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Union Station
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a block to view street level elevation photos and other information about the block. The yellow outlines represent the location of
an urban infill
In the rows below the aerial photo are general plans and documents
relating to the Union Station district. Click on a thumbnail to view the
image or document.
Denver's Union Station district includes the city's historic Union
Station train depot, RTD's new regional transportation and transit
facilities north of the historic station, and a dozen city blocks of
former freight rail
yards and industrial properties that are being transformed into one of
Downtown's most vibrant mixed-use centers.
Unlike the other core Downtown districts, on this Union Station page,
every undeveloped parcel is represented as an infill site as the entire
district has been master planned and full buildout of the district is
anticipated within the coming decade. The Union Station district's
future development was determined as part of the Central Platte Valley
Master Plan, completed in the 1980s, followed in the 1990s and early 2000s by major investments in new streets,
transit infrastructure, and other public amenities. Currently,
under RTD's FasTracks program, significant additional transit
investments are being constructed in the district, along with numerous
private sector infill
Some of the blocks in the Union Station district (011, 005-H and 006-H
specifically) follow the block numbering system described in the
DenverInfill special feature
Downtown Denver Block Numbers. The
other blocks were recently replatted as part of the Commons Subdivision,
and are labeled on the map below beginning with the letter "C" followed
by the subdivision filing and block number (e.g. C4-1 is Commons
Subdivision Filing 4, Block 1). General information about the
Commons master plan, zoning, and projects, is presented in the first
four rows below. Individual projects are listed by their respective
block number.
Commons Master Plan
The greater Central
Platte Valley has two
redevelopment areas: Riverfront Park, the area being developed by East-West Partners
that lies between Little Raven Street and the CML railroad tracks (see
Central Platte Valley district page), and Denver Commons
(Union Station district) which lies between the CML tracks and the
historic Union Station. This section provides images reflecting
the general land uses for
the Denver Commons area.
Platte Valley Zoning
The Commons Planned
Unit Development (PUD) is the zoning for the greater Central Platte
Valley. It regulates the
specific land uses, building heights and setbacks, etc., for most of the
CPV. The area immediately behind Union Station was rezoned to TMU-30 (transit
mixed-use) in 2004. Presented here are selected pages from the Commons PUD and TMU-30 zoning documents.
The City of Denver Zoning Office is the only official source for zoning
maps, documents, and information.
Denver Union Station Master Plan
Union Station will
become the multi-modal transit hub for the region where light rail,
commuter rail, and RTD busses converge. These images were taken from the Union Station Master
Plan which was completed in 2004 and is available in full at
www.denverunionstation.org. The master
plan is currently being revised as the project moves toward
implementation. For information on the plan revisions, visit
18th Street Bridge
18th Street Pedestrian Bridge will span the Consolidated Main Line
railroad tracks and connect the Union Station area with the Riverfront
Park area at 18th Street. On the Riverfront Park side, the base
of the bridge will be located between Glass House and the Manhattan. On
the Union Station side, the base will sit between the City House project
and the new light rail station. See
DenverInfill Blog
5/8/2007. Construction to commence in 2008. Image Credits:1-2:
East-West Partners.
C1-1 (a)
The Delgany is a
4-story, 44 unit condominium project developed by East-West Partners as
part of their Riverfront Park master plan. The building features
units ranging in size from 1,186 to 2,352 SF and includes dramatic
floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Cherry Creek and an exterior facade
comprised of brick and polished metal. The building was designed by
42|40 Architects and was completed in 2005. Image
credits: 1- 2:
C1-1 (b)
Monarch Mills
Monarch Mills is an
8-story condo project developed by Urban Ventures LLC and Continuum
Partners. The building features 69 units in all, with 56 units
available as deed-restricted affordable units, and 13 market-rate units.
Monarch Mills is located along 15th Street next to RTD's light rail
line. Completion occurred Fall 2005.
Image credits: 1:
Photos 2-3 (04/2005), Photo 4 (10/2005). Archived Photos (04/2005):
C1-1 (c)
Art House Townhomes
These 13 townhomes will
wrap around two sides of the new Museum of Contemporary Art building.
Designed by Studio Completiva, the townhomes will share the block with the Delgany and Monarch
Mills. Once complete, this one block will hold three new residential
developments and an iconic cultural building. Construction completed
in late 2006. Image credits: 1- 2:
Archived Photos:
1 2
C1-1 (d)
Denver's Museum of
Contemporary Art functions as a kunsthalle, a
non-collecting space that features ongoing art exhibits.
Founded in 1996, MCA/D has been housed in leased space, but recently received a
donation of land in the Valley for a permanent home.
After an international design competition, the Museum selected London
architect David Adjaye. The museum's grand opening took place
October 28, 2007. Image credits: 1- 2:
www.mcartdenver.org Archived
photos (03/2005):
011 (a)
Waterside Lofts
The first new building
to be built right along Cherry Creek in the Central Platte Valley, the
Waterside Lofts is a 13-story, 160 unit condominium building featuring the
"neo-LoDo" design of brick, metal, and glass in a contemporary style,
while fitting in nicely with its historic neighbors. Waterside was
developed by Ray Suppa, developer of the Palace Lofts, one of the first
new construction residential projects in Lower Downtown.
011 (b)
The proposed Komorebi
project is planned for the corner of 15th and Delgany Streets across
Delgany Street from the new Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver building.
The project consists of a 7-story building with 43 residential units and
ground floor retail, and will replace the small brick building currently
on the corner. Construction is planned to begin early 2008. This
project was originally called 1490 Delgany. Image credits: 1:
1900 16th Street
1900 16th Street project consists of a 1200-space parking garage facing
15th and two office towers along 16th. One will be a
335,000 SF 17-story tower at the corner with Delgany. The
second will be a 13-story 250,000 SF tower planned as a second phase next
to the Millennium Bridge.
Construction began November 2007. Image Credits:1:
David Owen Tryba Architects.
Gates Corp.
World HQ
Developed by Legacy
Partners, this 10-story, 280,000 SF office building was built without any
pre-leasing and was the first commercial building in the Central Platte
Valley. Fortunately for the developers, despite the worsening office
market, the entire building was leased by the Gates Corporation, which was leaving their I-25 and Broadway home after a
century and was in search for a new location in the Downtown area for
their world headquarters.
Future development
This parcel, adjacent
to the Millennium Bridge and the planned FasTracks light rail station,
is designated under the Commons PUD to potentially include a mix of
office, hotel, retail, and residential uses in a structure with a
maximum building height of 140 feet (approximately 14 floors).
Construction of this mixed-use project is likely to occur concurrent
with the development of the planned transit improvements given the
site's constrained location.
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yet available
Sunshine Mixed-Use
Colorado Springs-based Sunshine Development Company's $175 million
mixed-use project is planned to reach 14 stories in height and include
450,000 SF of office space, a 150-room boutique hotel, and
70,000 SF of retail
including two five-star restaurants. Construction is scheduled to being
by the first quarter of 2009. Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects of
Portland, OR will design the project in conjunction with the Denver firm
Shear Adkins.
Future development
No development is
currently planned for this parcel, but the Commons PUD zoning stipulates
that development on this site could potentially consist of a mix of
office, hotel, retail, and residential uses. The maximum building height
along the 17th Street half of the block is 140 feet (approximately 14
stories) and potentially 250 feet (approximately 24 stories) along the
18th Street side of the block.
Future development
This parcel was once
the site of a proposed W Hotel project by East-West Partners. While that
project fell through, the Commons PUD zoning allows for this site to be
developed with a mix of office, hotel, retail, and residential uses with
a maximum building height of 140 feet (approximately 14 stories). While
East-West Partners is likely to revive this project in the future, no
development proposal for the site is currently active.
C4-1 (a)
City House
City House project will sit across from the railroad tracks and the
Manhattan on the block bounded by 18th, 19th, & Chestnut.
Revised plans call
for a 23-story tower with
multiple setbacks holding 393 for sale units.
Construction could commence in 2008. See
DenverInfill Blog 9/10/2006. Image Credits: 1-3:
RiverFront Park.
C4-1 (b)
Future development
This development site,
located to the south of the proposed City House project, per the Commons
PUD zoning could include a mix a mix of office, hotel, retail, and
residential uses. Given that the City House project would take advantage
of the block's 250-foot maximum building height allowance, this parcel
is likely to be developed with a maximum building height of 140 feet.
C4-2 (a)
Future development
North of the proposed Wewatta Plaza office project, this development
parcel, according to the Commons PUD zoning, could potentially include a
mix of office, hotel, residential, and retail uses in a structure with a
maximum building height of 140 feet.
C4-2 (b)
Wewatta Plaza
Wewatta Plaza project
is proposed for the corner of Wewatta and 18th Street in
the heart of the Union Commons portion of the CPV behind Denver's historic
Union Station. Wewatta
Plaza will feature 180,000 sq feet of for-sale office condominiums, 346
parking spaces on four levels, and approximately 20,000 sq feet of
ground-floor lobby and retail space. See
DenverInfill Blog
2/17/2007. Image Credits and project website:1-2:
Future development
This site includes a small existing industrial building and undeveloped
land. The Commons PUD zoning allows for a mix of office, hotel,
residential, and retail uses in structures with a maximum building
height of 140 feet on the undeveloped portion. A rezoning of the portion
of this site with the existing structure to RMU-30 has been proposed
that would allow for the site to be developed as a single zone lot.
Nichols Mixed-Use
Nichols Partnership's mixed-use project is envisioned to include a
full-service grocery store (possibly a King Soopers) on the ground floor
and approximately 16,000 square feet of additional retail space, as many
as 200 residential units, and possibly a hotel and/or office space. One
level of parking would be placed underground, with several levels of
structured parking located in the center of the project and wrapped by
the residential and other uses. Construction planned to begin in 2008.
The Union Station
redevelopment comprises of the historic station and the land immediately
north of the station to Wewatta Street, as well as along the 17th Street
Promenade and the Light Rail station next to the CML tracks. For more
information about the Union Station transit project, please visit the
website of Union Station Advocates at
www.unionstationadvocates.org, or related websites at
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Woman, Three Children Rescued From Surf in Ship BottomCaught in Rip Current After Lifeguards Off Duty
Three children and an adult were rescued from the ocean by Good Samaritans late Sunday afternoon in Ship Bottom after lifeguards had left for the day.
Police Chief Paul Sharkey said a 911 call came in at 5:48 p.m. Aug. 25, reporting that four swimmers were in distress off the 25th Street beach.
When police arrived, four people who were on the beach at the time had already begun rescuing the swimmers. The victims were Victoria Dirosa, 41, her 10-year-old daughter and two 9-year-old boys.
"It looked like they got caught in a rip current," said Sharkey.
He said the rescuers were identified as Kevin Mulholland, 22; David Wark, 53; Dave Phillips, 22; and Justin Vreeland, 21.
The towns of the swimmers and the rescuers were not available.
Sharkey said the mother and three young children were doing well and did not want medical treatment.
"It's dangerous to go out swimming when lifeguards are not present," said Sharkey. "These people were fortunate that four people risked their own safety to help get them out of the water." —E.E.

