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Adding to evidence that the flu shot is safe during pregnancy, a U.S. government study found no unusual complications among pregnant women who've received the vaccine in the past 20 years.
Researchers found that between 1990 and 2009, there were 175 reports of possibly vaccine-related medical complications among pregnant women submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
That amounts to an estimated rate of 12.5 reported complications per one million pregnant women vaccinated against the flu.
Most were considered "non-serious." And while there were some reports of miscarriage and stillbirth, the numbers were substantially lower than the average rates of those complications in the general population.
VAERS is a vaccine-safety surveillance system run by the federal government; it allows anyone -- including doctors, vaccine makers and vaccine recipients -- to report health problems that develop after a vaccination.
Those reported problems are not necessarily caused by vaccination, so the VAERS system does not prove cause-and-effect. One of its goals is to help health officials spot new, unusual or rare side effects that may go undetected in the relatively small clinical studies done before and after a vaccine's approval.
The safety of the flu shot, which is made using killed influenza virus, has been studied in about 10,000 pregnant women, with no evidence that it presents a particular risk in this group.
These latest findings "add to the existing evidence that the (flu shot) is safe for pregnant women," lead researcher Dr. Pedro L. Moro, of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, told Reuters Health.
Public health officials, as well as medical groups like the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, recommend that all pregnant women receive the flu shot -- though not the nasal-spray flu vaccine, which is made from a live, weakened virus.
Compared with non-pregnant women of the same age, expecting women are more likely to become seriously ill from flu infection and need hospitalization.
According to the CDC, pregnant women accounted for one in 20 deaths from H1N1 influenza (swine flu) in 2009. By comparison, only one in 100 was pregnant in the population.
That's why pregnant women are one of the "target groups" particularly encouraged to get the flu shot, Moro said.
Yet research indicates that no more than one-quarter of pregnant women in the U.S. got vaccinated during recent flu seasons. The reasons aren't clear, but doubts about the safety of the flu vaccine -- among both pregnant women and their doctors -- could be at work, Moro and his colleagues write in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
They found 148 reports of complications in the VAERS system among pregnant women who had received flu shots between 1990 and 2009. Another 27 came from pregnant women who inadvertently received the nasal-spray vaccine between 2003 and 2009 -- often because the women did not yet know they were pregnant or did not tell the health provider administering the vaccine.
Most of the reports -- 88 percent -- were classified as non-serious. Twenty percent of flu-shot reports and 59 percent of those related to the nasal spray contained no specific complication; instead, they simply indicated that a pregnant woman had received the flu vaccine.
Among the most common complications were skin reactions at the injection site, symptoms like fever and fatigue, and mild allergic reactions.
There were 20 reports of miscarriage, amounting to an overall rate of two per one million vaccinated pregnant women. By comparison, between 10 percent and 20 percent of U.S. pregnant women suffer miscarriages, with the rate varying by age.

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Joining a business networking group is something we strongly advise all our franchise owners to do. You can find groups such as BNI and 4Networking in any UK town or city and they are full of local business people building connections and passing work to one another.
Becoming part of a network of local business people is essential in helping any Apollo Blinds franchise owner raise their profile and enhance their reputation. And the best bit is that most of these groups meeting in the morning so everyone can enjoy a full English breakfast while they're doing business.
But is it worth it? Well Marc McQuilliam from Apollo Blinds Wirral has 20,000 reasons why it's worth it.
In little over a year Marc has picked up more than £20,000 of business as a direct result of being a member of his local networking group. It's a staggering amount of income which has essentially been generated by him getting up early one morning a week and meeting other local businesses over breakfast.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 1152 diseños de 265 diseñadores freelance.
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We are the cream of the crop in South Florida landscapers
Green Island Gardens is a newly formed landscape and garden service. Its clients will be discriminating homeowners and businesses in Palm Beach County, Florida. Our clients demand the best, expect perfection, want their lawns and gardens immaculate, lush and with eye-catching appeal. We know that our clients have many choices of gardening firms and can afford the best.
Our logo will be used on letterheads, business cards and also on the side and back of our brand new white service trucks and vans. Logo should be sleek in design, dynamic and create confidence. Naturally, using a grass-green color would be appropriate, however, we would prefer to mix the green in with black letters (or open to suggestions, including the brown bark of trees). We would like a contemporary style logo yet, we want the name, "Green Island Gardens", to look "familiar", as if it has been around a long time. There is no requirement to keep the "LLC" at the end of the name. We are open to combining the name to read: "GreenIslandGardens" and also think there should be a tag line that says, in a very thin font, "landscapers", unless your design deems that too much verbiage. The words can also be stacked on top of each other:
…and a connection can be joined between the three levels of the name to enhance the design. We would like some creative graphic work to express the sophistication and style of this high-level landscaping business. However, we are adverse to using typical "clip art" and will reject designs that use hackneyed artwork. We are open to all capital letters or upper and lower case letters, but not all lower case letters.
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Mad Men Season 5 Episode 8 recap
It is the mark of a show like Mad Men that even the episodes that aren't the strong pillars of television art, the ones that don't end with everyone together at a maudlin dinner table, has the ability to surprise. There are things that happened this week that I didn't think could exist in the world of SDCP, but they keep expanding our world, the one we share with them, to make the impossible true.
