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(Top) "Parade" by Mimi Kato
(Bottom) "Ephemerali 2" by Brian Jobe
Grona Gallery hosts exhibits by UTSA graduates
By Tim Brownlee
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(Aug. 14, 2006)--Mimi Kato and Brian Jobe, two May 2006 graduates of the UTSA master of fine arts program, are showing their art this month at the Joan Grona Gallery in the Blue Star Arts Complex.
Jobe's sculpture exhibit, "Ephemerali," can be seen through Friday, Aug. 25. Kato's photograph exhibit, "Yokai Zyukkei: Scenery with Monsters," can be viewed through Aug. 26.
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According to Jobe, his sculptures present viewers with a sense of order through the assemblage of materials. "I channel compulsive energy into meticulous organization," said Jobe. "Ordered systems in nature, like fractals, motivate my constructions. These systems expose life's minutiae, a hidden life beneath the surface."
Jobe earned a B.F.A. in 2004 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He has shown his work in numerous group and solo exhibition in San Antonio and in Tennessee. Kato describes the works in this exhibit as "monsters that used to live close to my life."
"These monsters that are disappearing from the imagination of contemporary society were man's friends," said Kato. "They were something to be scared of, and their stories facilitated the moral teaching of children. I experienced them in an intimate way through storybooks during my childhood, just imagining them to appear in front of me. Now, I hardly see them anywhere in our world. These monsters could not keep up with modern fast-paced life... In this work, I brought them back to our time now, depicting them living in a contemporary context."
The Joan Grona Gallery is at Blue Star Arts Complex Suite 112 at South Alamo and Probandt streets in downtown San Antonio. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Wednesday-Saturday, noon-5 p,m., Sunday, or by appointment.
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I am always impressed with his shipping. Sometimes I just get the order placed then a few minutes later i'm getting the tracking numbers!
Another +1 for Curtis, got some barrel pins and rivets with very fast shipping. The go to guy for AK building supplies!
I am always impressed with his shipping. Sometimes I just get the order placed then a few minutes later i'm getting the tracking numbers!
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Just got one of his 74 kits and could not be happier!
Curtis is not only running a great business, he is a really good guy also.
"Courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway." - The Duke
Bought two barreled kits from him recently, a pistol kit, and a khyber pass 47. Both went together perfectly. Just like building in the old days with the original barrels, but much more expensive.
I have delt with Curtis a few times he is very professional and with work with you to get what you want. A+
Since I am still new and cant see links or photos.... can you all tell me more aobut Curtis? I need to buy 5-6 AK kits for a group project for a group of us guys to take on this winter. Seems like he could get me in the right direction for with im looking for. Thanks.

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Sunny Room beside 6 tourist attractions! Great value.
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Basic sunny room, sunshine from morning till afternoon. You will be in a tranquil and respectful property sharing with others, so we are not the place stay if you are a party animal.
During your stay with us you will be in one of the greenest parts of Barcelona, where a nearby a TaiChi group of hundreds of people practice from every Sat. & Sun. 9-11am. any level & cost free, if you are interested.
Walking to Las Ramblas, Plaza Catalunya & the beaches within 10-12 mins.
Flats includes ADSL / Wifi with enough room furniture for your stay.
Only deposit for the keys. Require neat person, not party animal. Please give a brief introduction of yourself, thanks.
Free parking available -Walking distance 10-12 mins.
More about the local area, Plaza de España.
One of the city's biggest squares, it is the junction of several major thoroughfares: Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, Avinguda del Paral·lel, Carrer de la Creu Coberta and Carrer de Tarragona, and leads to the Palau Nacional through Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina, which houses one of Catalonia's finest museums, the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC). It was designed by Josep Amargós. The fountain at the centre of the square was designed by Josep Maria Jujol, a collaborator of Antoni Gaudí, while Miquel Blay designed the statues. The buildings were designed by Nicolau Maria Rubió i Tudurí.
Venetian Towers - they are 47 m (154 ft) tall and lead the way to the MNAC via Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina, an avenue commonly used to host trade fairs.
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Arenas de Barcelona, a bullring - It was built in 1900 in the Moorish Revival style and has been converted into a shopping center.
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Certain tidiness in the room is required and respect for others in the flat. As a new concept of rental, I ask my guests not too loud in the building or in the flat, not fill the elevator With Other neighbors, you can take our clean & spacious stairs sometimes. A quietness is required after 10:45 pm by spanish law provision. Please close the doors lightly. Be careful When press the door bell, so the neighbors not be "bothered". Try to not fill the elevator with other neighbors, take the next one or use our clean spacious stairs, thank you.
The kitchen is only for breakfast, storing food and heating food in micro-oven. Barcelona have good bread, salami, ham and fruits etc, thanks.(The guests stay here more than 4 days can cook some warm meals)..Do the laundry cost €5 every use.
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Le lieu est très bien placé à 1 min de plaça de espanya,c est très pratique :métro, bus,bus de nuit, il y a le choix pour se déplacer facilement.
Pour l appart : chambre très simple, mais tel que présenté sur les photos,par contre le ménage de la salle de bain et de la cuisine pourrait être approfondi, enfin fait tout simplement ,si vous êtes maniaque du ménage :n y allez pas!sinon ça fait l affaire !
muy buenas,,la verdad que la estancia en el piso de jen fue muy buena,el trato de la madre de jen esquesito,no molesta por nada,y lo agradesco,,,aconsego a qualquiera que no duda a cogerlo...ademas del bon trato el piso se encuentra en un muy buen lugar..cerca de plaza españa y el montjuic y todo transporte publico....gracias jen
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The room was very small and the house was stinking a bit, we paid for a triple room and we could not even pass through the door when the third bed (just a mattress) was on the dust on the floor.
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I thought it would be a good idea to document an experience with Hopguard for other people's future reference. I currently have a pretty bad mite and DWV problem in my 2 hives, details are here http://www.beesource.com/forums/show...med-Wing-Virus
I don't want to spark another treat vs. no treat debate, I just want to share the experience with others so they can choose their path if and when their time comes and I know that Hopguard is still fairly new to the fight against mites.
So here are my hives.