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Simone Graves
Go Back - Poem by Simone Graves
I couldn't sleep tonight and so I stretched each muscle in my body.
I always tried to get you to stretch with me
But you never seemed interested in anything that didn't match your romanticized fantasies.
I remember as a child, I was the most flexible in my class.
My knees touch the floor during the butterfly stretch and it felt like I was actually worth something in that moment.
Sometimes I think honestly about life and where I've gone wrong
and what I could have done differently to make it better.
I never thought when I was a kid, that I would be as sad as I am now days.
Happiness is a choice, but I've never been good at decision making.
From all those sleepless nights I lay in my bed
Remembering the goals I had for us a single
Tear drips onto my pillow because I know that I can't start this one over.
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and then morning comes; sun is rising and a new life awaits, it's not the choices we make but how we outlive the results and regret nothing; sometimes apathy is the answer, when you can wisely make use of it... really enjoyable piece of art, thanks Simone.. (Report) Reply
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Those in need will benefit from caring residents.
Members of the Rotary Club in Fareham have raised £4,235 in their festive fundraising campaign.
This included collections at Sainsbury's at the Broadcut, even singing carols in the foyer, and in Fareham Shopping Centre.
The club continues to support Rotary's Eradication of Polio Appeal to further reduce the numbers of sufferers throughout the world. It also hopes to support the Rotary Dentaid Box scheme to improve the oral health of disadvantaged communities around the world.
Locally, the club has also been fundraising for the Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust Rocky Appeal, which aims to provide a new state of the art digital keyhole operating theatre at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth.
Club president Pamela Bryant said: "It never ceases to amaze me how generous the people of Fareham can be.
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Wyoming's 32nd governor, Matt Mead, was in Sheridan Wednesday, outlining his re-election campaign, celebrating education at Sheridan College, cheering art at The Brinton Museum and found time to stop by Kraft's Jewelry as they celebrated their 50th anniversary in business. (Wonder if bought something for First Lady Carol Mead, who was also in Sheridan at Holy Name School, at the Fulmer Public Library and later at The Brinton Museum?)
Mead noted that as governor he's in constant contact with entrepreneurs who want to relocate to Wyoming because of its business-friendly climate. The one question he receives often is about workforce and if it is educated to meet the economic challenges ahead. Wyoming's per-pupil spending is usually ranked first or second nationally but its test scores and other scorekeeping isn't consistent with the spending. Mead noted, too, while speaking at Sheridan College's Edward A. Whitney Academic Center, that Sheridan College's expansion and improvements in facilities and curriculum will serve Wyoming's workforce. He complimented the college's president, Dr. Paul Young, on his leadership and how he's been a "great advocate for Sheridan College."
Mead's casual lunch talk to local business and education leaders was presented by Whitney Benefits. He cited how in Wyoming private business and local foundations routinely take the lead in establishing local education leadership and "get things done" without having to rely on government.
In an expansive interview with The Sheridan Press following the lunch talk at SC, Gov. Mead elaborated more on what's ahead as he faces two primary challengers, Taylor Haynes and Cindy Hill, come August.
Gov. Mead said he will explain to voters how his administration has helped lead Wyoming to lower unemployment figures, a better financial condition that what he inherited four years ago and how the Affordable Care Act's approach doesn't fit for Wyoming. "I'm am confident Wyoming can figure out what's best for our citizens," Mead, a native of Jackson, added.
He lauded the "connectivity" efforts going on between local business people, the proposal to build a fiber optic line between Cheyenne and Billings. He demurred reporter Hannah Wiest's question regarding how the project involves city officials or those seeking local or state office. (The Sheridan Press, April 22.) "I'm not going to get into local politics."
Mead as governor has pivoted from being a federal prosecutor, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2001, to being governor and with that, a champion for Wyoming energy — particularly coal. He cited how Wyoming coal has the strongest environmental regulations with its extraction and its mining industry one of the most stringent in safety regulations. If Wyoming were a country, it would be ranked number 10 in the world in energy production and number three for energy exports. He's going to be proactive in the push to get Wyoming into more global markets, but says there needs to be a greater "pull" from potential foreign customers, particularly those in Asia.
Gov. Mead is the grandson of Sen. Cliff Hansen, who was Wyoming's 26th governor (1963-1967) and a two-term U.S. senator, 1967-1978. Sen. Hansen died in 2009 after a distinguished career in public service. I asked him what his grandfather would make of the hyper-partisanship that paralyzes Washington. It's hard to imagine Sen. Hansen reciting Dr. Seuss in protest in the Senate chamber.
"He would be disappointed," Mead replied. "He was strongly conservative. It was about the debate, the issues and working with others. Those attributes served him and Wyoming well." He also noted that his grandfather was able to help Wyoming increase federal monies into the state by more than 18 percent.
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Authorities were looking for a carjacker who took a vehicle after being involved in a crash on Del Dios Highway yesterday morning.
At least one vehicle overturned in the three-car crash that was reported at 6:40 a.m. at Date Lane. The crash caused the highway to be closed in both directions for about two hours, the California Highway Patrol said.
A man who was bleeding profusely from a head wound got out of his vehicle and took another one at knife-point, the CHP said.
He was described as Latino, 35 to 45 years old and about 6 feet tall, with short black hair and a mustache, wearing a brown sweater and black pants.
He was seen getting into a truck described as "work truck," possibly a white Ranger pickup, that had a black bed with multicolored panels on the side with pipes coming off the bed. It was seen heading toward Del Mar, officials said.
The road was reopened about 8:30 a.m.