Let's start, then, with the place that tested my disbelief most strongly. I have wondered a lot about which Pete Campbell we're seeing right now. I love to hate him as much as the next girl, although I often err on the side of lenience. Mostly because I think the show has done, in the past, a remarkable job of showing us where Pete's coming from, what combination of relatively understandable factors can combine to turn him into a regular workaday douche. But the Pete of today isn't as evidently in need of something as he has been in the past. Of course, fidelity has never been his strong suit - but in the past, he's run to women who would be able to take the burden of whatever he was carrying around that he couldn't take to Trudy.
The question is... what is that now? He's relatively successful, what with people bringing him skis sight unseen (of course, the visual gag of Pete greedily taking both pairs and both poles and trying to scuttle out of Roger's office is almost schadenfreude enough to negate the bliss of being "known" as the guy to go to) and his position in the company solid. What is it he wants?
The only acceptable answer is "risk". Pete doesn't pick up a girl at the office or anywhere in a vast city where he could easily have an assignation sight unseen; he's deliberately confining his misdemeanours to a small town, where not only does he know her husband - ride with him every day on the train - but she could run into Trudy at any time, if in fact she actually went to the market - a comment that was a little too Rory Gilmore for my liking.
(Sidebar for only those who know or care what a "Rory Gilmore" is: I was very, very surprised to see Bledel in this episode, and though her wide-eyed beauty and detachment were exactly what was required from Pete's somehow untouchable fantasy, it seems she really doesn't have anything else, does she? It wasn't hard at all to imagine that the character in question was Rory, making a particularly bad decision her grandparents would disapprove of, right? Is this just what happens to some people? Does a face like that mean she'll be the same character forever and ever? And does she find it tedious, as we do? Wouldn't she love to be Peggy?)
Pete is desperate to get caught doing something wrong. Because he's bored? Because it's all become a little too easy? Maybe if he really were struggling more at work - if Don was on the top of his game and so still putting Pete through his paces - maybe the urge to rattle everything wouldn't be so strong. But Pete can't stop and won't stop until he's had everything come crashing down. Don's warned him; Pete himself has drawn thick lines between what's "wrong" with Trudy (nothing, really, if the dinner party episode was anything to go by) and what a man is "entitled" to do. Only if he really screws up can he put his back into fixing it all - and feel like he's got a real focus again.
I wonder whether that same focus will overtake Don, now that Megan has left the agency. Was he unreasonably lenient on her? Did you hope, a little bit, like I did, that he would give her the lecture that wound up coming from Peggy(more on that in a minute)? We're caught between the two Dons here. Husband Don (version 2.0) wants to be supportive of everything his bride does, and to set up a relationship based on real trust and affection, and not get into similar patterns of irritation as he did with Betty. Contrast this with Work Don who believes (and I'm with him, I gotta say) that everything worth knowing in his business is worth learning through trial and error, with the assumption that there will be a lot of error up front? How much of his regret, when Megan leaves - that little scene with Joan said so much - is because perhaps he wasn't tough enough on her? That maybe she would want to try harder if he pushed her more? How much of it is sheer envy - that the talents she showed in coming up with the Heinz campaign were so easily accessible and even more easily thrown away?
Here is the really big secret about the creative pursuits: most of them are about wanting to be "something", about the romance of the position, more than ability, at least at first. Nobody plucks you out of obscurity and says "Hey, your talents would be very well served in advertising!" Yes, of course some have a natural ability to write or paint or sing, but the competition is so fierce and the "corporate" worlds where you do these things still so unformed that there's an acceptance that you will be bad before you get good, that whatever natural talent you have (and it's implied that it needn't be all that much) will come second to learning tips, tricks, and rules to getting things done. By and large your individual shortcomings (like Peggy's stiffness when pitching to clients) can be overlooked if you have something to back them up. But regardless of your level of talent, knowing "how things work" is what will push you over the edge into success. There are a thousand variations on this that make it both true and not true, but it speaks to the maybe-true sentiment all of us have inside: that something you can do effortlessly isn't actually worth doing - or at least spending your life on. This is where Peggy got so upset: Megan's confession that she doesn't like what they do, even though she's good at it,takes the spot of some other hopeful and probably of a woman who could be a protege Peggy could be proud of. It's not even that Megan is abandoning her God-given talent, as much as it is abandoning all Peggy's hard work.
So Megan goes to be an actress - something she does, indeed, need to take classes for, and Don gulps (since, as Joan points out, this is a lot more like Betty than Megan's previous "career girl" incarnation) and turns all his resentment and anger that he's let something fall out of his fingertips by, as always, turning on Peggy. It wasn't quite "that's what the money is for", but their snippy, snappy argument at the whipped cream testing labs (and yes, lest all you fans of other lesser shows think I'm being partisan, that was Mr. Belding) tells us what we've known for years: these two will, like a married couple, always be there for each other. What I didn't know, what surprised me, was that she was capable of putting Don in his place without shaking. That's different even from two weeks ago and it makes me wonder whether the loss of Megan at work has reminded Peggy that once again, she's all Don has to rely on, creatively. They are back in each other's pockets and back into one another's minds. Peggy will miss Megan, as will Don, but it's creatively beneficial for both of them that she (and her TWO green raincoats) are gone.
