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AUSTIN, Texas — While there may not be as many hunters in the field for the start of dove season in the North and Central Zones because of a Sept. 1 midweek opener, there should be no shortage of birds, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
Dove season opens in the South Zone on Sept. 24.
As opposed to last year's Labor Day opener, the Wednesday start to dove season is expected to bring about 10 percent fewer hunters to the field, according to Jay Roberson, dove program leader with TPWD. "For those who want to get out early, there should be a little less competition," he said. "But that also will mean less movement of the birds. All in all the quality of hunts should be good for those who have good locations and have put in time scouting."
Dove hunting prospects for this fall are above average once again, Roberson projected. Moisture conditions have been good for feed production throughout most of the state. "I think we'll see good dove production this year despite the heavy rains in some areas," he said. "We're seeing a lot of young birds collected during our banding efforts. Hunting success should be good, provided feed conditions remain good."
Those good range conditions could also disperse birds across larger areas during the first part of the season, Roberson noted. "Hunter success rates may drop off some because when the birds get disturbed, they scatter. They don't have to look far for food and water. If they aren't pressured, they don't move. Then it becomes a matter of getting to the birds and staying on them."
The major change to this year's dove regulations involves a shift of the Central Zone boundary to include areas within San Antonio's South Loop (FM 1604), which will give hunters earlier access to a huge population of white-winged doves.
"In those portions outside the city limits where discharge of firearms is allowed, hunters can capitalize on those feeding flights of whitewings," he said. TPWD conservatively estimates San Antonio's whitewing population to be in excess of 1.25 million birds. "Make sure you are outside the city limits because the City of San Antonio does have a firearms discharge ban. Our game wardens and local law enforcement will be working that area to make sure the laws are enforced. We want people to have a safe and enjoyable hunt and that's not going to happen if they're hunting within the city limits."
Hunters are also reminded to be on the lookout for banded birds. As part of a research effort to monitor movements of mourning doves, some birds have been marked with metal leg bands containing a unique number and a toll free telephone number (800-327-BAND or 2263) that hunters can call to report the band. Bands may also be reported on the Internet (http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl). Hunters may keep the bands. It only takes a minute and doesn't cost a cent and hunters receive a certificate of appreciation that identifies when and where the dove was banded.
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A white-winged dove stamp is also required to hunt white-winged doves in Texas and since whitewings have expanded their range throughout much of state, it's a good idea to invest in a stamp. The stamps may be purchased anywhere hunting licenses are sold and cost $7 if purchased separately along with the basic hunting license, however all stamps are included in the Super-Combo Hunting license.
Finally, TPWD hunter education officials remind hunters to be sure to only shoot at doves within range less than 40-yards and in a "safe zone of fire." Communicate frequently with those around you, and be sure to alert anyone who moves too close to your position or who may not know you are near, and caution anyone shooting at low birds about this type of unsafe practice. Remember that shotguns must be plugged, never transport a loaded firearm in a vehicle, and wait to load when you are at your hunting location and unload before leaving the field.
With schools usually ending the day about 3 p.m., dove hunting offers great opportunity to wait until the afternoon so you can take a youngster hunting with you. Afternoon feeding and watering is usually in full swing after 5 p.m., so many Texans live close enough to good bird hunting to wait and take a young hunter with them. Terry Erwin, hunter education coordinator at TPWD, said, "We encourage hunters to be role models for conservation, act ethically and to take a youngster or someone new to hunting along with them."
- North Zone: Sept. 1–Oct. 30 with a 15-bird daily bag limit.
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- South Zone: Sept. 24–Nov. 10 and Dec. 26–Jan. 16 with a 12-bird daily bag limit. In the Special White-winged Dove Area in the south zone, the season would run Sept. 4, 5, 11, 12 then Sept. 24–Nov. 10 and Dec. 26–Jan. 12. During the special whitewing season, the bag limit would be 10 in the aggregate, and no more than 5 mourning dove or 2 white-tipped dove.
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WINTER PARK, Fla. - As the 15th-ranked Saint Leo University men's tennis team begins their push through the NCAA tournament, the Lions received welcome news when they learned that three student-athletes had earned all-conference recognition when the All-SSC men's tennis teams were announced by the Sunshine State Conference Commissioner Jay Jones on Friday morning. Rewarded for his stellar season in the Green and Gold, junior Aloua Adjenak earned All-Conference First Team honors at singles while junior Matt Nicholson-Lewis earned second-team singles honors. Nicholson-Lewis and freshman Bruno Sisti teamed up for All-Conference Second Team doubles accolades.
Adjenak earned first team honors courtesy of a 12-6 overall record while going 4-2 in SSC play entirely at No. 1 singles. Facing the conference's top competitors, the native of Paris, France's most notable wins came against the then seventh-ranked Marco Mokrzycki, the SSC's Player of the Year. Playing the entirety of his season at the top singles spot, he dominated his position, gaining three victories against nationally-ranked opponents.
Nicholson-Lewis earned second-team individual accolades playing the majority of his season at the No. 3 singles spot, compiling a record of 7-2 at that spot and an overall record of 16-3 this season. In conference play he only suffered one blemish, going 5-1 in the SSC. Playing between the Nos. 1 through 4 spots, the native of Cambridge, England was 1-0 at No. 1 and 3-0 at No. 2. He was also 5-1 playing at the No. 4 spot.
On the doubles side, Nicholson-Lewis joined freshman Bruno Sisti earning All-SSC Second Team honors in doubles play. The most consistent pair of doubles performers amongst the crew of Lions, the duo went 15-5 during the year playing all three doubles spots. In their main flight at No. 2 doubles, the tandem went 8-4 while going 6-1 at No. 1. They managed a perfect 1-0 record at No. 3 doubles in their match against third-ranked Lynn back on February 17.
As mentioned earlier, Barry's Mokrzycki was named the SSC Player of the Year, while his coach, George Samuel, was selected Coach of the Year. Rollins' Robin Marchione was chosen Freshman of the Year.
Joining Adjenak and Mokrzycki on the All-SSC First Team were: Vlad Cirla (Lynn), Nicolas Clerc (Florida Tech), Fabian Groetsch (Barry), Benoit Paradis (Florida Southern), and Max Wimmer (Barry).