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- Young adult oncology: the patients and their survival challengesArchie Bleyer
Cancer Treatment Center, St Charles Medical Center, Bend, OR, USA
CA Cancer J Clin 57:242-55. 2007..Against this background, young adults with cancer have unique survival challenges--medically, psychosocially, and economically--that are now beginning to be appreciated and addressed with a national initiative...
- Screening mammography: update and review of publications since our report in the New England Journal of Medicine on the magnitude of the problem in the United StatesArchie Bleyer
Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon Electronic address
Acad Radiol 22:949-60. 2015..Despite a simple rationale (catch the cancer early and either prevent death or at least decrease the amount of therapy needed for cure), the estimates to date of overdiagnosis rates are conflicting and the interpretations complex...
- Effect of three decades of screening mammography on breast-cancer incidenceArchie Bleyer
Quality Department, St Charles Health System, Central Oregon, Portland, USA
N Engl J Med 367:1998-2005. 2012..Effective cancer-screening programs therefore both increase the incidence of cancer detected at an early stage and decrease the incidence of cancer presenting at a late stage...
- How NCCN guidelines can help young adults and older adolescents with cancer and the professionals who care for themArchie Bleyer
St Charles Health System, Central Eastern Oregon, and Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97701, USA
J Natl Compr Canc Netw 10:1065-71. 2012..A patient version will have mutually beneficial effects for families and professionals...
- Relative lack of conditional survival improvement in young adults with cancerArchie Bleyer
St Charles Medical Center, Bend, OR 97701, USA
Semin Oncol 36:460-7. 2009..Regardless of the reasons, the deficit is yet another challenge faced by young adult patients that merits further study...
- Cancer of the oral cavity and pharynx in young females: increasing incidence, role of human papilloma virus, and lack of survival improvementArchie Bleyer
St Charles Medical Center, Bend, OR 97701, USA
Semin Oncol 36:451-9. 2009..If so, the human papillomavirus vaccines will have cancer prevention benefits beyond cervical carcinoma and will be needed increasingly as the incidence of head and neck cancer is projected to continue to rise in young women...
- Potential favorable impact of the affordable care act of 2010 on cancer in young adults in the United StatesW Archie Bleyer
Cancer Treatment Center, St Charles Health System in Bend, OR, USA
Cancer J 16:563-71. 2010..Nonetheless, ACA has provisions that should reduce the cancer problem in young adult Americans, some of which are now in effect and most of which will become available during the current decade...
- The Quid Pro Quo of pediatric versus adult services for older adolescent cancer patientsArchie Bleyer
Cancer Treatment Center, St Charles Medical Center, Bend, Oregon, USA
Pediatr Blood Cancer 54:238-41. 2010..Data from the State of Georgia suggest that pediatric cancers have better survival outcomes when treated at pediatric cancer centers that are members of the nation's Children's Oncology Group (COG)...
- Cancer in young adults 20 to 39 years of age: overviewArchie Bleyer
St Charles Medical Center, Bend, OR Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
Semin Oncol 36:194-206. 2009....
- Oral 6-mercaptopurine versus oral 6-thioguanine and veno-occlusive disease in children with standard-risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia: report of the Children's Oncology Group CCG-1952 clinical trialLinda C Stork
Division of Hematology Oncology, Doernbecher Children s Hospital Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
Blood 115:2740-8. 2010..65, P = .002). The toxicities of TG preclude its protracted use as given in this study. This study is registered at http://clinicaltrials.gov as NCT00002744...
- Increased vulnerability of the spinal cord to radiation or intrathecal chemotherapy during adolescence: A report from the Children's Oncology GroupArchie Bleyer
Cancer Treatment Center, St Charles Medical Center, 2500 N E Neff Road, Bend, OR 97701, USA
Pediatr Blood Cancer 53:1205-10. 2009..To assess the rate of spinal cord toxicity in adolescents resulting from chemoradiotherapy of parameningeal sarcoma...
- The distinctive biology of cancer in adolescents and young adultsArchie Bleyer
St Charles Medical Center, 2500 NE Neff Road, Bend, Oregon 97701, USA
Nat Rev Cancer 8:288-98. 2008..Translational and clinical research should not assume that the biology of cancers and patients is the same as in other age groups, and treatment strategies should be tailored to the differences...
- CAUTION! Consider cancer: common symptoms and signs for early detection of cancer in young adultsArchie Bleyer
St Charles Medical Center, Bend, OR, USA
Semin Oncol 36:207-12. 2009..These aids have the potential of assisting in early detection, accurate diagnosis, longer survival, and a reduced risk of premature death...
- Returning to work after parenting a child with the most curable chronic diseaseArchie Bleyer
St Charles Medical Center, 2500 NE Neff Rd, Bend, Oregon, USA
Pediatr Blood Cancer 51:1-2. 2008
- Adolescent and young adult (AYA) oncology: the first AArchie Bleyer
St Charles Medical Center, 2500 NE Neff Rd, Bend, OR 97701, USA
Pediatr Hematol Oncol 24:325-36. 2007..Preliminary evidence indicates that these efforts have already had measurable success...
- Cancer in 15- to 29-year-olds by primary siteArchie Bleyer
Cancer Treatment Center, St Charles Medical Center, 2500 N E Neff Road, Bend, Oregon 97702, USA
Oncologist 11:590-601. 2006..Asians/Pacific Islanders had the second best survival, with Hispanics and American Indians/Alaska Natives next in sequence...


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Confession: I despise the concept of fast-fashion. Of course I'll indulge in fun, inexpensive updates to my wardrobe each season just like everyone else (and I must do an ASOS at least a few times a month), but generally I prefer to see my wardrobe as a collection of treasures which I curate, edit and build upon each season and love for years to come. Like any collector, I have my weaknesses that I'm drawn to again and again; give me a French detail (little black dresses, breton stripes, pearls and chain-strap bags), lucky charms and love talismans (cupid's arrows, lip motifs, hearts and wishbones), or put a bow on anything (it must be chic, never twee) and I'm powerless to resist.
On this blog, you're far more likely to see me wearing a mix of a new favourite items teamed with the pieces I've owned and loved for years and years rather than a head-to-toe look I've just bought that week and might never wear again. That's not how I dress in my daily life, and it's not how I like my wardrobe; I don't believe in consumerism just for the sake of it, and will only buy things if I know I'm going to get mileage out of them. Whilst that probably makes me a bad blogger (I rarely post the latest trends just to drive sales), it does mean that if something appears on here, it's because I genuinely love and wear that item (and think you might too).
Take this outfit, for example: I bought this little Marc Jacobs 'Stam' bag about 12 years ago (I loved it so much I invested in three versions of the same bag and still bring them out each year, because to me they're classics), these sunglasses were a gift from my fiancé about 10 years ago (they're so classic that they're still Chloe's bestsellers every season), and I bought these Louboutin heels a few years ago and still love them (even though they're entirely impractical). Throw in a dress which works as well on weekends as it does at the office (it's both fun and classic at the same time) and some jewels which feel like vintage treasures, and it's the perfect formula.
So my point is this: invest a little more in those labels and pieces that make you the happiest (they're usually the items you are drawn to again and again, regardless of trends), treasure them for years and just add a few fun new things into the mix to keep things fresh each season.
If you embrace the items you can't help but collect, then your wardrobe will always feel like a curation of treasures.
Wearing: Carven dress (sold out, but similar styles here) // Christian Louboutin heels (old, but similar styles here) // Marc Jacobs bag (old, but available here) // Lulu Frost necklace (old, but similar styles here) // Lulu Frost earrings (similar style here) // Kenneth Jay Lane ring // Chloe sunglasses.
Beauty: MAC 'Ruby Woo' lipstick // Deborah Lippmann nail polish // NARS 'Impassioned' blush
Which pieces do you collect time after time? I'd love to hear about your most treasured items and talismans!
Photos by Amber-Rose


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New York City has enlisted a couple of hard-bitten enforcers.
The Department of Housing Preservation and Development says beagles Mickey and Nemo started work this week. Their mission: to sniff out bedbugs.
According to the Wall Street Journal, three landlords got violation notices on the dogs' first day on the job.
New York follows city agencies in Seattle and Milwaukee in purchasing bedbug-detecting dogs.
It costs $69,000 to buy and train the dogs, and to take care of them for the first year. Most of that's covered by the City Council.
Council Speaker Christine Quinn says all New Yorkers, regardless of their income, can now receive "the best bedbug attention money can buy."
Inspection requests can be made through the city's 311 help line.
Published at 3:25 PM EST on Nov 17, 2011