It's complicated, and it shifts things - notice how quickly Roger slides, happily, back into buddy mode once his friend needs a shoulder to cry on, and how Peggy and Joan have been brought together by being part of the "old guard", watching the kids grow up and clucking their tongues. Whether it shifts faster than Don is ready for (given how quickly he snapped off that record) depends entirely on him. And who he now wants to be.
"You didn't have the feet, mom - I don't have the heart!"
Name that movie. You got it?
Who likes this person? Who likes the talented person who doesn't care?
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text: Jay Brown: 25 Years of Tattoo Business Cards By Jay Brown In tattooing a good business card can be as important as a tattoo machine. Business cards for tattoo artists represent who they are and the work they do. It's a two-by-three inch advertising wonder, as in any professional trade, our business cards can say a lot about the shop or artist... In my 25 years in tattooing one of my obsessions has been to collect business cards. It all started with the first shops I worked at, extending to every tattoo convention I attended. Whenever I travel and stop by a tattoo studio I make it a point to pick up business cards, stickers, whatever advertising they have. I have amassed a large collection over the years, consisting of thousands of cards, but also including stickers, matchbooks, pens and key rings. Over the years these mini-advertisements have changed just as much as tattooing. The early cards were simple and professional looking, (just like other business cards from various professions) over time they have developed into everything from impressive hand drawn pieces, to digitally enhanced artwork, and still some feature photos of the artists' work. After looking over my collection I found that each of these cards are as individual as the artists. I noticed the style and look of the cards have changed too... Some show everything from fine-line to "old school" artwork. In the 1980s and 1990s the most impressive cards were those by Jack Rudy, Brian Everett, Sailor Moses and his California Tattoo Studio in Biloxi. R.J. Rosini was another one who always went out of his way to make an impression through the medium of the business card. As the 90s progressed Paul Booth, Guy Aitchinson, Bob Montagna, Paul Massaro and many others came out with really impressive cards. As the year 2000 approached, a new generation of tattooers emerged, and business cards evolved by becoming more elaborate. Cards were no longer just black and white standard cards, they changed into impressive two-sided cards with full-color and even photographs of the artists' tattoo work. With the new millennium computers became more capable and the possibilities became limitless. Cards nowadays have extravagant fonts and overlaid imagery, as well as examples of the artists' capabilities. The days of the simple basic business card has become a thing of the past. As I look back, business cards have changed as the generations of tattooers themselves have changed. When handed a card today you get far more than just a shop name, address, phone number and artists name... You get a miniature piece of artwork. Take a look, and you will see how a business card is an important tool, expressing who you are as an artist and the quality of the studio you work at. A good business card can make or break an artist. I am including some great examples from my collection of some of the best business cards of the last 25 years. Well, until next time I hope you enjoy a walk through tattoo history, at least the last quarter-century... (Jay Brown is a tattoo artist, machine-builder and contributing blogger for Tattoo Artist Magazine. Jay can be found at A Fine Art Tattoo Studio, in Moscow, Idaho.)


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Voter deadline looms; Reid's says get out
Today at 5pm is the deadline for voter registration in Virginia, and the Obama campaign has volunteers positioned at convenience and grocery stores throughout town.
The effort has paid off, says volunteer Adrienne Ghaly, who in the last two days has assisted 17 voters– some new who were unregistered; some who simply needed to update their addresses. This morning, she was camped in front of the Lucky 7 convenience store on Market Street, but, she says, not all stores have been welcoming.
Management at Reid Super Save Market on Preston Avenue has asked several volunteers to leave the property, says Ghaly, who says the Reid's manager kicked her off the property yesterday.
Reid Super Save Market is the closest grocery store to several primarily African American neighborhoods, including 10th and Page and Starr Hill.
"I am shocked," Ghaly says, "that he would take the community's money and not allow people to enfranchise that community to vote."
But Reid's manager Charlie Wood says that's not the case– he doesn't mind voter registration as long as its nonpartisan.
"They're wearing a campaign button," he says of the Obama volunteers. Wood says he welcomes voter registration efforts and cites a recent day when the city set up a voter registration table. "They sat out here all day," he says.
Ghaly admits she was wearing a small Obama sticker, but insists she wasn't trying to sway voters. Campaign law prohibits canvassing during voter registration, but Ghaly says wearing a campaign logo doesn't count as canvassing. In addition, she says, she offered to remove the Obama sticker once she realized that's what Wood disputed. That didn't satisfy Wood.
"Hey, it's too late now," says Wood, who worried that McCain voters would be put off by Reid's. He adds that Ghaly argued with him after he told her to leave. "You don't go on someone's property and argue with them," he says.
Wood says his position on politics in the store has been the same for the 30 years he's worked at Reid's.
"I have Republicans and Democrats who shop here," he says. "I don't even allow them to put political signs in the windows. I want to stay neutral."
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The concerns of the management of the Super Reid Market seem reasonable. And have you seen their selection of assorted pork products? Fantastic!
"I am shocked," Ghaly says, ââ?¬Å?that he would take the community's money and not allow people to enfranchise that community to vote."
That surrounding community has enjoyed the franchise for forty years. I wonder if this condescending lady bothered to canvas her own neighborhood. Charlie Wood is still great.
Yea, sounds like the Reid's manager is being reasonable.
This is for Ghaly,
What needs to be done is for you to copy this, and send it to The Daily Progress. Then Let the readers decide wheather he is nonpartisan. I used to live in that neighborhood,on Dale Ave. And when I was a child we could get things on credit, And people did'nt steal the way they do now.So wheather you vote for McCain,or Obama,the best years are already gone.
