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"Near drowning" means a person almost died from not being able to breathe (suffocating) under water.
If a person has been rescued from a near-drowning situation, quick first aid and medical attention are very important.
Drowning - near
Symptoms can vary, but may include:
When someone is drowning:
If the person's breathing has stopped, begin rescue breathing as soon as you can. This often means starting the breathing process while still in the water.
Continue to breathe for the person every few seconds while moving him or her to dry land. Once on land, give CPR as needed.
Always use caution when moving a person who is drowning. Assume that the person may have a neck or spine injury, and avoid turning or bending their neck. Keep the head and neck very still during CPR and while moving the person. You can tape the head to a backboard or stretcher, or secure the neck by placing rolled towels or other objects around it.
Follow these additional steps:
Important safety tips:
The Heimlich maneuver is NOT part of the routine rescue of near drownings. Do NOT perform the Heimlich maneuver unless repeated attempts to position the airway and use rescue breathing have failed and you think the person's airway is blocked. Performing the Heimlich maneuver increases the chances that an unconscious person will vomit and then choke on the vomit.
Call 911 or your local emergency if you cannot rescue the drowning person without putting yourself in danger. If you are trained and able to rescue the person, do so and then call for medical help.
All near-drowning patients should be checked by a doctor. Even though the person may seem okay quickly at the scene, lung complications are common. Fluid and body chemical (electrolyte) imbalances may develop. Other traumatic injuries may be present.
Some tips to help prevent near-drowing are:
Richards DB, Knaut AL. Drowning. In: Marx JA, Hockberger RS, Walls RM, et al, eds. Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice . 7th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2009:chap 143.


text: Most of us vow we won't procrastinate, but we inevitably end up...procrastinating. It seems to strike even when we're excited about a goal. For example, the package of study materials arrived a few weeks ago for the ACE Personal Trainer, Group Fitness Instructor, Heath Coach or the Advanced Health and Fitness Specialist certification, but a bunch of friends are off to see a terrific new movie. Can you imagine procrastinating on your studies? Yes. More than 70% of college students procrastinate and more than 20% of the general population put important things off until "tomorrow," "later," or "when I feel like it." Procrastinators, it seems, follow the words of Mark Twain: "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." Let's take a look at what procrastination is all about and equip you with the proven tools you need to put off putting off your studies. They'll work if you give them a chance and truly want to become an ACE-certified fitness professional. Simply said, procrastination occurs when you know it would be better to start studying, but instead make a decision — for no valid reason — to delay doing so. Instead of studying, you do something that is less important and can have truly negative consequences for you. It starts with good intentions and ends with a delay — and worry, depression, regret and stress. There are health costs to procrastinating as well, including compromised immune systems, gastrointestinal problems and insomnia. Why We Procrastinate Here are some typical reasons for procrastinating: Fear of failure and being evaluated Lack of motivation (internal and external) or enthusiasm Forgetfulness Too many distractions Poor time management and organizational skills Feeling overwhelmed Don't blame "perfectionism." It's not predictive of procrastination and in fact, perfectionists actually procrastinate less frequently. Don't blame a lack of productivity tools either. They will help you get things done, but they fail to help you get started. The engine that drives the automatic problem habit of procrastination is deep within you, in your mind. The Self-Talk of the Procrastinator Procrastinators lie to themselves. They overwhelm themselves into doing nothing by magnifying studying so large that it seems impossible to start. They inaccurately believe that they must study for hours and hours in one sitting instead of breaking it up into manageable parts. They believe they will feel more like studying "later," but don't. They erroneously believe, "I work best under pressure." And they ruminate and obsess about all that has to be done — and what they haven't done — until they are emotionally thwarted from action. They label themselves as "lazy" and thus expect very little from themselves ("labeling"). They inaccurately predict that they will fail and so don't even try to study ("fear of failure"). 3 Types of Procrastinators Thrill-seekers Avoiders Indecisive Enjoy the rush of waiting to the last minute and may overestimate the degree of difficulty to add to their adrenalin pump Overly concerned with what others think of them, avoid possibility of being seen as a failure. They ignore studying hoping they won't have to Can't make key decisions so free themselves from accountability by letting short breaks become big ones, focusing on one part of studying to the exclusion of other parts, and spend too much time in extraneous studying The 6-Step Plan to Avoid Procrastination Enhance your motivation to change: Pump yourself up by dwelling on success not failure, increase your rewards, study with others, ask others to check on your progress, identify the unpleasant consequences of not studying, keep focused on the satisfaction that comes with achieving ACE certification, use plenty of short-term goals and rewards, and note the progress you are making in self-tests. Praise yourself for what you've done, accept compliments from others who are proud of your efforts, and perhaps even wear an ACE shirt while you are studying for added motivation! Set SMART goals: Specific, Measureable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound goals might be, "I will study (read, take notes and review) pages 1-20 alone today from 2:00-3:00 this afternoon with a 15-minute break. I will study with my study group this evening in my home from 7:00-8:30, being fully prepared with answers to the ten questions I agreed I would answer." Don't set unrealistic goals for your study plan. If you can't lift 150 pounds, don't try lifting 200 pounds. Unsure what you should be studying each week? Enroll in the free ACE Study Coach program, which provides weekly emails that will let you know which chapters to read and which study tools you should be using, as well as what key concepts you should be giving attention to. Monitor your own progress: A simple to-do list that you keep daily will allow you to cross off tasks as you go. Seeing achievement each day is inspirational and motivating. Thinking in time versus self-management: Think in terms of self-management, not time management. You don't manage time; you manage yourself in time. Plan realistically by counting days and weeks backwards from the test date to mathematically make it possible to insure you and your group cover the material. As soon as you get the materials, chunk it down into manageable segments, doing the most displeasing parts first each time you study. Prioritize using the, "what's urgent?" and "what's less important?" model. Deadlines for each segment will help. Rid yourself of unrealistic beliefs: Ask yourself, "How will I enjoy what I am doing?" or "What one small step can I take today?" Tell yourself you "want to study" instead of you "have to study." Focus on progress, not perfection. Ask yourself, "What belief(s) am I holding onto that are unhelpfully holding me back from studying?" Or, "What other belief(s) can I hold onto that will be more helpful?" Then challenge, dispute and debate the validity of those beliefs and replace them with more accurate, helpful and positive thinking. Relapse prevention: It's essential that you recognize when you start to procrastinate. Deal with the initial urges you have to engage in distracting behavior immediately. Agree with yourself that you are going to tough it out, work through the feelings you have, and keep studying until the urge to procrastinate fades. Keep a 3x5 card with your inaccurate self-talk and list of diversionary habits on one side, and on the other list your tactics for curbing procrastination, and then, read it daily. Keep a positive accountability partner.You have taught yourself that you can tolerate the desire to put off studying...and not put it off.