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Reader, Kate Beckinsale is living the undiscovered Jane Austen novel. Never mind that the renowned novelist was born in the last quarter of the 18th century, hit her literary stride in the early 19th, and that her subject, Miss Beckinsale, was born in 1973. It's not because both the author and actress are English, nor because Beckinsale will be corseted (albeit in 21st-century rubber rather than antique whalebone) as Selene, the protagonist in this month's Underworld Awakening, the fourth film in the vampire-werewolf-hybrid saga.
Contemplate, instead, the most common hallmarks of Austen's heroines: witty, pretty, sensitive, whip-smart, but beset with a character flaw that propels the story, one that must be grappled with and overcome, and which, through its resolution, provides the insight and emotional dexterity that allows the protagonists to advance toward happiness and self-realization. But Reader, we get ahead of ourselves.
Kathryn "Kate" Beckinsale is the only child of actors Richard Beckinsale and Judy Loe, the former having been a stratospherically popular sitcom television actor in the 1970s who, at age 31, died suddenly of a heart attack. His daughter was 5 and a half years old. "I remember distinctly seeing people crying in the streets, at bus stops, really everywhere," says Beckinsale of what was a national outpouring of grief. "I remember many people, many strangers, telling me what he meant to them, how he had cheered them and made them laugh, and I did appreciate that every time. I really did."
But while a little girl might find some comfort in mass demonstrations and heartfelt professions, they're also scary; a melding of the public and the intensely private, where fresh waves of uninvited chaos compound a traumatic loss. A kid's most proprietary possession—a parent—seems somewhat appropriated, not so much stolen as forcibly shared at a time when loss is most keenly felt. "I could identify, and I mean to a very small extent, with Princess Diana's boys when their mother died," Beckinsale says.
This being an Austen tale, Beckinsale was blessed with a strong support system. When she was 9, her loving "mum" moved in with noted TV director Roy Battersby, who was, by all reports, a paragon of stepfatherdom, and Beckinsale was raised alongside his four sons and daughter in what might be deemed a lopsided British Brady Bunch.
But, in keeping with the Austen narrative, a second major trial ensued, albeit one common to us all. Reader, I speak of adolescence. And while these years are impossible for any lass—Regency or otherwise—an Austenian heroine would approach the crucible with sense and logic, and employ her sensibilities with both rigor and creativity. And so did the introverted Beckinsale, primarily through her academic studies.
She won the prestigious (and highly competitive) W.H. Smith Young Writers' Competition not once but twice—for poetry and short stories respectively. "It was incredibly meaningful for me that Ted Hughes [the British poet laureate from 1984 until his death in 1998, not to mention the husband of famed American poet Sylvia Plath] sat on the judging panel and, apparently, didn't laugh outright at what I'd written," says Beckinsale. At the all-girl Godolphin and Latymer School in West London, she also excelled at a triumvirate of languages: French, Russian and German. "I also can manage Italian passably, so I'm an ideal European backpack companion," she quips. Joking aside, Beckinsale's academic achievement earned her a place at Oxford, where she read French and Russian literature, further honing her analytical and interpretive skills.
Here again, Beckinsale executed a perfect Austenian plot point. She expanded her propensity for analysis and interpretation—her "love of getting to the bottom of things"—and applied it to the likes of Madame Bovary and Eugene Onegin, thereby building a bridge to her future, toward the realization of her goal to be an actor. She did this by using her hard-learned skills to overcome a propensity for what Beckinsale calls "brooding"; to, in effect, turn a flaw into something fine. "Certainly in the beginning I found it extremely helpful to analyze a role in the same way I would analyze a literary character," she says.
First came her big-screen debut as Hero in Kenneth Branagh's 1993 adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing, which Beckinsale filmed during a summer break. That was followed by a series of smaller pictures, such as Prince of Jutland, in which she played opposite Christian Bale, and Marie-Louise Ou La Permission, a French film she shot during a year spent in Paris—part of Oxford's study-abroad program.
Then came her first major lead as Flora Poste, a 1930s socialite in Cold Comfort Farm. The adaptation of Stella Gibbons' comic novel from 1932 was directed by the late, great John Schlesinger and co-starred Eileen Atkins and Ian McKellen. The story line is decidedly Austenian, which Flora makes explicit in the opening scenes, confessing her plan to write a novel "as good as Persuasion" when she's 53, and, later adding (while standing in a chic drawing room), "I have such a lot in common with Jane Austen. Neither of us could endure mess."
Beckinsale secured the role through particularly ingenious means. "My audition went very well; I heard I was the favorite," she recounts. "But then my agent called and said they were looking for somebody older." Undaunted, she did what she says you're never supposed to do. "I went through the book, found all the points supporting that I was the correct age, wrote what was essentially a research paper in the form of a 'Dear John, You're Making a Terrible Mistake and I'm Going to Save You From It' letter, and delivered it to his door. Luckily he found it very amusing, phoned and told me the part was mine."
Beckinsale's Flora won rave reviews from both American and British critics. But it was The New York Times' Janet Maslin, writing that Beckinsale played the part "with the perfect snippy aplomb," who hit upon what draws Beckinsale to a role most succinctly. "I'm not attracted to characters who are instantly likable, nor am I that interested in making them likable," she explains, noting this view is not in line with conventional wisdom in Hollywood. "My goal is to make them real, to find what makes them human and empathetic, to trace a certain logic that explains why a character is how she is."
This approach is consistent throughout her other starring roles, including her turn as Emma in, yes, Austen's Emma, and later the lead in the romantic comedySerendipity; as well as her ensemble work in Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco, Merchant-Ivory's The Golden Bowl, Lisa Cholodenko's Laurel Canyon and even her role as Nurse Lieutenant Evelyn Johnson in the otherwise forgettable blockbuster Pearl Harbor. And, at the end of the day (er, night), while Selene in Underworld Awakening is decidedly not human, her version of an icy bloodsucker is just an outnumbered immortal trying to keep herself, her kind and her kid alive.
Perhaps counterintuitively, it was her role in the first installment of the Underworld franchise, in 2003, that really drew Beckinsale out of her comfort zone. "Underworld forced me out of my head, and I really needed that done," she says. "Now I can put myself through things I find horrifying and emotional and know I will survive." She credits the film with helping—even forcing—her to build skills that have allowed her to connect with subsequent roles more profoundly, such as in her generally very well-received performance as a single, working-class mother in Snow Angels in 2007. That was followed by 2008's Nothing But the Truth, a movie inspired by the case of journalist Judith Miller, and for which Beckinsale received a Critic's Choice Award nomination alongside other award buzz—all of which fizzled when its distributor filed for bankruptcy, preventing a full theatrical release. "The gods are determined, it seems, not to let me get too big for my britches," she says.
Beckinsale considers Underworld a professional watershed, and it was most certainly a personal one. Prior to production, she was involved with Welsh actor Michael Sheen—with whom she had an eight-year relationship and a daughter named Lily Mo—who also acted in the movie. During the production, she fell in love with the film's director, Len Wiseman, who returned the favor. Post production, breakups and divorces ensued. But through it all, or at least for the vast majority, civility reigned. There was sadness but never slander, let alone scandal. "We all realized we were shaped; but our daughter was not," Beckinsale says, "and that we had a communal goal to keep her well, to help her to flourish, and I think it's very elegant that nobody lost sight of that, ever."
And what of Wiseman, who not only was Underworld's director but its co-creator, and who has either directed or produced the other films in the series? Reader, she married him. She, Len and Lily Mo now live in a serene neighborhood in West Los Angeles— perhaps not Kent or Sussex, but as close to bucolic as L.A. gets.
While our tale comes to a close, it also, like the conclusions of Austen's novels, marks a beginning—one with new prospects made possible through the heroine's journey. After taking a two-and-a-half-year sabbatical, largely to be with Lily Mo before her teens, Beckinsale's back, refreshed, re-energized, and with two additional films—Contraband with Mark Wahlberg and the remake of Total Recall (directed by Wiseman and starring Colin Farrell and Bryan Cranston), also scheduled for release this year. And beyond that? "Really, I'm a late bloomer," Beckinsale promises. "My best work is to come."


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Director Gore Verbinski describes how horrifying it was when Johnny Depp fell off his horse while filming The Lone Ranger." Also, Gore reveals how they found the right mask for Armie Hammer.
Published at 1:40 PM PDT on Jul 1, 2013 | Updated at 1:13 PM PST on Mar 4, 2014


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I'm not going to lie when I say I'm tired of talking about things I've made quite literally over a month ago. This, however, was my only option since I'd managed to lose my camera battery charger.
Hellooooo idiot. So while I've made some awesomely delicious food there are no pictures of it. Sigh. Until now. My father took pity upon me and bought me a new charger.
So today I decided to make some Madeleines from 101 Cookbooks. The recipe originally called for lemon zest but I seem to have drought of lemons and a plethora of oranges. So I improvised and used orange zest. I used a metal madeleine pan – I'm not on the fan bandwagon for silicon pans. So I don't have any idea if you'd need to have prepare a silicon pan or if you could just simply invert the pan and pop the cookies out of the mold. If you try it let me know so I can update this post! :)
I had originally planned to make these for Julia's bridal shower as well, but I just ran out of time. So I had the butter already melted down and had it to the nutty smelling stage and strained. All I did was remelt it. So if pressed for time you can at least do that part first.
The recipe says to butter and flour the pan very well. Boy howdy, please do. When you think you have enough butter on the pan put on another coat. I thought I had enough butter on my pan the first time…key word being thought. I had scrape those suckers out of the pan and half the cookies stayed behind. But once I was more diligent and really super duper buttered and floured the pan they popped right out of the pan. Only a few needed to be gently prodded with a tooth pick.
The cookies that came out correctly (lets not talk about the ones that were less than cooperative) were deliciously light and slightly orange. Slightly chewy, slightly spongy but still light and delicious. I don't think I've ever actually had a madeleine, so I'm not exactly sure what the proper texture is supposed to be.
All I know is that the cookies are from France, and so I figure they should be light which these are. I can't wait to try these with lemon – I think it would be an even lighter feeling cookie. While the cookie might be from a finicky country the recipe itself isn't all that finicky. I think next time I might try using Hazelnut Oil with the lemon zest instead of butter for another flavor.
Try these cookies, but please, remember to super butter your pan.
Ever So Slightly Adapted From 101 Cookbooks
1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter (6 ounces)
2 tablespoons softened unsalted butter (for greasing pan)
3/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
4 large eggs
a pinch fine-grain sea salt
2/3 cups sugar
zest of one large lemon (I used the zest of one small orange)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
powdered sugar
a bit of extra flour for dusting baking pan
Special equipment: A madeleine baking pan, regular or small
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Melt the 1 1/2 sticks of butter in a small pot over medium heat until it's brown and gives off a deliciously nutty aroma, roughly 20 minutes. Strain (using a paper towel over a mesh strainer) – you want to leave the solids behind. Cool the butter to room temperature. By doing the butter first you can complete the rest of the steps while it is cooling.
While the melted butter is cooling, use the remaining 2 tablespoons of butter to grease the madeleine molds – get in there and make sure you get in all the ridges. Dust with flour and invert the pan tapping out any excess flour. Lanha uses "cooking spray" with flour to simplify this part.
Put the eggs with the salt in the bowl of an electric mixer with a whisk attachment. Whip on high speed until thick – you are looking for the eggs to roughly double or triple in volume – approximately 3 minutes. Continuing to mix on high speed, slowly add the sugar in a steady stream. Whip for 2 minutes or until mixture is thick and ribbony. Now with a spatula fold in the lemon zest and vanilla (just until mixed).
Sprinkle the flour on top of the egg batter, and gently fold in. Now fold in the butter mixture. Only stirring enough to bring everything together.
Spoon the batter into the molds, filling each mold 2/3 -3/4 full. I use a small cup filled with batter to keep things clean and manageable, it is easier than using a spoon.
Bake the madeleines for 12 – 14 minutes (7-10 minutes for smaller cookies), or until the edges of the madeleines are golden brown. Remove from oven and unmold immediately. Cool on racks and dust with powdered sugar.
Makes 2 -3 dozen regular madeleines.