Mark being back, and touring with Johnny,
...reminds me only love is real...how else
to find it, to find the hope of it, without
the beauty of desolation without it, and yet
something still pulls us forward...and I am
so grateful Sparklehorse is with me still
in life.Love.
I don't know how I stumbled upon Sparklehorse a number of years ago. But when I first heard "It's a Wonderful Life", I was immediately hooked.
What a delight, then, to have a new release. And even if Mark L. is only 'paying the rent', "Dreamt for Light Years . . . " is brilliant, especially the title track. That's as haunting an instrumental as you'll ever find.
I've enjoyed Sparklehorse for the last 8 years, I've found the music to be so curious, dark and different than anything else available. Perhaps it takes a sad mind to understand a sad mind.. and I mean that in the most glorious way. This music is haunting and sad and rocking and uplifting in a way that the mainstream mind can't possibly understand. It is insight the doom and sadness that so many of us consider life. Yet, every morning we get up and get on with it because.. it is a wonderful life, because someday we will treat you good, because yellow birds live and because some sweet day we will all understand what it is to have music touch our souls.
Just saw spaRKLHorse last night, friend turned me on - never heard of them before, and am enchanted. Brilliant. At this site after googling them - I too flirt with mental illness, who doesn't, maybe its a prerequisite to loving sparklehorse. I didn't feel it was dark music, caught a distant/introverted vibe ... it spoke to me at a non verbal level. I also love radiohead, their music evokes a feeling, but a different feeling. sparklehorse music spoke right at me. weird and compelling.
My son, Ryan, and I stumbled onto Vivadixie in 1996...we finally broke down and bought the CD because of the album packaging (shallow, I know).
There was also a quoted review of the album on display from The Village Voice. When the journalist mentioned the words: "haunting" and "cryptic" that was the clincher.
Since then, our family have been awaiting each Sparklehorse CD with the voraciousness of a snake lying in wake for a new born rodent. We have fun listening to Mark's music and sounds - his engineering and production are Captain Fantastic.
And then there's the lyrics...oh, what a treasure box. Keat's would be proud.
We love you and appreciate you Mark Linkous.
Chuck Engley
Bridgewater, MA
even though I dont know Mark personally. its really kewl to know you have distant relatives(maybe 10th-20th cousins)haha. that have had a success in the music industry. mark I wish you all future success. my Dad was an singer/songwriter, he sang with Bill Haley's Comets up untill 2 yrs before he died in 1998. He wrote music with Marty Robbins and several other artist. To bad he sold his copy writes maybe I wouldnt be working a second shift job on a sunday today.
David Linkous.
work on! baby's got rockets. listening to 20 year old music reminds me of the south...and the future. montgomery is down there someplace, right? make me a poster of an old rodeo and how not to hold on to nor believe in this living. we're buddhists here in seattle. and buzzin' in the kitch.
hey there my dear freind...
im truly taken with the wide variety of sounds that i find with sparklehorse...
if i hadnt found this band when i did, i think i would have been in a different place, for better or worse. and well i will continue to listen to your sounds and to your tunes on myspace... and i think ill send you some of my lyrics i wrote with my brother... it would be interesting to hear somthing we wrote on a pro's album...
continue to create and we will listen...
Garrett Colbert, and the band
Rochester ,NY
Mark just played at the John Cale tribute to Nico in London, he sang two of her songs that night and was the star of the show...calling himself Boo Radley when a heckler asked who he was!
RIP brother!!! I hope your in a better place now!!! God Bless Your Soul!!!
Haha, what a loser


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Kent State University Adopts New Phone System
New unified communications service offers better communication and collaboration
Kent State University is migrating to a new unified communications service that will replace the existing phone system and offer advanced, integrated and mobile communication services that improve communication and collaboration throughout the university. The Division of Information Services is leading this initiative, which will run through June 2014. All offices on the Kent and Regional Campuses will be migrated to the new system in phases due to the nature of the equipment involved in the migration.
"The university is ready for a communication system upgrade to help members of our Kent State community perform their jobs better," says Jason Wearley, executive director for the Division of Information Services infrastructure services. "The new unified communications system that we are introducing will replace the university's aging communication equipment; integrate campus computers, phones and messaging; provide enhanced productivity tools for our faculty, staff and students; and gives us the framework to install industry-standard telecommunications infrastructure in new and renovated campus spaces."
Faculty and staff will have the option of a physical phone, software phone only, or both. In addition to new phones, the new system offers other features, such as:
- Voicemail also appearing in email
- New messaging client with integrated phone control
- New desk phone and/or software phone with enhanced features
- Impromptu phone conferencing available for up to eight individuals
- Caller-ID history appearing on both phone and computer
- Place and receive calls from computers and mobile devices
"The new system integrates your computer, phone and messaging for anytime/anywhere communication," says Marianne Cohol, project manager in the Division of Information Services. "You have the ability to create a personalized work environment that enables you to communicate and collaborate in an environment that works for you. Thus far, those who have been migrated to the new system have been very pleased with the new functionality, the ease of use and the integration with other tools they were already using."
Some of the sites that have been converted to the new system include Kent State University at Ashtabula, Kent State University at Geauga, the Regional Academic Center in Twinsburg, the Executive Offices on the Kent Campus, Harbourt Hall, The Tannery and Student Legal Services.
