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Home care information for patients following hair transplant surgery
Dr. Maurice P. Collins
F.R.C.S.I., D.L.O., F.R.C.S.Ed, F.R.C.S.
Hair transplant surgery is a delicate procedure. Your adherence to these post-operative instructions is essential for optimal results. It is our aim that you are pleased with the care you receive, and we encourage you to contact us with any problems or questions. If you have any problems following the surgery please call HRBR's office number below. If the office is unattended and you have an urgent problem, please contact the mobile number of your attending surgeon.
Office hours contact (8a.m. – 5p.m.):
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Post- Operative Care
Immediately Post OP
- A spray bottle and a saline water solution are supplied on discharge. You may use tap water when the sterile water provided is finished.
- You will need to spray the transplanted area and the stitches every 20 minutes for the first 12 hours.
When doing this put some towels around your shoulders and let all the water drip down
- You will need to spray vigorously, use both hands to ensure that you cover all the transplanted and sutured area. Do not touch the transplanted hair
- Once you have completed the 12 hours of spraying you should sleep for a few hours
- Drink plenty of water during this time and eat as normal
- You may store the 1L saline bottle in the fridge but this is not essential
- Mild sedation is given during surgery and it is important you do not drive afterwards
Day 1 to day 3
- On day 1 (day after the surgery) to day 3, you should spray half hourly during your waking hours and sleep as normal at night
- You may use tap water when the saline water provided is finished
- Spraying prevents any scab formation on the transplanted area and on the donor area. The transplanted grafts also need to be kept hydrated throughout this period, this is essential for their survival
Day 4- Day 14
- You will commence a tea tree shampoo regime on day 4
- Fill a clean bowl with tepid water, put 10 mls of shampoo in and mix it up to make it quite soapy and with a cup or bowl, pour the solution over the transplanted area and the donor area, and rinse off any soapy solution. You may pat it gently with a clean towel
- This should be done once a day from day 4 up until day 14
- Note: Do not stand under a power shower and do not wear a hat during this time. Do not use any product in your hair. Allow your hair to dry naturally, do not towel dry or blow dry your hair
- You may continue spraying the sutured area during day 4 to 14 to relieve any itchiness. You may keep the spray bottle in the fridge
- Your stitches will need to be removed between day 7 and day 10. It is advisable to return to HRBR to have these removed
- Note: There may be a dissolvable suture underneath the skin which will self dissolve between 3 and 4 months post operatively. This can feel lumpy but it will return to normal in time
- It is advisable to start using Regaine after day 14 to enhance the growth, this should be used at night only on the transplanted area and this can be used for 6 months or continuously post operatively
Day 14 and after
- You may return to your normal hair washing regime, finish using the tea tree shampoo, return to your previous shampoo, wash the hair vigorously using both hands this will remove any crusts in the area. At this stage you may get your hair cut, colour your hair and resume using products like gels and hair sprays
- It is recommended to avoid strenuous physical activity 4 weeks post operatively; you should avoid gym work, swimming, cycling, tennis, golf, any heavy lifting, strenuous hill walking for 4 weeks after the surgery. This is to avoid any stretching of the scar
- When you return to physical activity you should start off lightly and build up slowly to your previous activity levels
Complications that may occur following your surgery
- Swelling: this is quite rare but could occur usually 24 to 48 hours after the surgery. You may notice some swelling in the forehead, which may travel down towards the eyebrows. This will resolve itself, without intervention, usually 48 to 72 hours after it begins. Raising the top of the bed will help
- Bleeding: there may be some bleeding directly after the surgery from the donor area, if any bleeding occurs, it is important to apply pressure with some gauze for as long as it takes to settle
- Pain: sometimes pain can occur in the donor and the transplanted area, Solpadeine and Nurofen are recommended for this, and you can take these alternating every 3 hours. Please see specific instructions about pain relief provided
- Numbness/ tingling sensation in the recipient area sometimes occurs, this will resolve without intervention. It can last from weeks to months
- Infection: There is a very slight risk of infection as with any surgery. You should return to the clinic if you feel there is any signs of infection such as localised redness, pain
For Your Information
- It is important to note that the transplanted hair will be fully embedded after day 14, that is why you can resume your normal activities at this stage
- The transplanted hair will begin to fall out, usually 2 to 4 weeks after the surgery. You will start to see the hair grow at 3 to 4 months after the surgery, this hair will be very fine and minute at first
- At 6 months 70% the hair will have appeared, however they won't be fully grown, it will take up to 18 months for a full growth to occur
- Shedding of the native hair can also sometimes occur post operatively. This is quite rare and if it occurs it will always re-grow
Note on going on holidays post operatively
- It is possible to go on holidays after the surgery, it is important not to get a sun burn on the scalp as this will damage the skin. Do not swim in swimming pools with chlorine in the first 14 days as the chemicals may damage the grafts, it is however safe to swim in the sea in the first 14 days
- Do not dive
- After day 14 you can swim in swimming pools and apply sun lotion to the scalp and wear a hat if needed. It is advised to always wear a cap in the sun after day 14. If you are in the sun prior to day 14, you must sit under an umbrella and avoid sitting in direct sun light for long periods
- Please remember to avoid any strenuous physical activity for 4 weeks post operatively


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JOHN MCPHEE carefully snips his ultralight fishing line with scissors. He scrolls a finger through a clear plastic lure box and pulls out a small dart--pink and white with a flashy tail the color of abalone. He ties it to his line, listening to the talk in the boat. A couple of anglers are expounding on the low merits of the American shad as a table fish, and McPhee has heard these incriminations before. He rises to the defense.
"I think it's a terrific fish to eat," McPhee says quietly, while tying his lure to the line. "I love shad roe, and I love to bake the whole fish. The name of this fish is Alosa sapidissima, which means 'savory fish.' So somebody thought so, other than me."
Perhaps. But it is also true that few people have considered the American shad as thoroughly as McPhee. An avid fisherman and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, he wrote The Founding Fish, an engrossing book parsing every possible angle and attribute of the American shad and American shad fishing.
For McPhee, American shad are "ardent zeppelins" populating the streams "of sacred origin of American fly fishing." To others, they are the "poor man's tarpon"--accessible to anglers from shore or boat, acrobatic when hooked, at times plentiful in the extreme. And to increasing numbers of conservationists, the fish is a totem of the lost wildness of North America's dammed, polluted and otherwise diminished rivers--and of an incredible opportunity to restore them.