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The new year is a good time to make sure that your dog has a license. The city of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County and other counties provide licenses that protect dogs.
In addition to being required by law, licenses can help identify dogs that are picked up by animal control officers or delivered by Good Samaritans to shelters or veterinarian offices so that their owners are contacted. Licensed dogs are held for additional days at the shelter, according to state regulations.
In addition to a license, a microchip ID device, implanted internally, can also help a dog or cat be returned to his owner. Shelters, animal control officers and veterinarians scan a pet with a chip reader and with a simple call can get valuable owner information for dogs and cats.
Local veterinarians are cooperating with Allegheny County Treasurer John Weinstein's office to make the benefits of the microchip more affordable. Veterinarians are signing up to accept the county coupon and discounting the microchip by $10.
In addition, one of the microchip companies (AVID) is giving a special promotional deal on the registration that enters the owner and additional contact information into its computer system. If an animal is found and scanned even on a Sunday, the owners can be contacted. Normally the AVID chip that is not registered by the owner can still be tracked to the veterinarian that inserted the chip.
Home Again is the other common chip that is used in this area. Its chip and registration have additional options that can help animals be returned home safely. Other microchip companies also provide protection in the event a pet strays.
No mater what chip system is used, owners should be aware what reader will scan for their microchip. Although we are closer to a true universal scanner, not all readers scan for every chip. If your pet is lost, providing the chip manufacturer information to shelters will help in scanning with the proper device.
Although cats are not licensed, the microchip is highly recommended for them also.
Cats have a special talent for losing a collar. Break-away collars are best for cats so they don't get hung up by their collars. Without an ID tag or microchip, the chance of a cat being returned to its owner by animal control is slim.
When stray animals are brought to a veterinarian or animal control facility, the protocol is to look for a collar tag and scan for a microchip. In an emergency medical situation, proper identification is critical and time is of the utmost importance.
Veterinarians and shelters need to make life-saving decisions based on who will care for an injured pet. If injuries are serious, immediate action must be taken to provide pain relief, and we are often faced with difficult decisions without proper owner information.
The easiest time to place a microchip is at spaying and neutering. The process is simple, but the needle with an injected chip inside is larger than most. Pets, however, tolerate a microchip placement anytime. The quick injection and placement might just one day save your pet's life. Now with the added economic incentive and the cooperative effort, everyone benefits, especially the pets.
Lawrence Gerson is a veterinarian and founder of the Point Breeze Veterinary Clinic. His biweekly column is intended to educate pet owners. Consultation with a veterinarian is necessary to diagnose and treat individual pets. If you have a question you'd like addressed in Pet Points, email firstname.lastname@example.com. Please include your name and municipality or neighborhood.


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This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
Synopsis :
The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related
Description :
The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201404-03
(OptiPNG: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code)
A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the palette reduction
functionality of OptiPNG.
Impact :
A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted image
file, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the
privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition.
Workaround :
There is no known workaround at this time.
See also :
Solution :
All OptiPNG users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=media-gfx/optipng-0.7.3'
Risk factor :
High / CVSS Base Score : 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score : 6.5
Public Exploit Available : false
Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks
Nessus Plugin ID: 73392 ()
Bugtraq ID: 55566
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LONDON (Reuters) - BG Group BG.L abandoned its ambitions to become a 1-million-barrels-a-day oil and gas producer by 2015 on Tuesday as it took further stock of setbacks that have hammered its share price in the past three months.
The company has been struggling to bring huge new developments in Australia and Brazil onstream and shocked the market on October 31 last year when it forecast no output growth in 2013 due to project delays and a scaling back in U.S. shale gas activities as prices there fell.
On Tuesday new chief executive Chris Finlayson, announcing the first set of results under his stewardship, said BG would not reach its goal of producing more than 1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed) by 2015.
He also said production in 2013 would be in the range of 630,000 boed to 660,000 boed this year, raising the possibility it could be lower than 2012's 658,000 boed level. On October 31, the company predicted output would be flat this year.
Also in the October 31 statement, BG announced it would sell a 40 percent stake in part of its Queensland Curtis LNG project to China's CNOOC (0883.HK) in October as it runs short of funds for development of other projects.
Its stock has fallen by almost a fifth since then. The company's broader strategy is also under review, and an update is due in May.
The downgraded forecast highlights the scale of the task facing Finlayson, who joined BG from oil major Shell (RDSa.L) in 2010 and replaced long-standing CEO Frank Chapman at the beginning of this year.
"I think there's an element of 'kitchen-sinking' with the new chief executive in play. A more conservative management style tempering all of the estimates as he starts out," Santander analyst Jason Kenny said.
Finlayson said the company planned to give further details on its strategy in May but flagged that a reshaping of the portfolio could be possible as he stressed BG's "commercial agility".
BG topped Britain's bluechip fallers in early trading and its shares were down 2 percent at 1,081.25 pence at 08:40 a.m., underperforming the European oil and gas sector .SXEP which was 0.5 percent higher.
BG also posted a 29 percent drop in fourth-quarter earnings, which it said were hit by the loss of a one-off $277 million tax credit from which it benefited in 2011.
The company's earnings of $1.03 billion in the last three months of the year beat a company-supplied consensus forecast of $994 million, with Bernstein analyst Oswald Clint citing reduced taxes in the fourth quarter as the reason for the beat.
Excluding the impact of the 2011 tax credit, earnings were 13 percent lower, BG said, putting the earnings fall down to lower volumes which offset higher realised prices in the fourth quarter, and a weaker performance in its LNG business.
Earnings in the LNG business, which sells the transportable form of gas primarily to countries in Asia, were 16 percent lower due to fewer LNG cargoes being delivered combined with lower prices on a spot, that is non-long term contract, basis.
BG's partner in Brazil, state-run Petrobras (PETR4.SA), on Monday posted a 53 percent rise in fourth-quarter net profit, helped by unexpected financial gains, and like BG guided that production will be flat in 2013.
BP also published fourth quarter results on Tuesday, beating analysts' expectations thanks to a record performance from its refining division.
Reporting by Sarah Young; Editing by Andrew Callus


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The lights are on
Ghost Trick is one of the most promising DS titles we've seen in a long time, and each new glimpse of the game gives us more reasons to be excited. At Comic Con New York (going on this week), Capcom released some new screens of the game, plus a hot trailer. Here they are, for your viewing pleasure.