For more information about the new unified communications system, visit http://ucsupport.kent.edu/.


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Anybody else intrigued and excited about Mr. Freemans new publishing venture? Im hoping to get in on the ground floor of this one!
Anybody else intrigued and excited about Mr. Freemans new publishing venture? Im hoping to get in on the ground floor of this one!
I absolutely am. Really hoping the first book is something I want!
Did anybody else see the picture of the door that Brian posted on social media? With the big announcement on the way, I figured it's a teaser, and it immediately made me think of the end of Revival. But maybe that's just ridiculous wishful thinking. . .
I'm really hoping its a Danielle Steel limited edition. I've been dreaming for oh...so...long...
Ok, back on track...found this on FaceBook:
"LetterPress Publications will be announcing something pretty awesome today at 1 PM eastern time with our good friend François Vaillancourt -- stay tuned for details!"
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But I already had picked the name, and started using it for some other business stuff, so now it's the name. I'll talk about that on the site sooner than later.
Official launch in 40 minutes!
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thank you your info about ironforge was the best info ever! I got my rare in ironforge also. If you fly around a few minutes and killed the non rare and the non battle able pets and finally found a rare! worked perfect!
after MONTHS of flying by, camping for an hour here and there... I finally got bored waiting for a friend to get on and play wow with me. So I just decided to watch tv and camp in an area in the back near that huge red dude. After 2 movies and 3 tv shows (cough) 6 hours....ish ONE FINALLY SPAWNED!!! I got mine at 46, 40 and it was gray, I really dont care, I bought a stone and now he's blue. Just watch a few movies and camp! Kill all the rats!
I flew all over trying to find this guy. The best help I can give you is to look for peoples comments on where the pet is located with waypoints. I found him in silithus at
and got an uncommon. I dont care about rare right now someday I'll upgrade but uncommon for me right now is fine.
Thank you so much Ladihawke73 I did exactaly what you said. I went to Sholazar Basin, near where you get your oricle egg. Right in the wildgrowth, the first biletoad I found was rare. WAY POINT 45, 52
17 gazelle fawn's later.... I finally got a rare!
after 2 hours of killing junk................................................. I was about to give up and go to bed and as I was saying good night to a guildie and moving my ipad to my bed I saw a pawprint...went down to inspect and it was the harpie!!!! lv 4 uncommon... they have a crazy bad respawn rate... <dies>
For starters Scalewing Shelf is SOUTH EAST of Death's Door. I caught mine at 69, 71 uncommon quality. It was the only one up! I only had to look for about 10 minutes.. There were a ton of them when I was flying in and abut 5 seconds after I landed they disapeared... stupid CRZ....
I just spent 45 minutes roaming the crater... I was killing rats like nobody's buisness, and all of a sudden I found one at 35, 35. I got an uncommon so I was all good to go, and as I was about to take off I told some one else that was camping there was one over at 34, 37. They told me they were to far away to come back for it so I clicked on it and it was gray. So if you are serious about this pet, kill rats and plan on camping out for an hour. Put net flix on and watch something as u camp
I was camping out next to the trainer, and saw a paw, flew up ontop of one of the pillers and there were 2 arcane eyes. One at 44, 77 and another at 43, 76 both were gray.
ok I have been camping this spot for WEEKS now.... I camped out here before a server restart and when I logged back on..nothing...
right now at 1:00am CRZ about 20 of these little guys popped up!!! If you fly over Sindragosa's fall you will see 10-20 little paw prints...
the down side... MOST of them are gray and white. I tried to get as many friends to come nab one as I could, and they also had gray/white ones. At this point in the game I dont care as long as I get one.
I found mine in Shoazar Basin just under that big stump looking thing the Suntouched pillar.... at 32, 57
oookkkk for those of you who were having issues finding where to go... WAY POINT 41, 72 there is this little bog like area with the little water elemental type guys, as well as these little water wavelings! He's so cute next to my mage water elemental. =)
I just got mine at 11:03pm Sunday night. (daylight savings does apply somehow...) the festival started at 11... and we all got an achievement for being there for the start of it. My pet was lv 24, and uncommon. I swear it's the only one I saw, It spawned right infront of me so I quickly clicked on it and I didn't see anybody else get one. I hvaent seen another one spawn at all, and noboyd else claims to have seen one. I'm not sure if there's only one at a time or what.
only took me 2 days to find a rare one of these. I found it as an extra to a jungle grub.
I have seen this pet as the first one you have to fly around to some islands and you'll see it. I haven't seen this pet in rare form however. I've killed many pets in Krasarang wilds and there aren't many rares of anything. No jungle grub, no Luyu Moth, no Mei Li Sparkler.... where are the rares!
OMG I just spent 2 days looking for rares in this area and just now looked up the jungle grub and none of you can find rares! I wasted 2 days of my life for nothing! =( I also can't find rares of the Luyu moth, or Mei Li Sparkler.... I better go settle for an uncommon and move on with my life...