I received my Hopguard in the mail today from Mann Lake. From researching my plan is to put 2 strips per 10 frame deep once a week for 3 weeks. The Hopguard is a liquid with cardboard strips used to soak up the liquid and hang over the frames. From my 15 years of homebrewing I can tell you that it definitely smells just like Hops. I wasn't brave enough to taste it.
So I installed 2 strips in Hive 2 and 4 strips in Hive 1. Hive 1 was my first hive that I started from a package last year. I split the hive this year on April 4th into hive 2 letting them raise their own queen (and trying to break the mite cycle). I also made sticky boards and placed them under each hive which have screened bottom boards. Installing them was simple and the bees did not seem to mind them at all or run away from them.
Just out of curiosity I pulled the sticky board from beneath hive 2, 2.5 hours after I put in the strips and I didn't count, but there were easily 100 mites on the sticky board. Hive #1's sticky board is stapled underneath, so I didn't pull it. I checked the front of the hives before the sun went down and all appeared normal.
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Re: Planning Buying 3 Vitas for our 3kids
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Wow you're a nice parent, good for you, I am sure your kids will love them. To answer your questions:
1) I believe ps+ will only transfer to two Vitas, but I may be incorrect
2) I believe it may only apply to two as well since on the disclamer for some games at least it states that the games are able to be transfered over to two systems either portable or console.
3) I believe only one account can be linked with the Vita since the 1.80 update.
4) Yes it does connect via Ad-Hoc, but some games may not allow that option, but for the most part yes.
5) Lego Batman is a port of the 3DS and from what I've heard pretty disappointing, but for kids i believe they will love anything with Batman. BlackOPsD is sort of short on the single player side but I'm enjoying it.
6) A bundle is you're best bet regardless of whether you want BO2 because you literally get afree game and a free memory card, plus the $50 off on the original price.
7) For games for kids I recommend Little Big Planet Vita, Gravity Rush, Need for Speed Mod Nation Racers, and PS+ is a no brainer for new Vita owners.
Now anyone from the community feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on any of the points. Cheers.
just that ps+ only works if its the same account. however, you can probably download to ps3, and try to transfer it to the vita from ps3 through content manager.
most of the other stuff is right (not 100% about crossbuy though)
also, if your looking to get a bundle, the ac3 bundle might be a good deal, but A) ac3L might be to old for kids, and B) if your not going to buy each 1, 2 are gonna think you like the 3rd the best cause he/she got a white vita.
Re: Planning Buying 3 Vitas for our 3kids
Sony needs to get with the times and allow some kind of family deal and account, it's ridiculous. It's this type of restriction that turns people away from buying one.
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I am in a similiar boat as you. I have a ps vita, and both my kids do as well (5 and 10). I bought mine on release day from amazon, but theirs I bought off of craigslist for much better deals (8 games, a 4GB card for each, case for each all for 425 total). So if you miss out on a new one, used might not be a bad place to look.
now back on topic, with 3 Vitas in the house, and I already having plus we need to figure out
1) are plus games tied to one acct?
2) sub accounts can get plus, but as per their ToS the person has to be 18.
3) can plus games be moved over on the ps3 to the sub accounts? (psp games will not move)
A few other things you may like to know is if you child is under 13 some features in near and other options are turned off. They are able to chat without a hitch though.
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My bee's are normally cool and don't even pay me any attention when I get with a foot of the entrance. Today I went to observe and they sent guard bees out after me and I got stung and chased 200 feet.
Yesterday I had to take all the components apart trying to make a split. Could ot do it due to comb bridging so I put it back together. I had a bout 6 swarm cells that were closed. I may have crushed them or at least a few.
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Brent A. Barlow, "A Rock-Solid Foundation for Marriage," Liahona, June 2003
In Helaman 5:12, every couple and individual can find solid counsel for building a lasting marriage relationship.
Irene Eubanks, "Putting My Marriage before My Pride," Liahona, Jan. 2008
Like any couple, my husband and I have had disagreements during our marriage. But one incident stands out in my mind. I no longer recall the reason for our disagreement, but we ended up not speaking at all, and I remember feeling that it was all my husband's fault. I felt I had done absolutely nothing for which I needed to apologize.
"Strengthening the Family: A Solemn Responsibility to Love and Care," Liahona, July 2005
Happiness in marriage is not so much a matter of romance as it is an anxious concern for the comfort and well-being of one's companion.
"Nurturing a Love That Lasts," Liahona, May 2000
President David O. McKay observed that too many couples come to "marriage looking upon the marriage ceremony as the end of courtship instead of the beginning of an eternal courtship. … Love can be starved to death as literally as the body that receives no sustenance. Love feeds upon kindness and courtesy."
"Falling Out of Love … and Climbing Back In," Liahona, Jan. 2005
The key to fixing my marriage was to learn to see my husband as the Savior saw him.
Marvin J. Ashton, "Guide to Family Finance," Liahona, Apr. 2000
How important are money management and finances in marriage and family affairs? May I respond, "Tremendously." … Money in the lives of Latter-day Saints should be used as a means of achieving eternal happiness. Careless and selfish uses cause us to live in financial bondage. We can't afford to neglect personal and family involvement in our money management. God will open the windows of heaven to us in these matters if we will but live close to Him and keep His commandments
Robert D. Hales, "Preparing for a Heavenly Marriage," Liahona, Feb. 2006
A celestial marriage requires, after the vows are taken, a continuing consecrated life of worthiness leading to happiness and exaltation. If we live the laws properly, we will, with another individual and with our family, be able to have a little heaven on earth. Something as wonderful as a celestial marriage doesn't just happen.
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That's the advice from an increasing number of Latter-day Saints in India, who know that blessings come from going to the house of the Lord.


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If you're a fan of berries and bananas, you'll enjoy this frothy delicious refresher. "It's great to serve at breakfast or brunch," says Linda Hendrix from Moundville, Missouri. "My 4-1/2-year-old son comes running when he hears the blender going."
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- 1 cup milk
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- 1 package (10 ounces) frozen sweetened sliced strawberries, partially thawed
- 1 medium firm banana, cut into chunks
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 6 ice cubes
- In a blender, combine all ingredients. Cover and process until smooth. Pour into chilled glasses; serve immediately. Yield: 4 servings.
Editor's Note: This recipe may easily be doubled and prepared in two batches in a blender.