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The odd part is....is that I feel like I have come a gazillion miles from where I was right after my divorce. I've always been an emotionally driven individual whose heart is my compass. That has always gotten me into trouble. But, as of late...I have found that when my emotions get carried away...I have this strong voice of reason in my head that brings me back down to Earth.....thus planting my independent feet firmly back on the ground where they belong!
Its nice to get excited about meeting new people and enjoying the initial "high" that you get from all of the attention you can receive from a potential SO .....but I digress. As much as I love those feelings.....I am more determined than ever to have the FULL package this time. Its gotta be more than puppies and rainbows. Puppies grow up and shit all over everything and rainbows ultimately disappear. Hence my history with men. Sure.....puppies are so sweet and lovable and cute starting out....and rainbows are magical and colorful and seemingly perfect for a moment.... but neither one lasts.
I need something real. I need something that I can depend on. Something long-lasting and more than just a "high" or a "smoke & mirrors" effect. I want love. REAL life-long forever love and companionship. And, if that means that I risk the chance of turning down every Joe Smuck that comes my way and Mr. "right-for-me" doesn't come along....and it ends up just me, my daughter....and about 15 fat happy housecats.....then so be it! I'm willing to hold out forever for the right one. So, I hope you guys brought your earplugs onto the bus....cause I might be breaking out the Duracell!
::Hops off soapbox, kicks off stilettos, jumps into running shoes, and runs off into my very own happy single sunset::
[This message edited by She11ybeanz at 8:39 AM, July 16th (Tuesday)]
D day: November 15th, 2009
Married: 5 Years, together 8
Divorced: December 13th, 2010
New Beginning: Piper/8-3-12
What has helped me, because I was in a long term marriage from my youth and not familiar with the games, is a book called: "Why Men Love Bitches", by Sherri Argov
And BTW, the "Bitch" part is not as bad as it sound. The author does not advocate being mean, nasty, etc. She effectively explains what's going on in a man's mind when women do or say a certain thing. It has helped me out a lot!
"Don't look back, the road is long."
- Needtobreathe


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Born in Ankara, I spent most of my formative years in Istanbul, earning a BA in Economics and Management from Istanbul Bilgi University. In 2005, I moved to Belgium to study European Studies at KU Leuven. After being welcomed by the wonderful Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, I arrived in Amsterdam in 2006. Having completed a research Masters and a PhD at the University of Amsterdam, I am currently employed at the Amsterdam University College (AUC).
At AUC, I am part of the core faculty, teaching as part of the Humanities department as well as Academic Writing Skills and Tutoring. I am a co-teacher of the course Media & Communication with Alexandra Brown. I also teach Perspectives on Games, a class on game studies and New Media Literacies.
I have always been an avid photographer and enjoyed crafting things, whether they are sentences, layouts or editorial perspectives. These passions, and skills, I exercise through my creative Studio Zeytin, in collaboration with my partner, in life and other such things, Canan Marasligil.
In my academic work, I am primarily fascinated by the unique potential of new media platforms to challenge social and cultural norms and the new skills they instill in us. In my dissertation, I presented an overview of how Wikipedia challenges and engages with the two millennia old encyclopedic tradition of the West. My work on serial nature of knowledge in encyclopedias was featured in Serialization in Popular Culture by Routledge.
I am also ever-curious about further investigating popular culture and media that excites me. I have presented several conference papers on comics and video games and a paper I co-wrote with my doctoral supervisor Joyce Goggin was included in a collection titled Imagining Global Amsterdam by the Amsterdam University Press.


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Hi there gulf coast Florida Hounds! We are coming down from grey, cold Boston for a week of sunshine, relaxation and, of course, good chow. We are fish eating vegetarians and prefer healthier food. We don't want too many very expensive places...we love "little joints" with great food. Here are some spots I've scoped off the boards. I'd love comments and other suggestions.
Sanibel/Ft. Myers:
Sweet Melissa's
Mad Take Out (Spelt pizza!!)
Lighthouse Cafe
Island Cow
Siesta Key/Sarasota:
Captain Brian's
Broken Egg (WW French toast..yumm!)
Dry Dock Grill
Star Fish company
Creek Seafood
Simon's coffeehouse (vegetarian fare?)
St. Pete/Clearwater:
Crab Shack
Leafy Greens Cafe
Central Cafe and Organics
Tio Pepe's
Mid-Penisula Seafood
Lenny's (better breakfast spot?)
So that's my starting point.....now I need hounds to point me in the right direction!


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Picture: Radiohead perform live on the first night of their European tour at Malahide Castle Dublin, Ireland - 06.06.08
Nineteen-year-old soul sensation Adele has topped the BBC's Sound of 2008 poll to find the most promising new music talent in the UK.
The singer, who graduated from BRIT performing arts school in Croydon in May 2006, topped a list chosen by almost 150 British music writers and broadcasters.
Signed to XL Recordings, home to Radiohead, the White Stripes and Jack Penate, Adele won the Brit Awards critics' choice prize in December 2007 as the act most likely to emerge in 2008.
And after strong support from Radio 1 and Radio 2, she has now headed a list previously won by Keane, Corinne Bailey Rae and Mika.
Paul Rees, editor of Q and part of the voting panel, told the BBC Adele's sound was "refreshing" in comparison to "identikit bands who want to sound like the Libertines".
"That Adele also has a voice that could stop traffic makes it doubly so," he said.
Fellow soul singer Duffy was named in second place in the poll while indie hopefuls the Ting Tings and Glasvegas finished in third and fourth.
The panel were asked to choose their favourite three acts, with artists ineligible if they had achieved a UK top 20 single or were already famous for any reason.
The Sound of 2008 top ten:
1 Adele
2 Duffy
3 Ting Tings
4 Glasvegas
5 Foals
6 Vampire Weekend
7 Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong
8 Black Kids
10 Santogold
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Hip-hop is way too serious. It seems that if rappers aren't trying to look really cool with fly clothing or fly jewels or fly girls, they're trying to look really hard by talking about drug dealing and killing dudes. And then, you have all those other rappers trying to look really righteous by trying to "save hip-hop" (because clearly, the death of a musical genre is the No. 1 humanitarian crisis in the world today). Oftentimes, I just want them all to chill a little bit.
Enter Dominique Gilbert, aka El Gun Legro. El Gun is teeming with personality and humor. He often rocks a Little Richard-esque hairdo with a front ponytail. You might also catch him in his superhero costume wearing nothing but a Speedo and snowboarding goggles. In one interview, he talked about eventually producing El Gun Legro-branded condoms and condiments. He's not afraid to show his sense of humor, even if it's at his own expense.
Thankfully, he's able to translate that same personality into his music. His debut album, The Return of the Future, is a hodgepodge of disparate ideas jabbing in every direction to escape the confines of El Gun's head. The opening track, "Spaceship," is rapper braggadocio centered around outer-space wordplay and Star Trek references. Similarly, "The Wiz" plays on favorites from the fantasy genre like The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and The Wizard of Oz. After his mom turns off his phone because he isn't paying his bill, El Gun details his various, failed Internet exploits on "On My Computer."
It might seem gimmicky at first. After all, what separates El Gun Legro's character from, say, Microphone Mike? The difference is that while Microphone Mike awkwardly parodies hip-hop's lack of creativity as an outsider, El Gun works within the language of hip-hop, subtly criticizing wack rappers simply by being more creative than them. El Gun's lyricism is at once sharp and quick-witted but also goofy and self-deprecating. His humor, too, is rooted in hip-hop and black culture. If you didn't get the inherent humor of a grown man writing a song about getting cut his phone cut off by his mom, take "First Class."
"First Class" switches from a by-the-numbers "song for the ladies" (complete with rather tepid keys) in the first verse to being that same song turned on its head in the second. Using airline-inspired wordplay, El Gun spits this pretty standard line, "You're fly as hell, did the pilot give you lessons?" the he spends the next verse completely undermining his game with self-deprecating humor, bragging about his jewelry (cubic zirconium); the wealthy property he owns around the world (hotels and houses from Monopoly; and his fly clothes (a Speedo and $5 three-piece suit). He flips this rap-song archetype -- with its familiar boasts of wealth and clothing -- upside down to great effect. With soothing horns and classical piano, "Goodday" is another by-the-numbers rap song archetype -- the inspirational/motivational rap song -- except that in El Gun's hands, it turns into a new way to clown on various characters in detail, from broke 'hood rats wasting money on booty waxes to World of Warcraft-obsessed nerds who can only get dates on eHarmony (clearly, a diss to all hip-hop bloggers). One of his last pieces of advice: "For you who says they are stanky all the time. One solution: soap."
Despite his sarcasm, El Gun himself gets much coaching from producer Jaz Williams of Batkave Studios. With Jaz's background in R&B, the album has a very polished quality. Live instrumentation abounds. Singers handle most of the hook duties. Songs follow proven song structures. It would actually be too clean, to be honest, but with El Gun, it works. There's this constant tension between El Gun's decidedly weird personality and Jaz's steadfast professionalism. You get the sense that if the power shifted too much in either direction, the whole project would fall apart. As it is, Jaz seems able to form songs out of El Gun's concepts. "Chinese Connection" is built around the sort of strings and flutes that you hear in old kung fu flicks on VHS. The aforementioned "On My Computer" brings back the talk-box for "Computer Love"-esque comedic effect. "007" features looming strings and horn stabs that characterize espionage films. The production gives life to El Gun's varied ideas.
While there is some controversy over El Gun Legro's SDMA nomination this year in the Best Hip-Hop category, hip-hop fans should at least be pleased with the quality of his music. Whereas hip-hop acts often seem to get nods from awards shows simply for being different, El Gun Legro happens to be both different and good. That's not a bad thing. The Return of the Future is a strong debut from a likable character with a unique personality and sense of humor. If all rappers would admit to basically playing character roles themselves, the world would be a better place.
You can find El Gun Legro's The Return of the Future on iTunes and on CD Baby here.
Quan Vu Quan Vu is the founder and editor of local music blog SD Raps.com. He has also written about local and national hip-hop acts for San Diego CityBeat and the San Diego Reader. You can nerd out on rap trivia by following him on Twitter or e-mailing him directly.