I found one uncommon one lv 23 in the jade forest at 51 77. It's kinda near a cliff with a stream by a bridge. I decided to catch it even though it's uncommon because people dont seem to be able to find them easily. I can always replace it with a rare if I ever see another.. haa
I caught mine after I flew around killing random spiders and frogs (the yellow non combat ones)...for some reason when you kill those, the little guy spawns after you kill so many of them.. usually 2 of them spawn at a time. It's 12:20am server time, and it is NOT raining. =) I'm psycked because this is NOW my highest lv'ed pet..hahaa I caught it using a lv 16 crystal spider, 15 ash lizard, 17 de-weaponized mechanical companion...and only my mechanical pet was still alive...and just bairly
ok so I got to the stupid island 4 minutes before it stopped raining and there were NO apes!!!! This drives me insane I've camped here for 5 days... spent hours sitting here.. I went off to search for the shadling...and came back right as the rain was ending...and nothing... anyone have any rain dance tips...
You need to go to Tanaris, I got one as another pet that joined battle in Tanaris and didn't know they were "hard to find" and figured thre are seaguls everywhere! Ppppffff well I spent an hour hunting for another... Then I checked location 64,60 (it's pretty much on the shore line, like 3 feet from the water) and there was the seagul with a seagul buddy...Both were lv 13.


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Independence releases photos in stolen statue case
Police hope to find, question pair about statue theft
Police have released photos of two men they want to find and question in connection with the theft of a bronze statue from the National Frontier Trails Museum.
The 6-foot statue of a pioneer woman disappeared from in front of the center. Police said they worry that it would be cut into pieces and sold for scrap.
Police showed photos of two men dragging a large tub. They left the scene in a vehicle that police said appears to be a Mercury Tracer station wagon. The men had a third person, probably a woman, with them when they left the site.
Investigators said they were offering a reward of up to $1,000 for the arrest of the men and up to $4,000 for the safe return of the statue. Anyone with information is encouraged to call the Crime Stoppers TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.


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DeKALB – Touting a list of the university's achievements since his tenure began in 2000, Northern Illinois University President John Peters said Thursday that he will step down from his position June 30.
Peters, who led NIU through a tragic shooting in which five students were killed in 2008, said in his State of the University address that he still has the energy for the job, but that he thinks it's time for someone else to play the role.
"In recent months, after several discussions with [my wife] Barbara and my son, Russell, I have decided that this is the time," Peters said. "This is the time for me to pass the torch to another who will carry out the noble mission of leading this great university."
The university has changed considerably since Peters took over in 2000. Under Peters, the university reached higher student enrollment numbers, peaking at 25,313 students in fall 2006. However, enrollment has dropped steadily since – fall 2012's enrollment of 21,869 students is a 4.9 percent drop from the previous year.
State support to higher education has shrunk as well. In the outset of his speech, Peters highlighted the "bleak" landscape facing NIU and other public universities. The Illinois General Assembly has cut the university's appropriations in six of the past 13 years, Peters said.
"And this year's state funding was the same as what we received in 1995," Peters said.
Peters took on perhaps a greater leadership role after the 2008 shooting, in which a former NIU student walked into Room 101 in Cole Hall shortly after 3 p.m. Feb. 14, 2008, and opened fire, killing five students, injuring at least 16 others, before turning the gun on himself.
Cole Hall was closed until its reopening in January. Peters took special note of the building in his speech. He said he wanted the building torn down before seeking state support to renovate it so that it could "rise again."
"It is personally inspiring for me to know that this building will now foster learning for tens of thousands of 21st century students," Peters said. "Once a symbol of tragedy, Cole Hall is now a symbol of rebirth, resolve and resilience."
State Sen. Christine Johnson, R-Shabbona, said Peters' leadership after the Feb. 14 shooting was one of the highlights of his legacy.
"[Cole Hall] took on a new meaning for the students, the faculty, and the people in the community," Johnson said.
In September 2010, Peters outlined his Vision 2020 initiative, an all-encompassing plan to make NIU "the most student-centered public research university in the Midwest."
Some of those goals were met faster than others. Peters announced an enrollment goal of 30,000 students by 2020. This goal was not referenced during his speech, but other challenges to NIU include for-profit schools competing for students, as well as top universities allowing students to access their online resources for free.
One of the goals the university has met was through its University Honors program. Referenced several times throughout the speech, Peters noted how the program accepted 226 freshmen and 102 transfers this fall.
"The last time our freshman class of University Honors was that large was 1987, when most of our students were not even born yet," Peters said.
Peters also cited Christopher Jones, the associate vice provost for University Honors, as an inspiration for one of NIU's newer initiatives. Jones said he and others streamlined the process in which honors scholarships are awarded to students, and that "small tweak" is leading to a wider initiative.
"What stands in the way of becoming the best instructor you can be?" Peters said. "What barriers prevent you from doing the caliber of research you are capable of? What impediment reduces efficiency and undermines our efforts to best meet the needs of our students? So today I am calling upon you to identify these obstacles."
NIU Trustee Marc Strauss said the Board of Trustees will have to form a search committee to find Peters' successor. Strauss said they will talk about the committee at their Nov. 8 meeting, but he was uncertain if the committee would get off the ground so soon.
Strauss predicted there would be a "great pool of candidates" for the committee to choose from, and that he felt that there was plenty of time for the committee and board to do its job.
A number of school officials and community leaders who were present for the speech described Peters' announcement as bittersweet.
Jones described Peters as being student-centric in his leadership.
"I think he truly cares about the students," Jones said. "Some university professors talk the talk but don't walk the walk. ... He does walk the walk."
