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We thought we'd finished our 'leaf peeping' antics when we left New England, but of course the Autumn leaf changes sweep southwards and, unwittingly, we had timed our drive along the Skyline perfectly for the leaves to change to their Fall hues.
The Skyline runs for roughly 100 miles through the Shenandoah National Park, an area which was once populated by farmers and dotted with small holdings. Now, however, it has all been returned to its natural state and the trees have reclaimed the land
We stayed the next couple of nights in Charlottesville, home to Thomas Jefferson's mansion: Monticello. We were very impressed by the house and by its presentation. I have to say that we have been really struck by the pride, passion and almost reverence that Americans appear to have for their historical sites – the guides we have had have always managed to impart their interest in and love for the places we have visited and this was no exception.
Monticello provided a fascinating insight into life in late 18th Century America and into the man who built it. A self-taught architect, Jefferson was very much the Renaissance man but also a somewhat contradictory character: the same man who wrote the wonderfully idealistic Declaration of Independence in which he stated "all men are created equal" and that all men had the right to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness", continued to own, buy and sell slaves all his life…
We were very lucky with the timing of our visit there
The following day we were due to continue our drive along the ridge of the Blue Mountain range but decided to stop first at a quirky little open air museum called The Frontier Museum. Here they displayed 18th Century English, Irish and German farmhouses which they had bought, dismantled, shipped and reconstructed on a large site together with examples of early American houses to demonstrate what early immigrants had left behind and how the melding of these various influences created the American homesteads of the 19th Century. It was surprisingly interesting and we all loved it. Amongst other things, we were shown how flax is turned into Linen – the 18th Century way – and we all had the chance to try stripping the stalks down to the fibres which are then spun into the linen thread
On our way back to Washington for our flight to Florida, our route took us through a small town called Appomattox Court House near Fredericksburg. I'm guessing that the majority of you will not have heard of this little place, but to Americans it is a highly significant historical site: some would say "the birthplace of the nation". This is where the Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his troops to the Yankee General Ulysses Grant, which effectively signalled the beginning of the end of the American Civil War. Visiting it helped us put together the various strands of knowledge we had been laboriously piecing together since arriving on the East Coast and we now feel that we have a much better understanding of the key historical events which shaped this enormous country.
Our brief foray into Virginia was at an end. Whilst the much vaunted Skyline and Parkway drives were lovely, it was the area just off these drives which particularly impressed us. Virginia surprised us with its beautiful rolling hills, immaculate and manicured homesteads and estates and the richness of its history. We loved it and would love to return some day.
Next stop: the joys of Disney and Florida.


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United States Attorney David Capp
Northern District of Indiana
204 South Main Street, Room M01
South Bend, IN 46601
| Contact: Mary L. Hatton
Phone: (219) 937-5603
Fax: (219) 852-2770
The United States Attorney's Office announced that a Grand Jury sitting in South Bend, Indiana, returned a 23-count indictment against James A. Simon. Simon, 59, of Huntertown, Indiana, is charged with tax fraud, failure to report foreign accounts, mail fraud, and federal financial aid fraud.
The indictment (Counts 1-4) alleges that, from 2003 through 2006, Simon and/or his family received approximately $1,799,502.60 from five business entities with which he was affiliated. These business entities were located in Gibraltar, Cyprus, Colorado, and Indiana. Simon and his family spent approximately $1,748,607.21 of this amount between 2003 and 2006. Simon did not report this $1,799,502.60 as income on his federal tax returns from 2003 through 2006. In addition, Simon did not disclose on his federal tax returns from 2003 through 2006 that he had an interest in foreign bank accounts held in Gibraltar, Germany, and Cyprus.
The indictment (Counts 5-8) further alleges that, from 2004 through 2007, Simon had a financial interest in, or signature authority over, bank accounts held in Gibraltar, Germany, and Cyprus. These accounts had an aggregate value of more than $10,000 during these years. The indictment charges that Simon failed to file with the Treasury Department a required report regarding these accounts, called a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (an FBAR).
The indictment (Counts 9-19) further alleges that, from 2004 through 2007, Simon applied for private financial aid for his family members to attend two different schools. On these applications, which were mailed, Simon provided false information regarding his family's income and expenses. As a result of these applications, Simon's family received total need-based financial aid of $106,600. The indictment charges that the mailings associated with these applications and awards constituted mail fraud.
The indictment (Counts 20-23) further alleges that Simon submitted a federal financial aid application for a family member to attend a third school. Based on this application, from August 2005 through May 2006, this family member received $14,365 in aid provided or insured by the federal government. The indictment charges that Simon obtained these funds illegally.
These charges were filed as a result of an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations. This case has been assigned to and will be prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Jesse M. Barrett.
The specific sentences to be imposed upon conviction will be determined by the judge after a consideration of federal sentencing statutes and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. The United States Attorney's Office emphasizes that an indictment is merely an allegation and that all persons charged are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in court.

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Ceremony to announce Binghamton University LEED certification
Binghamton University will be awarded LEED certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) during a ceremony at 2 p.m. Thursday, November 29, in the Windham Hall Great Room, located in the Mountainview College community on the University campus.
Binghamton University President Lois B. DeFleur will be joined by representatives from architectural and engineering firms, as well as officials from the Dormitory Authority of New York State and the USGBC.
LEED, which stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a nationally recognized standard set by the USGBC for designing, constructing and operating energy-efficient, high-performance buildings. The system serves to protect and save precious natural resources while also making good economic sense. LEED also verifies environmental performance, occupant health and financial return.


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ArtCafé - Lovely central apartment
Size45 m²
Floor No.
- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
- Pets allowed
- Washer/dryer
- Towels
- Internet/WiFi
- Baby cot
Accommodation summary
|Szent Istvan korut, 1055 Budapest, Hungary
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|Property ID
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|A few hours
|Calendar updated
A truly home-to-home accommodation, where you can easily relax after sightseeing, and sleep well respecting the extra quiet surrounding.
Apartment can be found on the historical Grand Boulevard (Szt. Istvan Korut), next to the famous traditional Café House. Central, but cosy and quiet atmosphere.
Main downtown sights (Parliament, Vig Theatre, Basilica), museums, famous thermal baths, river Danube bank or beautiful parks of Margaret Island are only a few minutes of walking distance. Others, such as the Buda Castle & Royal Palace, Heroes Square can be reached quickly by public transportation.
Lot of restaurants, cafes and pubs can be found in the neighborhood.
Apartment is on the ground floor and it is situated in a quiet traditional courtyard, incubated from the hustle and bustle of the city life. Authentic style decoration, gives every comfort of a home. The apartment is fully furnished and has everything you may need to feel right at home during your stay. It has all amenities with a fully equipped kitchen, comfortable large-space living-room with Internet corner, bedroom with queen-size double bed and luxury private bathroom.
Apartment has FAMILY FRIENDLY atmosphere: we can provide you with possibilities for kids (baby stroller, baby-cot, baby-chair, diaper changing table, box with toys, electric food and bottle warmer).
- Main ring road tram onBoulevard (#4/6; it takes you around the heart of the city)
- Sightseeing tram (#2; it takes you across the heart of the city along the line of the Danube)
- 11 bus lines
- 3 nightlines (with only 15 minutes of waiting time between buses)
Wi-Fi hotspot, wireless & wired internet connection
Cable TV (channels in 8 languages)
Washing machine
Refrigerator, freezer
Microwave oven
Espresso coffee machine
Electric kettle
Glass pitcher & filter for tea
Coffee & tea are provided (for free).
Ceramic double hob/oven
Iron, ironing board
Bed-linen and towels
House rulesNon-smoking please. Superb quiet neighborhood & surrounding, no party please. We are flexible young creative owners. Late check-in/out is not a problem.
|Price for > 2 guests
|17 NZ$ per guest/night extra
|Maximum nights
|12 nights
|Check-in after
|On arrangement
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Reviews of this property
Sylvia and Edith are very nice. She help you to reserve a taxi to go to the airport, and show you the best place near the appartement for exemple.