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I was driving down the street, earlier today.
When something large was in my way.
A giant square, six feet high.
On each side: elephant, 6, a B, and an I.
I tried to drive around about.
But an orange man pointed to a detour route.
I glanced back at the road with the square,
But what would you call the barrier there?


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The monks who follow the rule of St. Benedict have carved out a serene niche on their hilltop overlooking the San Luis Rey Valley. The charism of the Benedictine order is hospitality, so no one who seeks the sanctuary of the abbey is turned away. Mass in the beautiful main chapel is at 11:00 a.m. weekdays and 10:30 a.m. on Sunday. But you don't have to be a Catholic to appreciate the monastery's cement-block buildings, nor to bask in the shade of its bottlebrush trees and bougainvillea. Throughout the grounds the monks have left weathered chairs and tables in spots where the pilgrim can rest and contemplate. The bells calling the monks to morning, midday, afternoon, and evening prayers are the only measure of time.


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EDMONTON -- The Calgary Stampeders got home extremely late last night but they had a good night's sleep.
They finally got the sweep.
Joffrey Reynolds ran for 100 yards and Henry Burris hit Jeremaine Copeland and Ken-Yon Rambo on second-half touchdown passes as the Stamps beat the Eskimos 20-17 last night in front of 42,329 at Commonwealth Stadium.
With a 35-24 victory Monday at home, Calgary swept the Labour Day and season series for the first time since 1998, and won two games at Commonwealth Stadium during one regular season for the first time since 1980.
The Stamps separated themselves a bit from the Eskimos by moving to 5-4-1 and safely into third place in the West Division.
The Eskimos are now 3-6-1 and have lost three straight while lingering in the basement.
The Eskimos' four previous home games were decided by just five points, so it was no surprise this one came down to the wire.
Leading by a field goal midway through the fourth quarter, the Stamps got a huge play from linebacker Shannon James, who sacked Ray on a first down while the Eskimos were at the Stamps 25.
Sean Fleming then missed the 40-yard field goal, which would have tied the contest, the kicker's second miss of the game.
The Stamps took the ball on their own five-yard line but managed to drive to midfield and put the Eskimos deep in their own end.
After some halftime adjustments, the Stamps came out firing to start the second half, going on a seven-play, 78-yard drive mostly on the back of running back Reynolds.
Reynolds, who had 23 yards in the first half, managed to run for 38 on the drive, and was the victim of a Rahim Abdullah unnecessary roughness penalty.
The next time they got the ball, Burris executed a great seven-play, 72-yard stomp finishing with a 12-yard TD pass to Jeremaine Copeland.
Just like Labour Day, the Eskimos built a halftime lead, this time only 13-6 instead of 21-16.
On the first play from scrimmage, Ricky Ray hit Kamau Peterson on a short out pattern, but the former Stampeder broke a tackle and turned upfield for a 64-yard gain, setting up a Fleming field goal.
Before the end of the quarter, Ray was able to engineer an eight-play, 54-yard scoring drive, capped by a four-yard pass to fullback Mathieu Bertrand.
The Stamps replied with two Sandro DeAngelis field goals in the second quarter, one set up when Scott Coe drilled Ray and knocked the ball loose for Tearrius George to recover.
Near the end of the first half, Burris was able to get the Stamps near field-goal range, but then the offence imploded.
Burris was sacked twice and Jay McNeil took a procedure penalty to put the club into a third-and-42 situation.
The Stamps couldn't even get the punt to get the first-down yardage.
In what has become a common trend, the Stamps offence got off to a slow start, getting their first first down with a minute remaining in the opening quarter.