Named to the first team in doubles were Tech's Clerc and Patrick Hernandez, Barry's Mokrzycki and Groetsch, and Lynn's Cirla and Willi Wolfer.
Recognized on the All-SSC Second Team in addition to Nicholson-Lewis and Marchione were: Malte Christesen (Rollins), Romain Costamagna (Barry), Simon Gloeckner (Lynn) and Pavel Mojha (Lynn).
Joining Nicholson-Lewis and Sisti as Second-team doubles honorees were Rollins' Will Kwok and Jason Alabaster and Barry's Wimmer and Ollie Lemaitre.
Barry's Leo Vivas received honorable mention in singles.
Voting for the All-SSC Men's Tennis Team was conducted among the league's men's tennis coaches.
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Pavel Mojha, Lynn (Fr)
Matt Nicholson-Lewis, Saint Leo (Jr)
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Welcome to the Core Curriculum page. As the chair of the Core Curriculum subcommittee of the Academic Affairs Advisory Council, I want to welcome you to what I hope will be seen as a unique opportunity to create a specific academic footprint for Texas A&M University-Texarkana. Though we are mandated by The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to revisit our core curriculum in some specific and other quite open ways, my hope is that we can seize this as a moment to create something special here at A&M-Texarkana. The law that guides our current revisions is available to you in the left pane of your browser.
Let me also say that while I am chairing the committee, I will not be voting on a single measure personally. Certainly there will be votes and decisions to be made, but I believe the best way of getting to where we need to go is to lead our committee, faculty, staff, and administrators to consensus, not by attempting to out vote ideas. Having written that, let me also say that if we cannot get to consensus or refuse to act for whatever reasons, decisions will be made.
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In the Fall, I did a colloquium and provided via email a link to the colloquium presentation. Let me provide it again here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/e8pk9eogdiwauhv/Core%20Curriculum.mov It is meant as a way to explain what the new changes are in an interesting, almost entertaining way.
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We also measured the lengths of the origami structures on the TEM images. Histograms of the length distributions display a gaussian shape (figure
We also measured the lengths of the origami structures on the TEM images. Histograms of the length distributions display a gaussian shape (figure ). For increasing concentrations of spermine, the length decreases steadily (figure , for raw data see this file: [[Image:TEM length measurements raw data.xlsx]]). Surprisingly, for rising concentrations of ethidium bromide, the length decreases as well, although addition of ethidium bromide is known to increase the length of a simple double stranded DNA . It seems, that origami structures in another manner then single helices.

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[[Image:Control length histo gaussian.png |390px|center|thumb|Fig. Length distribution of theU negative control, with a gaussian fit, histogram based on 256 particles]]

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[[Image:Spermine length.png|375px|left|thumb|Fig. : Gaussian fits of length distributions of spermine concentration series]]
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Survey of results
We successfully designed a structure that folds properly with high yields (link) and is suitable for observing the structural deformations. Comprehensive TEM analysis yielded insights into global structural deformations and allowed for statistical evaluation of angle and length distributions dependent on DNA binder concentrations (link). Our structure could be labeled with fluorescent dyes and a huge variety of different approaches to fluorescence measurements was tested. In single molecule measurements FRET events could be observed. (link). Based on these experimental data and also our structure simulations and calculations, we gained new insights into the structural properties of DNA origamis especially with regards to binding of small molecules (link).
Folding & purification
The U structure was folded using the 15_65 ramp. This ramp was the fastest of the tested ones and also led to proper folded origamis as shown in figure 1. There is only one major band visible in the agarose gel, indicating that no significant amounts of byproducts (like dimers) have been formed. The results of the slower ramps 2D_H3_ML and 5D_H3_ML yielded similar results as the 15_65 ramp.
Most of the structures from the major band were folded correctly, which was proven by TEM images (figure 2).
The purification of the structures was tried both with an agarose gel and with an Amicon size exclusion filter (molecular weight cutoff: 100kDa). According to general experience, the yield of purification via agarose gel is approximately 2 nM. The yield of the filter purification was definitively higher, since unexpected weak dilutions led to appropriate concentrations for TEM and fluorescence microscope. Therefore we estimate the yield to be roughly 10 nM.
TEM image analysis
Distribution of Angles
When we inspected the structure in the TEM, we saw a spread of the arms in the uprightly orientated structures (figure 3). The magnitude of this spread seemed to be correlated to the amount of DNA binding molecules.
DNA binders were added in such concentrations to theU, that a previously calculated fraction of binding sites should be occupied (see here for calculation). We assumed to find a peak shift of the angles dependend on the added DNA binder concentration. The peaks for the tested DNA binding molecules spermine, ethidium bromide and DAPI as well as the negative control and the positive control (intrinsically twisted due to additional base pairs) are displayed in table 1.
Number of particles Mean angle [degree] Variance
negative control 715 9.0 4.1>
positive control (pretwisted) 424 21.1 5.8
Spermine 0.42 µM (in average one molecule per 21bp) 1019 8.7 3.8
Spermine 1.34 µM (in average one molecule per 7bp) 1809 9.3 4.5
Spermine 6.7 µM (in average one molecule per 2bp) 621 12.5 4.5
Spermine 12.1 µM (in average one molecule per 1.5bp) 1129 12.3 2.5
Ethidium bromide 0.74 µM (in average one molecule per 21bp) 626 11.2 3.3
Ethidium bromide 2.27 µM (in average one molecule per 7bp) 652 8.6 5.4
DAPI 144 nM (in average one molecule per 21bp) 325 7.4 3.2
DAPI 432 nM (in average one molecule per 7bp) 375 6.0 3.8
The values in table 1 are based on the following histograms (figure 4):
The distribution of angles in the control has two populations, one where the two arms are exactly above each other which leads to very small angles and one where the two arms are considerably spread. This leads to a gaussian distribution around an finite angle. The width of this distribution is in good agreement with the calculated thermal fluctuations, which yield deviations of ca. 4.4°.