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RALEIGH, NC (AP) — The North Carolina Highway Patrol is planning a crackdown on dangerous driving around school buses and in school zones.
Troopers say Operation Stop Arm will start at 6 a.m. Monday and go through the end of school Friday.
Some troopers will follow school buses, while others will be watching school zones. The Highway Patrol says it will use both marked and unmarked cars.
Passing a stopped school bus can be a five-point violation and a fine of up to $200.
Troopers say some buses now have outside cameras and that video can be used to find and prosecute drivers.
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Looks like spartans will win again.
Its so depressing to see the spartans ahead again. Right now there in the lead by 200,000. So theres obviously no chance for the trojans to catch up. I bet even if we had a million point lead we will still lose. Santa monica i hope you will be fair and release the demo to both teams. Its not like us trojans are not trying. We're trying hard to win but its not possible.
Re: Looks like spartans will win again.
The unbalance is what's unfair. I also never get a notification on Facebook any more when there is a new chapter. Trojans obviously have less people, and I was never a Trojan to begin with until the game switched me midway.
The whole thing is just unfair to Trojans, or people are able to find an exploit to pad points. I know there are some people who are ahead by 300+ points even when we have the same amount of chapters.
This was brought to my attention around the time that the Sword of Artemis was supposed to be the next prize. People had more points and they had unlocked the sword while most of us were a few hundred points behind and couldn't unlock the sword.
The sword was removed but these people still kept their points. There is a major flaw in the system.
Re: Looks like spartans will win again.
Re: Looks like spartans will win again.
Ya, they are behind more than what it took to win the last game. Are people able to switch because I don't know how a computer could "randomly" put obviously more people on one team over the other.


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On Set: Jo Garcia Does Supercross
Jo Garcia gets down and dirty at the AMA Supercross World Championship.
Playboy's Gamer Next Door Jo Garcia got to hobnob with professional motocross riders at a preview event in Las Vegas for the new video game MXvsATV Alive.
She also got the VIP treatment to check out the Monster Energy AMA Supercross FIM World Championship. The video gets up close and personal with Jo at the event, and our behind-the-scenes gallery captures Jo and her supercross adventures.


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Not really a mead question but,
I started this Resiling wine kit about a week ago and when it didn't start bubbling I re-pitched some yeast using KV-1116. Within a very few minutes it was bubbling like crazy, and I mean really bubbling like you where just blowing through an airlock. Then a few more minutes later it completely stopped and dosen't show any pressure at all. Whats up with that???
On a related note, I've re-pitched the yeast on the last 4 batches of mead or wine. I don't know if I need to warm the water first, have more patience, or wait longer for the sulfites to dissipate in the meads. Suggestions??


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There are three main types of archaea: the crenarchaeota (kren-are-key-oh-ta), which are characterized by their ability to tolerate extremes in temperature and acidity. The euryarchaeota (you-ree-are-key-oh-ta), which include methane-producers and salt-lovers; and the korarchaeota (core-are-key-oh-ta), a catch-all group for archaeans about which very little is known. Among these three main types of archaea are some subtypes, which include:
Methanogens (meth-an-oh-jins) — archaeans that produce methane gas as a waste product of their "digestion," or process of making energy.
Halophiles (hal-oh-files) — those archaeans that live in salty environments.
Thermophiles (ther-mo-files) — the archaeans that live at extremely hot temperatures.
Psychrophiles (sigh-crow-files) — those that live at unusually cold temperatures.
Archaea look and act a lot like bacteria. So much so that until the late 1970s, scientists assumed they were a kind of "weird" bacteria.
Then microbiologist Carl Woese devised an ingenious method of comparing genetic information showing that they could not rightly be called bacteria at all. Their genetic recipe is too different.
So different Woese decided they deserved their own special branch on the great family tree of life, a branch he dubbed the Archaea.
When is a life form not a life form? When it's a virus.
Viruses are strange things that straddle the fence between living and non-living. On the one hand, if they're floating around in the air or sitting on a doorknob, they're inert. They're about as alive as a rock. But if they come into contact with a suitable plant, animal or bacterial cell, they spring into action. They infect and take over the cell like pirates hijacking a ship.
Few know that many bacteria not only coexist with us all the time, but help us do an amazing array of useful things like make vitamins, break down some garbage, and even maintain our atmosphere.
Bacteria consist of only a single cell, but don't let their small size and seeming simplicity fool you. They're an amazingly complex and fascinating group of creatures. Bacteria have been found that can live in temperatures above the boiling point and in cold that would freeze your blood. They "eat" everything from sugar and starch to sunlight, sulfur and iron. There's even a species of bacteria—Deinococcus radiodurans—that can withstand blasts of radiation 1,000 times greater than would kill a human being.
Bacteria and archaea are the only prokaryotes. All other life forms are Eukaryotes (you-carry-oats), creatures whose cells have nuclei.
(Note: viruses are not considered true cells, so they don't fit into either of these categories.)
Does a bacterium's cell wall, shape, way of moving, and environment really matter?
Yes! The more we know about bacteria, the more we are able to figure out how to make microbes work for us or stop dangerous ones from causing serious harm. And, for those of us who like to ponder more philosophical questions like the origins of the Earth, there may be some clues there as well.
Like dinosaurs, bacteria left behind fossils. The big difference is that it takes a microscope to see them. And they are older.
Bacteria and their microbial cousins the archaea were the earliest forms of life on Earth. And may have played a role in shaping our planet into one that could support the larger life forms we know today by developing photosynthesis.
Cyanobacteria fossils date back more than 3 billion years. These photosynthetic bacteria paved the way for today's algae and plants. Cyanobacteria grow in the water, where they produce much of the oxygen that we breathe. Once considered a form of algae, they are also known as blue-green algae.
Bacteria are among the earliest forms of life that appeared on Earth billions of years ago. Scientists think that they helped shape and change the young planet's environment, eventually creating atmospheric oxygen that enabled other, more complex life forms to develop. Many believe that more complex cells developed as once free-living bacteria took up residence in other cells, eventually becoming the organelles in modern complex cells. The mitochondria (mite-oh-con-dree-uh) that make energy for your body cells is one example of such an organelle.
They range in size from the single-celled organism we know as yeast to the largest known living organism on Earth — a 3.5-mile-wide mushroom.
Dubbed "the humongous fungus," this honey mushroom (Armillaria ostoyae) covers some 2,200 acres in Oregon's Malheur National Forest.
The only above-ground signs of the humongous fungus are patches of dead trees and the mushrooms that form at the base of infected trees. (See image on left.)
It started out 2,400 years ago as a single spore invisible to the naked eye, then grew to gargantuan proportions by intertwining threads of cells called hyphae.
Under a microscope, hyphae look like a tangled mass of threads or tiny plant roots. This tangled mass is called the fungal mycelium, and is the part of the famous honey mushroom that spreads for miles underground.
If mushrooms and other fungi can get so huge, why mention them on a site about microorganisms?
Visible fungi such as mushrooms are multicellular entities, but their cells are closely connected in a way unlike that of other multicellular organisms.
Plant and animal cells are entirely separated from one another by cell walls (in plants) and cell membranes (in
animals). The dividers between fungal cells, however, often have openings that allow proteins, fluids and even nuclei to flow from one cell to another. A few fungal
species have no cell dividers: just a long, continuous cell dotted by multiple nuclei spread throughout.
The zoospores have no cell wall, are uniflagellated, and may swim for 24 hours on endogenous energy reserves. On contact with a suitable surface (e.g., a nematode cuticle), the zoospore encysts by withdrawing its flagellum and surrounding itself with a thick cell wall and then adhering to the surface. The fungi Arthrobotrys oligospora can capture a nematode when it merely touches the outside of its trap.
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Protists are eukaryotic creatures <you-carry-ah-tick>, meaning their DNA is enclosed in a nucleus inside the cell (unlike bacteria, which are prokaryotic <pro-carry-ah-tick> and have no nucleus to enclose their DNA. They're not plants, animals or fungi, but they act enough like them that scientists believe protists paved the way for the evolution of early plants, animals, and fungi. Protists fall into four general subgroups: unicellular algae, protozoa, slime molds, and water molds.