Originally published as Strawberry Banana Smoothies in Country Woman May/June 2002, p40
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"I must say, I am a big fan of strawberry banana smoothies. I love testing different recipes. On top of that anyone who makes this recipe is a total dumb piece of [expletive] that just wasted all the goddamn ingredients. Tastes like a horses [expletive]. topped off with a side of whale *****. with some added gorilla ***. I will never make this no good stupid dumb recipe again for it just ruined my life. P.S. DO NOT under any circumstances substitute strawberries for strawberry éclair bars. makes it taste worst that it already does."
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"Love this filling, fruity smoothie. Summer in a glass. The only thing I would change is.... leaving the water out."


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What Happened To The Flight Sim?
Posted on 14th Oct 2009 at 09:59 by Antony Leather with 24 comments
Fleet Defender, Aces over Europe, Red Baron, Battle of Britain, Hind, 1942: Pacific Air War, Air Warrior 3, Apache Longbow, Operation Overlord. I could go on for quite a while before I have to mention Microsoft Flight Simulator which was just a drop in the pond. But this isn't a list of flight sims released in the last 20 years, it's that of those to hit the shelves in a fraction of that time in the 1990's when the PC gaming isle in your average Game store was a little longer. It was also crammed full of flight sim titles.
So what happened? In case you haven't noticed, flight sims have been listed in the endangered species list of PC game genres for several years now. With the demise of ACES Studio, the guys behind Microsoft Flight Simulator, the longest running game franchise on the PC, there are but a handful of companies actually left in the genre now - and even fewer produce combat flight sims!


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Root vegetables and honey-mustard-glazed chicken are roasted together for layer upon layer of intense flavor, with very little added fat. If your parsnips are large and have spongy or woody centers, cut out the cores before slicing.
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Preheat oven to 375°F. Coat a large roasting pan with cooking spray.
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Combine potatoes, carrots, parsnips, garlic and oil in the roasting pan. Season with 1/4 teaspoon salt and pepper; toss well. Season chicken with the remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt and pepper and place, skinned-side down, in the center of the pan with rosemary sprigs. Sprinkle with chopped rosemary. Roast the chicken and vegetables for 20 minutes.
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We are coming to the end of an unusually cool spring down here in the deep south, that has the bees a little behind last year in their honey production, but doing well.We have started participating in our local farmer's market, which has been so much fun! One of our ducks hatched out 2 ducklings of her own and two more are setting on eggs. I caught a swarm the day after Easter and brought my hive total up to three. :) And so much more!
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I posted this earlier this week on the BB website and was suggested to post it over here on the organic beekeeping site. Since originally posting this I have put the honey into gallon buckets and came up with just over 3 gallons. I have tested it every day since straining it and keeping a fan blowing over it and it is staying consistantly above 19.5%. Unfortunately it is getting wintertime over here and that means rain and it has been raining off and on the last 3 days and humidity has bumped up to the 70% range, hot and muggy. Any suggestions?
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I just recently harvest my first batch of honey from 2 of my hives. I pulled only frames of honey that were 90+% capped and left the partially capped framed to be completed for next harvest I crushed and strained the comb and got almost 3 gallons of honey.
After straining for 3 days, I pulled a bottle off to taste & test and my refractometer said it was 19.2% water. I set the uncovered bucket in a closet with a fan overnight and retested after about 15 hours drying and it got worse 19.5%. I tested several samples from top, bottom, middle, all mixed up and it was all over 19%. I tested a section of capped comb I kept for eating and it was 18.5%.
I live in Hawaii where it if contantly very humid in the 55-65% relative humidity. During out wet wintertime or after a rain shower 70+% humidity is the norm.
How can I dry out my honey with such humidity? I was thinking of putting a jar of that damp rid desiccant (calcium chloride) in the closet with a fan and shut the door, but wanted to get others opinions before I ruin my first batch of honey. If I do this would I need to pour the honey into a pan for more surface area? or is the 5 gallon bucket okay aslong as I stir it occasionally?
I'm on day 5 of my honey being uncapped when will it start going bad and fermenting? I know this is a LA based forum, but hopefully someone from other humid places like Florida, Louisiana or Washington can tell me how they deal with the humidity and keeping your honey under 18% water. Once I get the honey below 18% and bottle and cap it do I still need to worry about it reabsorbing water?
Thanks for helping me save my very first harvest of honey. I want it to be a sweet memorable harvest I can remember, not a sour fermented mess that gets wasted.


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The canalith repositioning procedure can help relieve benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), a condition in which you have brief, but intense, episodes of dizziness that occur when you move your head. Vertigo usually comes from a problem with the part of the inner ear responsible for balance (vestibular labyrinth). BPPV occurs when tiny particles called otoconia in one part of your inner ear break loose and fall into the canals of your inner ear.
The canalith repositioning procedure can move the otoconia to a part of your ear where they won't cause dizziness. Performed in your doctor's office and at home, the canalith repositioning procedure consists of several simple head maneuvers. The procedure is quite effective, relieving vertigo in 80 percent or more of individuals after one or two treatments. However, the problem may recur.
Ear tubes (tympanostomy tubes, ventilation tubes, pressure equalization tubes) are tiny cylinders, usually made of plastic or metal, that are surgically inserted into the eardrum. An ear tube creates an airway that ventilates the middle ear and prevents the accumulation of fluids behind the eardrum.
Ear tubes are often recommended for children who have persistent fluid buildup behind the eardrum, especially if the condition causes hearing loss and affects speech development. Your child's doctor may also recommend ear tubes if your child gets frequent ear infections.
Most ear tubes fall out within six to 12 months, and the holes heal shut on their own. Some tubes need to be removed, and some holes may need to be closed surgically.
Esophageal manometry (muh-NOM-uh-tree) is a test that gauges how well your esophagus works. Your esophagus is the long, muscular tube that connects your throat to your stomach. Esophageal manometry measures the rhythmic muscle contractions (peristalsis) that occur in your esophagus when you swallow. Esophageal manometry also measures the coordination and force exerted by the muscles of your esophagus.
During esophageal manometry, a thin, flexible tube (catheter) that contains sensors is passed through your nose, down your esophagus and into your stomach. Esophageal manometry can be helpful in diagnosing some mostly uncommon disorders that affect your esophagus.