The positive control with an internally induced twist by additional base pairs in each helix (these additional base pairs lead to a net torque in each helix and therefore a macroscopic deformation of the structure) displays much higher angles. The population around zero is maybe due to deformed structures which had no second arm and could not be excluded. This results in many angles around zero. The other population around the finite angle is now the more spread structure. Here the angle of the positive control is shifted to higher values by approximately a factor of 2 because of the induced twist. So in principle this way of measuring the deformation of our structure in dependence of induced stress works.
The measured angles φ for negative and positive control, ° and °, can be related to a torsion α of the base according to the theoretical considerations for the base twist:
The theory determines the torsion for these particular φ-values to ° and °. This corresponds to a torsion of 5° per basepair in the base of theU.
For small spermine concentrations, no significant peak shift can be observed. Only at higher concentration, the maximum of the distribution is shifted noticeably towards higher angles. For the series negative control - ethidium bromide every 21 bp - ethidium bromide every 7 bp, the data display no systematic shift, while for DAPI, the mean angle decreases continuously.
Length measurements
We also measured the lengths of the origami structures on the TEM images. Histograms of the length distributions display a gaussian shape (figure 5). For increasing concentrations of spermine, the length decreases steadily (figure 6a, for raw data see this file: Image:TEM length measurements raw data.xlsx). Surprisingly, for rising concentrations of ethidium bromide, the length decreases as well, although addition of ethidium bromide is known to increase the length of a simple double stranded DNA (figure 6b). It seems, that origami structures react here in another manner then single helices.
Fluorescence measurements
FRET bulk measurements
For first tests, a simple 18 bp DNA double helix with Atto 550 ddCTP at the one end and Atto 647N ddUTP at the other end was examined. The idea to perform bulk measurements based on FRET using a photospectrometer and a real time PCR was unsuccessful. The photospectrometer is not sensitive enough to handle Atto dyes at concentrations below 10 nM (peaks were not visible at all). The real time PCR, which is more sensitive, still did not deliver trustworthy data when using 50 µl samples with 10 nM Atto dyes. It could be shown that the reproducibility of the real time PCR setup was poor with deviations of up to 40 % between identical samples (figure 1) . To assure the identity of the samples a 100 µl stock was divided into two 50 µl samples. Based on these results no experiments with theU structure were performed at all with this device as the concentration of theU structure is lower than the concentration of the here test structure.
Figure 1: FRET efficiency Spermine and FRET efficiency EtBr
To handle the issue with the small concentrations further experiments were done with a fluorescence microscope.
Single molecule measurements at the fluorescence microscope
FRET measurement
We designed the structure in such a way that a small change of angle in the base, which is a 30 helix bundle in a honey comb lattice, is amplified by the two arms, which are both 10 helix bundles and therefore should twist as well. To measure the change in twist and angle two fluorophores were attached to the two arms so that a deformation should cause a change in distance between them. We chose a donor and an acceptor fluorophore, namely Atto 550 and Atto 647N, so a change in distance between them leads to a change in FRET-efficiency.
In order to immobilize our structure standing upright on the coverslide we used neutravidin and biotinylated oligos complementary to staples at the base of our structure, which is a common way to immobilize DNA origamis on surfaces.
To prepare the slides we used this procedure.
The fluorescence microscope has three lasers with different wavelenghts (blue:473nm, green: 532nm, red: 640nm). We only used the red and the green one because of the dyes we attached to our "U".
For the measurement we used alternating-laser excitation of single molecules (ALEX) with an excitation length of 0.05 sec. A nice FRET-trace can be seen in the following video which also plots the donor, acceptor and FRET intenities over the time.
Depending on the background we decided to use the microscope either in epifluorescence or in TIRF modus.
The analysis program is a matlab script which searches for spots in the red and the green movie and plots the intensities over time to identify bleaching events. Only those plots where the acceptor bleaches first and the donor bleaches afterwards are useful to calculate the FRET-efficiency.
Fig: Example of an intensity over time plot of the acceptor and donor
The graph shows the intensities of the donor and the acceptor and in addition the intensity of the FRET-events. As one can see the intensity of the donor rises as soon as the acceptor bleaches. After some while the donor bleaches too. From that the FRET-efficiency can be calculated.
We at first measured the FRET-efficiencies for the BM14 structure without any intercalator or groove binder as a control and afterward we measured the same structure with 4.8µM spermine. We plotted the FRET-efficiencies in the following histograms.
It is obvious that we actually measured FRET, though the low yield of FRET-events that were found by the matlab script does not allow to draw any conclusions because of the low statistics. This could mean that there are not all of the staples were labeled correctly so that there are structures that only contain one fluorophore or even none. Yet the fact that there actually were FRET-events makes it worth to keep on elaborating these measurements.
Fluorescence tracking
Besides FRET-measurements we also applied another approach to investigate the deformation of the structure where we determine the distance between the fluorophores and thereby get the distance of the two arms by directly comparing two images. At first we excite the Atto 550 dye and observe at its characteristic wavelength and then excite the Atto 647N dye and observe at its characteristic wavelength. For the analysis with the homemade matlab script at first we had to calibrate the cameras. Then the matlab script searches for spots in the green and the red picture and fits in an gaussian. The peaks from the green picture then are transfered into the red picture. When there is a matching red spot for the a green spot the distance between them is calculated. We did those measurements for a control and for two different concentrations of spermin.
Though quantitative evidence is a bit tricky because of the calibration and the fact that one pixel of the pictures equals 101.03nm a qualitative evidence can be see in a shift in distance from the control to higher concentrations of spermin of approximately nm. This shows that in principle it is possible to detect a structure deformation of our biosensor.
Now that we knew this approach principally works, we decided to take pictures at the fluorescence microscope in epifluorescence of a control (the structure immobilized on the surface) and with two different spermine concentrations (1 spermine every 7 bases (1.34 µM spermine) and 1 spermine every 21 bases (0.42 µM spermine)). Every picture was illuminated for 1 sec with the green laser for the green channel and then with the red laser for the red channel for the same time. The graph below now shows the histograms of the distribution of the distance between the maxima of the fitted gaussians in the green and red channel.