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Your thoughts on the best recruiting class in Ole Miss history....?
Is Ole Miss going to be a real contender and did the hardest division of College Football just get harder for LSU?
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(I agree with you 100% about (healthy/ in his prime) STAT over Melo as cornerstones...and 125% about Chandler.)
you guys watching Portland?
Aldridge is a beast, pure scorer and Lilliard is the kind of PG I'd love...ironically Lopez is as soft as Chandler...but their bench is more productive then what we had.


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Wear is just what you see: rust, scratches, bluing loss, damage - from being dropped, or modified, or poor repairs, etc.
In addition, the lockup, timing, forcing cone, and barrel should be checked. Here's a good reference. http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/...threadid=57816
Does it have the box and papers? How about the original grips? What dash # is it? All of these things affect the value of the gun. IIRC, the 19 no dash through 19-4 had pinned barrels and recessed cylinders and are the most desired. Additionally, any barrel length shorter than 6" is more sought after than the longer barrel lengths.
The 19 was a fine 357 which should be fed a steady diet of 38's and on special occasions 357's. If it checks out ok and you can get it worth the $$, buy it! You wont be sorry.


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Groundbreaking Friday for Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge
TRENTON — The Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge will be getting a visitor center that's expected to be used by school groups and others to help explore and understand the wildlife that call the region home.
A groundbreaking event was held Friday afternoon for the 12,000-square-foot facility in Trenton. The center is to be built at the Refuge Gateway, near the refuge's Humbug Marsh area, by fall 2015.
Wayne County, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and others worked for nearly a decade on restoration of the Refuge Gateway. Located on the river's Trenton Channel, it was the site of a Chrysler manufacturing facility that was deactivated in 1990.
"This transformation is helping change the perception of the Detroit River from that of a polluted 'rust belt' river to one of an international wildlife refuge that reconnects people to nature, improves quality of life, showcases sustainable redevelopment, and enhances community pride," according to a summary of the project.
The groundbreaking had been scheduled for last month, but it was postponed because of a lapse in federal appropriations during the partial government shutdown.
When built, officials say, the visitor center will include a theater, classrooms and offices along with a wildlife observation area and outdoor patios.
The Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge includes more than 5,700 acres along 48 miles of the lower Detroit River and western Lake Erie. It bills itself as the first international refuge in North America and one of a few urban ones in the nation.


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Whether you travel often or just occasionally, paying for wireless is something many of us face. Whether it's at airports or hotels, many people opt to use a free network first.
Some cities and airports are starting to provide free wireless to the public. Is this a new trend? Are the days of paying for wireless access coming to an end?
Let us know what you think.
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Ruth Suehle on 06 Sep 2011 Permalink
I'm stunned at the percentage voting with the elitist opinion that every airport but NOT city should have free wifi. Ubiquitous access as a basic piece of infrastructure is increasingly critical to mere survival. For example, try looking for a job without the Internet or an email address. On a macro level, it's critical to staying globally competitive. Having it for free in an airport is merely a luxury.
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ben-man on 14 Sep 2011 Permalink
Its a matter of convenience to have Wi-fi in public location. However, Internet access certainly isn't a right and someone will have to pay to provide access. Let the people in charge make the decision most suitable to their location. No mandates!
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Eduardo on 03 Oct 2011 Permalink
In my city, there are 2 shopping centers and 1 park with free wifi. But the signal quality is horrible!
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Kevin on 05 Oct 2011 Permalink
This poll question is pretty lame. It's not balanced at all. The question is only between airport only acess and blanket city access. It should be better refined than just that. Anyway, in the small city that I live in most restaurants/coffee shop, the library, hotels all have free wifi. That's how I think it should be. Public places that people frequent should be the only places necessary to have free wifi offered. If people want to blanket an entire city with it then there should be no complaints about tax rates rising.
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To me, Cruz's 2012 was an absolute validation of his 2011 season. Expecting 1500 yards was unrealistic. But the fact that he had 1000 yards+ and 10 TD's was impressive.
OK...he's not perfect. But he's probably the best slot receiver we've ever had and a great playmaker.
So the notion that the 500 yard drop from 11 to 12, shows some indication that he's not the player we thought he was, is misguided.
"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..