These are exhilarating days for the science of river restoration. Part of the reason is a continuing drive to remove many unneeded dams in the East. Researchers are also developing new techniques for helping fish up and over dams--fish ladders, lifts and other "fish passage" devices. Cleaner water is playing a role as well. "We are entering a new era of river conservation for the 21st century," says Boyd Kynard, a leading expert on migrating fish for the federal Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center. "It's a story the public needs to hear, because it is happening in so many places. In this era, we hope to open up passage for all migratory fishes in rivers blocked by the Industrial Revolution of the 19th and early 20th centuries."
In important respects, the American shad is leading the way. Native to Eastern rivers from Labrador to Florida, a spawning American shad is 12 to 24 inches of silvery-slick shimmer, its back draped with a green and blue metallic luster that gives way to sides glimmering like liquid opal. Like all anadromous fish, shad begin life in freshwater rivers. As larvae and juveniles, they move downstream to estuaries and sounds, then spend most of their lives in the open ocean. Early each spring, however, enormous numbers ascend coastal rivers, unseen in the turbid and tannin-stained flow, but heralding the coming season as surely as spring peepers. Streams void of the migrants in January swell with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of fish seeking spawning grounds that lie in upstream shoals and rapids.
That reliance on open migratory corridors through the settled East has hammered American shad populations. From the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, when untold thousands of small dams were built across Eastern rivers and smaller streams to power mills and factories, through the age of hydroelectric power, when huge dams corralled major rivers from Maine to Florida, populations of American shad and many other anadromous fish have plummeted.
"Growing up, I didn't know what a shad was," says George "Pappy" Magaro, longtime president of the Delaware River Shad Fishermen's Association (a member of NWF affiliate The Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs) who has fished the confluence of the Lehigh and Delaware rivers at Easton, Pennsylvania, for 30 years. Once, these waters hosted a huge shad migration, but commercial fishing whittled stocks away, dams checked upstream movements and a massive "pollution plug" in the river between Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware, literally forced migrating shad to turn around and swim back to the sea. One day in the mid-1970s, Magaro caught a large fish at the base of the Lehigh River Dam. "I called the kids over to look at the size of this huge river chub," he says. "I didn't find out it was a shad until two years later when a friend asked me to go shad fishing. I said, 'What's a shad?'"
Anglers and conservationists are heartened that more and more East Coast residents are having the opportunity to learn about shad for themselves. In recent years, dam removals in eastern seaboard states and advances in fish passage techniques have opened up thousands of miles of spawning habitat closed to shad for decades. One of the first dams to fall for fish, in 1998, was Quaker Neck Dam on the Neuse River in North Carolina, which opened more than 1,000 miles of migratory fish habitat and attracted national attention.
Shad river dams have also fallen or been outfitted with fish bypass structures on Pennsylvania's LeHigh, Delaware and Susquehanna rivers; on North Carolina's Little River; on South Carolina's Santee and Cooper; and on Virginia's Rappahannock, among others. On Pennsylvania's Schuylkill River alone, seven dams are currently targeted for breaching, removal or fish passage construction.
"We've worked for years with power companies, federal agencies, state agencies and locals to return rivers to a more natural state," says Larry Thompson, executive director of the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, an NWF affiliate. "American shad, striped bass, robust redhorse and the endangered Cape Fear shiner all benefit from efforts to restore rivers to natural flows."
But there's more to bringing back shad and their river habitat than simply removing dams. Millions of American shad eggs and larvae are stocked in rivers such as the Roanoke River in North Carolina, the Susquehanna and Maine's Kennebec. Moratoriums of both commercial and recreational fishing in the Chesapeake Bay have benefitted the massive Susquehanna River system population of fish. Water quality improvements have also aided many rivers as have evolving fish passage designs. On the Connecticut River in Turners Falls, Massachusetts, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) biologists have finished testing a new fishway device that could dramatically increase the number of American shad that make it to the prime spawning habitat above the dam.
"Compared to where we started, we're doing very, very well," reports FWS biologist Dick St. Pierre of the Susquehanna effort. "We were trying to do something that had never really been attempted: create a large population of migratory fish from scratch."
But the shad rebound still faces difficult challenges. In spite of improving river conditions, most freshwater populations are nowhere near historic levels. In the Susquehanna River, 68,926 American shad were recently counted at the Conowingo Dam, below the previous five-year average of 138,000 and far below the restoration program goal of 2 million fish.
All along the Atlantic seaboard, in fact, shad numbers dipped last year. "Why?" asks St. Pierre. "The easy answer is, nobody knows. But the coastwide nature of the drop leads to concerns about oceanic problems, not a local water quality issue." One possibility is global warming. "A one- or two-degree temperature change in the ocean can seriously affect these fish or their food," says St. Pierre. "It's worrisome."
Out on the Susquehanna, McPhee and his fellow anglers feel too well the frustration of trying to understand the American shad. High spring flows and very cool May temperatures are conspiring against the fish today, delaying their annual migration--and keeping the action slow on the end of our fishing lines.
"This isn't surprising," McPhee says. "The fish don't care a diddle for the fisherman. I've stood on a rock and watched the shad swim by in the hundreds and not caught a single one."
Once hooked, shad put up a memorable fight. Yet few anglers keep the fish, despite McPhee's defense of their culinary value. Instead, they slip the hooks from the shad's thin, papery mouths and release the fish into the river's flow. Once free, American shad tend to hang suspended in the current for the briefest moment, sunlight glinting on their pearly flanks. Then they orient to the downstream current and are gone in a flash, headed upstream, upriver, heeding the ancient instincts to find swift current over clean rock, where the next generation of American shad will begin life.