Fig: Histogram of the calculated distances of the arms for control (red), 0.42 µM spermine (blue) and 1.34 µM spermine (green)
As one can see the distributions look nearly the same for every concentration except for the control. This is due to the small number of points that were measured for this traces. Furthermore the values for each trace seam not to be distributed in a gaussian manner. This maybe underlies the electrostatic repulsion of the arms when the are in close vicinity. Also the distribution reaches to 120 nm. If our structure occupies this conformation the arms are spread very strong which leads to heavy deformations and defects. In addition this wide spread of the distribution also occurs in the control as well as in the two samples with a high concentration of DNA binding molecules. Possible reasons for this artifacts could be a misalignment of the pictures and not accurate enough determination of the spot since we want to measure spatial separations of in the regime of 5 nm which corresponds to a 20th of one single pixel on the detector. Also acquisition of uncorrelated spots which belong to different structures might be a problem which can be solved by higher dilution of avidin adaptors and therefor the structure on the slide. So one has to refine the setup and acquire more values for better statistics to get trustable values of a mean distance of the arms.
Origamis respond in another way than single DNA helices on local deformations
Spermine causes a positive twist (46°) of double stranded DNA, and additionally decreases the length of DNA (base step rise reduced from 0.34nm to 0.29nm; Tari et.al.). According to Salerno et.al., each bound molecule of ethidium bromide increases the length of a DNA double helix by 3.4nm, which is exactly the length of one base pair. Additionally, it induces a twist of -27°, in contrast to the +36° twist of one base pair.
Although both DNA binders induce length changes in opposite directions on DNA helices, both shorten the whole origami structure. The crosslinking between the helices in theU alters the type of deformation compared to an isolated double helix. One could assume that local changes in twist and length combine in an origami, causing a length change effect with all local deformations integrated.
Regarding the measured twist angles, for small concentrations no effects can be seen with spermine. Without spermine, as well with ca. 5% and 14% occupied binding sides, the angle remains ca. 9°. For higher occupations (50% and 67%), the angle increases to 12°. Additional data points will be needed to fit these findings, but we suggest that a cooperative behavior would be an appropriate explanation. Within DNA origamis, not only a single helices needs to be twisted, but large bundles of helices with many crosslinks. This makes the single helices more rigid, consequently hindering an induced fit of spermine molecules. Only higher concentrations could excert enough force to overcome the local restraints and induce a global twist.
To put these considerations in a nutshell, new theoretical approaches are needed to correlate effects on a single helix with effects on a huge system of interconnected helices.
Twisted positive control is good comparison for deformation by ethidium bromide
One approach to gain further insights and a solid experimental fundament for this goal was the investigation of an intrinsically twisted structure as positive control. In average every 21bp an additional base was inserted, resulting in global deformations that were easily observable in the TEM. Effects on length cannot be examined in this way, since the positive control needed a longer scaffold than the normal theU structure, but it is a good examination object for the angles between the arms. Ethidium bromide lends itself for a comparison, since both every bound ethidium bromide and every additional base cause comparable elongation and they differ only in the twist they cause on a double stranded DNA. Thus this effect can be examined isolated. Regarding our angle distributions from the TEM data, the mean global twist for one additional base every 21bp is 21°, compared to 11° induced by one molecule ethidium bromide every 21bp. One could argue that our method is error-prone due to the angle measurement by hand, but the width of the distributions is in good agreement with the calculated thermal fluctuations, so these data can be regarded as reliable. It will be necessary to check further DNA binders, but the direction of twist should be of high importance for the angle deformation. Positive twists add to the existing pitch, while the negative twist by ethidium bromide needs to work against the intrinsic direction of helical rotation. One needs to consider also that the direction of the total twist of the structure cannot be determined from the 2D projections analyzed in this study.
New practical methods and theories will be needed
Therefore, FRET measurements would be an appropriate method. Although we cannot present final results for FRET analyses, first single molecule analyses can be provided. For an optimization of the FRET studies, the origami structure needs some slight improvements. For this, we have laid a thorough fundament not only of experimental results, but also lots of theoretical considerations, which can explain flexibility and correlate observable (via TEM and / or fluorescence measurements: distances, angles) with unobservable (twists) structural changes.
On the experimental side, one could try to eliminate some uncertainties regarding the applied concentrations. We did some calculations to determine the fraction of occupied binding sites even at small concentrations, but as mentioned above, binding could be cooperative and for a proper testing of such a behavior, concentrations of bound DNA binders must be checked experimentally. This is very trying due to the small concentrations and the little fraction of compounds bound compared to those free in solution. We suggest to try some radiolabeled DNA binders, of which the bound fraction can be determined from radioassays.
Using this information, it should be possible to unravel deformation events step by step on even tinier levels. This not only allows for sophisticated understanding of the flexibility of origamis in response to varying triggers, thereby enabling the development of custom-made dynamic structures, but also helps elucidating the mechanic and maybe also mechanistic effects of DNA binders.
For this last goal, we have the vision of a characteristic plot for DNA binders based on the twist and length changes they cause. In the field of bioscience the Ramachandran plot is a nice way to show typical secondary structures of proteins. In this case we would plot twist against length (fig zzz).


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2007 Night for the Fight
Celebrating Lupus Awareness Month in style, the Young Professionals Committee of the S.L.E. Lupus Foundation hosted its third annual fundraiser on October 11th at PM Lounge in Manhattan's fashionable Meatpacking District.
Young professionals with lupus, their friends, family members and supporters raised $25,000, lifting their voices (and their glasses!) to support the fight against a disease that devastates the lives of more than 1.5 million Americans and millions more worldwide.
Committee member, Annie Ravitz, spoke poignantly to the crowd about the challenges she has faced with lupus, and the importance of raising awareness. "My hope is that you leave here tonight and talk to five people you know about lupus, and that they then talk to five people they know about lupus, and on and on, so that we can make lupus a topic on everyone's minds!"
Foundation Board Member Heidi Fiske thanked everyone for the amazing turn out and stressed the importance of the generation represented at the party—young professionals in their 20s, 30s, and 40s—taking the reigns and engaging in the fight against lupus.
A surprise auction of Major League Baseball playoff tickets added buzz to the evening, as did a raffle of more than 30 items donated by Gucci, Bliss, Diane Von Furstenberg, HBO, DKNY, Anthony for Men, and other designers and companies.