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B33SON, pronounced "B33SON", turned DJ in the late 90s after being forced to give up his dream of becoming a bass fisherman when he discovered that a childhood boating accident had left him with a debilitating fear of sushi. B33SON traded bass for baselines and set out on a journey to develop a unique style of entertainment while avoiding water obstacles along the way, of course. Today B33SON is at the forefront of the Bay Area's electro scene. His weekly party called Electro Pop Rocks has become a weekly staple in the Bay Area party scene or at least the 4th most popular Wednesday night party in Berkeley, CA. In late 2008, B33SON gained worldwide notoriety after winning the grand prize in an international DJ competition sponsored by DJ Tech Tools and Remix Mag. The win, although likely a clerical error of some sort, sent B33SON around the world to rock out parties and has triggered a series of sponsorships by companies like Native Instruments and DJ Tech Limited. Part DJ and part controllerist, B33SON continually modifies his equipment to enhance his performance and push his sets to the limit. " When B33SON takes over the decks, expect to hear huge baselines and have the urge to move.


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By Timothy Johnston, assistant director for liturgical programs in Campus Ministry
Timothy Johnston, Marquette University's director of liturgical programs, shares with Marquette Magazine how college and new friendships challenged him to find deeper meaning in the seasonal practices of prayer, fasting and almsgiving.
When I was younger, I dreaded Ash Wednesday because I knew that I would have to give up something I really liked. My mom would constantly remind my siblings and me that we could not eat in between meals, a discipline she insisted on every year. Year after year, I struggled to come up with something to abstain from personally (chocolate, TV, gossiping), but I must admit it never really meant anything to me. I could tell you stories about how we used to try to sneak cookies or TV, but Mom always caught us! Easter stood for the day when we could overindulge on whatever it was that we'd given up, and our fast did not seem to change us in any way.
As I grew older, especially in college, I gradually started to find an appreciation for Lent. Being in a new place with new friends challenged me to rethink how I observed the season. Slowly, I realized I should not just give up something for the sake of doing it, but for a chance to reflect on what parts of my life are wounded and what is causing me to be sinful. I was blessed to have friends with whom I could celebrate Lent and seek the deeper meaning of the seasonal practices of prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Lent came to be an important time for me as I found space for the prayer that could lead me to a deeper relationship with Christ.
Lent is not just the season of doing without. In this season, the church invites us to slow down and remove some of the clutter. What needs transforming in your life? Hopefully we will be able to see more clearly and reflect on the mystery of salvation. I hope that once these 40 days pass, our hearts are bit more free to receive the gift of Christ, a bit more vulnerable to him and are willing to share in his life. My heart yearns to celebrate Easter, to shout "alleluia" in praise for God's infinite love and to join at the Lamb's high feast. Fortunately, we have Lent to help prepare us for this feasting.
Johnston has a master of arts in liturgical studies from the St. John's University School of Theology-Seminary, Collegeville, Minn.


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Seeing David Smith: Photographs by Dan Budnik will be on view in the Hoopes Gallery from December 2, 2006 through February 25, 2007. The exhibition will offer twenty-four gelatin silver prints that document the artist David Smith (1905-1965) at his home, in his studio, and in the sculpture fields located in Bolton Landing, New York during 1962 and 1963. A steel sculpture by Smith has been selected to round out the show. The work Voltri-Bolton XVII, 1963, on loan from The Estate of David Smith, courtesy Gagosian Gallery, measures more than eighty-one inches high. Seeing David Smith comes to The Hyde from Knoedler & Company, New York, N.Y., where a version of this show was on view from March 18 through May 26, 2006. This exhibition is made possible in part by the The Volunteer Committee of The Hyde Collection and David Ogawa . The Lake George Mirror is the media sponsor.
David Smith is widely acclaimed as one of the giants of twentieth-century sculpture. Smith's persona, working process, studio, and the "fields" at his home have been the fascination of many photographers — among them Alexander Liberman and Irving Penn. Dan Budnik's (b. 1933) photography of Smith, however, is unparalleled in its intimacy and its depth.
When Budnik was only 19 years old he met Smith through a mutual friend. Smith invited Budnik to stay with him at the Terminal Iron Works in Bolton Landing. When Budnik eventually went there to photograph Smith in 1962, he chose to go in winter when the artist was most isolated, the weather most severe, and the creative process most intense. His early photographs of Smith were published as a photo-essay in LIFE Magazine in 1963. While reproductions of Budnik's photographs have been widely published, this exhibition presents a rare opportunity to view the prints themselves.
Dan Budnik's career as a photographer has spanned more than half a century. He was the 1998 recipient of the prestigious American Society of Media Photographers Honor Roll Award. This award was previously accorded to eminent photographers that include Man Ray, Edward Steichen, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, André Kertész, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. After studying with Charles Alston at the Art Students League of New York (1951-53), Budnik began his career as a Magnum photographer. His photo-essays have appeared in periodicals that include Art in America, Life, Fortune, The London Sunday Times Magazine, Look, Modern Photography, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, Réalités, and Vogue. His photographs also appear in The Museum: An Informal Introduction to The Museum of Modern Art by Richard Schickel (1970).
The scope of Dan Budnik's documentation of major twentieth-century artists has yet to be fully recognized. In addition to David Smith, he has photographed, among others, Lee Bontecou, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Mark Rothko. His photographs of David Smith have been widely published, and have become an essential part of the extensive body of literature on Smith.
This exhibition was organized by Knoedler & Company, New York.