The appartement is very nice and clean, near a tramway 2.
We spend a very nice holidays, thank you!
Perfect organization, lovely house, communication with the owner timely and accurate. Details impeccable from every point of view. Experience certainly be repeated.
Organizzazione perfetta, casa deliziosa, comunicazione con la proprietaria puntuale e precisa. Dettagli inappuntabili sotto ogni punto di vista. Esperienza senz'altro da ripetere.
Perfect! Clean, large, comfortable, well located.
Parfait ! Propre, grand, confortable, bien situé.
We found this beautiful Place which is very good located in Budapest. This flat is very good appointed with everything you probably need.
Although everything is around this place you will not have any anger with noise because the flat is in the backyard.
In my opinion it is not easy to find a better place to stay in Budapest. The contact with Sylvia and her staff was very very kind and helpful all the time.
The apartment is very clean and very quiet. The owners are very friendly.
We were very satisfied! Thank you!
Die Wohnung ist sehr sauber und sehr ruhig. Die Vermieter sind sehr freundlich.
Wir waren sehr zufrieden! Danke!
Absolutely nice and courteous contact. Clean, nice and tidy furnished small two-room apartment on the ground floor of the rear building. Functional kitchen and spacious modern bathroom. Very centrally located, associated with it are also quite expensive parking weekdays. But those who arrive by train at Westbahnhof, can here run to foot.
Absolut netter und zuvorkommender Kontakt.
Saubere, nette und ordentlich eingerichtete kleine Zweizimmerwohnung im Erdgeschoss des Hinterhauses.
Funktionale Küche und geräumiges modernes Bad.
Sehr zentral gelegen, damit verbunden sind auch die Werktags recht teueren Parkmöglichkeiten.
Wer aber mit dem Zug am Westbahnhof ankommt, kann hierher zu Fuß hinlaufen.
Our stay in the apartment was very agreable and we can advise everybody
to choose this place. Everything was clean and appropriate. George an Guusje
from Holland .
I only have good things to say about my hosts in Budapest. They made sure there was someone with the key at the apartment when I arrived, all questions were answered efficiently with recommendations of things to do in the city and they were available as needed and responded quickly. The flat was very clean and it was as shown in the photos. Good value.
By arrival someone waited for us to show us around the appartment and to give us tips for places to visit.
The apartment is very spacious,clean and overall nice. Its located close to the tram-line, and 5 min walk to the closest metro-line.
We enjoyed our stay and we can reccomend it to everyone!
Lots of love from The netherlands
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For his latest trick Kim Dotcom is not just fighting back against his oppressors. He has unleashed the dogs of war. Whether the encrypted mega.co.nz does indeed cry havoc on the movie and recording industry is still playing out. But at the very least the exotic New Zealand resident has set one of Gareth Morgan's hated killer cats among the pigeons.
There's no doubt there's some utu at work here too. Dotcom is getting some payback for the way the United States, with the assistance of the New Zealand government, its police, and its spy agency, the GCSB, unilaterally shut down his megaupload.com business.
There is a touch of The Terminator too as Mega delivers a cheerfully maniacal "I'm baaack!"
But while most of the focus so far has been on whether the new cloud-based service passes the safe harbour test afforded to internet service providers - that they are only conduits for data and as such don't have any liability or responsibility for the content that flows through their servers - Mega makes encryption so easy, it could be a game changer.
Suddenly personal data stored online can now be incredibly secure. What's more, unlike Facebook and Google services like Gmail or Google Drive, control of the security of one's personal data through encryption keys is firmly in the hands of the user rather than the corporation.
Encryption - scrambling computer data into something incomprehensible using a key so that only the holder of a matching key can unscramble it - is such an elegantly simple idea you have to wonder why nobody thought of it before. Of course people have thought about it. Codes or ciphers have been around for thousands of years, and on the internet there is plenty of public-key cryptography software available.
But it's never been mainstream. Which is odd really because it was part of the original plan for the internet. As Michael Gross points out in World War 3.0 full cryptographic capability was the ultimate goal when Vint Cerf and others were working on a new communications network for the US military in 1975. Somehow the encryption part never got done and companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter have always balked at the prospect, citing, as Gross points out, that it's too expensive, the web was never designed to be encrypted and that the net is not a private place anyway. The truth is a little more self serving. Encryption with customer-controlled keys would massively disrupt Google, Facebook et al's business model which relies "on the cloud provider's ability to data mine or otherwise exploit the users' data."
In other words, using access to users' data to make money by improving search results, delivering ads and the like. If all of Facebook, Google etc's stored data was encrypted, it would indeed wreak havoc on their businesses.
While most of us have blithely accepted the loss of privacy is something we just have to live with - the cost of being online and using cloud-based services - encryption, especially if it's easy and on-the-fly in the browser as it is with Mega, gives lie to that assumption. But the secrecy of privacy has two faces. Sometimes it represents liberty. Other times it hides bad things.
Encryption would have made a huge difference in the 2009 Green Revolution protests in Iran, when the Iranian government spied so easily on its citizens by reading their emails, their social network pages, and tracking protesters' every online move. Encryption would also be very useful to counter the American Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act which enables mass "dragnet" surveillance of cloud-based services data without a warrant. The legislation, which has been in place since 2008, enables the US to mine any foreign data in US Clouds whenever it wishes - an act that if it was being performed on its own citizens would be contrary the 4th Amendment of the American constitution.
It's is also likely that encryption will make it much easier for users to share copyrighted material - especially among trusted groups. And that it could provide a safe haven for nefarious activities such as child pornography and credit card fraud. But Dotcom is counting on safe harbour protection - that he can't be expected to police what users do with his service and, with the content in the Mega cloud encrypted, he doesn't actually know what users are doing.
To claim safe harbour, Mega has to show responsibility when it becomes apparent that that content on its servers is objectionable or in breach of copyright or whatever else. So far that's exactly what the service is doing. When somebody in France publicly posted on a torrent site a number of links to Mega with the encryption keys, the service immediately responded to the takedown notices received and removed the content. On the face of it Kim Dotcom is being a good cyber citizen.
To stay squeaky clean Dotcom will have to continue responding to takedowns and avoid any suggestion of contributory infringement - that is, any suggestion that the service encourages copyright breaches. The legal question yet to be tested is whether the service itself encourages illegality. When nobody knows what content is there, is that in itself an encouragement to infringe? On the other hand Mega has a good defence. It can say hand on heart it's not involved in copyright infringement, that it's just providing shelf space for users to put their stuff. Like a cyber Swiss bank account.
For its sheer audacity, Dotcom's Mega is hard to beat. As one commentator noted: "I like this guy; he's beating copyright enforcers at their own game. That's literally DRM [digital rights management] the other way around." As a new weapon in the ongoing copyright wars, Mega's encryption is going to give governments and the movie and recording industry a serious headache. But the real brilliance of Mega is how it gives back something ordinary users online had given up hope of ever seeing again - privacy.
Human nature will decide whether or not that's put to good use.


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Makers and Shakers – FF ThreeSix for Makr Shakr
Imagine a bar staffed by robots. Yes, robots are not unheard of, but it's fair to say that three orange robotic arms that can mix and serve bespoke drinks in real-time classifies as impressive.
Cue in Makr Shakr. Unveiled at this year's Google I/O conference, the fun, but serious installation and social experiment saw many a cocktail concoction crafted by three KUKA robots and delivered via a conveyor belt. And not to mention the elegant live digital tessellations of honeycombed data on-screen behind the "bar" and across mobile screens, keeping track of every shake and stir. People gathered with Makr Shakr app in hand, drinks were ordered, robots made and shaked.
The robotic bartending system was developed and designed by MIT Senseable Lab in collaboration with the Coca Cola Company and Bacardi Rums in partnership with Pentagram's Eddie Opara and team, who were responsible for the identity, web application and data visualisation.