T. Edward Nickens wrote about fishing with his son in the June/July issue.

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Nikon 1 AW1 Mirrorless Digital Camera with 11-27.5mm Lens (White)
Model #27669
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|Display Screen
|3" Rear Screen LCD (921,000)
|AC Power Adapter
|EH-5b (Optional)
|1x EN-EL20 Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery Pack, 7.2VDC, 1020mAh
|Operating/Storage Temperature
14 to 104°F (-10 to 40°C)
Humidity: 0 - 85%
|12.56 oz / 356 g Body only with battery and memory card
|Dimensions (WxHxD)
|4.5 x 2.8 x 1.5" / 113.3 x 71.5 x 37.5 mm excluding projections
|1x USB 2.0
1x HDMI C (Mini)
|Continuous Shooting
|Up to 60 fps
|Wi-Fi Capable
|Yes (with Optional Transmitter)
|Self Timer
|2 sec, 5 sec, 10 sec
Kit Lens
|Focal Length
|11 - 27.5 mm
Comparable 35mm Focal Length: 30 - 74 mm
|6.42 oz (182 g)
|Dimensions (DxL)
|Approx. 2.48 x 2.22" (63 x 56.5 mm)
|Filter Thread
|Front:40.5 mm
|Diaphragm Blades
|Minimum Focus Distance
|11.81" (30 cm)
|Angle of View
|72° - 32° 20'
|Maximum: f/3.5 - 5.6
Minimum: f/16
|Lens Mount
|Nikon Waterproof 1
|Camera Format
|Nikon CX (2.7x Crop Factor)
|Actual: 15.13 Megapixel
Effective: 14.2 Megapixel
|Max Resolution
|4608 x 3072
|Sensor Type / Size
|CMOS, 13.2 x 8.8 mm
|File Formats
|Still Images: JPEG, RAW
Movies: MOV, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264
Audio: AAC
|Bit Depth
|Dust Reduction System
|Memory Card Type
Focus Control
|Autofocus Points
|Contrast Detection: 135
Phase Detection: 73
|Focus Mode
|Single-servo AF (S), Continuous-servo AF (C), Full-time Servo (F), Manual Focus (M)
|Focus Type
|Auto & Manual
|Flash Compensation
|-1 EV to +3 EV (in 1/3 EV steps)
|Max Sync Speed
|Electronic Shutter: 1 / 60 sec
|Dedicated Flash System
|Guide No.
|16.4' (5 m) ISO100
|Built-in Flash
|Flash Modes
|Fill-flash/Slow Sync
Rear Curtain/Slow Sync
Rear Sync
Red-eye Reduction
Slow Sync/Red-eye Reduction
Exposure Control
|Metering Method
|Center-weighted average metering, Matrix, Spot metering
|Burst Rate
|Up to 60 fps at 14.2 MP for up to 20 frames
Up to 30 fps at 14.2 MP
Up to 15 fps at 14.2 MP for up to 22 frames
Up to 5 fps at 14.2 MP
|White Balance Modes
|Auto, Cloudy, Direct Sunlight, Flash, Fluorescent, Incandescent, Preset Manual, Shade, Underwater
|Exposure Modes
|Modes: Aperture Priority, Manual, Programmed Auto, Scene Auto Selector, Shutter Priority
Compensation: -3 EV to +3 EV (in 1/3 EV steps)
|Type: Electronic
Speed: 30 - 1/16000 sec
Type: Electronic
Speed: 120 - 1/16000 sec in Bulb Mode
|ISO Sensitivity
|Auto, 100-6400
AV Recording
|Audio Recording
|With Video, Stereo
|Aspect Ratio
|8:3, 16:9
|1920 x 1080: 60 fps, 30 fps
1280 x 720: 60 fps, 30 fps
640 x 240: 400 fps
320 x 120: 1200 fps
|Video Recording
The Nikon AW1 is the World's first compact system camera designed for underwater use. It's waterproof to a depth of 15 metres, will survive a drop from 2 metres and is freezeproof to -10C.
Waterproof, dustproof, shockproof, freezeproof., Waterproof interchangable lenses., Bigger sensor than other underwater cameras., Built-in GPS., Good water handling characteristics.
Lens seals require annual maintenance., No built-in Wifi., No waterproof strap accessory., Corner located tripod mount.
Although the AW1 is built like a tank and survived our brutal test at sea, it's not entirely faultless. The lack of manual controls on the body means you'll constantly have to fight your way through the menu if you like to be in charge of frequently used settings, and in that respect it's just like...
Incredibly strong; Fast burst rate; Superb image quality for a waterproof camera
Slippery body; No PASM mode dial; Limited waterproof lens range; Lack of hotshoe
The Nikon 1 AW1 is the first interchangeable lens camera that you can take deep underwater, but it's best left in automatic mode.
Rugged design. Waterproof to 49 feet. Integrated GPS. Good high ISO performance. Very fast burst shooting and focus. Unique shooting modes. 1080i60 and slow-motion video support.
Pricey. Controls may frustrate advanced photographers. Electronic shutter limits sync speed. External adapter required to add Wi-Fi support. Limited lens selection.
Consumers have shown that they really like compact digital cameras that combine the ease of a point and shoot with the feature set of a DSLR. They like larger sensors, enhanced performance, better image quality, and the abilty to swap lenses. The new Nikon 1 AW1 meets this consumer criteria.
Waterproof, shockproof, dustproof, and freezeproof, Neutral colors, Fills a unique product niche
Poorly placed action mode control, handgrip is less than ideal
The Nikon 1 J3 is a solid ILC, but it didn't overwhelm us. However, take that same camera and make it waterproof and shockproof, name it the AW1, and it's hard to not make an overwhelming recommendation. Also, there's nothing else in the world like it.
The Nikon 1 AW1 is the first digital compact system camera that can be used for diving or other active sports without an additional protective case. Protected by a stainless steel front cover, all function elements, card slots, and interfaces are protected by sealed covers.
The Nikon 1 AW1 is the company's most fully realized compact system camera of the past three years. It's a rugged model that, unusually, takes really good photographs, and with consistency. Perhaps that's something worth paying a premium. Gavin is a Macworld U.K.
Rugged qualities ensure a built-to-last construction, Sharp images
Occasional problem with inner glass of lens misting up, No eye level viewfinder
The Nikon 1 AW1 is absolutely unique. It is the only waterproof or shockproof interchangeable lens camera every made. Its relatively large 1" CMOS sensor provide it with image-quality superior to all other waterpoof cameras.
Waterproof and shockproof construction, Excellent metering, Realistic image colors, Good white-balance, Usable up to ISO 6400 for small prints, Fast Phase-Detect AF, Class-leading continuous drive, Quick shutter-lag, Ultra quiet, Sharp and crisp LCD with fast refresh rate
Above average image noise for a mirrorless, General image softness, Limited dynamic range, Limited lens selection, Wrong framing of video in image mode, Unresponsive at times, Not Exposure-Priority LCD, Very few direct controls, Short battery-life
The AW1 is an interesting camera, and one that we're very curious to try out when final production samples become available. We've had some time with a (very) pre-production sample, and although we haven't had the opportunity to actually shoot with it, our brief experience suggests that the AW1 does...