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5 to 8 inches of snow tomorrow!!!! guess slow cooking pork roast in the oven and quilt all day. what will you be doing in the New York area tomorrow on our 1st snow day of 2012????
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5 to 8 inches of snow tomorrow!!!! guess slow cooking pork roast in the oven and quilt all day. what will you be doing in the New York area tomorrow on our 1st snow day of 2012????
I'll be here on Long Island happy that I don't have to drive in it.
Send it to Kansas as the wheat crop down here is in desperate need of snow as much as I don't care for the stuff...........lol
My son was all over NY last wekk delivering and all the way up to VT. He said he thought he was in reading teh calendar wrong as he could not find snow anywhere. Guess he eft too early :) Enjoy your day.
We are to get freezing rain. Hate it when it gets so slick out from teh black ice. Would rather have snow.
Id love to sit and quilt all day while it snowed outside! Fat chance of that happening as we were 76' here today.in Texas that is! Enjoy it for us all okay?
A dusting last night outside of Albany, NY, maybe 3" due Saturday. Very unusual Winter here. Last year I had snow starting in Oct that never melted, and several whopper snowstorms to contend with. Still had a few snow pockets in the woods in early May! Rainy last week, occ zero or below at night, yet expecting 40 degrees plus on Monday. Still have 2/3 cord of wood on the deck to split (hydraulic splitter), but think I'll wait a few days. Plan to sew with the Guild later today. Guess I better head for bed or I won't get up in time. Tatavw01- I used to work in the City, lived in Westchester for over 25 years. I remember well having blizzards and extreme problems getting to the Scarborough train station, but still had to get to the City for work, even when Westchester was shut down. NYC in the snow was beautiful- and even peaceful at times. I miss good bread!
Hope you enjoy it! We are waiting for flooding, rain and wind after our big snow followed by ice storm in the PNW. Here in Aberdeen, WA we had 8-10 inches --34 miles away my Mom had 16" and another ten miles down the road they had 25" all in a brief period of time. Power outages from downed trees and roads closed for same as well as Amtrak service between Seattle and Portland suspended due to trees on tracks. It was pretty, but when power is out and you don't have alternative heat source it can be a bit much. But most people had their laptops and cell phones well charged. LOL
I am from western new york. We finally got some snow here. Cold today so i plan to make a big pot of chili and spend the day working on more blocks for my glorified 9 patch. Love when I can just cuddle up in my sewing room.
I will be stitching away in my sewing room. I call these days "hunker down days" I live 10 miles south of Albany!
When you live in Texas, you really don'y need a good excuse to quilt, do you? You can't depend on the Texas weather to do what the weather "gurus" say it going to do anyway and even if it starts out that way, it changes every 15 minutes. HAHAHA.....IF we do have a nice rainy day here (few and far between lately), that a good day for burying myself in my sewing room and quilting. Guess I really don't need a good excuse to quilt tho.
You NY gals have a good time tho. I'm just not much of a snow person, being a Texas gal....I think the snow is pretty as long as it doesn't stay longer than a day..then I want it to be back in the 60's or 70's. I probably wouldn't make it very long up north, huh?


text: RG3 has 17-4 td -int ratio. He only had 163 passing yards last night but he also have another near 80 rushing. You going to discount that? He did that all in limited time because you guys had all those double digit play drives. He also has another 6td's on the year rushing. The Cam comparisons are so dumb. His passer rating is 3rd in the NFL and very close to 1st while Came was like 83. Its night & day


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This month's column has been quite a learning experience. Well not the column as much as what I discovered in the process of getting management buy-in for a Business Continuity Planning/Disaster Recovery Planning (BCP/DRP). In all of the information I have read, three main objectives need to be met in order to develop a BCP/DRP good plan. The major emphasis (and motivation behind this column) is point one:
1. Management buy-in
2. Develop the plan (Leave 4 - 6 months for this step)
3. Ability to test and verify plan
Once I approached management they were extremely excited and asked me to come up with a disaster recovery plan in a week. I explained that BCP/DRP takes a long time to create and requires feedback and input from key management members, and that rushing it would create an inaccurate plan. As I watched the decision maker's eyes glaze over, he mumbled something about off site storage of backup tapes and walked away.
And thus my learning experience kicks into high gear.
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"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?" -Thomas Jefferson-
"Our rights come from our humanity and may not be legislated away -- not by a vote of Congress, not by the consensus of our neighbors, not even by agreement of all Americans but one." Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
Some of these really need sound
I wonder what that cute blonde was thinking??? Hummmmm????


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I was out visiting the Folks over the holiday and decided to go down to my Grandpa's old place. Grandpa ran the best little country store in Lowndes, MO from 1941 to the mid 80's. It was a fine little place to enjoy a sandwich around a potbelly stove on a cold winter day or eat an ice cream during the summer. At one time, his apiary had about 20 hives. He harvested comb honey and sold it in the store along with other products of the farm. Grandpa passed on about 13 years ago and I was bound and determined to do a little beekeeping myself in his memory. It had skipped a generation with his son, he decided to become a NASA Engineer instead. As of this summer, I got mine off and running finally.
The first pics are some old hive bodies with frames. The one box in the left was a super that allowed placement of the little square boxes that made the comb honey. The boxes are in rough shape and there is no set sizing on them, just odds and ends.
The next one is the old veil, some of the frames for honey super, and what I assume is an old queen shipping container.
Closer look at the queen cage.
The super with the individual square boxes is a good idea. No extractor needed. Walter Kelley Bees still carry them in the catalog, that is how I figured out what they were for. Looks like someone stole his smoker, I could not find it laying around. My Uncle told me of some other places he kept his equipment, I am going to look for more next time out. I am going to wash the veil and maybe even try it out. The canvas has mouse crap all over it but it is still in good shape. The veil itself is wire mesh.


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Appeals judge rejects suit against Chimps Inc.
Intern was attacked by chimp at sanctuary in 2008
In 2008, 10 days into her internship at Chimps Inc. in Tumalo, Kristen Howard was mauled by Kimie - a 120-pound chimpanzee. The sanctuary's website states Kimie died in January of last year.
Court records show Howard, an anthropology student, was cleaning a cage with another intern when the chimp entered the cage through an unlocked door and assaulted her.
After multiple bites and blows, Kimie fled the cage, leaving Howard badly injured. Most of her left thumb was bit off.
As the Chimps Inc. staff tried to find Kimie, records show she jumped Howard again.
After the attack, the other intern called 911, which court papers reveal is strictly against Chimps Inc. procedures.
According to the training manual, only the owner of the sanctuary, executive manager and the ranch manager are authorized to call 911 as to avoid "receiving any unnecessary scrutiny over safety concerns."
Howard sued the sanctuary for more than $800,000, and after a four-year court battle, she lost.
An Oregon Court of Appeals Judge ruled that because Howard signed a liability waiver, she cannot sue the sanctuary.
Court papers show the waiver includes a line, "If a chimp injures you or another it is obviously the result of human error."
The liability also acts as a non-disclosure agreement. It refers to the importance of not talking about injuries or escapes, saying, "It's difficult for people outside of the sanctuary to understand certain issues."
Since opening in 1995, court papers show chimps at the sanctuary have attacked at least five employees.
A spokeswoman for Chimps Inc. declined our request for an interview Thursday, but did say, "It's been a long four years, and we wish Kristen Howard the best."
The non-profit houses chimpanzees and a few big cats in need of homes. In about two weeks, Chimps Inc. will get its newest addition. C.J., a chimp who just weeks ago got loose in a Las Vegas suburb, will be coming to the sanctuary. A spokeswoman told us they're very excited about giving C.J. a new home.