The design intent of the app was to match the agility of the robots, as well as the scientific, step-by-step process of assembling the drinks. Cue in FF ThreeSix. Paul McNeil and Hamish Muir's experimental geometric yet optically balanced typeface embodies this sentiment visually and conceptually. On why it was chosen, Opara, lead Pentagram partner on the project explains – "It exudes technology and the future".
FF ThreeSix is subtle and humanistic in an absurdly mathematical rigour. It has been sublimely applied as part of the Makr Shakr identity not just as an alphabet, but also shape and form. The beautiful lines, dots and sometimes blobs work seamlessly in large and small scales together with the organic and mechanical honeycomb system.
The beauty of the identity is not only in the conceptual execution, but is also in its application across the various platforms (desktop, web, app) and mediums (digital, motion, spatial). Opara and his team have played to the strengths of FF ThreeSix taking advantage of the distinguishing qualities between the various styles, mixing and matching them at different sizes and scales typographically and graphically.
The identity and application also demonstrates the versatility in the FontFont product offering and the benefit of having a library of typefaces available for multiple uses. The diversity in formats and licenses allows for more possibilities in application.
Male, Female. Bourbon, white rum. Lemon, lime, orange peel, mint. Mojitos or old-fashioned. Whether it be recipe, ingredient, drink or drinker demographics, or even what was currently on-drink-trend, the identity and data was magnificently visualised and optimised for the app and large screen display.
Makr Shakr is a fine example of possibility and how a typeface can work holistically to transform an identity.
For more on the making and shaking of the project head to Pentagram's website.
FF ThreeSix recognised in Typographica's favourite Typefaces of 2012
Hamish Muir and Paul McNeil's experimental optical type system FF ThreeSix has been chosen as one of Typographica's favourite Typefaces of 2012.
FF ThreeSix consists of six typefaces in eight weights, including four additional monospaced weights. It has won a number of awards including the ISTD Premier Award and Certificate of Excellence
FF Scuba by Felix Braden, FF Tisa Sans by Mitja Miklavčič and FF Marselis by Jan Maack were also noted in the honorable mentions list.permalink
FF ThreeSix featured in Outcast Editions' iPad architecture monographs
One of our newest FontFonts is featured in a brand new interactive iPad book by Outcast Editions. Founded by photographer Richard Glover, architect Virginia McLeod and graphic designer Hamish Muir, Outcast Editions is an independent publishing company, who specialize in creating interactive digital books on contemporary architecture and design. Their latest book is the third in their series Detail in Contemporary Australian Architecture and gives a comprehensive overview of Bilgola House by Tzannes Associates and includes photographs, video, floor plans, sections and construction drawings.
The house, located near Bilgola Beach on Sydney's Northern Peninsula, has three bedrooms, a play room, office and swimming pool in addition to shared living, dining and kitchen areas. The house is constructed from concrete, glass, steel and timber. The architects, Tzannes Associates, received the Australian Institute of Architects' highest award for outstanding residential architecture for Bilgola House in 2010.
The book is set in FF ThreeSix, a typeface designed by Paul McNeil and Hamish Muir and released as part of FF 60. FF ThreeSix is an experimental optical type system consisting of six typefaces in eight weights, including four additional monospaced weights. Working within the strict rules of geometry, MuirMcNeil Design Systems set out to generate simple typographic forms which emulate traditional type design principles, where a wide range of almost invisible compensatory optical tricks are used to create the illusion of evenness in the basic fabric of text.
Used throughout the books and on the Outcast Editions website, FF ThreeSix really complements the beautiful photography and design.
To hear more about the story behind FF ThreeSix have a listen to our first ever Talking Types podcast, with Erik Spiekermann interviewing McNeil and Muir about FF ThreeSix.
Win an Outcast Editions book for iPad
You can get your hands on one of Outcast Editions architecture books for iPad. All you have to do is follow them on Twitter and RT their tweet about the competition – the giveaway ends Friday the 14th of December.permalink
New release: FF 60
How quickly the time has flown since FF 59, we can't quite believe it is release time again. With two new designs, two extensions and a myriad of updates we are delighted to introduce our latest release, FF 60.
The new designs
FF Marselis
From the designer of FF Cube and FF Speak comes FF Marselis. Jan Maack's newest design crossbreeds geometric and humanistic forms, creating a freshly dynamic sans serif family. All of the counters in the typeface are open; certain superfluous strokes have been eliminated – there are no spurs on the b or q, for instance.
Many designers chance upon using the same graphic shape for the lowercase 'a' and 'e' – indeed, the idea seems simple enough: just rotate the form 180° and you should be done! However, almost all attempts at this sort of theoretical simplification fail in practice. With FF Marselis, Jan Maack has found a key to making it work. Rather than whole letterforms, a tear-drop form repeats throughout the alphabet, not only in the bowl of the lowercase 'a' or 'e', but also in the 'k' and the uppercase 'Q'. Its distinct character makes FF Marselis a perfect choice for today's corporate and branding projects.
Introductory offer: You can get 50 % off any FF Marselis product (until 31 October 2012).
FF ThreeSix is a huge experimental optical type system consisting of six typefaces in eight weights, including four additional monospaced weights. It is the result of London-based Paul McNeil's and Hamish Muir's attempts to work within the restrictive rules of geometry to generate simple typographic forms emulating traditional type design principles, where a wide range of almost imperceptible compensatory optical tricks are used to create the illusion of evenness in the basic fabric of text.
The award-winning system – ISTD Premier Award and Certificate of Excellence – is based on a grid of 36 unit squares subdivided into 9 units and are constructed using only vertical or horizontal straight lines and circular arcs. Cap-height, x-height, ascent and descent measurements are consistent across all fonts and weights. The grid also determines character and word spacing, with all side-bearings and kerning pair values conforming to 9 unit increments.
As Wim Crouwel notes: 'It is a fascination for the use of geometric systems in design that has resulted in these remarkable typefaces.'
Updated and extended FontFonts
Introducing FF Chartwell Web. Simple to use and fun to play around with, you can try it for yourself online using our demo.
Free font: For a limited time, you can get your hands on FF Chartwell Web Radar for free.
FF Meta Correspondence
Erik Spiekermann's best-known face is without doubt FF Meta. While it has proven its usability in almost any design task one can think of, its creator realized that it could be improved even more for use in the business world. The main features of the first version of FF Meta Correspondence included tabular figures (instead of oldstyle ones) and increased tracking, yet Spiekermann wanted to go a few steps further and take the typeface to another level.
Now, Erik Spiekermann and the FontFont team changed both proportions and shapes to a more robust style, removed contrast from accents and simplified forms and details to a more screen-friendly appearance. The very well-known lowercase g has been changed to a single-storey one, which is more common within the office environment. Above all, a set of useful arrows, icons, and office dingbats has been added. The resulting design is still FF Meta, but one that breathes Correspondence air.
The simplified forms and the high-quality screen optimization make FF Meta Correspondence a perfect typeface for use as a webfont or within the mobile environment.
New Office and Web FontFonts plus language extensions
Did you know our library contains over 2500 FontFonts? After a FontFont is released, the work doesn't stop, we continually tinker and update our beloved FontFonts to ensure that they are in tip-top condition and in the most up to date and useable formats. In FF 60, some of our earliest releases such as Just van Rossum's FF Advert, Ole Schäfer's FF Zine, and John Critchley's FF Child's Play have been brought up to date and now come in Office and Web formats.
All these faces have also been upgraded so that they are now also offered in Pro versions, meaning they now include more Latin-based languages (e.g. Polish, Turkish, Czech).
FF Advert/Rough (NEW: Pro | Offc Pro | Web Pro)
FF Atma Serif (NEW: Pro | Offc | Offc Pro | Web | Web Pro)
FF Child's Play (NEW: Pro | Offc | Offc Pro | Web | Web Pro)
FF Cube (NEW: Pro | Offc | Offc Pro | Web | Web Pro)
FF Eureka Mono (NEW: Offc | Offc Pro | Web | Web Pro)
FF Fago Mono (NEW: Pro | Offc | Offc Pro | Web | Web Pro)
FF Hydra/Text (NEW: Pro | Offc Pro | Web Pro)
FF Instant Types (NEW: Pro | Offc Pro | Web Pro)
FF Meta Correspondence (NEW: Offc Pro | Web Pro)
FF Typestar (NEW: Pro | Offc Pro | Web Pro)
FF Zine Sans/Serif/Slab Display (NEW: Pro | Offc | Offc Pro | Web | Web Pro)permalink


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Bee, leaf hopper, and a big ol aphid I think.