Guests left with swag bags (valued at more than $75) containing, among other items, The Mere Mortal's Guide to Fine Dining, ESPN Magazine, and gifts from Ben Sherman, Redken, Philosophy, Carol's Daughter, Laura Mercier, and Hollywood Fashion Tape.
Thanks to all the committee members, and to everyone who attended. We hope to see you again next year!


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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. – The Saint Leo softball team (17-20) split its Saturday afternoon doubleheader with the Palm Beach Atlantic Sailfish (21-14) in region action from Lake Catherine Stadium. The Lions fell 2-1 in game one, before registering an 8-7 win in game two.
Game one featured three runs scored in the first inning, but a Sailfish two-run blast proved to be difference as Palm Beach took the contest, 2-1. The Lions' offense took over game two as the team scored eight runs over the final four innings to come away with an 8-7 win.
Offensively, the squad combined for 14 hits, including a trio of player registering a game-best three hits. Rachelle Gremo and McKenzie Burns tallied three hits and two runs scored, while Alex Garris went 3-for-8 with one run scored. Ashlee Sismilich was 2-for-5 with a run, and Brittany Yates was 1-for-2 with two RBI.
Yates provided Lions' starter Megan Still early run support as her RBI single platted Burns from third base. However, the Sailfish, led by Lisa Santos, answered in the bottom of the first inning as her two-run home run gave the home standing Sailfish a 2-1 advantage.
The scoreboard remained untouched through the remainder of the game, although the Lions did put a pair of runners in scoring position in the fourth and fifth innings. Unfortunately for the Lions' faithful in attendance, both opportunities were stranded at second base as Palm Beach Atlantic took home the 2-1 win.
Still was docketed with the tough loss as she fell to 6-12 on the season. She surrendered just five hits and two earned runs, while striking out a season-high eight batters in six complete innings.
The Sailfish tagged the scoreboard first in game two, but it was a two-out, two-run rally for the Lions in the fourth inning that put Saint Leo, 2-1. After an error by the Sailfish put the Lions' first run on the board, Kaitlynn Diaz roped a single through the middle to score Danielle Moreda and give the Lions the advantage.
Four hits, coupled with defensive miscues, allowed Palm Beach to take the lead in the fourth, 4-2, but Saint Leo refused to go away. In the top of the fifth inning the Lions strung together four hits, including an RBI single by Gremo to tie the game at four apiece.
The Sailfish, as they had in each of the Lions' scoring innings, went back on top in fifth on a Camille Benito two-run home run. The Lions were not going to be denied, however, as Alex Garris poked a two-run triple down the left field line scoring Burns and Emily Holman. Yates gave the Lions the lead on the very next pitch as her sacrifice play scored Garris.
The Sailfish answered again in the bottom of the sixth as an RBI single by Miranda Welch tied the game at seven. The final frame belonged to the Lions, however, as Burns sliced a bases loaded single over the shortstop's head to score Gremo and the eventual game-winning run.
Still (7-12) shutdown the Sailfish in the last inning to preserve the 8-7 lead and collect her seventh win of the season. She tossed 2.1 innings of relief, striking out three batters.
"We fought hard today, especially in game two," said Head Coach John Conway. "We didn't give up and kept plugging away. In the end our perseverance got us over the top. It was a good win."
The Lions will return to action on Wednesday, March 28, when they travel to Valdosta, Ga. to battle nationally-ranked Valdosta State in a regional doubleheader. First pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m.
For more on the softball program, visit SaintLeoLions.com.


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Third Street Theater Presents FALSETTOS, Previews 9/7
Third Street Theatre has announced its first production in L.A.'s newest 99-seat Equity Waiver house; the Tony award-winning musical FALSETTOS, with book by James Lapine and William Finn, music and lyrics by William Finn, choreography by John Todd, musical direction by Greg Nabours and directed by Richard Israel. FALSETTOS will preview on Wednesday, September 7 & Thursday, September 8 at 8pm and will open on Friday, September 9 and run through Sunday, October 16 at the THIRD STREET THEATRE, 8115 W. Third Street in West Hollywood!
FALSETTOS is the Tony Award winning, Broadway musical sensation that will sucker punch you right in the heart. FALSETTOS is the story of a complicated and very confused man, Marvin. Initially, Marvin seems blessed with the perfect family. He has a caring wife, Trina and a young son, Jason. Nevertheless, the family is soon broken apart when Marvin leaves Trina for his new boyfriend, Whizzer. Trina, meanwhile, ends up with the family psychiatrist, Mendel. All the while, Jason is stuck in the middle. Included in the mix are the lesbian couple composed of Dr. Charlotte and Cordelia. Ultimately, the various characters are forced to come together when Whizzer contracts AIDS. FALSETTOS is about life, love and the decency and honesty that exists in all of us.
William Finn is well known for the trilogy of short musical shows: In Trousers, March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland. Falsettos, the combination of March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland, ran for 486 performances on Broadway and won Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Book, the latter shared with James Lapine. Finn and Lapine's other collaborations include Little Miss Sunshine, the Tony Award-winning The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and A New Brain, which won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical. Mr. Finn wrote the lyrics for world premiere musical Dangerous Games - Two Tango Pieces (1989), a co-production of La Jolla Playhouse, American Music Theater Festival and Spoleto Festival U.S.A. He is also the composer of Romance in Hard Times and Elegies, A Song Cycle.
James Lapine began his directing career at Yale with a Gertrude Stein play, PHOTOGRAPH. The play was presented in New Haven and came to the attention of director Lee Breuer, who helped arrange for a small performance space in Soho to present the work for three weeks. The production was enthusiastically received and won Lapine an Obie award.?Lapine was approached by Lyn Austin and Mary Silverman to create a new piece for the Music-Theatre Group. He wrote and produced a workshop version of TWELVE DREAMS which was later presented at The Public Theatre and revived by Lincoln Center Theatre. Lapine eventually left the visual arts for a career in theatre where he has also written and directed the plays TABLE SETTINGS, LUCK, PLUCK and VIRTUE, THE MOMENT WHEN, FRAN'S BED and Mrs. Miller DOES HER THING. He has written the book for and directed Stephen Sondheim's SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, INTO THE WOODS, PASSION and the recent multi-media revue SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM. And with William Finn he has collaborated on MARCH OF THE FALSETTOS and FALSETTOLAND, later presented on Broadway as FALSETTOS, A NEW BRAIN, MUSCLE and LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE. On Broadway he has also directed GOLDEN CHILD, THE DIARY OF Anne Frank, AMOUR, and THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE. He has directed several other productions off- Broadway as well as three films.