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The original gonzo journalist salutes Hef and worries that old communist conspiracy theories are being repackaged as the War on Terrorism from the January 2004 issue.
This article was originally published in the January 2004 issue of Playboy magazine.
Dear Hef, Well, well, well. Fifty years on the road, eh? Hot damn! Fifty years in the fast lane is a truly incredible trick to pull off in these weird fascist times. I salute you.
The mere existence of Playboy in 1953 was a Message, and the message said, Yes, it can be done. We can publish pictures of naked women (and even the Girl Next Door), and we can write strange and even perverse stories about real sex adventures with real naked girls.… Jesus, it was a monumental breakthrough to Freedom. Playboy was a signal that we were on the right track, we were smart, and we would prevail. Yes. We could publish any goddamn thing we wanted to, and we would beat those vicious, half-bright bastards who wanted to and still want to stomp out our Art and our energy and our precious bodily fluids.
Right. They hated us from the start, and they hate us now.
Growing up in the 1950s was a hard dollar, and it was especially hard for people like you and me. But so what? I was committed to my Art. And I felt equally committed to my exploration of beautiful naked women, and I pursued that with equal vigor.
Like you, I wanted not only to mingle frequently with beautiful naked women. I wanted to get paid for it, too, and that was a very hard dollar. Which it still is, frankly—just not quite so hard as it used to be. And credit for that goes to you. You were a pioneer for all of us, a genuine American hero.
There was a time back there in the primitive 1950s when the Harlem Globetrotters were the hottest ticket in basketball. They were heroes too, for many people. Not even the perennial college champion University of Kentucky Wildcats could sell out a house faster than the Harlem Globetrotters.
The Globetrotters were an all-black team of hired clowns who could play what looked like world-beating basketball. They were in a league all their own, so absolutely unbeatable that they had no real competition. It would have been sad, if it weren't so ridiculous.
There was no doubt in my mind that they could easily beat Kentucky, then the number one team in college basketball. But it would never happen, of course, because black people didn't even go to U of K in those days, much less play on the basketball team. The Wildcats wouldn't even think about playing on the same floor with black people, so the question was never answered.
I was brooding on this last night, as I frequently do when I get baffled and frustrated by unanswerable and freakish political questions like Why is the U.S. Supreme Court like it is? Or Did George Washington really throw a genuine U.S. silver dollar across the Rappahannock when he was 13 years old?
I tried that once, with one of those replica silver dollars that you can buy for $35 or $40 from the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, and it went about 50 feet before it sank out of sight. The river is more than half a mile wide at that point, so I knew immediately that the silver-dollar story was bullshit. That is the way I like to test these absurd political legends, just so they won't hang around and haunt me for the rest of my life, like that goddamn silver-dollar story did until I finally tried it and made a fool of myself.
The Globetrotters were so unbeatable, in fact, that they finally had to hire an all-white, all-Jewish team of professional stooges called the House of David to go on tour with them and get whipped on and humiliated every night. It was like taking their own cannon fodder with them from city to city.
Just why the House of David popped into my mind at a time when I was deeply engaged in a semiprofessional political debate was not at all clear to me at first, until I saw the dismal similarity between the House of David and the Democratic Party in America today.
The House of David and the Democratic Party are one and the same. Their job, every game and every election, is to Lose. They were both born to Lose, and that is what they do for a living. The Democratic Party no more expects to take over the White House in 2004 than a chicken expects to get rich by walking on water.
The USA is coming to pieces very rapidly. This once proud nation of hoodlums and whores and the American Way has finally run amok and is effectively Out of Control, and it will not recover. The infrastructure is too far gone. The looting, cheating, stealing and failure have stripped this country of its assets, its pride, its success and its security.
The National Treasury is empty, the Stock Market will never recover, our troops in Iraq will never come home. You will not find a job, never again.… Your children will drink dirty water for the rest of their lives. You will lose your home and all your personal savings.… You will never be able to retire or even stop working, and you will be a serf, a terminally indentured servant to one of the vast anonymous and eternally warlike global Corporations that will rule the world for their own reasons and their own profit.
But not you and me, Hef. We have prevailed. We will never get caught up and chewed horribly in the hideous debris and evil craziness that will inevitably come along with the panic and collapse of a once powerful empire. Look at Germany, look at Rome, lookat the dismal British government. Look at their once heroic prime minister, a conquered little whore who means nothing to History.
There is no way that we can talk about the fabulous Playboy era without remembering what was vicious and wrong and ugly in those years. Remember Joe McCarthy, that maniac sot of a senator from Wisconsin who raved and bullied and literally destroyed the lives of so many thousands of good and innocent people who were no more card-carrying Communists than I am? Yes, sir, that stupid alcoholic bastard literally seized control of our Criminal Justice System and filled our brains with Fear for half the decade. Even President Eisenhower was afraid of him, afraid of merely being accused of being involved in some evil Communist Conspiracy to destroy the whole U.S. government and even our "American way of life."
Does that sound vaguely familiar? Sort of like our current "War on Terrorism" or our hopelessly stupid and incompetent "National Security Emergency"? Yeah, without a doubt it does, and that worries me.
Another thing that worries me, Hef, is that ours will almost certainly be the first generation in the history of our country to turn America over to our sons and daughters in a far worse condition than when it was turned over to us. Horrible, eh? But it is true, and I spend a lot of time brooding on it, and sometimes even feeling ashamed.
How about you? Are you feeling responsible for our stark naked failure of a nation? I have already figured out my own answer to that question, and it is: No, we are not. Remember that the American Century ended on New Year's Eve of 1999, when most of the Population was half-mad with fear and widespread panic over the vaguest of rumors about a gigantic Power Failure that would black out at least 80 percent of the country at the exact moment of midnight, leaving us all completely blind and freezing with no water coming out of our pipes and no heat in the furnace.
Yes, sir, it was going to be the end of the world. Half of the people with all the guns, and the other half has all the money—but they can't get their hands on it because all the vaults are frozen shut because all the combination locks depend on electrical circuits, and they are short-circuited until further notice. Ho ho. I remember the senseless panic and fear and dread that was probably started by Enron and WorldCom and spread by the FBI and the Pentagon and the manufacturers of huge home electrical generators.