Laryngotracheal (luh-ring-go-TRAY-key-ul) reconstruction surgery widens your windpipe (trachea) to make breathing easier. Laryngotracheal reconstruction involves inserting a small piece of cartilage — stiff connective tissue found in many areas of your body — into the narrowed section of the windpipe.
Children most commonly experience problems with a narrowed windpipe. It can occur for many reasons, including injury, infection, stomach acid reflux, a birth defect or the result of the insertion of a breathing tube. An adult's windpipe can become narrowed for the same reasons, but the cause may also be a disease that causes blood vessel or tissue inflammation, such as Wegener's granulomatosis or sarcoidosis.
The goal of laryngotracheal reconstruction is to provide a safe and stable airway without the use of assistance from a breathing tube.
Otoplasty — also known as cosmetic ear surgery — is a procedure to change the shape, position or size of the ears.
You might choose to have otoplasty if you're bothered by how far your ears stick out from your head. You might also consider otoplasty if your ear or ears are misshapen due to an injury or birth defect.
Otoplasty can be done at any age after the ears have reached their full size — usually after age 5 — through adulthood.
The pillar procedure is minor surgery intended to relieve habitual snoring and treat mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea, a potentially serious disorder in which breathing is interrupted repeatedly during sleep. Both snoring and obstructive sleep apnea may result from a relaxation of muscles at the back of your throat.
The pillar procedure involves surgically placing small polyester rods in the soft palate. Each implant measures 18 millimeters (mm) in length — slightly less than an inch — and 1.5 mm in diameter. The subsequent healing of tissue around the implants stiffens the soft palate, thereby reducing relaxation and vibration of the tissue.
The pillar procedure is usually done in your doctor's office with local anesthesia.
Polysomnography, also called a sleep study, is a test used to diagnose sleep disorders. Polysomnography records your brain waves, the oxygen level in your blood, heart rate and breathing, as well as eye and leg movements during the study.
Polysomnography usually is done at a sleep disorders unit within a hospital or at a sleep center. You'll be asked to come to the sleep center in the evening for polysomnography so that the test can record your nighttime sleep patterns. Polysomnography is occasionally done during the day to accommodate shift workers who habitually sleep during the day.
In addition to helping diagnose sleep disorders, polysomnography may be used to help adjust your treatment plan if you've already been diagnosed with a sleep disorder.
Septoplasty (SEP-toe-plas-tee) is a surgical procedure to correct a deviated nasal septum — a displacement of the bone and cartilage that divides your two nostrils. During septoplasty, your nasal septum is straightened and repositioned in the middle of your nose. This may require your surgeon to cut and remove parts of your septum before reinserting them in the proper position.
When planning septoplasty, your surgeon considers your symptoms — such as breathing difficulties — and the physical structure and features of your nose. Talk with your surgeon about what septoplasty can achieve for you.
Tonsillectomy (ton-sih-LEK-tuh-me) is the surgical removal of the tonsils, two oval-shaped pads of tissue at the back of the throat — one tonsil on each side.
A tonsillectomy was once a common procedure to treat infection and inflammation of the tonsils (tonsillitis). Today, a tonsillectomy is usually performed for sleep-disordered breathing but may still be a treatment when tonsillitis occurs frequently or doesn't respond to other treatments.
A tonsillectomy may also be necessary to treat breathing and other problems related to enlarged tonsils and to treat rare diseases of the tonsils.
Recovery time for a tonsillectomy is usually at least 10 days to two weeks.
Tracheostomy (tray-key-OS-tuh-me) is a surgically created hole through the front of your neck and into your windpipe (trachea). The term for the surgical procedure to create this opening is tracheotomy.
A tracheostomy provides an air passage to help you breathe when the usual route for breathing is somehow obstructed or impaired. A tracheostomy is often needed when health problems require long-term use of a machine (ventilator) to help you breathe. In rare cases, an emergency tracheotomy is performed when your airway is suddenly blocked, such as after a traumatic injury to your face or neck.
When a tracheostomy is no longer needed, it's allowed to heal shut or is surgically closed. For some people, a tracheostomy is permanent.


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Water has been the major issue of the year, writes Federated Farmers president Bruce Wills.
It is nearly Christmas again and I cannot believe I am almost 18 months into my term as president of Federated Farmers. It is a bigger job than I envisaged, but I know we are making good progress. Federated Farmers has achieved strong membership growth this year and the job of supporting farmers to achieve sustainable and profitable farming is more important than ever.
I am continually humbled by the enormous effort so many farmers commit to our organisation, in many cases at considerable cost. Your efforts are noted and very appreciated.
This year's number one issue was water, particularly our efforts on the Land and Water Forum (LaWF). LaWF is about compromise and the collaborative process has been long and arduous, but my hope is the outcome will be more enduring for it all.
Decisions about how we farm with water are better made by affected communities than distant judges. Yes, we have given some ground, but so have those who have rallied against us. Our over-riding focus has been that farming must remain profitable and must be allowed to grow.
Yes, we must do better at excluding stock from water, put more effort into ensuring our soils stay where they are supposed to and yes, we need to better manage animal effluent.
None of this is new and many farmers already meet these obligations, but we will need to collectively 'up' our efforts. Sustainable farming is in all our interests.
As we head toward the summer holiday season there are a few clouds on our horizon. Our determinedly high currency and the economic weakness in our major trade partners is having a negative effect on farm-gate returns. There is little the Federation can do to alleviate this, but we are fighting for farmers in areas where we can make a difference.
The Federation remains committed to reducing the regulation and unreasonable restrictions to the way we farm, such as the Manawatu-Wanganui regional council's One Plan.
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Is Economy Too Fragile to Raise the Minimum Wage?
President Barack Obama says a minimum wage boost can help lift low-income workers out of poverty. A new study says a pay increase amid economic uncertainty could damage the job prospects of those the policy intends to help.
In his State of the Union address last week, the president called on Congress to increase the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour, from $7.25. "Americans overwhelmingly agree that no one who works full time should ever have to raise a family in poverty," Mr. Obama said.
But Joseph Sabia, an economist at San Diego State University, said minimum-wage increases aren't the poverty-fighting tool the president thinks. In a newly released study, Mr. Sabia found that minimum-wage increases hit employment for low-skilled workers particularly hard in times of high unemployment.
"There's never a good time to raise the minimum wage," Mr. Sabia said during a presentation last week in Washington. "But times of economic uncertainty and recession are the worst times."