Yep, I was focused on the bee, and when I got home and put it on the computer I was surprised to see the other critters in the clover.
I was so focused on the insects I didn't even notice that was clover.....
Right JRG, I didn't see any bugs either. But that's just me being me.
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Thanks, we do too, one of each, its always nice to sit at either.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Thanks, we do too, one of each, its always nice to sit at either.
nice pictures. Barb
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Looks like a perfect place for your quilting adventures to begin. Just a heads up, your room may never look that pristine again! Hehe!
Deanne Ellen
Quilts,Books,and Wine,Oh My!
I think you two and I would get along very well. Your walls are knotty pine as are mine, I also have a 401A, and have a water feature in my front yard (we live on a lake channel with a wetland across the way).
Curator of an 1889 Singer model 27 Fiddlebase Treadle, a 1951 Singer Centennial Featherweight, a 1956 Singer 401A, and a 1982 Bernina 830 Record.
Beautiful scenic picture! Great sewing area, looking forward to seeing your first quilt.
How do you sew when you have scenery like that to look at. Gorgeous & so is your sewing space. I love the wonderful wood cabinets. You are going to be having a lot of fun there. Welcome to you both!!
Vonda-Texas MiMi of 4 Beautiful Grandbabies
My husband is setting up his woodworking are in the basement where I do all my crafts so that we can be together also.!
Awesome space & scenery.
What a beautiful river scene! Good luck with your quilting!
Wow, what a setup!!! The pic is g-o-r-g-e-o-u-s!!! Should be in a magazine or postcard... Wow. God's creations are awesome, huh?!!!!
~ I'm a Blessed Nanna to 2 Grandsons & 5 Granddaughters ~
~ I'm a Blessed Mom to DS & DDIL, DD & DSIL ~
~ Mom to 3 cats, Callie, Buddy & Daisy ~
~ God Bless the USA ~ ~ God Bless Our Troops ~


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My last inspection at one of my hive (a new one) showed me this pattern:
1st deep:Frame 1 to 10
1: Drawn and empty
2: Undrawn
3: about 1/5 drawn, with honey and some pollen in it
4 to 8: Brood just born (the queen is on one of those)
9: Honey and pollen
10: Drawn with a little honey and pollen
2nd deep: (originally 10 foundation frames)
1 and 2: Undrawn
3: Interior face being drawn with eggs in it, some honey and pollen too
4 to 8: Drawn and really full of capped brood
9 and 10: Undrawn
I added a third deep this week with all foundation to (I read somewhere to add a new box when about 5-6 frames below it are drawn and full of brood or honey), but it is yet to be drawn. The bees have to visit it because I am feeding them continuously with 1:1 syrup with a Miller type feeder.
The question is: Should I rearrange the brood nest by taking the capped brood from the 2nd box down and taking the ones just "born" up? And what would be better for having the bees to build the untouched frames (I need drawn frames...)
First season in beekeeping and enjoying it a lot...
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May 6, 2013 at 5:54 pm #1302635
I have a new condition Shangri-La-1 in yellow. The fly has been used for two nights and the bug nest not at all.
I like it, I'm only trying to sell it so I can swap it for a green.
Asking $125 paypal shipped for both. At this point I am probably not interested in separating the nest and fly but you are welcome to ask, if I get separate offers on both before someone buys the whole thing that would work.May 9, 2013 at 11:47 am #1984830
I'm no longer interested in selling the SL-1 for cash BUT if anyone is interested in trading their green fly tarp for my yellow fly tarp I'd pay shipping plus $20. I'm happy with the yellow but if I'm going to Wyoming I'd prefer a less obvious color so as not to attract bears.May 9, 2013 at 11:52 am #1984831
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@rbeardLocale: ATL, Southern Appalachia
luke, before you jump on the green color, know that the yellow fabric is tougher and doesn't give as much. The green fabric just feels much cheaper than the yellow fabric in my opinion. don't know what others think, but this is my assessment from owning both.May 9, 2013 at 12:07 pm #1984833
Hum that is interesting Adam, thanks for the tip. Are they from the same time frame? I believe sometime in the last few years Golite changed the fabric in some of their shelters.May 9, 2013 at 12:21 pm #1984834
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Just wondering: is there any data that says bears are attracted to yellow tents more than green ones, or are you just speculating? Since bears have far better senses of smell than eyesight, it seems like they would smell you long before they saw a tent anyway. Just looked up on google; one site said that bears' sight is about equal to that of humans, but sense of smell is 100,000 greater.May 9, 2013 at 12:24 pm #1984835
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@rbeardLocale: ATL, Southern Appalachia
the newer green fabric is less durable and stretchy than the original yellow fabric. i dont know if they even offered the old fabric in green. i wanted one in green also, and when i got it, i realized that the yellow fabric was much more to my liking. also, i like how the yellow fabric lights up in the sunlight when you are inside. much brighter than the green.May 9, 2013 at 12:36 pm #1984837
I'm basing my theory on reports that bears have shown an interest in bright objects in tests. According to rangers in Alaska switching to camo tents result in far fewer bear encounters.
Edit – If all goes well I'll be doing some hiking in serious grizzly country, most likely solo. Under those circumstances I prefer to camp in the open so I have the peace of mind of seeing whats around me. On the other hand a bright tent will stick out like a sore thumb. What I may do is just hold off on pitching the tent until dark.May 9, 2013 at 10:41 pm #1985004
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I can certainly understand wanting to do whatever might minimize chances of a grizzly bear encounter! Hadn't heard of the camo tent thing resulting in fewer encounters, but Alaskan rangers are probably a good authority.May 9, 2013 at 10:56 pm #1985009
There are articles you can google about the tents and other test with bears reacting to colored panels etc.
I was planning on carrying my normal tarp and bivy until I realized that being zipped up inside a bivy is a bad place to be if a bear shows up. If I take my SL-1 I'll sew a skirt of bug net onto the bottom to make it a floorless shelter. That will save weight over the bug nest and I can roll out from under it fast if I need too.
The other idea is to remake my old bivy with Velcro instead of a zipper.
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The 2017 LSU Football season opener against BYU in Houston, Texas, will kickoff Sept. 2 at 8:30 p.m. CT on ESPN, the Southeastern Conference and ESPN announced Thursday.
BATON ROUGE Eight LSU football players, including three members of the 2017 team, received their college degree on Friday as the school held its spring commencement exercise on campus.
BATON ROUGE -- Defensive tackle Davon Godchaux and wide receiver Malachi Dupre capped a spectacular 2017 NFL Draft on Saturday, as the seven-round event concluded in Philadelphia.
BATON ROUGE -- LSU Football players continues to be grabbed at a record pace in the 2017 NFL Draft, as three more Tigers were selected in the second and third rounds held Friday night in Philadelphia.
BATON ROUGE -- For the second time in the common-draft era, three LSU Football players were selected in the first round of the NFL Draft.
PHILADELPHIA LSU has had 38 NFL first round draft picks in school history but that won't last much longer as the Tigers are expected to increase that total by three on Thursday night when the opening round of the NFL Draft is held here on the iconic steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
BATON ROUGE LSU head coach Ed Orgeron issued the following statement today on senior quarterback Danny Etling.
BATON ROUGE -- With four minutes left in the first half, the 2017 National L Club Spring Game was moved indoors due to lightning near in Tiger Stadium with the Purple leading White, 7-3.
LSU will wrap up its first spring under head coach Ed Orgeron on Saturday night when the Tigers host the National L Club Spring Game presented by Tony Chachere's in Tiger Stadium.
LSU wraps up spring practice on Saturday at 7 p.m. CT when the National L Club Spring Game presented by Tony Chachere's is held in Tiger Stadium.