Many of my normally smart friends and neighbors were buying gasoline-powered electric power plants that were hideously expensive and profoundly dangerous to install and operate. Hell, I almost bought one myself, but I was too embarrassed to come out and admit in public that I was such a rube. In the end, however, I decided to take my chances and travel to Cuba for Xmas, where I stayed at the Hotel Nacional overlooking the sea and the Malecon and just ignored the goddamn thing—and I have never regretted it.
I had a long and honorable history with Richard Nixon. It was clearly antagonistic and occasionally savage on both sides of the ball—but it never, never got so brutal that it made me think about running for president of the USA. That was out of the question. It is a far, far better thing, I figured, just to run him out of the White House for reasons of his built-in anal-compulsive, genetically criminal personality traits. Why go to all the trouble and angst of actually running against him, when it is a lot more functional and permanent simply to put him on trial in that most public of arenas, the court of public opinion, and let nature take its course?
That was 30 years ago, and things have changed since then. For one, it is no longer possible to formally run for president unless you have at least $1 billion in "sinister political contributions" to grease the wheels of your "campaign." That is what it takes to get elected or—especially—reelected in this bright new century.
Think of it this way: There are a lot of people in this country who could lay their hands on a billion dollars today. Hell, Don Johnson drives around Europe with $8 billion in the trunk, bubba. But not one of them will be inclined to vote for you or anyone like you, because you are not the corrupt little monster who currently lives in the White House. You are obviously not on their side, and you have nothing to offer them.
Remembering Nixon now is like remembering the Age of Aquarius—free love and tie-dyed T-shirts. Ho ho. No more of that bullshit. Things are different, things have changed. We live in a new millennium.
Yes, sir. Hot damn! It's about time we woke up and got rid of that crude, old-timey Corruption that has ruined our lives and caused our children's brains to rot.
This is the worst political nightmare to erupt in this country that I have ever seen. If every Deadhead had voted for president in 2000, we would have a different country today. Maybe better, maybe worse, but definitely not the inconceivable disaster we have now. No money, no highways, no railroads, no airlines, no schools, no bridges and no hope for anything better. That is the No-Fun Club.
Go down with the ship, sucker. You are now a dues-paying member of the No-Fun Club, and your life is getting worse every day. Hell, if I were 22 years old in this country today I'd be wearing earphones too. No news is good news.
But wait! Don't touch that dial. I have incredibly good news for You: This is your lucky day, numb-nuts, because there is a plan that will jerk You out of that horrible rut that you were plunged into by whores you can never know.
The only way out of the No-Fun Club is to have some serious fun. Go wild on a binge of some kind. Kick out the jams like a crazy animal. Get those shit-eating cobwebs out of your brain. Kick the shit out of people who are getting in your way. Whoop it up.
From my own experience, I'd have to say that the most fun I ever had with my clothes on was kicking Nixon out of the White House. The point is that running a criminal swine like George W. Bush out of Washington would be an adult dose of Fun.
I am a famously Patriotic American writer, and I am personally embarrassed by the fascist behavioral sink that these shit-eating greedheads from Texas have deliberately plunged us into. Those pigs deserve to be boiled in their own oil.
Whoops! What am I saying? Sorry. That outburst came out of nowhere. It just sort of popped out of me. Let's get back to Richard Nixon and all the evil eggs he laid in the White House: Rumsfeld… Cheney… Kissinger… Schlesinger… Admiral Poindexter. They were all in Nixon's inner circle. And then Reagan's. And then Old Man Bush's. And ye gods!… Now they are the closest advisors to Bush Junior. How long, O Lord, how long?
The second half of the American Century was almost entirely about the USA at War—continuous War. We were at war with the Chinese in what is now North Korea, and now, 50 years later, this nation is at War with many countries/nations/empires/religions/cults/gangs all over the world except a handful of poodles in England who will soon be gone. That much is certain. Tony Blair's flagrant obedience to the White House and the Pentagon is an embarrassment to the human race. His party is now a cluster of buttboys and warmongers who long ago sold England out to its onetime colony.
Ah, but so what? I am wandering back into politics, which we want to stay away from for as long as possible, and that is not very long in this country. We are a warlike nation that is obsessed with naked female breasts, and for that we thank you.
I feel like a charter member of the far-flung playboy mafia that has literally grown up with the magazine, part of the hard and elite corps of writers and editors and even beautifully naked women who made it happen and have kept it happening for more years than many of our current READERS have been alive. That is weird on its face for any magazine, and definitely for one that 50 years ago boldly published a stunning naked portrait of a Hollywood superstar in its first issue.
That was Big, very Big, in a culture and a country that believed in its own Puritan traditions and savagely punitive laws and nonforgiving way of life that had been handed down, decade after puritanical decade, from the insane cruelty and brutal superstition that spawned the infamous Salem witch trials, which formed the original basis of the same Criminal Justice System that governs us today.
We are a 227-year-old warrior nation that was born and bred on the same diet of social revenge and drastic punishment that have been the main pillars of all Christian churches since the beginning of time. This is dangerous nonsense to most people alive today, but it was decidedly not that way in 1953, when a shocking naked image of Marilyn Monroe was introduced to a profoundly uncertain American magazine audience, when the first Korean War was happening and when any naked woman in any Mainstream Magazine in this country was just about Impossible to expect or even conceive of without going to jail. It was out of the question. Nobody would dare to try to do a degenerate thing like that. On top of everything else, it was clearly against the law. Nobody could argue with that.
But you did, simply by printing the first issue of Playboy, defying every rule and tradition on the American political spectrum. Nobody was for Playboy, nobody supported it, nobody even expected it to publish a second issue, which remains one of the genuinely historic and singularly heroic accomplishments of the 20th century. Very few people thought it could possibly happen in this country, and even fewer dared to support it. Playboy was radical, bubba. It was way over the top, for sure, and it was just as surely doomed, because all the preachers said it was Wrong. Fuck those people. They were wrong. But their hearts will never change and neither will ours. So what? We are champions, and we can prove it.
Your friend, Hunter