Economists have argued for years about the precise effect of the minimum wage on low-skilled workers. Mr. Sabia tries to shed new light on the topic by focusing his argument on the economy's health at the time of a minimum wage increase.
Among high-school dropouts under the age of 25, a group that disproportionately earns the lowest pay, a 10% increase in the minimum wage will reduce employment for the group by 2.1% when the overall unemployment rate is less than 5%.
But when the unemployment rate in a state exceeds 8%, that same group sees their employment fall 4.2% when the minimum wage rises by 10%. The president is backing a 39% jump in the wage.
If the new rate were to take effect when a state is entering a period of high unemployment, "that could result in a nearly 16% reduction in low-wage jobs," Mr. Sabia said at an event hosted by the American Action Forum and the Employment Policies Institute, two right-leaning think tanks.
California, Illinois and five other states had unemployment rates at 8% or higher in December, according to the Labor Department.
Mr. Sabia said policymakers should carefully assess the economic environment before implementing a minimum-wage hike. He worries lawmakers will forgo that option by tying future increases to the rate of inflation, as some Democrats propose.
Indexing the minimum wage to inflation "puts low-skilled workers on auto pilot to poorer and poorer lives," he said.
Other researchers say Mr. Sabia's study focuses on too narrow of a group and overlooks the economic benefits of wage increases. "For the most part, very careful study usually finds no effects on employment," said Adriana Kugler, a Georgetown University professor of public policy.
She said a minimum wage increase is long overdue. The rate has held steady for more than four years. When adjusted for inflation, it is well below the bottom pay received in the 1960s.
"Increasing the wage to $10.10 raises two million people out of poverty," Ms. Kugler said. "Stagnation of the minimum wage has led to rising inequality at the bottom end of the pay distribution."
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CRITICAL TRANSITIONS IN NATURE AND SOCIETY. Marten Scheffer. xiv + 384 pp. Princeton University Press, 2009. $99.50 cloth, $45 paper.
Like many before him, Marten Scheffer is impressed with parallels between social systems and natural systems. Moreover, he is convinced that problems confronting the human race require something more integrated than the fragmentary knowledge of the various academic disciplines. In short, he seeks to span the famous "two cultures" and to take a long stride toward consilience. Coming from a background in limnology and aquatic ecology, Scheffer is inevitably more at home in some arenas of knowledge than others, and his new book, Critical Transitions in Nature and Society, is mainly about the critical transitions in nature that are of interest to society. An example with which he begins the book is typical: the transformation of the Western Sahara into desert about 5,500 years ago as a result of initially small climate change that built on itself because the drier climate reduced vegetation, thereby heightening albedo.
Part of Scheffer's aim is to contribute to the study of how well the theory of system dynamics corresponds to real life, in the behavior both of nature and of society. "If we are able to pin down the mechanisms at work," he says, "this may eventually open up the possibility of predicting, preventing, or catalyzing big shifts in nature and society." To be able to do so is a long-standing human ambition, which has been given fullest rein in political regimes that have seen utopia just over the horizon and have aimed to get there as soon as possible. In the abstract, such ambition seems laudable. In practice, it has led to many regrettable "big shifts" in nature and society, such as those undertaken in the headiest days of the Soviet Union or Mao Zedong's rule in China. To date, those most keen on provoking "big shifts" have known far too little, and perhaps cared too little as well, about the possible outcomes of their actions. When results did not conform closely enough to their hopes, they used their powers to try to force society and nature into preferred channels, which led to gulags and environmental disasters. When trying to catalyze big shifts in nature and society, one must really know what one is doing—and that is very, very hard to do.
Scheffer would like to contribute to making it easier. He wants humankind to achieve a proper understanding of what he calls the "Social-Eco-Earth-System," so that the predictability possible in petri dishes or lake ecosystems may be achieved on larger scales. This would allow, if not perfectibility of the human condition, then at least reliable improvement. Scheffer doesn't say so, but a good argument for that goal, at least as far as big shifts in the "Eco-Earth" parts of the puzzle are concerned, is that humankind in recent decades, perhaps recent centuries, has acquired the technological power to effect "big shifts" without meaning to. For example, between 1930 and 1990 we dramatically thinned the stratospheric ozone layer without intending to do so, and until the 1980s we did this without realizing we were doing so. Given such powers, it is advisable either to try to avoid causing such shifts altogether, or to make them happen on purpose and carefully, rather than by happenstance as we have typically done. This would require far better knowledge than anyone currently has. So Scheffer's ambition, at least as regards nature, is justifiable.
Whether or not this applies to big shifts in society as well seems less clear. Political conservatives are reflexively skeptical of efforts to reform society and the state that seem to smack of utopianism. They decry the excesses of the French, Russian and Chinese revolutions and argue that all such attempts necessarily run afoul of the basic fact of human imperfectibility. Their opponents think this cautious approach throws the baby out with the bathwater. They think calculated efforts can yield great improvements—big shifts—in society that are worth struggling to achieve. Over the past 12,000 years, since the first transition to agriculture, our species has repeatedly shown itself capable of big shifts in society, mainly unintended. Whether or not purposive shifts have a better record than accidental ones is impossible to say. We lack criteria for measurement. And unforeseen consequences have always been a large component of any purposive shift.
Part 1 of this book (the first 105 pages) consists of a primer on system dynamics. The presentation is mainly abstract, with occasional brief examples, a bit like a compressed version of a textbook. Graphs abound, but all differential equations and probability functions have been banished to an appendix. Readers learn about equilibrium, resilience, attractors, basins of attraction, strange attractors, hysteresis, homoclinic bifurcation and so forth—there is a helpful glossary of terms at the end of the book. The glossary defines a regime shift as "a relatively sharp change from one regime to a contrasting one, where a regime is a dynamic 'state' of a system with its characteristic stochastic fluctuations and/or cycles."