Waterproof, shockproof, mirrorless and with a 14mp sensor larger than most point-and-shoot sensors, the Nikon 1 AW1 (MSRP $799.95) is the only camera in its class. It seemed an ideal choice for a photographer with a bad case of pixelitis who was going to ride an overgrown innertube down the raging...
Camera and the rest of the package is great, the flotation wrist strap is cheap and came apart allowing the camera to drop onto concrete, good news is it only scratched the outside of the lens. The silicon cover helped save the camera.
Easy to Use, Great Resolution, Small / Compact
Great camera. Very easy use seems pretty durable so far. Have not will not take it underwater. I think it would do fine tho if seals are clean and preped correctly.
Works great as a travel camera. I like using the 10mm 2.8 lens. I thought waterproofing the camera would take extra steps, but you just put on the lens. The settings are easy to use and intuitive. This camera shoots Raw, so the image quality is pretty good in low light.
The new AW1 has grabbed my attention, but falls very short for almost all recreational diving. Most dives NEVER end at 49' (unless that's the true bottom). Please give us a true, modern, digital, diving camera system that is good to 140'.
I purchased this camera before our labor day vacation and it was the best decision I could have made. We planned a 7-day Caribbean vacation I couldn't decide which camera to take. I own a J3 but I was afraid it may get water damage.
A waterproof camera that's ready for any adventure.
- 14.2MP CX-Format CMOS Sensor
- EXPEED 3A Image Processing Engine
- Water, Shock, Dust & Freezeproof Design
- 3.0" 921k-Dot LCD Monitor
- Full HD 1080i Video Recording at 60 fps
- Action Control and Sensing Functions
- Advanced Hybrid AF System
- Built-In GPS/GLONASS & WU-1b Compatible
- Pop-Up Waterproof Flash
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- EN-EL20 Rechargeable Li-ion Battery (1020mAh)
- MH-27 Battery Charger
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- UC-E15 USB Cable
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"Game Of Thrones" Recap: Jon Snow & Ygritte 4 Ever
Last week on "Game of Thrones," we learned the one thing Jon Snow knows — cunnilingus — and this week, Ygritte, the lucky recipient of his tongue lashing, made it clear she's not letting him go. Prepping for this climb up the giant ice wall, Ygritte calls Jon out, saying she knows he is really still loyal to the crows and not Mance Rayder, despite the fact that he took her dare and gave up his oath of celibacy. Ygritte doesn't seem to care who Jon is ultimately loyal to, so long as he stays loyal to her. "You're a proper lover, Jon Snow," she compliments him, saying the other men she's been with haven't treated her as well, "Or done the thing you did with your tongue." But later:
"I'm your woman now, Jon Snow. You're going to be loyal to your woman. The Night's Watch doesn't care if you live or die, and Mance Rayder don't care if I live or die. We're just soldiers in their armies and there's plenty more to carry on if we go down. It's just you and me that matters to me in the end. Don't ever betray me. Because I'll cut your pretty cock right off and wear it round me neck."
Damn, girl. That's one way to make sure he loves you.
Later on, they manage to scale the wall, with mind you a few hiccups along the way, and share a passionate kiss as they stand overlooking the uncharted vista beyond. It's a romantic moment, on a completely unromantic show, so you know things aren't looking good for long. Check out both clips above!


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July 4 and Free Speech in Fresno
Utah Phillips said: "The state can't give you free speech, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free..."
The head of security at the Fashion Fair mall repeatedly warned me that arrest was eminent as a group (about 75) of us set up a soap box to stand on so we could read the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights at the front entrance on the 4th of July. I could picture myself, the attorneys, a judge, and numerous community activists being arrested and hauled off to jail for reading the Constitution on the 4th of July. That might have made national news!
What led to that bizarre confrontation in 2003?
While the police did not arrest me or anyone else in our group that day, that was not the case a few years earlier when 19 of us were arrested for protesting at Fashion Fair against The Gap's use of Sweatshop labor. You can see photos and a couple of articles (archived on the old Community Alliance newspaper website) from that incident here:
The reason we returned, after all of the charges in the incident (from 5-6-2000) were dropped and we won a settlement against Fashion Fair, was that they kept threatening progressive political activists with arrest if they exercised their Free Speech rights. Even though we had won the court case and received a settlement, they (Fashion Fair security) kept threatening people with arrest if they so much as handed out a flier.
The public act of Civil Disobedience that we engaged in on July 4, 2003 was our effort to prove that Fashion Fair can not get away with arresting you for standing up for your Free Speech rights. Yes, they threatened us with arrest, but when confronted with determined activists who stood up for their rights, Fashion Fair security and the Fresno Police blinked. We won!
You can read some commentary and see photos of the July 4, 2003 action here:
When I think about the 4th of July and all of the patriotic celebrations going on, I think about that day 11 years ago, when this brave group of progressives stood their ground and made Free Speech more than just a concept.
On this day I'm reminded of this quote from Utah Phillips:
The state can't give you free speech, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free...


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The Grand Bazaar, Istanbul
?Grand? is an understatement when it comes to this sprawling bazaar, with 4,000 stores, 65 streets, and a past that dates back six centuries. Here you will find sought after gems both costume and fine, (some dating back to Marie Antoinette?s time), peshtamel towels, suzanis, rugs, Ikat galore and tons of evil eye everything to bring back as gifts.
Best Buy: Fine and costume jewelry can be found in an area of the bazaar known as Bedastan. The best peshtamel towels can be found at Abdulla. (Located at Alibaba T?rbe Sokak No:25 Nurosmaniye) I find the bazaar easiest to navigate when you enter by way of the Nourisame gate. Many merchants will offer you sweet apple tea or coffee as a way to entice you to shop; don?t forget to bargain as you sip your drinks. Open 9am-7pm, closed Sundays.
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Marrakesh Souk
The city of Marrakesh was originally a desert trading post for caravans on their way to and from Timbuktu. This souk has not lost its exotic feel despite the new influx of trendy riads and chic caf?s. One needs to travel deep past the touristy Djemaa El Fna square to experience some really good shopping, but once you are in the heart of the medina you will find a world of delights our favorites being babouche slippers, easy kaftans and decorated baskets.