BATON ROUGE The LSU SportShop will hold its annual super spring sale featuring numerous unique football and baseball items in conjunction with the National L Club Spring Game on Saturday, April 22.
Head coach Ed Orgeron and the Tiger football team will welcome LSU students to football practice on Thursday afternoon in Tiger Stadium as the Tigers are set to conduct their final workout in advance of Saturday's National L Club Spring Game.
BATON ROUGE LSU turned its attention to the passing game on both sides of the ball for its final scrimmage before spring break on Thursday afternoon as the Tigers went through a two-hour workout in Tiger Stadium.
BATON ROUGE Jamal Adams was clocked at 4.33 seconds in the 40-yard dash and Leonard Fournette weighed in at 228 pounds, 12 pounds lighter than at the NFL Combine, as two of the many highlights for LSU football here Wednesday at Pro Day at the LSU Indoor Football Facility.
BATON ROUGE Cowboy Mouth, one of Louisiana's most popular bands, will highlight the Rock N' Roar Block Party leading up to kickoff for LSU's National L Club Spring Game presented by Tony Chachere's on Saturday, April 22.
BATON ROUGE, La. The Cox Communications Academic Center for Student-Athletes honored six student-athletes for their academic achievements and community service for the month of April.
BATON ROUGE LSU will welcome representatives from every NFL franchise, including eight general managers and five head coaches, as the Tigers host their annual Pro Timing Day at the Charles McClendon Practice Facility on Wednesday morning.
BATON ROUGE The LSU offense accounted for over 600 total yards, including 391 on the ground, as head coach Ed Orgeron put the Tigers through their second scrimmage of the season here Saturday indoors at the Charles McClendon Practice Facility.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- In the interest of enhancing existing security measures at games involving Southeastern Conference schools, the SEC will implement a new security policy regulating the size and type of bag that may be carried into all stadiums in which SEC schools host games, beginning with the 2017 football season, it was announced Wednesday.
BATON ROUGE LSU has added McNeese State to its 2021 football schedule, vice chancellor and director of athletics Joe Alleva announced Tuesday.
BATON ROUGE LSU's Football Coaching Clinic, headlined by Pro Football Hall of Famer Anthony Munoz, gets underway on Thursday at the Maravich Center.
BATON ROUGE Senior defensive end Christian LaCouture has been awarded the No. 18 jersey for the 2017 season, LSU head coach Ed Orgeron announced Monday.
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How cancer treatments can affect fertility in men
A lot of things must take place for a couple to make a baby, and a "system malfunction" at any point can lead to infertility. Cancer, or more often cancer treatments, can interfere with some part of the process and affect your ability to have children. Different types of treatments can have different effects.
- Chemotherapy
- Targeted and immune therapies
- Hormone therapy
- Bone marrow or stem cell transplant
- Radiation therapy
- Surgery
During puberty (usually around age 13 to 14), a boy's testicles start making sperm, and they normally will keep doing so for the rest of his life.
Chemotherapy (chemo) works by killing cells in the body that are dividing quickly. Since sperm cells divide quickly, they are an easy target for damage by chemo. Permanent infertility can result if all the spermatogonial stem cells (the immature cells in the testicles that divide to make new sperm) are damaged to the point that they can no longer produce maturing sperm cells.
The risk of the chemo causing infertility varies depending on:
- The patient's age. For example, men older than 40 may be less likely to recover their fertility after treatment.
- The type of drug(s) used. Some drugs are more likely to affect fertility than others (see lists below).
- The doses of drugs given. The higher the doses of chemo, the longer it takes for sperm production to get back to normal after treatment, and the more likely it is to stop.
After chemo treatment, sperm production slows down or may stop altogether. Some sperm production usually returns in 1 to 4 years, but it can take up to 10 years. If sperm production has not recovered within 4 years, it's less likely to ever recover.
Chemo drugs that are linked to the highest risk of infertility in men include:
- Actinomycin D
- Busulfan
- Carboplatin
- Carmustine
- Chlorambucil
- Cisplatin
- Cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan®)
- Cytarabine
- Ifosfamide
- Lomustine
- Melphalan
- Nitrogen mustard (mechlorethamine)
- Procarbazine
Higher doses of these drugs are more likely to cause permanent infertility, and combinations of drugs can have greater effects. The risks of permanent infertility are even higher when men are treated with both chemo and radiation therapy to the abdomen (belly) or pelvis.
Some drugs, such as those listed here, have a low risk of causing infertility in men, as long as they are given in low to moderate doses:
- 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)
- 6-Mercaptopurine (6-MP)
- Bleomycin
- Cytarabine (Cytosar®)
- Dacarbazine
- Daunorubicin (Daunomycin®)
- Doxorubicin (Adriamycin®)
- Epirubicin
- Etoposide (VP-16)
- Fludarabine
- Methotrexate
- Mitoxantrone
- Thioguanine (6-TG)
- Thiotepa
- Vinblastine (Velban®)
- Vincristine (Oncovin®)
Talk to your doctor about the chemo drugs you will get and the fertility risks that come with them.
Targeted and immune therapies
Targeted drugs attack cancer cells differently from standard chemo drugs. Immunotherapy drugs help the body's own immune system attack cancer cells. These types of drugs have been used a lot more in recent years, but not much is known about their effects on fertility or problems during pregnancy.
The small amount of data that's available on a group of targeted drugs called tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), such as imatinib (Gleevec®), suggests that pregnancies started by young men getting TKIs are probably not at an increased risk of complications or birth defects. Still, these men need to know that there's not enough research available to know that it's safe to start a pregnancy while on these drugs. And at this time the recommendation is that men talk to their doctor before starting a pregnancy while taking TKIs.
It's very important to talk to your doctor about any targeted or immunotherapy drugs you will get and the fertility risks that might come with them.
Hormone therapy
Some hormone therapies used to treat prostate or other cancers can affect sperm production and your ability to have a child. Talk to your doctor about this risk and about whether it's safe to start a pregnancy while taking these drugs.
Bone marrow or stem cell transplant
A bone marrow or stem cell transplant usually involves high doses of chemo and sometimes radiation to the whole body before the transplant. In most cases, this causes life-long infertility – it permanently prevents a man from making sperm.
To learn more about transplant, see Stem Cell Transplant for Cancer.
Radiation therapy
Radiation treatments use high-energy rays to kill cancer cells. Radiation to a man's testicles can affect his fertility. Radiation at high doses kills the stem cells that produce sperm.
Radiation is aimed directly at the testicles to treat some types of testicular cancer and childhood leukemia. Young men with seminoma, a type of cancer of the testicle, may have radiation to the groin area, very close to their remaining testicle. Even when a man gets radiation to treat a tumor in his abdomen (belly) or pelvis, his testicles may still end up getting enough radiation to harm sperm production.
Sometimes radiation to the brain affects the pituitary gland. The pituitary gland normally signals the testicles to make hormones, so interfering with these signals can affect sperm production and cause problems with fertility.
You may be fertile when you're getting radiation treatments, but your sperm may be damaged so it's important to not start a pregnancy until treatment is completed. Talk to your doctor about how long you should wait.
For men getting radiation for prostate cancer
Brachytherapy: Seed implants for prostate cancer do not give a large dose of radiation to the testicles, and most men will remain fertile or recover sperm production. These men will need to use birth control during and after treatment if they do not want to father a child.
External radiation: Radiation for prostate cancer from a machine outside the body is more likely to cause permanent infertility, even if the testicles are shielded.
Surgery offers the greatest chance of cure for many types of cancer, especially those that have not spread to other parts of the body. But surgery on certain parts of the reproductive system can cause infertility.
The following types of surgery may affect a man's fertility:
Surgery for testicular cancer
The surgical removal of a testicle is called an orchiectomy. This is a common treatment for testicular cancer. As long as a man has one healthy testicle, he can continue to make sperm after surgery. (Less than 5% of men develop cancer in both testicles.) But some men with testicular cancer have poor fertility because the remaining testicle is not truly normal.