Mayor Kris Povlsen said he hoped the partnership between the city and the university would continue under the Peters' successor. Povlsen pointed to the cooperation between the respective police departments and university involvement in the city's housing task force as examples.
It hasn't always been a smooth partnership. Povlsen was very critical of the university in the public hearing on the housing task force recommendations for not sending any representatives to it.
"I was disappointed there was not representation at that meeting," Povlsen said. "But I think overall...we've seen necessary cooperation between NIU and the community."
Austin Quick, who leads NIU student government's legislature, said he disagreed with some of Peters' decisions and leadership style, but described Peters as being someone to emulate both as a leader and a person.
"I'm happy he's leaving at the same time I'm leaving so I won't really be affected by it," Quick said. Whoever Peters' successor, Quick said he hopes that he or she will infuse some new energy and change into the NIU administration.
Peters said he would provide support to his successor during the transition process.
In an interview after the meeting, Peters said he would remain involved with raising money for the university.


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Kent State Athletics Hosts Starner Distinguished Speaker
Kent State University's Department of Intercollegiate Athletics presents the 12th annual Starner Distinguished Speaker Series at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 11, at Cartwright Hall. This year's keynote address "The Fight," will be given by Kent State alumna Bonnie Beachy, '82, who currently serves as an assistant principal at Smith Middle School in Cypress, Texas. The event is free and open to the public.
With seven varsity letters to her credit, Beachy is the premier female student-athlete in the illustrious history of Kent State athletics. Beachy, who earned four letters in basketball and three in tennis, is the all-time leading scorer in Kent State basketball history, regardless of gender, with 2,071 points. A three-time team MVP and two-time first team All-Mid-American Conference selection, Beachy stands fourth in women's basketball history in both career rebounds (829) and steals (303).
"We are very excited to have Bonnie back on campus," says Kent State Director of Athletics Joel Nielsen. "She was an exemplary student-athlete, and I think our athletes will learn a lot from her."
A 1988 Kent State Varsity "K" Hall of Fame inductee, Beachy is the only woman in Kent State history to have her uniform number retired (No. 13). Beachy was a rare two-sport Division I student-athlete who also starred on the tennis court where she was team MVP for the Golden Flashes.
In 1982, Beachy earned a bachelor's degree in physical education from Kent State and moved to Houston for job prospects. After serving as co-owner of a security company for five years, Beachy entered the education field to follow her passion of teaching and coaching. For the next 15 years, Beachy would teach and coach in the Clear Lake and Cy-Fair school districts before earning a master of education from Prairie View A&M University.
A 1978 graduate of Struthers High School, just outside of Youngstown, Ohio, Beachy was a three-sport standout and is the school's all-time leading scorer in girls basketball. She currently resides in Cypress, Texas.
The Starner Distinguished Speaker series is made possible by Kent State alumni Buzz and Marilyn Starner. The Starners endowed the speaker series to expose current student-athletes to alumni who have successfully transferred their lessons from athletic competition and student involvement to meaningful careers outside of athletics. Buzz, '67, and Marilyn, '71, have been actively involved in supporting athletic programs at Kent State for many years. The Jackson Township couple is pleased with the strong emphasis that Kent State places on the academic skills of athletes and believes that the skills students develop in athletic competition also lead to success in life after college.


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I am really excited to be chatting with all of you at Pickup Some Creativity!
Sewing 101 has been so fantastic!
I decided to talk about sewing with felt today.
I think felt projects are perfect for beginners because felt is so NOT INTIMIDATING!
I always feel a lot of pressure when I'm using my favorite designer fabrics, but with felt,
Felt is so easy to pin and send through the sewing machine.
It was a great way for the beginning seamstresses to get a feel for the sewing machine.
Home Décor is a cinch with felt. My sister and I made these Fall banners last year.
And since Halloween is coming around, you should consider using felt for your homemade costumes.
set on it, I made my own. Not only did she love it, but I paid about a third of the price,
(with tons of fabric left over)!
My patternless way of doing this costume was to make a dress with pink on top and brown at the bottom.
(The skirt was smaller on the bottom than on the top).
I attached it at the bottom with some boning (to keep it nice and round),
Then I made two scalloped layers of "frosting with polka-dot sprinkles."
My favorite part was the hair accessory. I took a small venture into the felt food craze and it was so fun.
I think it could be very addicting to make play foods galore with felt.
I love to use clear thread with felt, because I'm lazy about changing thread from color to color.
If you want the thread to be decorative and really show up, you'll want to hand stitch.
Here's an example of how the thread shows up on felt.
Good things about sewing with felt:
- Felt is very inexpensive!
- It is available in many colors.
- You can cut felt in any direction, it is very forgiving.
- No need to finish the seams. (Hallelujah)
Things to be careful of:
- Felt does not hold up as well with multiple washings. If you plan on washing the item a lot, you might want to consider using another fabric.
- Picking out seams is a little harder with felt, but still do-able. Use the razor blade method that Jessica taught us!
- Since felt is a pressed (and not woven) fabric, it can be pulled out of shape if you're not careful.
Acrylic Felt vs. Wool Felt (and Wool/Rayon Blends):
Acrylic felt is more inexpensive and readily available.
Acrylic is thinner, wool is generally thicker.
Wool has a softer, smoother feel, but could possible be an allergy issue.
Wool felt shrinks A LOT when you wash it.