Best Buy: Marrakesh is still a great spot to buy rugs and Moroccan wedding blankets. These white fringed and sequined rug like textiles are thought to ward off evil spirits and make great gifts. Make sure to have an enough time set aside for shopping and bargaining. Open daily.
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Johari Bazaar Jaipur India
This is the where the world?s top jewelers still come to work with skilled craftsmen whose secrets have been passed down through generations. This pink walled bazaar offers a great assortment of typical Indian souvenirs, here you find every type of Sari and bangle bracelet imaginable as well as sandals, slippers and crazy bright patterned fabric that you can use as wrapping paper back home this holiday.
Best Buy: If you are really looking to buy a major piece of jewelry, we suggest you visit the Jaipur?s most infamous jewel emporium, the Gem Palace (No.348, MI Road). Open daily.
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Allister Coetzee is one of my favourite people in rugby. I especially admire his dignity under pressure, and it is clear why the Stormers players have such affection for "Toetie." His career as one of the great Saru scrumhalves only adds to the man's stature.
But there is no room for sentiment in sport, and the fact that the Stormers are flapping about in the backwaters of the Super Rugby log is going to put a lot of heat on Coetzee. The coach has to be the man with the plan. That is just the way sport works.
And in Sydney, the Stormers looked like a team with basically one plan: Defend and force penalties. Even in the first 30 minutes, when they were just about camping in the Waratahs half, not once did they look like a team who could score tries. Even worse, they never looked like a team who had any ambition to score tries.
Other than their mauling, they seemed to be at a loss at what to do with the ball in their hands. There was no creative strategy from attacking set pieces, other than the usual one-off runners or pods taking the ball up. That is of course when they did not lose the ball in contact or spill their passes.
There were some other particularly depressing moments. Like Dewaldt Duvenage aimlessly kicking away a good ruck ball straight into touch, and a very strange move where Joe Pietersen came up on the blindside from a scrum, took Duvenage's pass and grubbered into touch. It prompted a low growl from Phil Kearns: "What was the point of that?" Beats me too, Phil.
The Tahs were not that great either, but at least they tried to play the game. At least they mixed up their options, at least they made intelligent use of space, at least they tried to involve a gamebreaker like Israel Folau as much as possible. At least they valued the rugby ball, instead of fearing it. In other words, at least they had ambition. And that's why they deserved to win the game.
A team plays like a team trains. And game strategy comes from the coach. Which is where Allister comes in. You just get the feeling the Stormers are a team who are coached to be scared to try things, scared to be creative and expressive. A team who are much more comfortable giving their opponents the ball and feeding off their mistakes.Yet the challenge of coaching these days is to precisely to devise a way to prise open the tight defences that dominate modern rugby. Otherwise it remains a chess game of basher against basher.
This lack of amibition has haunted the Stormers for years now. Yes, Allister has taken the team to two semi-finals and a final in three years. But in 10 or 20 years time, who will remember or care who topped the Super Rugby log in 2012? All that matters is who won the title.
The negative mindset of the Stormers often comes out in their pre-match comments as well. So often they will talk about how dangerous the Blues are with ball-in-hand, or how you have to stop the Chiefs playmakers by smothering the life out of them. Instead of being confident in their own abilities, they talk up the opposition.
At the risk of sounding like a stuck Blu-Ray player, strong defence and strong set pieces will always be two of rugby's bedrocks. But defence will only take you so far, especially in Super Rugby. There are just too many creative teams and too many creative coaches in the competition. And five will always be more than three in English, Spanish or gobbledygook. Which is why 17 Stormers tries in 10 matches is such a depressing statistic.
Being creative, daring and entertaining does not exclude the basics of rugby. You can actually entertain and win. You can make people smile and win. Boring does not equal winning, just like entertaining does not equal losing. Just page through the golden annals of sport,for a few seconds and you will see what I am getting at.
In the end, it is up to Allister to free his team from the chains of fear they seem to have had strapped around their ankles for the last few years now.
After the Waratahs match, Allister again lauded his players for their commitment and their brave defence. "Defensively we were outstanding and our set-piece functioned well," he said.
But we know the Stormers are brave, Allister. We know they tackle like brave men. I just wonder when will they attack like brave men?
w Ian Smit is the sports editor of the Cape Times and a former rugby writer of the paper.
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Alright, so I've always had a problem getting the G on my Jackson Soloist XL to intonate properly. The trem is an Original Floyd Rose (replaced the crappy import the guitar came with), and the G-string's saddle needs to be moved even further from the nut, but there's no more travel possible! I had this problem with the import trem that came with the guitar too... Oh, the A-string has a similar issue, but not as severe. Strings are .009 - .042 D'Addario XL 120s that I always use. If I tune the A and G a little low, the guitar's intonation is better, but not "perfect."
My suspicion is that the trem post anchors were set in the wrong location when the guitar was manufactured--probably a very minor distance too close to the nut--so the saddle for the two problem strings can't be compensated enough as a result.
Anyone else had this type of problem? Any ideas (besides re-setting the anchors because I'm NOT doing it!) on how to fix it/compensate for it???
EDIT: Oh, and the neck has a very slight amount of relief with a treble action of 4/64 measured from the bottom of the strings to the top of the 17th fret, and a bass action between 4/64 - 5/64. I like that action for my playing style (with vibrato & bends).


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Some Android Apps Use Personal Data 'Suspiciously,' Report Says
How secure are your smartphone apps? What type of data is being distributed when you fire up your horoscope, check the weather, or log-in to your favorite social network?
A report released this week from researchers at Penn State, Duke, and Intel Labs found that in a study of 30 randomly selected, popular Android apps, about two-thirds of them "used sensitive data suspiciously."
Google responded that users must give app developers explicit permission before access to any personal data is granted.
Researchers used something called TaintDroid, an extension to the Android platform that tracks the flow of sensitive data through third-party applications. It automatically labels (or taints) data from privacy-sensitive sources, and logs the data's labels, the application responsible for transmitting the data, and the data's destination.
The study found that 358 apps in the Android Market require Internet permissions, as well as permissions to access location, camera, or audio data. Of those 358, researchers randomly selected 30 apps, including ones for The Weather Channel and BBC News.
TaintDroid flagged 105 instances in which the apps transmitted tainted data; 37 of which researchers said were legitimate. Overall, the report found 68 instances of potential misuse of users' private information across 20 applications, the report said.