Testicle removal (both testicles) for prostate cancer
Some men with prostate cancer that has spread beyond the nearby area may have both testicles removed to stop testosterone production and slow the growth of prostate cancer cells. This is called a bilateral orchiectomy. These men cannot father children unless they banked sperm before surgery.
Surgery to remove the prostate (radical prostatectomy)
For men who have prostate cancer that has not spread beyond the gland, surgery to remove the prostate gland and seminal vesicles is one of the treatment options. The prostate and seminal vesicles are the parts that produce semen. Whether the prostate is removed through a cut in the abdomen (belly) or in the perineum (the area behind the testicles and in front of the anus), this surgery leaves men with no semen. Surgery to remove the prostate also can damage the nerves that allow a man to get an erection, causing erectile dysfunction (ED). This means he cannot get an erection sufficient for sexual penetration.
Even if you can get an erection, if there's no semen coming from the penis during orgasm, you cannot conceive a child during sex. But there are ways to remove sperm and use it to fertilize an egg.
Surgery to remove the bladder (cystectomy)
Surgery to treat some bladder cancers is much like a radical prostatectomy, except the bladder is also removed along with the prostate and seminal vesicles. The testicles still make sperm, but the vas deferens (the paths the sperm take to the urinary tube) are cut. With sexual stimulation, men can still have the feeling of orgasm, but no fluid comes out of the penis and the sperm cannot get out.
Because no semen comes out of the penis during orgasm, you cannot conceive a child during sex. But there are ways that sperm might be taken out and used to fertilize an egg.
Surgery that interferes with erection and ejaculation
A few types of cancer surgery can damage nerves that are needed to get an erection and ejaculate semen. They include removing lymph nodes in the pelvis, which may be part of the surgery for testicular cancer and some colon cancers. Nerves are often damaged when removing lymph nodes, and this can cause problems with erections and ejaculation. Sometimes surgery can completely paralyze the prostate and seminal vesicles, which normally squeeze and relax to move the semen as a man's climax begins.
After these operations, a man still makes semen, but it doesn't come out of the penis at orgasm (climax). Instead it either shoots backward into his bladder (called retrograde ejaculation) or does not go anywhere.
In cases of retrograde ejaculation, medicines can sometimes restore normal ejaculation of semen. The seminal vesicles contract, the internal valve at the bladder entrance closes, and semen is ejaculated from the penis at orgasm. In the United States, ephedrine sulfate is the most common medicine used to restore normal ejaculation. Because it does not help everyone and may only work for a few doses, ephedrine sulfate is usually prescribed only for the fertile week of the woman's cycle.
Fertility specialists can also gather sperm from these men using several types of treatments including electrical stimulation of ejaculation or sperm aspiration surgery (described in Preserving Fertility in Men with Cancer).
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Fertility and Men With Cancer
- Fertility and Men With Cancer
- Talking to your cancer care team about fertility before your treatment
- How cancer treatments can affect fertility in men
- Preserving fertility in men with cancer
- Preserving fertility in boys and teens with cancer
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Anecdotes in which people get SERVED.
Today, I have only just started talking to a friend again as he is now dating my ex. Our other friend asked me to help him on a game and I said to ask the first friend, stating that "he's better". The first friend looked straight at me and said "That's funny, that really is what she said". I Got Served.
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Sallie Ann Hannawacker
Sallie Ann Hannawacker
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Sallie Ann Hannawacker, daughter of Dr. John and Jeannette (Tiedje) Ferguson, was born March 1, 1956, at Skiff Memorial Hospital in Newton, Iowa. Sallie graduated from Newton Senior High School in 1974.
Sallie attended Central College in Pella, Iowa, and graduated from the University of Denver with a degree in psychology. She became a Registered Nurse at Arapahoe Community College. She met and fell in love with her own Bruce Springsteen, Frank Hannawacker, in 1985. They were married in Newton in 1991 and have spent decades traveling enthusiastically throughout the U.S. and abroad.
They moved to St. Cloud, MN in 1990 where Sallie spent 22 years as a trauma nurse in the emergency room at St. Cloud Hospital. She was dedicated to her patients and to her co-workers, who became very important and special friends in her life.
There was no dog that Sallie didn't want to adopt. She was steadfast in her desire to provide every dog a home…usually hers! She and Frank were "dog's best friend" and they adopted many throughout the years. Sallie was literally the baby of the family. Growing up, she took pleasure in going to her cousins' farms to enjoy all the excitement and adventures that were offered to her.
Sallie had her final sleep at her dearly loved family's cabin on Ponto Lake in Minnesota on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. Her always loving, daring and constant companion, Frank, was with her. Sallie was preceded in death by her parents.
Those left to honor Sallie's fantastic, fun, selfless, full and enjoyable life include her husband, Frank, of St. Cloud, her siblings: Susan (David) Dunscombe of Cocoa, Florida, Johnna (Pat) Cashill of Reno, Nevada, and Tom Ferguson of Denver, Colorado; her beloved nieces and nephews: Samantha Dunscombe (Bob Soulia) of St. Petersburg, Florida, Mitch (Kim) Dunscombe of Bainbridge Island, Washington, John (Charlotte) Cashill of Seattle, Washington, Kate (Ryan) Blewett of Anchorage, Alaska, Heather (Todd) Sorensen of Lynchburg, Virginia and Baylen (Celine) Ferguson of South Korea will forever miss "Aunt Sal." Equally loved by Sallie are great-nieces and nephews: Ben Dunscombe and Morgan Dunscombe of Bainbridge Island, Mackenzie Cashill of Seattle, Kade Sorensen of Lynchburg, and Lilah Ferguson of South Korea. And of course, Sophie and Buddy her four-legged children.
A celebration of Sallie's beautiful life will be held on Oct. 15 in St. Cloud. If you wish to make a donation in memory of Sallie, please consider giving to the Tri-County Humane Society.
Arrangements with Kline Funeral Home, Pine River, Minnesota.
She lived intensely, she loved intensely, and she laughed with an intensity that no one could resist.


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it was a cyst and you spelled aneurysm wrong
I don't think he's learning. I think he's stubborn and until he changes things we won't win a MNC again
quote:so the sooner we just accept being 2nd the better off we'll be. Amirite?
Saban has 1st on lock down for awhile so Miles won't be the only one not to win a MNC.
He now gets paid 4 million to be a student of life.........nice gig
Learning curves and pay scales correlate in the most unusal fashions
It's life. It's life and football. Every day we learn something new. We are all trying to better ourselves each day by not making the same mistakes over and over again. Coach Miles keeps making mistakes each year but he also keeps making the mistake of winning (80%)and going to bowl games every year coaching LSU football. I do guarantee you that Les is still making mistakes while learning about football and about life and how to utilize his players on the field and how to deal with them off the field etc..... It's a process. We never stop learning and neither is Coach Miles. He is humble enough to probably admit that. He isn't perfect. He's human like us. He is one of us. He is an LSU Tiger and he loves Tiger Stadium and the fans that fill the seats. Also, I know that most people on Tiger Rant know that Coach Miles had a brain aneurysm back when he coach at Oklahoma State and he is a strong willed person to overcome something like that because they say it affected the part of his brain that affects speech. I love his quirks and "Mileisms", his coolness and composure and his work ethic to make LSU the best it can be. He is here for the long term so if you don't like him you must learn to "put up with him" kinda like that cousin you don't like but must see annualy at Thanksgiving. Get on board Negatigers. You will either be won over by him or you will be a miserable Tiger fan. He is who he is and doesn't seem to change much because he has had success doing the same things over and over. It has made him millions and given LSU their best 8 year run of winning football in their long history. He's still learning just like you and I. He's human and he will make mistakes again. Who doesn't?
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There is also Melissa Wang (TPE) and Ivana Reitmayorova (SVK) showed some promise last season.
There is also Melissa Wang (TPE) and Ivana Reitmayorova (SVK) showed some promise last season.
Reitmayerova is just an alternate at the moment.