RICHARD ISRAEL (Director) recently directed the world premiere musical Having It All and One Touch of Venus for the Musical Theatre Guild, where he also directed High Spirits and Violet. Other directing credits include Meet Me In St. Louis for Musical Theatre West, Bell, Book and Candle for The Colony Theatre, A Christmas Carol and A Grand Night For Singing for the Norris Theatre and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels for Interact Theatre Company. For The Actor's Co-Op he directed last year's Merrily We Roll Along as well as Big River and 1776 (L.A. Weekly Award Nomination for Direction and Outstanding Musical). For West Coast Ensemble Theatre, he has directed the critically acclaimed west coast premiere of Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins, the Los Angeles premiere of Big - The Musical, Assassins (L.A. Weekly Award Nomination for Direction and Outstanding Musical, LADCC Award for Musical Ensemble) and Floyd Collins (Backstage Garland Award for Direction). He is the recipient of the 2010 LADCC Milton Katselas Award for Career Achievement in Directing and is pleased to serve as the Co-Artistic Director for West Coast Ensemble Theatre. He is also a proud member of SDC.
The cast of FALSETTOS features: Jesse Einstein as Marvin, Richard Hellstern as Whizzer, Lani Shipman as Trina, Chip Phillips as Mendel, Major Curda as Jason, Kim Reed as Charlotte and Wendy Rosoff as Dr. Cordelia.
FALSETTOS has assembled an award-winning design team. The Set Design is by Kurt Boetcher. The Lighting Design is by Lisa Katz. The Costume Design is by Jessica Olson. The stage manager is Faryl Saars.
FALSETTOS will preview on Wednesday, September 7 & Thursday, September 8 at 8pm and will open on Friday, September 9 at 8pm and will run for seven weeks through Sunday, October 16 at the Third Street Theatre, 8115 W. Third Street in West Hollywood.
Performances are Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm; Sundays at 3pm.
Ticket prices are $28.00. Preview Tickets are $20. For tickets, please visit www.showclix.com (search for FALSETTOS) or call 1.888.71.TICKETS (84253). For more information about the musical, please call the theatre at 323-655-9232.


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STAFF at a Wotton-under-Edge dental practice are going above and beyond the call of duty to build on the firm's formidable charity work in Africa.
Chipping Manor Dental Practice has been supporting dental charity Bridge2Aid for the past eight years, with owners Phil and Shaenna Loughnane even scaling Africa's mighty Mount Kilimanjaro in 2012 for the charity.
Bridge2Aid provides people in developing nations with access to dental pain relief and supports the emergency training of Tanzanian clinical officers.
In total, Chipping Manor has raised more than £200,000 for Bridge2Aid and 19 members of staff have volunteered with the charity in Tanzania.
Now it is working on a life-changing new project which staff hope will revolutionise oral care in the area with a new Tanzanian project.
They are building a new clinic in the East African country which will be twinned with their Wotton-under-Edge business.
Hope Dental Centre in Mwanza, Tanzania, was set up nine years ago and the surplus income from this practice helps fund Bridge2Aid's work in rural areas.
But the existing practice is now in an appalling state, and is no longer fit for purpose.
Chipping Manor practice manager Ian Stephens has set off to the country to help build the new dental clinic, which is expected to take three months to get up and running.
The manager, who is on a sabbatical from Chipping Manor, is overseeing the construction of the building and will help run the practice once it is completed.
Chipping Manor spokeswoman Shaenna Loughnane said Ian was undertaking a lot of hardwork in getting the practice rebuilt.
"We are very grateful for Ian's work over there," she said
To support the dental practice in its work in East Africa, visit www.justgiving.com/chippingmanorshope?


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TEN Network's decision to turbocharge the number of shares on issue - and potentially slice its share price in half - has raised questions about whether it is part of a grand plan to delist the company or a desperate attempt to shore up the struggling network's balance sheet.
A report released on Thursday by BBY media analyst Mark McDonnell boldly states: ''We do not accept the chairman's [Lachlan Murdoch's] description of this raising as 'prudent' - a better term would be excessive, given the resulting net cash position and the practical effect of almost halving the value of shares from already historic lows due to the massive dilution.''
McDonnell believes Ten's latest equity raising - the second in six months - could well be a form of creeping privatisation by a few ''insiders''.
It is an interesting theory, given the equity issue will thrust Ten from a net debt position to a net cash position. On the face of it the move seems extreme, given it has been achieved at a massive 38 per cent discount that will result in up to 2.5 billion shares on issue.
Billionaires Lachlan Murdoch, James Packer and Bruce Gordon, who collectively control 32 per cent of the company, have agreed to support the latest $225 million equity issue. The other billionaire board member, Gina Rinehart, who turned up 45 minutes late to Ten's annual meeting on Thursday, has opted to keep everyone in the dark about her intentions.
Rinehart has a deadline of 4pm on Friday to reveal whether she will take up all, part or none of the latest equity issue. Whatever she decides will speak volumes about her attitude to the board, management, strategy and commitment to the network.
She said after the company's annual meeting that more could have been done to cut costs. ''I think we could have done more there and obviously we are not doing well enough yet with our programming.''
The way things are shaping up, Ten Network could well lose dollars in 2013 and 2014 on a cash-flow basis. And despite the latest cost-cutting at the network it will still have a cost base of more than $550 million a year at a time when its revenue is on the slide.
In 2012, its television operating revenue fell 14.5 per cent to $728 million and as it continues to reduce costs it will be hard to reverse the trend given its poor ratings, hence the board's decision to eliminate debt and move to a net cash position.