Fifteen of the 30 apps reported user locations to remote advertising servers, and seven apps collected the device ID, and sometimes the phone number and SIM card serial number. One app even transmitted phone information every time the phone booted even if the app has not been used. Overall, two-thirds of the apps used data suspiciously, researchers concluded.
"While some mobile phone operating systems allow users to control applications' access to sensitive information, such as location sensors, camera images, and contact lists, users lack visibility into how applications use their private data," the report said.
If someone allows access to their location information, for example, that person has no way of knowing if the app will send that location to a location-based service, to advertisers, to the app developer, or any other entity, the report said.
As a result, Android's access control "provide insufficient protection against third-party applications seeking to collect sensitive data," researchers concluded.
Google said in a statement that all users entrust at least some of their data to developers when downloading applications.
"Android has taken steps to inform users of this trust relationship and to limit the amount of trust a user must grant to any given application developer," a spokesman said via e-mail. "We also provide developers with best practices about how to handle user data."
Users installing an app from the Android Market see a screen shot that explains what information the application has permission to access, like location or contacts, Google said.
"Users must explicitly approve this access in order to continue with the installation, and they may uninstall applications at any time," the spokesman said. "Any third party code included in an application is bound by these same permissions. We consistently advise users to only install apps they trust."


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Mon 3rd Sep 2012 | News
The nominees for the 2012 animago AWARD have been chosen.
Late in October, the 2012 animago AWARDs will be handed out in eleven categories at a ceremony at Metropolis Hall (Media City Babelsberg) during the animago CONFERENCE (25-26 October 2012).
The animago AWARD is an internationally renowned competition for 3D, visual effects (VFX) & interactive media handed out by the magazine DIGITAL PRODUCTION. 2012 will mark the 16th time the award has been handed out. A jury of experts chose five nominees in each category from a pool of more than 900 international submissions.
"The 950 submissions we received for the 2012 animago AWARD outdid the number we got in 2011, and this is further confirmation that the animago's international reputation and standing are increasing considerably each year", argues Jana Freund, project manager of the animago AWARD & CONFERENCE. "Digital artists from Moldavia, Argentina, Macedonia, Sri Lanka, Peru and many other countries submitted their work, and the level of awareness for the animago AWARD around the globe is unbelievable. We wish all the nominees the best of luck at the awards ceremony in October".
The categories and nominees for 2012 animago AWARD are:
Best Post Production:
· The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, Platige Image (Poland)
· B.O.A.T.S. - based on a true Story, Tobias Haase (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg) (Germany)
· Mass Effect 3: Take Earth Back, Digic Pictures (Hungary)
· Game of Thrones Season 2 VFX, Pixomondo Images (Germany)
· Coke "The Great Happyfication", Psyop Productions (United States)
Best Advertising Production:
· L'Odyssée de Cartier, Quad Productions (France)
· Edet Paper World, glassworks (The Netherlands)
· Twinings "Sea", Psyop Productions (United States)
· Nissan Altima, Framestore (United States)
· LG "Somethings Lurking", Psyop Productions (United States)
Best Visualisation:
· VW Quicar, Liga_01 Computerfilm (Germany)
· Cell-to-Cell Communikation - Inflammatory Reactions, interActive Systems (Germany)
· Concerning Dinosaurs, Florian Köhne (FH Potsdam) (Germany)
· My Inner Secrets - Racing Excycloaedia, AixSponza (Germany)
· Ending Overfishing, Uli Henrik Streckenbach (Burg Giebichenstein-Kunsthochschule Halle) (Germany)
Best Still: Reader's Prize DIGITAL PRODUCTION
Readers of DIGITAL PRODUCTION magazine will choose the winner of this category. The public voting process will run until 15th of September 2012 on the animago fan page www.facebook.com/animagoAWARD.
· Jalamity Jane, William Bentley (Media Design School) (New Zealand)
· Fließender Verkehr, Fredi Voß (Germany)
· Nomad, Marco Hakenjos (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg) (Germany)
· Katsumoto, Hasan Bajramovic (Bosnia - Herzegovina)
· The End, Isak Edstrom (Media Design School) (New Zealand)
Best Short Film:
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· A Shadow of Blue, Les Films Du Cygne (France)
· Tuurngait, Paul Emile Boucher, Rémy Dupont, Benjamin Flouw, Mickael Riciotti, Alexandre Toufaili (Supinfocom Arles) (France)
· Red, Alexandre Charleux, Victoria Bruneel, Amaury Brunet, Ning Zhang (Supinfocom Valenciennes) (France)
· The Chase, Autour de Minuit (France)
· Rising, Mikros image (France)
Best Character Animation:
· Hooked, Cybertime (Austria)
· I'm Picky, Sabotage Studio & Tot'ouTard, Sylvain Tardiveau (France)
· TOOandTRE3, 23lunes (Spain)
· PlayStation Vita & Cannics: Touchscreen, Fiftyeight 3D (Germany)
· Sequoia Snail, Quad Productions (France)
Best Young Production:
The prize carries a value of EUR 3.000 sponsored by DIGITAL PRODUCTION.
· Omerta, Nicolas Loudot, Fabrice Fiteni, Arnaud Janvier, Gaspard Roche (Supinfocom Arles) (France)
· Slug Invasion, Morten Helgeland, Casper Wermuth, Lasse Rasmussen, Carina Løvgreen, Kirsten Bay Nielsen, Polina Bokhan, Peter Egeberg, Magnus Myrälf, Maria B. Kreutzmann (The Animation Workshop) (Denmark)
· A fox tale, Thomas Bozovic, Alexandre Cazals, Julien Legay, Chao Ma (Supinfocom Arles) (France)
· Start Watching, Marc Zimmermann (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg) (Germany)
· Oh Sheep!, Gottfried Mentor, (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg) (Germany)
Best Stereo-3D-Production:
· Timeride Vienna, FaberCourtial (Germany)
· Mysterious underworld 5D, Virtual Magic & Budgast S.C. (Poland)
· Asylum 5D, Virtual Magic & Budgast S.C. (Poland)
· RedBull Flying Steps Intro, AixSponza (Germany)
· Underworld - Awakening, Celluloid Visual Effects (Germany)
Best Interactive Production:
· Konfigurator Cadillac Escalade, a&m creative services (Germany)
· BMW Individual iPad App, Effekt-Etage (Germany)
· Die neue A-Klasse, Mackevision Medien Design (Germany)
· Augmented Reality "Winterhuder Wohnkultur", lichtecht (Germany)
· Iterazer, Felix Herbst (Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle) (Germany)
Best Game Design:
· Spec Ops: The Line, 2K Games (Germany)
· Max Payne 3, Rockstar Games (Germany)
· Mass Effect 3, Electronic Arts, BioWare (Germany)
· Rayman Origins, Ubisoft (Germany)
· Meteör, 5th Prime (Games Academy) (Germany)
Jury's Prize:
Submissions that the Jury finds are successful ideas and/or have an especially prominent combination of image language and technical realisation.