As for Melinda Wang, she is a lovely skater who I enjoy watching, but her PB in a senior competition is from 2008, which was outstanding for her. But she struggled last year and didn't even make the cut for 4CC.
For the numbers-minded, I compiled a list of the ladies' personal bests.
For the ones that didn't have a personal best on record, I used the highest score from a national or other competition. Obviously, these tend to be inflated. For the ones with a personal best from a senior comp., I added an asterisk. The non-official PB scores are in italics.
147.46 Angela Maxwell USA 2008 JGP GBR
146.67 Polina Shelepen RUS 2009 Russia Cup Final
145.00 Haruka Imai JPN 2008 JGP BLR
144.63 Ellie Kawamura USA 2008 SW Regionals
*132.39 Anna Ovcharova RUS 2008 NA Panin Memorial
131.50 Svetlana Issakova EST 2007 JGP GBR
*124.34 Qiuying Zhu CHN 2008 Chinese National Grand Prix
124.18 Miriam Ziegler AUT 2008 JGP RSA
123.85 Mae Berenice Meite FRA 2008 JGP GBR
123.59 Masha Leonov AZE 2008 SA Regionals
119.89 Rebecka Emanuelsson SWE 2008 JGP ESP
*119.58 Melinda Wang TPE 2008 4CC
106.42 Shira Willner GER 2009 German Junior Nationals
99.83 Kristina Kostkova CZE 2008 JGP GBR
99.33 Erle Harstad NOR 2007 JGP BUL
97.62 Isabel Heintges GER 2008 JGP CZE
97.05 Karolina Sykorova SVK 2008 JGP ESP
94.15 Chelse Rose Chiappa HUN 2008 JGP MEX
90.84 Sila Saygi TUR 2009 Novice Triglav Trophy
89.91 Patricia Glecsic SLO 2008 JGP ESP
87.43 Melanie Swang THA 2008 JGP MEX
86.77 Katie Powell GBR 2007 JGP GBR
84.51 Alice Garlisi ITA 2008 JGP ITA
84.42 Rimgaile Meskaite LTU 2008 Novice Coupe de Nice
81.45 Zanna Pugaca LAT 2008 JGP CZE
78.77 Fanni Forgo HUN 2008 JGP BLR
77.70 Sabina Pacquier ROU 2007 Novice Coupe de Nice
69.28 Anja Chong SIN 2008 JGP GBR
60.57 Mila Petrovic SRB 2008 JGP BLR
Feel free to add any corrections.
wow, there're a Japanese and two Japanese-Americans.
Dance. Non ISU PB in italics.
159.30 Gilles/Donohue USA 2009 JGP CZE
155.90 Ilyinikh/Katsalapov RUS 2009 Russia Cup Final
152.29 Routhier/Saucke-Lacelle CAN 2008 JGP GBR
145.61 Alessandrini/Vaturi ITA 2009 Junior Worlds
133.27 Litchman/Copely USA 2009 US Junior Nationals
131.97 Martins/Chau CAN 2008 JGP CZE
131.94 Kosygina/Mozgov RUS 2008 Junior NRW Trophy
124.29 Turoczi/Major HUN 2008 JGP CZE
121.62 Shtork/Rand EST 2007 JGP EST
121.53 Zhang/Wu CHN 2008 Chinese Nationals
119.73 LaFont/Etzol FRA 2009 JGP GER
114.29 Dieck/Zenkner GER 2009 Junior Worlds
113.04 Galyeta/Shumski UKR 2009 Junior Worlds
106.11 Aronow/Pirogov LTU 2008 JGP ESP
102.82 Kavaleva/Bieliaiev BLR 2008 JGP BLR
98.73 Aiken/Whidbourne GBR 2009 British Junior Nationals
98.26 Ila/Majer HUN 2008 Junior NRW Trophy
95.23 Gassoumi/Pasztory FRA 2008 Junior Masters de Patinage
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I believe it was Gilles/Donohue at Czech-hard to break old habits!!
I tried to look and see which of the ladies have landed a 3F in competition - the required solo jump in the junior SP this season.
So far, I have:
Angela Maxwell (USA)
Haruka Imai (JPN)
Polina Shelepen (RUS)
Anna Ovcharova (RUS)
Svetlana Issakova (EST)
Miriam Ziegler & Ellie Kawamura have the 3Lz, but have never landed a 3F in competition to my knowledge.
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I think most of you might have come across the videos of Russian junior performing at Moscow gala. there are couple of really interesting juniors among the performers. Please check youtube videos by figureskatingvid (this is not my channel, i just happened to find them).
the actual event happened around 3 months back.
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I've seen the vids of the show (among others). For the first event:
Shelepen is really talented, and if she skates clean, I imagine she will do very well. Her jumping technique isn't perfect, but she's got all the jumps and she's landed rotated triple-triple. Good spinner, too. Her Biellman is awesome. However, I hope she has worked on three things over the summer: her edges, her jump technique and getting better choreography and programs! I think she could be a very artistic and expressive skater given the right vehicle, which her programs from last season were definitely not.
Anna Ovcharova has really weird jumping technique (though she does have the harder jumps) but I adore her expression. She's fun to watch. Don't expect her to medal but should definitely be in the top 10 and even top 5 is not out of the question.
Ilynyikh/Katsalapov have the it factor, imo. Their programs don't make you think of the elements but of the whole. I like them a lot; I hope they do really well.
Do you have any video Gilles/Donohue?
There should be some on icenetwork, under the archived US Nationals videos.
You could search YouTube. I can't right now because I am at work and YouTube is blocked.
Entries for the third event in Torun, POL are up.
Some highlights:
Ladies: Kanako Murakami (JPN) Ivana Reitmayerova (SVK), Isabel Drescher (GER), Lanie Diggs (USA), Kate Charboneau (CAN) & Polina Agafonova (RUS)
Men: Elladj Balde (CAN), Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN), Artur Gachinski(RUS), Keegan Messing (USA) and Austin Kannallakan (USA)
Pairs: Jones/Gaskell (CAN), Takahashi/Tran (JPN), Novik/Kuznetsov (RUS), Vasilieva/Shevchuk (RUS) and Andrews/Anderson (USA)
Dance: Paul/Islam (CAN), Antipova/Kudashev (RUS), Ilynikh/Katsalapov (RUS), Cannuscio/Lorello (USA) and Olson/Cowan (USA).
Another interesting tidbit is that Victoria Hetch is competing here, in pairs, with Cris Trefil representing Hungary.
Everybody knows that PB at nationals are higher than in ISU competitions.
In fact Routhier/Saucke-Lacelle should be second in your list and not third because their PB at Canadan nationals was 163,53.
Martins/Chau should be 5th and not 6th because their pb at nationals was 141,72
Dieck/Zenkner had at german nationals a PB of 131,48 so they should be 8th and not 12th. We could say the same for other couples.
That's the reason why the only valid PB for world standings are ISU ones.


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The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer of the Occupy movement. The presence of Black Bloc anarchists—so named because they dress in black, obscure their faces, move as a unified mass, seek physical confrontations with police and destroy property—is a gift from heaven to the security and surveillance state. The Occupy encampments in various cities were shut down precisely because they were nonviolent. They were shut down because the state realized the potential of their broad appeal even to those within the systems of power. They were shut down because they articulated a truth about our economic and political system that cut across political and cultural lines. And they were shut down because they were places mothers and fathers with strollers felt safe.
Black Bloc adherents detest those of us on the organized left and seek, quite consciously, to take away our tools of empowerment. They confuse acts of petty vandalism and a repellent cynicism with revolution. The real enemies, they argue, are not the corporate capitalists, but their collaborators among the unions, workers' movements, radical intellectuals, environmental activists and populist movements such as the Zapatistas. Any group that seeks to rebuild social structures, especially through nonviolent acts of civil disobedience, rather than physically destroy, becomes, in the eyes of Black Bloc anarchists, the enemy. Black Bloc anarchists spend most of their fury not on the architects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) or globalism, but on those, such as the Zapatistas, who respond to the problem. It is a grotesque inversion of value systems.