The main point of the discussion in part 1 is to persuade readers to accept the existence of a subset of regime shifts that Scheffer calls "critical transitions." These he defines as "sharp shifts in systems driven by runaway change toward a contrasting alternative state once a threshold is exceeded." These are often hard to foresee and usually extremely difficult to reverse once under way. Scheffer gives the simple example of a loaded canoe. One may lean out to one side a fair bit with no significant consequences, but if one leans out too far the consequences are sudden and difficult to reverse. And it is hard to know in advance just where the tipping point lies. Scheffer invites those who are already versed in the concepts of dynamic systems to skip this section and begin with the environmental case studies in part 2. Readers who have digested the journalist Malcolm Gladwell's best seller The Tipping Point will have already absorbed the basic concepts Scheffer discusses in part 1, albeit with respect to human behavior more than natural systems, and without the care and rigor that Scheffer brings to the subject.
The case studies are intended to explore the degree to which natural systems correspond to the theory of dynamic systems. Scheffer begins with lakes, one of his areas of expertise. Lakes, especially small and shallow ones, can tip from one fairly stable state to another easily enough. But the more closely one looks, the less the behavior of lakes matches theory, because the theory is too simple. There are more than two possible states; indeed, there are infinite gradations. Moreover, as Scheffer notes, the notion of stability is fraught.
Scheffer turns next to climate systems. In contrast to lakes, the opportunities for controlled experiments on climate systems are nil, and our knowledge of critical shifts, positive feedback and runaway trends is all inferred from slim evidence. Here Scheffer provides an orthodox discussion of matters familiar to all interested in climate history: the oxidation of 2.4 billion years ago, "snowball Earth" episodes more than 600 million years ago, glaciation and Milankovitch cycles, the Younger Dryas and shifts in the thermohaline circulation, and oscillations on shorter time scales, such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation. Climate history (as currently understood) presents many examples of critical shifts on various timescales.
Next comes a discussion of biological evolution, with possible explanations for shifts such as the Cambrian explosion, the five major mass extinctions and subsequent surges of speciation. Scheffer argues that some of these may have resulted from big environmental perturbations (such as an asteroid impact), but others perhaps were critical transitions arising from small perturbations that grew into big shifts as a result of positive feedback loops.
A chapter on oceans shortens the timescale, discussing regime shifts in Pacific and Atlantic waters and focusing on sardine-anchovy cycles, the famous cod collapse of the North Atlantic, and, in coastal ecosystems, on coral reefs, kelp forests and estuarine oyster beds. These matters remain comparatively mysterious, and the role of human actions in them is uncertain, but the pattern of sudden dramatic shifts from one state to another is unmistakable. Scheffer follows with a chapter on terrestrial ecosystems that includes several more examples of transitions between alternative stable states on geographic scales ranging from the Sahara desert to peat bogs. Here he emphasizes that critical transitions are rare, which is true in other contexts as well, but which he does not emphasize elsewhere in the book.
In chapter 12 Scheffer makes his own transition away from ecology to the volatile realm of the human sciences. He notes that in human history, "just as in natural systems, gradual changes sometimes undermine resilience, bringing a social system to a tipping point resulting in a self-propagating critical transition." This chapter explores the reasons behind social rigidities and failures to adapt to changed circumstances. Sheffer's analysis is based chiefly on the literature in psychology and group dynamics and on the work of popular authors such as Gladwell and Jared Diamond. Perhaps the most common pattern is one in which a group maintains a set of practices or beliefs well beyond their time in order to preserve harmony within the group. But the general phenomenon of maladaptive rigidity is found on every scale in living systems, from the cell to the mind to the group to the society. On the group and societal scales, Scheffer is impressed by the role of charismatic opinion makers and the sheeplike conduct of the rest of us, and by the comparative success that businesses have had in protecting against the ill effects of rigidities. (This latter position surprised me, and I expect it is an artifact of the celebratory style of most business writing.) Scheffer makes minimal use of the human past to test his ideas, alluding to an episode here or there (the "groupthink" within John F. Kennedy's cabinet during the Bay of Pigs crisis, for example) and offering a paragraph-long synopsis of Diamond's interpretation of the disappearance of the Greenland Norse early in the 15th century (they were stuck in their ways and would not adapt to climate change).
Part 3 is devoted to explaining how one finds out whether or not a given system is susceptible to critical transitions in the first place, and if so, whether or not a tipping point is near and whether anything can be done to prevent bad transitions and promote good ones. The existence of alternative states within a system and the nearness of tipping points often prove hard to figure out, especially with larger-scale systems. Early warning may come in the form of "flickering," as a system slips back and forth before plunging into one or another stable state, or in the form of a slower recovery from perturbations. Scheffer also explores the inhibitions that prevent societies from addressing problems of critical transitions even when they recognize them. Here he delves into the tragedy of the commons and collective-action problems, familiar to social scientists for decades now. Collective-action problems occur when a group would benefit by pursuing a given goal, but any single member of the group, if acting alone, would incur a net cost. Reducing carbon emissions is a fine example: All humans would collectively be better off in the long run if we did it, but I, my employer, my home state, even my country would not benefit if acting alone without the cooperation of others.
Managing transitions, whether promoting or preventing them, is also very challenging, especially on larger scales. Scheffer gives a few examples on small scales, such as turning a turbid lake into a clear one in the Netherlands, or using microcredit to raise some people out of poverty. These examples, however successful, leave me less encouraged than they do Scheffer about the possibility of our learning to recognize tipping points in complex systems and especially our capacity to act in a timely fashion. The example of climate change, which is kept out of sight for most of this book but seems often to have been in Scheffer's mind, is a case in point. We know orders of magnitude more about the global climate system and climate history than we did in 1950. We do know that there are potential alternative states and probably tipping points. But we don't know what those alternative states are; nor do we know where the tipping points lie. Unless we know those things in convincing detail and with near-unanimity, the collective-action problems will bedevil effective action. And even if we did know such things in convincing detail, most of the collective-action problems surrounding carbon emissions would remain.
For these reasons I find Machiavelli's wisdom appropriate to the human condition early in the 21st century. In The Prince (1513), he compared affairs of state to medicine: In both, events proceed with their own momentum, so that at the stage when problems are easy to resolve they are still very hard to detect, and by the time they are easy to detect they are exceedingly hard to solve. This seems doubly so for the intertwined complex systems of global ecology and society. Thus we are far from achieving Scheffer's goals and are likely to act blindly in the future, as we have in the past.