· Odisea Promo, Dvein, Vando (Spain)
· Ghosts of Pere Lachaise, ChezEddy (France)
· The Centrifuge Brain Project, frameboX (Germany)
· Pickels in a pickle, Ideal Standard Film, Liquid Image (Germany)
· Dr Grordbort Presents: The Deadliest Game, Benjamin Van de Laar, Brendan Naylor, Charles Cumming, Don Bradford, Eden Nicolson, Jared Taylor, Kimberley Veale, Manuel Piña, Mike Aslin, Richard Falla, Sergej Žlahtic (Media Design School) (New Zealand)
The jury under the chairmanship of Günter Hagedorn (animago Team) was made up of Tim Borgmann (successful freelance 3D artist for over 15 years both nationally and internationally), Dipl. Des. Christian Braun (Manager Visualization, Porsche), Sabine Hatzfeld (DIGITAL PRODUCTION and Managing Editor of the animago AWARD & CONFERENCE), Maike Petersen (Funding Advisor, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg), Mariette Rissenbeek (Managing Director, German Films Service + Marketing), Prof. Eckhard Rocholl (Managing Director, GbR Rocholl Architecture & Conceptual Design), Michael Vitzthum (Founder and owner of nhb studios), Sabrina Wanie (Managing Director, DIGITRICK Animation Studio in Potsdam/Babelsberg and Lecturer at the Games Academy Berlin), Frank Alexander Zahn (CEO at exozet group).
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The mind cleares and the anxiety lessens.


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Brian and Ericka are team number 4.
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Gary and Matt will be team number 5.
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Mika sounds like the lady that used to be on MadTv.. who always complained about everything.. Anyone else know who I'm talking about?
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The Pokerfaces used a calculator too! What's up with that??? I didn't think they could use calculators!
Let's hope the Globetrotters beat Mika and Canaan. I'd rather hear Sweet Georgia Brown than whining!
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Globetrotters asked a clerk for a calculator. Cannot believe that lifeguard would let Canaan(?) try to "throw" Mika unto the water slide.
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Summer promotion allows SoCal customers to earn more fuel savings
Shell is teaming up with Ralphs Grocery Co. to help customers throughout Southern California earn savings on fuel faster with a new "Double Points" promotion this summer.
Through an alliance between Ralphs and Shell launched last year, Southern California customers have been able to fill their tanks for less at participating Shell stations by swiping their Ralphs rewards card at the pump to redeem rewards points. Starting May 2, Southern California-area customers – from San Diego to San Luis Obispo – will earn double points on qualifying purchases at Ralphs when they buy fuel at participating Shell locations.
"Shell understands how important it is these days for customers to stretch their dollars," said Dan Little, North America fuels marketing manager for Houston-based Shell Oil Products U.S. "The Double Points promotion can help local customers earn Ralphs rewards points that can be redeemed for fuel savings at conveniently located participating Shell stations. It's never been easier to save on high-quality Shell Nitrogen Enriched Gasolines and Shell Diesel."
When customers purchase fuel at a participating Shell station, they are prompted to print a receipt with the Double Points offer. When they bring this Shell receipt and their Ralphs rewards card to buy qualifying groceries at Ralphs, they'll receive double points at checkout for that single purchase that can be redeemed for fuel discounts at participating Shell locations.
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Stan Sheetz Opens Up: From Technology to Hummus
Sheetz CEO reveals chain is counting money differently; working on an iPhone app.
ALTOONA, Pa. -- Sheetz Inc. President and CEO Stan Sheetz recently spoke with SmartPlanet.com on a range of topics from the latest use of technology at the convenience store retailer and why he doesn't want managers counting money, to what he does when he stops at a Sheetz location.
Here's the highlights of what he had to say:
In 2000, you were very excited about the touch screen to order sandwiches. What technologies are you excited about now?
Sheetz: We're in the process of working on an app for the iPhone. It would tell the customer where the closest Sheetz location is, the price of gas, and God forbid, market something to them. Potentially, it would allow them to order a sandwich so it's waiting when they drive up. Although you probably shouldn't do all this when you're driving.
What else are you doing with wireless?
Sheetz: Wireless has really opened up all kinds of possibilities. The last thing I read is that maybe 12 percent of the market is a smart phone. That's not anywhere near the majority of phones, but the way technology is moving, it could be universal by May.
Do you have drive thrus?
Sheetz: We keep screwing around with drive thrus. We have three drive thrus -- one is really great, one really sucks and one's in the middle. So I don't know any more than when I started.
How else is technology helping your business?
Sheetz: It's all about taking out the human element. We have automatic replenishment on 99 percent of what we sell, so you scan something, and it goes in the order for the next day, and humans don't have to look at it. That way, the humans can do the most difficult part of the job, which is dealing with other humans. We also are trying something new with counting money. You have the highest-paid person in the store, the manager, counting money. Last estimate I saw, it cost us $3 million a year to count the money. So we're using that money to justify the cost of a new safe. When you get a $20 bill, you put it in the safe -- like you'd insert it in a vending machine -- and the bank will immediately give us credit for the deposit of $20. And every other day a guy takes a can of money from the safe and puts an empty can in there, so we don't have to handle the money, which can be a real plain. Plus, it's dirty.
What's your biggest seller?
Sheetz: Mountain Dew 20-ounce. We sell approximately 1,000 beverages per store per day. We might sell 80 Mountain Dews a day, but there are 399 other beverage selections.
Ten years from now, what does Sheetz look like?
Sheetz: I hope I'm retired then. What kind of fuel will America be running on then? That could affect the business. If I have to sell electricity for people who want to plug in their Winnebago, that's a new business. I gotta buy electricity wholesale, and that makes it complicated.
When you talk to customers, what do they say they want?
Sheetz: When we talk to people, they say they want more Sheetz stores. I take that as a compliment. I think a lot of customers don't know what they want until we give it to them. I want more health food in the stores. We have a complete line of health food. Our menu is so big. We have salads, packaged fruit, grapes, cheeses, hummus.