Because Black Bloc anarchists do not believe in organization, indeed oppose all organized movements, they ensure their own powerlessness. They can only be obstructionist. And they are primarily obstructionist to those who resist. John Zerzan, one of the principal ideologues of the Black Bloc movement in the United States, defended "Industrial Society and Its Future," the rambling manifesto by Theodore Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, although he did not endorse Kaczynski's bombings. Zerzan is a fierce critic of a long list of supposed sellouts starting with Noam Chomsky. Black Bloc anarchists are an example of what Theodore Roszak in "The Making of a Counter Culture" called the "progressive adolescentization" of the American left.
In Zerzan's now defunct magazine Green Anarchy (which survives as a website) he published an article by someone named "Venomous Butterfly" that excoriated the Zapatista Army for National Liberation (EZLN). The essay declared that "not only are those [the Zapatistas'] aims not anarchist; they are not even revolutionary." It also denounced the indigenous movement for "nationalist language," for asserting the right of people to "alter or modify their form of government" and for having the goals of "work, land, housing, health care, education, independence, freedom, democracy, justice and peace." The movement, the article stated, was not worthy of support because it called for "nothing concrete that could not be provided by capitalism."
"Of course," the article went on, "the social struggles of exploited and oppressed people cannot be expected to conform to some abstract anarchist ideal. These struggles arise in particular situations, sparked by specific events. The question of revolutionary solidarity in these struggles is, therefore, the question of how to intervene in a way that is fitting with one's aims, in a way that moves one's revolutionary anarchist project forward."
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"The Black Bloc can say they are attacking cops, but what they are really doing is destroying the Occupy movement," the writer and environmental activist Derrick Jensen told me when I reached him by phone in California. "If their real target actually was the cops and not the Occupy movement, the Black Bloc would make their actions completely separate from Occupy, instead of effectively using these others as a human shield. Their attacks on cops are simply a means to an end, which is to destroy a movement that doesn't fit their ideological standard."
"I don't have a problem with escalating tactics to some sort of militant resistance if it is appropriate morally, strategically and tactically," Jensen continued. "This is true if one is going to pick up a sign, a rock or a gun. But you need to have thought it through. The Black Bloc spends more time attempting to destroy movements than they do attacking those in power. They hate the left more than they hate capitalists."
"Their thinking is not only nonstrategic, but actively opposed to strategy," said Jensen, author of several books, including "The Culture of Make Believe." "They are unwilling to think critically about whether one is acting appropriately in the moment. I have no problem with someone violating boundaries [when] that violation is the smart, appropriate thing to do. I have a huge problem with people violating boundaries for the sake of violating boundaries. It is a lot easier to pick up a rock and throw it through the nearest window than it is to organize, or at least figure out which window you should throw a rock through if you are going to throw a rock. A lot of it is laziness."
Groups of Black Bloc protesters, for example, smashed the windows of a locally owned coffee shop in November in Oakland and looted it. It was not, as Jensen points out, a strategic, moral or tactical act. It was done for its own sake. Random acts of violence, looting and vandalism are justified, in the jargon of the movement, as components of "feral" or "spontaneous insurrection." These acts, the movement argues, can never be organized. Organization, in the thinking of the movement, implies hierarchy, which must always be opposed. There can be no restraints on "feral" or "spontaneous" acts of insurrection. Whoever gets hurt gets hurt. Whatever gets destroyed gets destroyed.
There is a word for this—"criminal."
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The typical treatments for chemical and/or bio attack would be to evacuate the area. THAT would be a legitimate "bug-out" scenario IMO.
I don't know that there is a magic bullet for any and all scenarios. How often do you see areas needing to be evacuated because a train derailed and dumped chemicals somewhere? You really can't "protect" against stuff like that, you have to leave the area. Grab a gun, the dogs, and the wife, and drive out of town for a mini-vacation.
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Another short film I made of all the insect creatures in my backyard. There are some great bee moments in this one.
It seems to play a little smoother if you go directly to the Vimeo site and play it there.
Another short film I made of all the insect creatures in my backyard. There are some great bee moments in this one.
It seems to play a little smoother if you go directly to the Vimeo site and play it there.
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Nice work, thanks for sharing!
Nice work. What equipment did you shoot that on?
Thanks, I shared it on our clubs facebook page.
It was shot using my Canon 7D and various Canon lenses. 85mm f1.8, 24-70mm f2.8 L, 70-200mm f4 L are usually the lenses I use for my macro work along with some extention tubes.
Macro photography is one thing, but shooting video in macro mode is a lot harder. I'm hoping to get better at it using my bees as the subject matter. I actually shot some today when I had the hive open.
Thanks for the kind words.
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nice work.
I wanted to swat my screen when the housefly part came on.
Yeah, I thought about not adding that fly to the video, but it was pretty interesting to watch it clean itself. The dirty bugger!
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Nice work, Chas...makes me want to pack up my cameras and go home after watching those incredible videos. One question, the music really adds a dimension to the whole thing. Did you have to get permission to use the music? How do you go about doing that?
Solarbeez, sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Busy with my bees, life, work and all sorts of other things. Real busy!
Thank you for watching it. The music, errrrr, well... that's a subject matter that always comes up. The artist is Joe Sample and I believe the song is called, "Summertime." And no, I did not have permission to use it. I understand all the implications that go along with this sort of thing. And I won't make any excuses for using it either other than the song fit perfectly and I really like it.
Now there are ways to go about using music in your videos that is "legal." Some you have to pay for and some is free. Are any of them as good? Well that's a debatable. Do a Google search for Royalty Free Music and you should find all sorts of stuff.
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"I try to keep the kids happy, while still going out and being a spokesman for Shriners and the community," the clown said Sunday at the 140th annual Habibi Shrine circus. "We have several different acts. Today we will do the chicken dance, a levitation act, and a photograph act, which I like the most because I get to hit another clown with a powder puff."
Brian Ezell, Chief Rabban of the Habibi Shrine in Lake Charles, said there are 22 hospitals in the United States and Canada who are helped with the money raised over the weekend.
"We treat children with burns and orthopedic problems at no cost to the family," Ezell said. "This circus is the only fundraiser we have for us to maintain and keep our organization in Lake Charles operating. All of the other money we raise goes to the hospital."
Traveling since February, circus producer James Plunkett said the circus efforts start with the Shriners who start weeks in advance to advertise that the circus is coming in town.
"We go from town to town, so when we get here it takes us about 10 hours to get everything set up," Plunkett said. "Lake Charles is our final spot. We will all be going home Monday."
He said most of the performers will go back to Texas, Florida and Las Vegas.
"This is a tradition that goes back 200 years," Plunkett said. "We just hope folks have a good time."
Acts included acrobats on rings and ropes, motorcycles circling in a sphere, several clown acts, and tricks by elephants, dogs, and tigers.
Nine-year-old Donavyn McCoy said he liked all the parts but he liked the tigers the most.
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A double-lung shot, no large bones hit (maybe a rib or two), a single shot fired, no shoulder/leg broken? If it was feeding quietly when hit, and not previously alerted/adrenalized, maybe 50-200 yards. If running, already freaked-out/scared by previous shots, then 1/2 mile is not out of the question. A friend smacked a large mid-western whitetail with a .223 softpoint through the lungs, no bones hit, 2" exit wound, but the deer wasn't hit until shot number three, and by then he was already in high gear. Ran 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile, laid down, he shot again and missed (bad move; should have let it bleed out), it got up and ran another mile before expiring (all distances measured, as the deer's path paralleled a road).
Lots of variables in this situation; I wouldn't bet anything at all on any result being certain or near-certain.
As far as your weapon choices, the natural winner would be the big-bore, but with two requirements; you shoot it as well or better than the .357, and it can be brought to zero with the hunting load. I believe "holding off" (high/low/left/right) on game is a bad idea; if you can't zero the gun precisely, then accuracy (and confidence) suffers. If you shoot the .357 significantly better, then use it; the .45 is only a better choice if the bullet hits where you want it to.


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