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Dimensions of LifeConnect
Community: Being active on campus is beneficial to all involved. Yet it's also important to look toward the greater community for opportunities that can have a positive impact. Volunteering for local charities is a wonderful example.
Emotional: Emotional well-being and physical well-being go hand-in-hand. We provide support groups as well as sufficient emotional space, to help people work through any difficulties and, ultimately, to maintain a positive outlook and find happiness at every stage in life.
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Top Chef: New Orleans returns tonight after a Thanksgiving hiatus, and The Magical Elves are kindly rewarding us for our patience with a star-studded Restaurant Wars. David Chang and Danny Meyer are both on hand to weigh in on the iconic Top Chef challenge, in which contestants smile through apoplectic fits in front of house and at least one server gets murdered.
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Azerbaijan and Iran: Dangerous Liaisons?
As the international community debates ways to respond to Iran's nuclear research, Azerbaijan has begun to explore new avenues of cooperation with the Persian Gulf state a trend that local analysts say could present Baku with a difficult decision if Iran is referred to the United Nations Security Council for potential punitive measures.
In recent weeks, representatives of President Ilham Aliyev's administration and the government have emphasized Azerbaijan's neutrality in the increasingly bitter dispute between Tehran and the international community over the Islamic Republic's decision to resume nuclear testing.
Questioned about Azerbaijan's position on the Iranian nuclear program, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov commented in a December 2005 interview with EurasiaNet that "the development of peaceful nuclear programs is a sovereign right of every nation which chooses to do so." On January 16, roughly a week after Iran defied an international ban to resume testing, an Azerbaijani foreign ministry spokesperson stated that Baku's policy position remains unchanged.
Energy and geopolitics explain much of the friendship. Iran can offer Azerbaijan lower prices for natural gas than it currently receives from the Russian energy giant GazProm, which recently nearly doubled prices for gas exports to the South Caucasus state. Meanwhile, Azerbaijan, which has worked hard to strengthen ties with the US government and presidential administration, can offer Iran the chance to appear "a good neighbor," only interested in regional stability.
In the past year, the two countries have reached agreements on military, energy and technical matters, including arrangements for natural gas swaps, Iran's Ambassador to Baku Afshar Suleymani told the official Iranian IRNA news agency on January 11, adding that political, economic and cultural relations "have developed fairly well."
The upbeat assessment follows a long line of high-level meetings between Iranian and Azerbaijani officials in 2005. President Aliyev and Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad met three times in 2005, starting off with a three-day-long official visit by Aliyev to Tehran in January. In November, Baku was the first destination abroad for newly appointed Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki.
The last meeting took place on December 20, 2005 in Nakhchivan, an Azerbaijani enclave that has gone without natural gas for the past 15 years as the result of an Armenian blockade in connection with the Armenian-Azerbaijani dispute over the territory of Nagorno Karabakh.
During the meeting, Iran and Azerbaijan agreed to a deal that will supply Nakhchivan with 250 million cubic meters of gas in 2006 in exchange for Azerbaijani gas exports to Iran's northeastern regions.
"Relations between the two friendly and fraternal countries [Azerbaijan and Iran] are rapidly developing. There is mutual understanding, cooperation and friendship between us," Aliyev said during the Nakhchivan ceremony. Ahmadinejad added that "Iran will always be with Azerbaijan, in its good and bad days."
But in its relations with Iran, Azerbaijan must tread a delicate line. In recent years, President Ilham Aliyev has sought to win greater acceptance for Azerbaijan among pan-European organizations such as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and Council of Europe, and with the US, which has extensive energy interests in the country and has undertaken a program of military cooperation.
In a December 29, 2005 interview with the local newspaper Express, Novruz Mammadov, head of the presidential administration's foreign policy department, however, commented that relations between Azerbaijan and Iran "cannot be considered in the context of the West's attitude towards a neighbor[ing] country."
The interview contained some of the strongest pro-Iranian and anti-Western messages made to date by an Azerbaijani official. Mammadov took particular issue with the West's criticism of election violations during Azerbaijan's November 2005 parliamentary vote. "Unfortunately, the West, which opposed red revolutions in the 20th century, now suddenly has became a fan of revolutions," he told the newspaper. "Some forces in the West would like Azerbaijan to be a weak, vulnerable country. They wanted to break us, but failed."
The perceived lack of strong US and international support for Azerbaijan in response to Armenia's blockade of Azerbaijan and to a 2002 territorial dispute with Iran over a Caspian Sea oil field fuelled much of Mammadov's ire. "[T]hose who see problems in our friendship with Iran today are enemies of Azerbaijan," he said.
However, the official emphasized that the West may benefit from Azerbaijan's status as a country that links both East and West. "Azerbaijan is eastern and a Muslim country, while directed toward the West," Mammadov said. "In this case, the West should support us because it needs Azerbaijan as a bridge to the East. However, some forces in the Western countries act negatively in this regard."
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tahir Taghizade , however, stated that he does not see anything negative in the West's reaction to the recent Azerbaijani-Iranian rapprochement. "The US understands the position repeatedly expressed by the Azerbaijani government: The rush for integration into the international community should not harm [our] friendly relations with neighbouring countries. It is the basic principle of our foreign policy," Taghizade said.
Local experts tend to support the government's position on this issue. "Since the crisis has not yet reached its peak, Azerbaijan is free to keep its neutrality and even develop friendly relations with Tehran," commented Ilgar Mammadov, an independent political analyst. "Sooner or later, the crisis will be solved and the tension over the Iran issue will diminish in the world. Then, the superpower will be occupied with other problems, but Azerbaijan will always have to live in the neighborhood of a strong Iran."
Mammadov, however, expressed surprise that the US has so far not expressed concern about the ties between Azerbaijan and Iran, and suggested that President Aliyev has undertaken the role of an unofficial "messenger" for communications between Tehran and the West amidst the nuclear testing stand-off. "Otherwise, it is very difficult to explain the lack of emotions in the West to recent events," he said.
At the same time, Tehran has been surprisingly reticent about US-Azerbaijani military cooperation, formerly a target for tough criticism by Iranian diplomats. Plans were recently announced for the US to modernize one radar station near the Iranian border at Lerik and one near the border with Georgia at Agstafa, APA news agency reported. The work comes in addition to two radar stations installed by the US close to Azerbaijan's borders with Russia and Iran to monitor Caspian Sea traffic.
Asked about the stations during a November 28, 2005 press conference in Baku, Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki said that "I am confident that Azerbaijan and Iran will never allow anyone to take hostile actions against one or the other."
However, some experts in Baku argue that Iran's recent clashes with the international community could eventually put Azerbaijan in danger, particularly if military force becomes part of the response. "Iran wants to benefit from the difficulties the US is experiencing in Iraq and Afghanistan and use the time for speeding up its nuclear program in hopes that it will possess a nuclear weapon before the crisis in the Middle East is resolved," independent political analyst Rasim Musabekov said. However, given a forceful response by the international community, Azerbaijan will be in "a very risky situation," he added.
Analyst Ilgar Mammadov agreed: "If the tension between Iran and the West reaches its highest point, Azerbaijan will be forced to make a painful choice."
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The Ghost of Thanksgivings Past would like a few moments of your time
Yeah, we know. You don't want to hear about diets and nutrition in the same week you were planning on majorly chowing down at grandma's house on Thanksgiving.
But, really. What better time to stop and think about food and how it affects your life and all of those around you. Maybe on Friday? Maybe after the pick-up football game?
No, wait…did you get out of breath in that touch football game with the "kids" after the big meal? Can't "go long" like you did a few years ago?
That's why we here…to remind you that VA has all these programs to help you get in shape, help you think about food and nutrition, help you live longer, and enjoy a healthy, energetic life.
So, go ahead, have another piece of pumpkin pie, but resolve to read on:
The VA has registered dietitians ready and willing to assist you with your nutrition and health concerns. Just ask!
- Let your doctor or nurse know you want to speak with a dietitian.
- At your next VA visit, ask to be referred to a dietitian.
- Ask if there are any same day appointments or nutrition classes with the dietitian.
- Contact your local VA. Ask to be transferred to the Nutrition and Food Service to schedule an appointment.
"At your next VA visit, ask to be referred to a dietitian."
VA Nutrition Fact Sheets Explain It All
Nutrition fact sheets — Nutrition handouts developed by registered dietitians at VA medical centers around the nation on a variety of topics.
It's all there…heart health, diabetes, fiber, nutrition and cancer, food and drug interaction and lots more.
Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Dietary Guidelines for Americans is published jointly by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Guidelines provide authoritative advice about how good dietary habits can promote health and reduce risk for major chronic diseases.
Here you will find a large amount of information from federal and state agencies. There is an extensive list of web resources referenced. Also included is a list of online medical journals, toll-free numbers, a library locator, medical dictionaries and information about support and self-help groups.
VA's Incredibly Successful MOVE! Program
A lot of Vets, just like you, decided to get healthy and were honest enough to admit they needed help. The MOVE! program is here to help. Read some of the great success stories and then sign up!
Happy Thanksgiving! And a Happy Healthy Future Life!
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Photographer's Note
Quelimane is the administrative centre for the province of Zambezia. Boats arrive here on the Rio dos Bons Sinais.
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mirosu (16295) 2012-05-03 23:42
Nice detail photo. The composition is good only the BG is a bit busy. Nicely done.
bukitgolfb301 (47365) 2012-05-04 3:52
Hello my dear Kevin
A great shot! So wonderful well considered framework, that makes proof for your high sense and skill. Clear and sharp presentation.
Thanks for your sharing with your good job and have a good day, best regards,
Takero from NAGOYA
macondo (19926) 2012-05-04 5:34
Hello Kevin.
I like your daily life photo, which is well cropped so the painter seems framed by the nearer hull and the one he's working on. The inclusion of the closer one also adds to the feeling of depth and reduces the expanse of grey water. Nice representation of the colours. Well done.
ourania (51103) 2012-05-04 7:01
Hello Kevin,
a wonderful and well considered composition, with the painter absorbed by his work between the diagonals of the boats. His body provides some fine diagonals too. The shape of the boat he is painting is fantastic as it seems to be reposing gently on its side. Light management, clarity, colours and capture of textures are superb. I love the colours and the rhythm of the many diagonals. A lovely picture, well done and thank you!
All the best, have a great weekend,
jemaflor (108554) 2012-05-06 5:13
Hi Kevin,
Well captured from a good angle and at an interesting moment with these men at work, interesting scene, tfs.
holmertz (64602) 2012-05-06 8:25
Hello Kevin,
This is a nice daily life photo with fine details and good colours. I don't see a lot of pictures from Mozambique on TE so every contribution is welcome.
Kind regards,
vasilpro (41699) 2012-05-06 11:36
Hello Kevin,
Wonderful daily life composition with vivid colors and very nice contrast, TfS!
Warm regards, Vasilis.
frunchy (1800) 2012-05-22 3:44
Hello Kevin,
i love pictures of Africa the most! This is a very nice everyday scene, well captured and composed. TFS, best regards, F.
No_One (4) 2012-08-10 9:47
Hi Kevin,
Love the colours hee, and the sense of everyday life is perfect. I love how intent the man is on his paiting, and the capture of the brush on the boat.
Best wishes
jmdias (73469) 2012-09-04 7:28
hugsI have 4 cousins who were born in mozambique (now living in portugal). it is ever nice to see images from this region. nice details of the daily life with the man painting his boat.
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- Date Taken: 2009-07-00
- Categories: Daily Life
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- Date Submitted: 2012-05-03 18:34


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Leah Labelle "Lolita" Produced by Pharrell
Seductive songstress Leah Labelle drops a new video for her song, "Lolita," produced by Pharrell.
Seductive songstress Leah Labelle drops a new video for her song, "Lolita." The Diane Martel directed visual finds "Lolita" (bad ass baby girl) inviting a group of shirtless lover boys to her block. Leah's heart eyed entourage serves as her own personal secret service, doing everything from tailing behind scooter rides to holding up mirrors on the beach. Whether it's posing at a toy car wash or fondling a life size teddy bear, the So So Def/I Am Other signee's sex appeal dominates the video, no matter how weird things get. With the likes of mega producers Jermaine Dupri and Pharrell Williams backing her up, we may be looking at the next big thing. Follow Leah on Twitter to stay up-to-date on her upcoming projects.


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Hypothermia is a medical emergency that occurs when your body loses heat faster than it can produce it, causing a dangerously low body temperature. Hypothermia can happen even in the summer, so always be prepared!
You never know what the weather might do, so anytime of year make sure you are prepared for anything.
• Always take an extra pair of dry clothes, especially dry socks. If your cloths become wet, replace them.
• Always pack a sweater or jacket, warm hat, and rain gear for any hike.
• Wear clothing that wicks away moisture
• Avoid sweating by dressing in layers
Hypothermia most often occurs when in water. Water temperature will always be colder than the outside air.
• Do not swim on a cold day.
• Wear appropriate swim clothes.
• Warm up after swimming; do not stay in wet clothing.
• Take dry clothes to change into after swimming; especially dry socks and shoes.
• No matter what the temperature is outside, take a jacket.
No matter how warm it is outside you will be wet most the day, so wear appropriate clothing.
Water temperature will always be colder than the outside air.
• Wear quick drying clothing (such as nylon).
• Also take a quick drying jacket, one made for rain or water.
• DO NOT wear cotton or jeans. They will hold the water and make you very cold.
• Have a pair of dry clothes where you will be getting out, including dry socks, shoes, and a jacket.
Symptoms of Hypothermia
• Uncontrolled shivering
• Loss of coordination; clumsiness and stumbling
• Slurring of speech
• Confusion or difficulty thinking
• Drowsiness and very low energy
• Shallow breathing, weak pulse, loss of consciousness.
• Move person out from the cold, take into dry warm place.
• Remove the person's wet clothing.
• Cover the person with dry blankets, or coats.
• If victim is outside place something on the ground underneath them to help warm the body.
• Monitor breathing; if victim has lost consciousness make sure to contact emergency services.
• If the person is conscious have then drink warm beverages, non alcoholic with no caffeine.
• Do not apply direct heat, do not use hot water or a heating pad, the direct heat will damage the skin.