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Anyone have any idea what wind speed it takes to blow over a colony (2 deeps and perhaps 1 medium super)?
Just in case Gustav will be knocking on our door Tuesday as a hurricane here in south Louisiana as the National Hurricane Center models seem to suggest, I am planning Sunday to strap down all my colonies, running the strap through the cinder block hive stand and around the colony. Going to put some heavier bricks on top too. Will also do some praying this keeps the hives upright.
I haven't opened the hives for about a month when I pulled honey supers and applied Apistan strips for the mites. I hope this has provided sufficient time for the critters to apply a good propolis seal between the boxes.
Any suggestions?


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The last outback journey went well. Taking turns to drive eased the boredom on long flat stretches and the 1500 mile trip to Port Douglas passed in 7 days with 1 day to rest in Townsville on the coast and 1 extra day on the way up the coast road due to a 5 hour delay to clear a 4 vehicle pile up, which blocked the only road through.
The last day out of the Northern Territory took us past our final roadhouse and, thankfully the last petrol price rip-off. The actual fuel price here is currently 99c/litre and roadhouses generally charge from $1.45 - $1.80/litre. I estimate the additional cost of hyped fuel to be over �400 throughout our drive so far.
The outback terrain of dust, red soil and bush slowly changed as we turned east
We drove over the state border on the third day. 'Queensland, the sunshine state' the sign proudly proclaimed and shortly after was the last we saw of that. Since then every day bar 1 has been overcast and damp. As we approached the coastal region the terrain changed dramatically to big hills then mountains, mostly all thick with vegetation or forest.
It was a relief to rejoin the coast as vehicle worries are now largely behind us. The wagon has actually performed very well since Perth and we are confident that it is in a much sturdier condition than when we bought it.
Having to break our journey up to Pt Douglas we chanced on a tourist trip into the Wooroonooran National Park just west of our unscheduled stopover at Innisfail. A 100 mile detour took us into rainforests, across rolling green hills to three different water falls and down mountain terraced roads back to the coastal valley. We saw sugar cane, banana and tea plantations. The most fascinating and varied days drive we have yet to encounter.
We finally got into Port Douglas late afternoon on the 12th and checked into a camp site to prepare for the highlight of this north-east coastal journey - the Great Barrier Reef.
The weather forecast on the 1 sunny day since crossing into Queensland was for more cloud but fairly dry. Since our walk took us past the booking agent we chose to go the next day on the boat 'Poseidon' for an 8 hour visit to the outer reef and 3 different snorkelling locations
We boarded with about 60 people and set off for a 20 mile trip out to sea to witness the largest coral reef in the world.
We had to don licra 'stinger suits' to protect against deadly jelly fish (no use, however for the sharks and rays).
Gail, hitherto unhappy out of her depth, had conquered her fear at the Ningaloo reef in western Australia and now relished the challenge of deep sea swimming. Better still, the stinger suit was a nice shade of pale blue which she always looks nice in!
By the days end she was swimming down under water (once she knew you have to hold your breath) to check out the sealife beneath the surface, just like a natural.
The views beneath us were stunning and during the days different dive locations we saw giant clams, a vast array of beautiful fish from sprat size to 1 metre long of all colours and (of course), a shark about 2 metres long. The reef protrudes from the ocean floor to about 1 metre below the sea surface and around the edges falls off almost vertically for as much as 100 metres down at the furthest location out.
The coral formations are a visual feast of unique value and we loved every minute of our day.
We are again, blessed with our good fortune to be here.


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Jodie Foster's Closet is None of Your Damn Business
Kathleen Smith | Posted 03.16.2013 | Canada Alberta
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To those who expected Foster to announce publicly that she is gay, the speech was likely a disappointment. Certainly celebrity news opportunists like Harvey Levin and Perez Hilton were deleting hastily written posts for their websites when Foster said little more than "I'm single" as her big announcement. The subsequent outcry from some in the LGBTQ was perhaps far more surprising than Foster's refusal to publicly come out.


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Lanvin Spring 2012
There came a point in this season in the pell-mell rush of trends—the tropical prints, pastels, florals, Deco flapper dresses, and mid-century modern referencing—when a stone-cold thought occured: All very nice, but where does that leave a city woman with a day job? Well, Alber Elbaz, who always organizes his ideas around the condition of women's current lot in the world rather than scanning the ether to pick out this or that trend, has an alternative to the frilly and the frivolous—he's staging a comeback for the long-lost power woman.
She appeared at the end of his runway in a thunderclap of noise: shoulders, nipped-waist, and thigh-hugging pencil-skirt silhouetted in dramatic down-lighting. This vision of a no-nonsense Amazon of our times strode past, briefcase in hand and clad in dark tailoring with built-up shoulders, and a series of tight, sexy skirts (some slit at the sides); neat, short jackets; and pantsuits, some with the trousers ventilated with slashed seams, too. It's hardly your regular corporate attire, but within that first section, Elbaz set out the season's most in-depth exploration of go-to-work wear seen at any show so far. It can include dresses and skirts with blouses (in the back-buttoned form, which is beginning to do duty as a new kind of suit), draped hipster pants with jackets, and upgraded versions of sweatsuits. In any case, it was enough to give hope to women with an affinity for modern, minimal dressing that one designer, at least, is sparing a thought for their needs.
Yet in a Lanvin show, there are always changes of gear. Never a one-note designer, Elbaz hasn't yet abandoned the idea of the draped dress—it flew out fast and furious as sheer, tulle, pleated goddess dresses and twists of silk that have become a Lanvin signature. Then things became wonderfully weirder as the designer hit the part where he goes into overload on metallics and abstract embroidery. This time, it involved prints of writhing pythons coiled over silk pants and matching blousons, the tops bristling with embellishment—all presented to the pumping sound of heavy rock 'n' roll. Unusually for Lanvin, it all had a hard, almost slightly menacing, atmosphere about it, but that was cool and exciting, too. Women can't live by pretty flowers alone.
Learn more about Alber Elbaz in Voguepedia.


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Aussies who have fallen ill in India
Opening batsman Matt Renshaw is by no means the first Australian to succumb to illness while playing cricket in India.
February 24, 3:46 pm
Opening batsman Matt Renshaw is by no means the first Australian to succumb to illness while playing cricket in India.
February 24, 3:46 pm
A new pool at the Gabba has been a big hit with cricket fans after it was unveiled for the first Test between Australia and Pakistan.
December 15, 8:31 pm
Selectors could consider taking an eye to the future for the dead-rubber against South Africa, and there are plenty of batsmen putting their hands up.
November 15, 8:08 pm
It took less than two hours for South Africa to seal victory on day four of the second Test with Australia suffering a collapse of 8-32.
November 15, 4:54 pm
The Australian Test team could look vastly different to the one that relinquished the Ashes in England. Here's how we see them lining up at the Gabba.
October 26, 5:33 pm
With Michael Clarke, Shane Watson and Brad Haddin departing, which batsmen will we see don the baggy green in the near future?
August 11, 3:51 pm
With Michael Clarke announcing the fifth Ashes Test at The Oval will be his international swansong, take a look back at his incredible career.
August 9, 2:02 pm
From broken bats and broken arms to WACA cracks and Piers Moragn's brush with death, here are some of the weird and wacky mo-ments from the last Ashes series.
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mackenzieleach8796's Blog
Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:40 AM
US Pink Friday Tour
So ready for Nicki to announce the US tour dates! Hopefully she comes near where i live :)
Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:19 AM
Add Me! :))
I'm not shy, so you shouldn't be either :)


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