So Scheffer seems more cheerful about the future of the Social-Eco-Earth-System at the end of writing his book than I am after reading it. But his premise—that hope lies with integrated eco-social science rather than our traditional isolated silos of knowledge—is surely correct. Perhaps we are on the edge of a happy tipping point after which science enters a state in which depth is not unduly esteemed over breadth, in which integrated study of complex systems becomes the norm, in which our insight into real-world eco-social systems grows and grows to formerly unimaginable levels. If so, Scheffer may be right to be optimistic. But there are some powerful attractors working against it.
John R. McNeill is University Professor in the School of Foreign Service and the History Department at Georgetown University. He is the author of, among other books, Mosquito Empires: Ecology, Epidemics, War and Revolution in the Greater Caribbean, 1640–1920 (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press) and Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (W. W. Norton and Company, 2000).
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Weather or not to have a theme for your baby shower it is really up to you. You may find creating a theme too much work or not your style, but having one can make the party seem more unique and can be a bit more fun!
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Always a classic theme. Use fresh flower centerpieces for the tables. Borrow teapots, plates, and cups from friends and place a set on each table. All the tables should be covered with fancy lace tablecloths and guests can be asked to dress up with fun tea party hats. The menu started with assorted teas, scones, jellies etc. The main menu was small crust free sandwiches, fresh fruit slices, and a salad. Everyone will love it! Give candle tea cup favors to your guests!
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Throw a "brunch" baby shower. Throw it between 10:30 and 12:00pm. Use traditional games and gifts. Foods can included "virgin" (non-alcoholic) cocktails with fruit tarts, quiches, and a bundt cake. White linens and real silver can set a beautiful classy mood. A traditional favor like a scented candle or bath salts will work well with this elegant theme.
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To break from the traditional throw a "mommy shower." Use fancy chocolates, cloth tablecloths, real glass, and flowers as decorations. Instead of baby gifts, give the mom to be gifts to pamper her, like comfy lounge clothes, and gift certificates for takeout food, massages and manicures. She will love it!
Star Of The Show
Decorate the cake like a star on the Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard. And have it say something like "a star will be born", or the baby's name if it's already been picked out. Get some sparkle star shaped confetti and sprinkle it on the party tables. Make star shaped cookies! Cut out stars from cardboard and wrap them in tin foil and hand them from the ceiling! How fun! It is easy to find "A star is born" theme baby shower favors to complete your theme. As each guest arrives and walks down the red carpet, videotape the "stars"! Let each guest give a special message to the mom-to-be.
Nine Months Pregnant
Invite the guests to come "nine months pregnant" (stuffed bellies with pillows, etc.) so the about-to-pop mother-to-be will not feel physically out of place. If it is a co-ed shower, make sure the men stuff their shirts to be "with child"! The dressing up will make for a nice icebreaker. They can even wear pj's and slippers! May we suggest coasters with pictures of all the guest when they where babies in them as favors! A game at the shower can even be to guess who is who on the coasters! How unique!
Deep Freeze
Ask all of the guests to bring a cooked, freezable meal for the mom to be to put in the freezer, to eat after the baby arrives. She will be way to busy to cook so this will be a wonderful gift. This theme works best for someone having a second or third child who already has all of the baby items they need.
Diaper Bonanza
Put together a basket with a bottle of wine, crackers, wine glasses, wine opener, block of cheese, summer sausage, etc. to display at the shower. In the invitations write that there will be a raffle for a gift basket. The price for each entry should be one small pack of diapers or a box of wipes. Guests should be allowed to enter as many times as they like. The new mom will not need to buy diapers for few months! GREAT!! Use baby diaper shaped invitations and wrap the shower favors in small baby diapers.
Layette Party
Hang a clothesline in the room. Have guests arrive before the guest of honor and bring an item from the layette or cute baby clothing and hang it from the clothesline. When the mom-to-be walks in, she'll be ecstatic. She can also use the clothesline and clothes pins for her own personal use. Baby clothing shaped invitations are perfect for this theme as well as baby clothing shaped favor bags to put candy in!
Queen of the Baby Shower
Have a royal theme baby shower! Everyone can wear tiaras and the Mom to be can wear a Queen crown! The cake can be shaped like a castle and the favors can be in Cinderella's coach shaped favor boxes.
The most important thing to remember when you throw a baby shower is that the Mom to be will appreciate anything you do so do not spend a lot of time stressing over how to throw the party. The best thing to do is just make sure everyone has fun the the new Mom feels special!


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Fewell's system allows certain types of corners to excel. Its based on guys who are instinctive and can read QB's. For instance, Assante Samuel would be awesome in our system. He would have sucked in Spags system. PF favors less the press type corners like Webby. Now Webby has clearly lost some ball skills which are required in PF's system as well.
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Nice hive stand!
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You have ant problems on the roof top?
When it gets cold there is an invasion of Argentine ants. Almost every tenant in the building calls me to spray them. They eventually smell the honey and armies ascend on the roof hives. Even my strongest hives can't stop the on-slot. I've tried everything and they keep on coming until I finally had enough and came up with these upside down grease traps. It's the only thing that works.
Got a look in my large hive today, its gone from a triple deep full of bees down to about a softball size cluster. I've run mostly Yugo/Russians, muts, & carnies in my yard so very small clusters in the winter aren't uncommon for them. No dead bees in the hive or on the ground, plenty of capped honey. I'm betting they'll make it.
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Charlie, how long is your stand and how far apart are the doll rods?? How many hives do you get on each stand?
Gathering the materials now to build a few by spring.. Thanks Charlie
If you're going through the time and expense to build one I would do a 12' stand. You could even build a 16' stand with 10 support dowels depending on how many hives you have. Something to keep in mind if you plan on making up nucs or doing splits, this stand is excellent to keep ants away while they're growing and gaining strength so make it longer than what you need at this point and time.
Thanks Charlie that clarifies it for me..
On the way up to our property I stopped to feed the bees some frames of honey, and to my surprise they are doing a lot better than I thought with the nucs covering 4 of the bottom five frames!! Even have fresh nectar from Eucalyptus coming in!! I dropped a couple capped frames in each nuc and called it good, lots of bees flying out of the hives as well, so if I am lucky I might have 7 of 8 hives make to spring build up! They also cleaned up the SBB of dead bees that was there yesterday. Six of my remaining seven hives are either from swarms or cut outs. Cant wait to do some splitting and grafting from these hives in the spring!!
The only hives that I have had destroyed by ants were nucs with queen cage candy in them. What are you doing wrong?
