfing and slap on the sunblock! Thanks, Larkins, for all your hospitality!
Have a safe journey to San Fran on Wednesday.
Lots of love to you all