The troubles at Ten have been well documented. They come against a backdrop of structural challenges facing the TV industry, including audience fragmentation, TV piracy, rising programming costs and falling advertising revenue.
A recent report compiled by PwC for the Interactive Advertising Bureau Australia put the magnitude of the challenges into perspective when it revealed that online advertising is on track to surpass TV advertising next year. Other media consultants, including the Commercial Economic Advisory Service of Australia and Aegis Media, had previously forecast that the crossover would not happen until 2015.
There is no doubt the internet is wreaking havoc, not just on TV but also on newspapers. Besides appealing to advertisers because they can access detailed information on who is watching, the internet also appeals to viewers because of its easy availability and portability. There is also the growing popularity of downloading US shows, illegally or otherwise, before they are screened in Australia, with the bonus of being advertisement free.
Ten has been the hardest hit because it is No.3. Its reliance on some big US shows has not helped, neither has its relatively limited sports content after losing the AFL and its relatively weaker news content, particularly after the latest cost-cutting. It is also suffering an identity crisis.
Historically, each TV network had specific demographic targets that defined the content and programming. Ten's audience was the 16-39 demographic, Nine's was broader and affluent and Seven's was broad and focused on families.
In recent times those lines have blurred, leaving investors in Ten confused about its demographic demarcation lines. Is it 16 to 39? Or 29 to 54? Its digital strategy also needs to be better defined.
In the presentation, Murdoch said in the first quarter of 2013 the advertising market had continued to be weak and uncertain and within that market ''our executive has been poor''.
It brings us back to the question of whether the latest equity issue is more about keeping the network on the drip or moving it a step closer to a privatisation.
It comes after the government recently announced the removal of the 75 per cent audience-reach rule, which at some stage could trigger consolidation in the sector between Seven West Media and Prime Media Group, Nine and WIN TV, and Ten and Southern Cross Media Group.
Under present legislation, TV owners cannot own a network that broadcasts to more than 75 per cent of the population. The existence of this law created the regional affiliate structure that consists of Prime broadcasting Seven content to regional areas, Southern Cross broadcasting Ten's content in regional areas and WIN broadcasting Nine's content in regional areas. Change is certainly coming in media.


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This article was published 30/9/2013 (1422 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
As anyone who has paid a plumber lately knows, the paycheques plumbers can earn has given the trade a new panache.
So maybe the best indication of how long it's been -- and how much has changed -- since Bill Gregorchuk began plumbing is his hourly wage when he started.
"Sixty cents," he says.
Mind you, that was as an apprentice and that was 61 years ago. By the time he made journeyman, Bill was making way more.
About $1.88 an hour.
But then, it was never the primary goal of William Gregorchuk -- a.k.a. Bill the Plumber -- to become wealthy.
Healthy was more important.
That and making a comfortable home for his wife and three children, being on time, doing a good job and treating everyone with respect.
In the course of doing all of that, Bill the Plumber has become something of a legend in Winnipeg, as his daughter, Diane, suggested when she contacted me with a "time-sensitive" email.
"He is very well-known throughout the city as the little Ukrainian fellow who carries a five-gallon pail for his tools."
Actually, it's an ice-cream pail.
Instead of lugging a tool box out of his truck, Bill just puts what he needs in his ice-cream pail.
"Why carry all that weight?" he reasons.
On Monday, Bill proudly displayed his famous tool pail when we met at the doll's house of a St. Boniface home where he and his wife, Helen, have lived since 1958. We sat in the kitchen beside an old-fashioned radio, and under a painting of The Last Supper that hangs on the wall, Bill laughed easily and often as he told his life story.
But he also wept more than once.
He laughed hardest after he offered instructions on how homeowners can identify a leaky toilet, and then admitted it took "a couple of weeks" before he noticed, found and fixed the leak in his own basement toilet.
Later, at the kitchen table, Helen consoled her husband when he wept while recalling the end of the Dirty Thirties, when his homesteading father had to set out on foot from their farm near Vita in search of work wherever he could find it.
The normally jolly Bill wept again when I asked about his quitting school as a teenager because his parents need him to work the farm.
Diane told me what he wouldn't about how he took quitting school.
"He found a jug of home brew and sat behind the barn and cried the entire day."
Bill had wanted to be a teacher.
But, by 17, he was already working with his house-building uncle hammering nails when the plumber who was working on the same jobs asked if he wanted to learn that trade.
So he worked and he went to school.
And, after they were married and while Bill was still in trade school, Helen peeled potatoes at a West End restaurant called Johnny's. Later he would peel potatoes there, too. Just to eat.
Bill would also work for a series of plumbing companies and later as steam fitter for Imperial Oil. And when that refinery disappeared, and his job with it, he opened Gregorchuk's Plumbing.
"I figured if I was good enough for a company, I was good enough to work for myself."
That was 1976, and the independence that went with being his own boss -- and being able to work from the family home -- was one of the happiest days of his life.
He worked anywhere someone would pay him. And even where they couldn't. His daughter still remembers how he explained why he didn't take much, if any money, from some people.
"Diane, the baby needed diapers. She can't afford to pay a plumbing bill."
He never got wealthy. And he's not as healthy as he was, with an arthritic right shoulder from years of working in tight places.
But he's not retiring.
"When you love the job, it's hard to leave it."
Which brings me back to Diane's "time sensitive" email, and why she wanted to introduce me to her dad.
"He is very proud of the modest life he has made for his family," Diane wrote, "and would be so proud to see his name in writing. This would be the greatest gift ever."
She meant the greatest birthday gift.
Happy 80th birthday, Bill.
From me, your family, your customers. And, of course, from all the leaky toilets you've fixed.


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Dell Latitude 6430u Brings Wilocity's 802.11ad WiGig Solution to Consumersby Ganesh T S on 11/1/2012 11:00 AM EST
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nathanddrews - Thursday, November 01, 2012 - linkand take my money!