With all the rain, the ants start coming out of the plug outlets in the house. I hate argentine ants.
If you have top feeders and ya get alot of dead ants in the feeder will that cause any type of disease ?
I had alot of ants in the bee yards and i tryed cinnamon waste of time and money .
I'm going with baiting the ants with poison come spring we'll se if it works.
Not sure about the dead ants causing disease. As far as the ant poison, that didn't work for me. In looking at your hive stand, it wouldn't take much to make it ant proof. Just add another layer of hive joist with grease dowels in between.
I think it would work as a temporary measure but rain and debris would eventually break it down causing allot of touch up using allot of grease. The upside down PVC grease cups eliminate that where you hardly ever have to do any maintenance. If you place your hives directly over the grease cups, you never have to worry about any touch up.
i was able to get rid of some pesky sugar ants (very small and black, not fire ants).
they took the baited fire ant granules in just like the fire ants do.
(on fire ants, i plan on leaving some mounds in the vicinity of the hives, i think they help with hive beetles)
also, if i found sugar ants' hole in the ground, i squirted some bug stuff into the hole.
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The Gustav-Adolf-Strasse is a very centrally located street. Shops, restaurants, the Sportforum and the Arena are all close by. Theater and opera are just a few minute's walk away.
Just a 100 meters from a supermarket with baker and butcher. There is also a laundry very close to the apartment. The Leipzig Zoo and its new Gondwana-land can be reached on foot in just 15 minutes.
This apartment is in our house on the Gustav-Adolf-Strasse. It has 70 sqm of living space, 2 bedrooms, a bathroom, a kitchen and a conservatory. You live right in the center of Leipzig, but still on the countryside.
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Apartment is pretty; everything you need is there.
Wohnung ist hübsch; alles was man braucht is da.
A very spacious apartment, very quiet.
Eine sehr geräumige Wohnung, sehr ruhig gelegen.
Well! Very spacious apartment! Welcome. Very good stay.
Très bien ! Appartement très spacieux ! Accueil chaleureux. Très bon séjour.
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The flat was even quieter than i had hoped. Even with windows open, I could hear practically no street noise, and there was never any noise from within the house itself. Everything worked properly, and the flat was clean and bright. And there is a very agreeable neighbourhood restaurant right next door, with a very pleasant beer garden that never got noisy.
There is a discount grocery store 3 minutes walk away, and the main rail station is only ten minutes or so away. Or you can take several different trams.
It was very comfortable and there, everything you need! The location of the apartment is great - the center just around the corner! We have nothing to complain about and had a very nice weekend for two in Leipzig!
Es war sehr gemütlich und alles da, was man braucht! Die Lage der Wohnung ist super - das Zentrum gleich um die Ecke! Wir haben nichts zu beanstanden und hatten ein sehr schönes Wochenende zu zweit in Leipzig!
Am to 2 Been here before and would stay here again, I could not complain about anything.
Brilliant place to stay. Perfect location.
Bin zum 2. Mal hier gewesen und komme gerne wieder, ich konnte mich über nichts beklagen.
Geniale Übernachtungsmöglichkeit. Perfekte Lage.
Everything worked out well, as almost always.
Es hat alles gut geklappt, wie eigentlich immer.
Easy keys at the beginning and at the end of the stay, clean apartment, central location. I would stay here again.
Unkomplizierte Schlüsselübergabe zu Beginn und am Ende des Aufenthaltes, saubere Wohnung, zentrale Lage. Ich komme gerne wieder.
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Eine super schnuckelige Wohnung im Dachgeschoss mit allem, was man für einen Kurztrip braucht. Ideale Lage zum Leipziger Zentrum. Werden uns die Wohnung auf Wiedervorlage legen.
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Nobody really expected the week to end without Anthony Weiner's penis splashed all over the internet. And here it is...
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The thing is, Republicans started the 'private life and public life mix'. Who cares what someone does on their time? It isn't our business.ReplyDelete
So now Republicans are falling into their own trap. Many Republicans have resigned due to similar things. Arnold in CA, Nevada, Florida, bathrooms in Minnesota... the lists goes on.
One day in the near future, we won't have anyone running the country because of the finger pointing and 'better than thou' type crap.
It's so embarrassing that his junk has been displayed for all the world to see. Must be taking a huge emotional toll on him.ReplyDelete
As much as I liked Weiner, I have to admit that I am among those who think he needs to step down.ReplyDelete
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Silicon Valley's powerhouse tech community gathered last Friday at the historic Fox Theatre in Redwood City to dive into the foremost question on everyone's mind post-Facebook IPO: can the iconic brand keep up in the mobile-first era?
TechCrunch staffers, led by co-editors Eric Eldon and Alexia Tsotis and resident Facebook expert Josh Constine, grilled a host of speakers from Facebook and related companies. Discussions focused on how they're catering to the on-the-go user throughout the jam-packed, five-hour Facebook Ecosystem CrunchUp.
Facebook's VP of Engineering Mike Schroepfer told Eldon that a major challenge facing his team is pushing out updates to mobile as often and as seamlessly as they're able to on their own platform. Even so, Schroepfer noted that Facebook has driven people to the App Store and Google Play nearly 150 million times over the past month.
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fayzer, if I am your SP (and I think I am...?), then mail can take an extra few days to get here no matter what the post office says. If I am not your SP, well, then I have no idea why your parcel is taking so long either! lol
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to both of my sp's your packages are out for delivery todayso keep in eye out for the mail.
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I received my package from Patti Truckey sorry I do not know your screen name and tried to find it but find no Patti listed in Republic Michigan.... Here is a picture of what she sent me... Great package and a beautiful piece of aqua fabric among others and pins and a book can't wait to get started on It's name is I loved, I lost, I made Spaghetti ...Thank you Patti... Will send PM when I find your screen name...
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Great pkgs being received, thanks for posting the pictures! I love seeing what everyone is getting, helps with ideas for next time!
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A new queen has been out of the cage for 4 days. Each time I have checked the nuc, there is a huge ball of bees on her but they have not killed her (yet?). I sparyed them with sugar water today and she just walked away and climbed on a different frame.
Any ideas or suggestion? I thought about mixing a little lemon with sugar water tomorrow (if she is still alive and being balled) them sprying everyone in the hive including her, the frames, and side walls.


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