Wool felt cuts with less fly away fibers.
Wool felt is stronger and less likely to be pulled out of shape.
Great places to buy felt:
-Your local craft/fabric store will have it in small sheets for crafts and by the yard for bigger projects. Wool felt is a little bit harder to find. Online stores and many etsy shops have a large variety of wool felts.
I hope this encourages everyone to reach for the felt and run it through the machine!
I'm sure you'll end up with something great!
Are you just drying over that amazing cupcake costume??? Sewing with felt is how I was introduced to sewing. Jump in and try it!


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This post is part of KPCC's "Season's Givings" series, chronicling volunteer experiences and opportunities during the holiday season. View a full listing of charitable organizations seeking help this season and let us know your holiday volunteer story!
On a recent Saturday, the Just Detention International offices were a cheery place. JDI is an L.A. nonprofit dedicated to ending sexual abuse in prisons. Every year, the group addresses holiday cards to inmates who've suffered sexual abuse. As volunteers greeted one another with hugs, Hettie Smith noticed the sharp contrast the atmosphere behind prison walls right about now.
"Well, the holidays are the worst time," Smith said.
This is the first Christmas in 30 years Smith won't spend locked up at the California Institution for Women in Corona. She says that was an especially depressing place in December.
"The suicide rate is very, very high," she said. "The depression rate is very, very high."
Imprisoned for murder, Smith was a model inmate. The state Parole Board freed her two-and-a-half weeks ago.
"I'm very happy," Smith said. "And truly, the little teeny things like actually being able to go into another room and go to the bathroom is exciting."
During her time in prison, Smith said she and many others endured sexual abuse at the hands of correctional staff or fellow inmates.
"We were helpless," she said, especially imates serving life sentences. "Because they felt like we didn't have anybody to turn to. We had no advocates."
When Just Detention International started working inside the prisons, Smith said she finally felt as if someone was looking out for her.
"And now that I'm out," she said, "this is the first thing I wanted to do."
Smith sat with other volunteers, transferring 140-character messages sent in from all over the world. Volunteers copy these words of hope into cards destined for inmates who've experienced sexual abuse.
Smith's favorite?
"I don't know if you're strong now, but you will be. Wishing you well."
Bruce Berriman, another JDI volunteer, also picked a favorite card with a quotation from poet Emily Dickinson:
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches on the soul, and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."
Berriman, an astronomer at Caltech, said it's hard for him to picture the lives of people on the receiving end of these messages.
"I find it impossible to imagine how they deal with it. It's something that goes on that does not get a lot of publicity, that's truly appalling," he said. "So I was happy to help out as best I could."
The card campaign continues through the end of the year. Just Detention International hopes to send 10,000 cards in all.


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ANOTHER VIEW: Boston Marathon is city's tangible soul for everything still right with the world
Couldn't have been more than three hours before it happened, along the marathon route on Beacon Street.
"I love this holiday," I said to my friend. "The Boston Marathon is everything that's right with the world."
I was exaggerating, at the time, but I'm not now.
I'm not a runner. But I am a Bostonian.
I was born at Brigham & Women's hospital, where SWAT teams swarmed and 26 patients were/are being treated for various injuries.
So when I got to pick my day off this week, compensating for a Sunday shift, I didn't hesitate to ask for Monday.
It is not a sporting event; it is the soul of the city made tangible.
To be in Boston on Marathon Monday is to feel a buzz in the air, like it's the last day of classes before summer break, or it's 2 p.m. on Christmas Eve and your boss just sent out an email that you can all go home at 3.
It's feeling a sense of excitement, euphoria, electricity, and to know that that sense is shared by everyone you pass.
It's high-fives from strangers, it's sidewalk barbecues, it's families enjoying a day together, it's even sometimes Red Sox fans celebrating a win.
It's what Disney World pretends to be.
To be on Heartbreak Hill, on Beacon Street, on Commonwealth Ave., in the home stretch on Boylston during the marathon is to feel Boston's pulse, to become a part of it.
The runners are literally surging through the city's arteries.
And cheering them on are staggeringly large crowds of thousands, who spend the day screaming themselves hoarse, rallying strangers, exclaiming names Sharpied on to arms or stenciled onto t-shirts.
You root for the home team, right? Everyone's the home team. Doesn't matter if their jersey says Somerville or Greater Lowell or Mexico or Australia or even New York Athletic Club.
Everyone is Boston.
Everyone who runs, you want them to win, whatever that means to them.
You're not out there to catch a glimpse of the elites, to see who takes home first place.
You're out there for the charity runners clad in tutus, hamburger suits and superhero capes, raising money for sick children, for the fathers pushing their sons in wheelchairs, for the cancer survivors running to prove they can, for the non-athletes honoring the memory of a loved one who died too soon. Runners like the ones who were crossing the finish line this afternoon, when Back Bay rattled.
They are out there to support a cause, a charity, a relative, their own dream ... whatever.
And you're out there to support them.
It's a 26.2-mile chain reaction of support, and it stretched longer than it ever has before, when a collaborative spreadsheet cropped up, full of Bostonians offering lodging to stranded strangers, when exhausted marathoners reportedly kept going until they reached Mass General and could donate blood, when the Red Cross announced they'd met their need after only a handful of hours.
When I said it, I thought it was hyperbole.
But the Boston Marathon is everything that is right with the world.