You have hummus?
Sheetz: Yes! Hummus would be right up your alley. We put all that stuff in because people say their want it. But we sell more doughnuts.
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Artist William Pura has developed a particular kind of toughness to paint and photograph Manitoba's austere terrain features.
"Southern Ontario wraps around you. It is a consoling place. Here in Manitoba, you are so exposed," he says.
Pura is a tall man with a direct demeanour. He laughs easily, and his dedication to making art is palpable. It is not hard to imagine him setting up his camera in the middle of a prairie storm.
The veteran Winnipeg visual artist and noted composer will speak on June 6 at the Winnipeg Free Press News Café as part of First Friday's Art Talk/Art Walk series. The event is a rare chance to view the artist's varied bodies of work together. When seen as a whole, the works become a thorough and honest portrait of where we live.
"Here, it is very easy to get out of the city," Pura continues. "After driving 20 minutes it is possible to stand inside a whole lot of flat, empty space. Things feel like they just slide away from you, into infinity. It can be frightening, in a way, but as an artist you need to face these things."
He began painting and photographing Lake Winnipeg and the surrounding area in 2004. Like so many who live in the region, his life has been shaped by frequent interactions with the huge body of water.
Many of the photographs depict a distant horizon line, but against this constant feature, Pura has captured the distinctive light of dawn or dusk and the barely shifting tones of long, grey days. But besides being beautiful, the photos are also disconcerting, as they are largely devoid of people and can feel stark.
Familiar scenes, such as Winnipeg and Matlock beaches, are emptied of summer crowds. The best of these photos transforms these public spaces into a personal encounter with vastness, even magnificence. The fact that Lake Winnipeg is under threat of massive deterioration only adds to the series' emotional pull.
Though his Lake Winnipeg photos have yet to find a critical audience, Pura is well known for the realistic paintings of urban landscapes from the late 1980s. As the paintings describe the city at night, they are also about the dramatic interplay of light and dark. Street lamps cast an eerie glow on the manicured lawns of a city park, or throw shadows of tree branches up against the side of a house in Wolseley or the West End.
One of the things Pura loves about painting landscapes is perspective, or the chance to allow viewers to move through the space. Indeed, his paintings are strangely enveloping. In a prolonged study of one of his night scenes, it begins to feel as if we are included in its lonely narrative. Circumstances have contrived to bring us here, to this street, late at night, where we are the only ones awake.
Where many landscape artists make work that is picturesque, Pura has a proclivity for truth-telling. When it was suggested he remove the traffic signs from his paintings in order to make them more appealing, he refused.
He is equally captivated by what is beautiful and what is ugly about where we live. In his series of photos of Winnipeg's Logan Avenue, for example, there are the expected shots of old-downtown textures, but also several of old couches heaved on the side of the road.
Pura's work will appeal to anyone who has a love/hate relationship with living in Manitoba (and isn't that all of us?). We have bitterly cold winters, but Pura describes the sublime beauty of a frozen lake. Our city's empty lots and boarded-up warehouses can be depressing, but Pura lets us discover the visual intrigue in these, too.
"Some photos are more attractive, and some are actually funny, while others are more sad and bleak," Pura says of his Logan Avenue photos. "But they are part of Winnipeg, and when we as residents observe these spaces they tell us about ourselves. What we prefer and don't prefer and what we have to do to survive."
Sarah Swan is a Winnipeg artist and writer. She will host Art Talk/Art Walk at the Winnipeg Free Press News Café on Friday at 6 p.m. Call 204-697-7069 for tickets to the event.


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Abstract submission deadline: 14 Jan 2013
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Toxin name: Sulfur Gases, Strontium Sulfide
Products containing toxin: Contaminated dry wall possibly connected to fly ash(a waste product of coal)
Manufacturer(s): Several Chinese Manufacturers, though some contaminated sources may bear fake U.S. Manufacturers labels
Approved uses: Home Construction, mainly in homes constructed between 2001 and 2007
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During the housing boom in the early 2000s, construction companies imported millions of pounds of Chinese drywall. Much of that supply of material may be tainted with chemicals, fumigants or fungicides which have been reported to give off toxic fumes leading to corrosion of copper wiring, tubing, and potentially serious health concerns. Reported symptoms include respiratory problems, sinus problems, fatigue, and a host of other ailments. Class action lawsuits have been filed in Florida, Louisiana, Virginia and Ohio.
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Recent reports have pointed to a new concern in housing construction, a contamination of drywall imported from China. Claims by homeowners have begun surfacing alleging that the imported drywall is releasing toxic chemicals which are corroding copper wires, tarnishing silver, and most importantly, causing health problems for the tenants.
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The drywall in question was imported in to the U.S. around 2006, when builders were experiencing high demand for new housing in the Southeast following Gulf Coast hurricanes Katrina and Rita. With such a large market for housing construction, many building suppliers found themselves lacking many essential building materials, including drywall. Shipments of Chinese drywall were readily available and cheaper than drywall manufactured in the U.S. In fact, some of the materials manufactured in China bore a phony logo of a U.S. company.
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Initial tests of the contaminated drywall has revealed strontium sulfide as the toxic, malodorous gas. This gas may be dangerous to children during their developmental years as it has been shown to affect bone growth. Prolonged exposure to the gas could cause problems in the central nervous system and other vital organs. It is also possible that particulate matter from the Chinese drywall could adhere to other parts of the house, causing contamination to spread away from the walls and through the rest of the house.
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British military authorities have informed Jewish leaders that unless sufficient Jews enroll immediately in the Jewish Brigade, in order that it may be brought up to full strength, they will be forced to attach non-Jewish units to it, it was revealed here today by David Ben-Gurion, chairman of the executive of the Jewish Agency, and Mosbe Shertok, the Agency's political chief.
As a result, the Agency has given number one priority to the problem of getting more recruits for the Brigade. At a mass-meeting today, called to spur enlistment, Ben-Gurion and Shertok called for urgent action to have the Jewish Brigade completed in the shortest possible time.
Two high-ranking Jewish officers, who have just arrived from the place where the Jewish Brigade is undergoing training, today addressed a press conference in Tel Aviv describing the life of the Jewish soldiers. Both officers emphasized that all members of the Brigade are anxious to be sent to the battlefront as soon as possible.