Now we just need wireless power. Reply
nevertell - Thursday, November 01, 2012 - linkWireless power is a lot harder to direct and control, at least for noe. Whilst it'd be cool to charge your laptop by entering a room, it'd be sucky if your forks heayed uo as well Reply
kylewat - Thursday, November 01, 2012 - linkI'm not sure how the physics of that will work. Wireless power works with magnetic fields, targeted magnetic fields. You would need some kind of physical targeted beamforming to make it work. At least in my mind wires are here to stay. Reply
danjw - Thursday, November 01, 2012 - linkWireless power is wasteful! The last thing we need is to introduce more inefficiencies into mobile devices. What is it with people and cables? Is it really that big of a chore to plug something in? Personally, I only use WiFi when necessary, it is totally insecure. Reply
This Guy - Friday, November 02, 2012 - linkCheap computer power supplys often have losses of 30%+. If the wireless charger is a mat and dell designs the system to minimise the air gap then it's losses could be less than 10%. Yes this is on top of the dock's power supply losses but a standardised mat could reduce phantom draw and ewaste as fewer power supplys would be needed. Reply
Darkstone - Friday, November 02, 2012 - linkThe latitude Z600 from 2 years ago has wireless charging:
Google it. Reply
rallyhard - Thursday, November 01, 2012 - linkI wonder how many Mbps or Gbps this is?
External GPU over wireless?! That would be extremely impressive.
BTW, I couldn't get my comment to post under IE10 Reply
Spivonious - Thursday, November 01, 2012 - linkWikipedia says a theoretical 7Gbps. Reply
ClockworkPirate - Thursday, October 10, 2013 - linkThe problem with an eGPU would be latency, even if you could get throughput up high enough (from what I've read, you'd need even more than Thunderbolt's 20 Gbps to run a high-end card). Reply
yefi - Thursday, November 01, 2012 - linkI'd like to see what the real-world throughput is going to be - USB 2.0 speeds maybe? Reply
Impulses - Friday, November 02, 2012 - linkIsn't this what Thunderbolt has been promising for a while? Yet the only somewhat solid implementation we've seen was on Apple's displays, and adoption is still very slow. I'm not holding my breath for this, I'm not even sure why most docking usage cases would benefit from going wireless. Streaming wirelessly to a big display would be the one standout but WiDi and Miracast stands a far better chance. Reply
DanNeely - Friday, November 02, 2012 - linkBusiness class laptops like the Latitude and equivalent HP and Lenovo models have had docking connectors for years. The premium for the docking station itself has kept them from gaining momentum in the consumer market; but they've been a cash cow for people selling to larger businesses for years.
That said, the only major advantages I see for a wireless option that doesn't also include power is that it's more convenient for conference rooms and other locations when you're not going to use the laptop for longer than your battery will support, and that you can change supported ports without forcing a 1:1 replacement of laptops and docks. The Latitude C, D, and E families have each came with their own docking station connector size and locations and were needed to add support for newer ports and features. This is always messy in the time period when part of the workforce has one model and part the other and an overarching protocol that wraps everything will help a lot here although a combined power/thunderbolt cable would be nearly as good for replacing the current standard of docking stations. Reply
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What are some things that rabbits really enjoy playing with? I bought my rabbit Bandit some tubes and he really enjoyed those! But as time went on, he really wasn't very interested anymore. So I tried a box & he liked it for about 2 seconds and hasn't really gone back to it. He plays little a little cat ball with a bell in it that I bought him once and a while, but not very often. Tonight Im going to try a paper bag with some hay in it and see if he likes that to hide and play in. What else are some good ideas to let a little bun have some fun in!? Im running out of ideas.
Bandit playing hide n' seek in his little blanket!
Nicole, does Bandit have places in his cage where he can get his tender tootsies off of the wire flooring? It can hurt their feet quite a bit sometimes. Hmm toys, my two are picky as well and something I tried was tying a willow ball to the side of the cage up a little high for interest and they tore it apart. That is just too adorable him playing peek-a-boo with the blanket. Some bunnies like those keys that you buy in the baby section to toss. Maybe he needs some noisy toys? Try a canning jar rlid ring, secure a big notebook ring around it with a bell on it and fasten shut. Does he have any noisy toys? Some bunnies get bored with having the same toys in the cage all the time so it is recommended that they be rotated out at least once a week to maintain interest in exploring and playing.
A trick with boxes and tunnels - switch them around everyday, and hide a little treat somewhere inside, Also, block part of an exit so that they can see the possibility of it being taken down. Some bunnies then will make it their project to clear the entrance or exit. Use more carboard, paper towel rolls, or a phone book to block.
Yeah, I have an area where he tends to hang and sleep that has a straw mat down. I did alot of research before I got him so that was one of the things I made sure to have for his little feet! Would those baby keys be okay for a rabbit? Bandit loves to chew & I know that some things that are considered non-toxic to humans/other animals can be toxic to rabbits. He has alot of balls and stuff that make noise because they have bells in them, but he just gets bored with them so fast! I want to start making toys he can use, like out of cardboard and stuff because I really can't go out and buy new toys all of the time (I also have a dog, bird, fish that I buy for, as well as rent/groceries & im a college student! So you can imagine how tough it would be to go out and buy new toys all of the time!!)
Oh I can definately sympathize with being a college student, it doesn't get much better after graduation and you have to start paying loans (ugh). Cardboard boxes are great entertainment for a bunny. They keys as long as they are the large plastic ones are OK. But like you said, make your own, there are some neat things you can do on the cheap! We've got a post on Home made toys, you just might want to check out!
Luckily I wont have to deal with loans after graduation, military pays for my schooling! So that will be a plus! Then I'll have all the extra money to spend on my little animals! Thanks, I'll have to check out the forum for homemade toys. I am thinking of making a cardboard castle maybe tomorrow or this weekend on a day off. I just need to find some empty boxes! Just want to keep my little bun happy and let him have fun all of the time! Just need to brainstorm I guess!!
my girl likes anything she can throw. i've given her the baby keys (which she loves... and they are cheap... only about two dollars), plastic lids from various containers, folgers coffee cans (the big plastic red ones, not the metal ones), she's even raided some of my son's toys. he'll play with his little matchbox cars on the floor, and Meadow will sneak up behind him, grab one with her teeth, and run away. if you're not sure if something is safe for your bunny, i would just make sure to stay in close proximity to make sure they don't tear it apart or ingest a small piece.


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