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Thanks for the responses, my initial reaction was to bring both and my 390s, I just didn't want the added space (usual bag cramming to the max) if I knew I wouldn't use the revolver. Now that I think about it, the added width and a little length along with the the flexibility would make it a nice powder board. It also would be nice to have a back up in case something happens. I really wish I had a big cruiser board, but it is hard to justify when living on the east. Next year, when I'm done with college, I will be living somewhere where I could justify buying one (or a split if I'm lucky and get into MSU grad school or something).
Anyway I am heading out in two weeks and am extremely excited, got a spot with 6 other friends for 9 days, so it should be a great time. Going later in the season means you can push it a little harder than usual too. I have never been there and have seriously been waiting over 10 years to get out there. I have always enjoyed trees, steeps, cliffs, pow over anything in the park, so this trip is definitely a long time coming and hopefully will be the first of many.
If you really like park, the new Burton Stash parks opened this year with some cool looking natural features.
As Nivek suggested, why not bring both? Unless they are really similar, that might be your best bet.
I'm going out next week, but only bringing my Ride Yukon 164 because my Timeless 161 is essentially the same thing. I'll have my new NS Raptor 169 by then, but want to get used to the hybrid technology a bit before bringing it somewhere like JH.
When are you heading out?
|No need to hit the park out there, unless you really have to. Soo much mountain to ride on! I was there for 4 days and only spent about 1 hour in the park. I prefer cruising down the mountain! I will be back there someday, it is an awesome place.
Well it will depend more on the conditions. Soft boards can be super fun in powder, but if you don't have some of the better conditions you might want something a little stiffer like your RC.
Check the conditions and forecast. If you're looking like you got lots of pow and want a little bit of a "surfier" ride, grab your Revolver.
Though why don't you just bring both? Most snowboard bags big enough to hold a 159 will fit both if you take the bindings off one. Stack the boards and set all 4 bindings on the top.
What board should I bring to Jackson hole?
I know that these are not the greatest options since ideally I would want to use a 164+ board to help with a steep traverse or control deep powder with less speed, but this what I am working with: 157.5 gnu riders choice or 159 neversummer revolver. I'm 185 6ft and am leaning towards the riders choice to handle speed, but I just got a great deal on the neversummer and haven't rode it yet, so I am not really sure. Something tells me there is no need for a park board out there though.
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If I use my buckwheat zafu for some reason I tend to fall asleep a lot more but I don't appear to have any back pain. When I don't use my zafu I tend to get much better concentration, focus, and deeper meditation BUT my mid back starts to hurt and it gets tight in one spot. I meditate for 45 minutes in the morning and 45 minutes in the evening doing breath meditation(anapanasati).
I sit in half lotus and from time to time burmese.
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No meditation to get back to a point of no pain nor tightness - Still came back.
Ice and hot packs - it helps, but not a good long term solution.
Ibuprofen - Helps with pain, but tightness remains.
Checked posture on zafu - I could not discern any particular slouching or anything that would cause me to be more sleepy.
Checked posture off zafu - l had my wife check my posture and she says that everything looks good.
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I am starting to work on my ruffkin guants ESB version which side does the hinges go on and which side do vyou place the velcro on? Just curios what others did. pix would be nice.
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I am starting to work on my ruffkin guants ESB version which side does the hinges go on and which side do vyou place the velcro on? Just curios what others did. pix would be nice.
If you want to get techie with them...there are NO hinges on the ESB or ROTJ gauntlets, only on Jango. I pop riveted the outsides and velcroed the insides.
Good luck. :)
Me to, ruffkin gauntlets are so lightweight aint no need for hinges, industrial strength velco does the job good.
So did you overlap it by much for the pop rivets? I have a rivet gun and I also have the hinges. and the velcro. did you just glue the velcro to the guant, or did you use smething more permanent?
thanks for info.
I love my Ruffkin ESB Gaunt kit. I am definately going to reinforce the inside with some fiberglass to give it a little more strength. I will probably use the industrial velcro too.
I used velcro as well. I have the ROTJ version and the velcro just sticks to the plastic. It sticks really really well. You don't really need glue or anything.
I have the ROTJ Ruffkin kit and just used Industrial strength velcro. I glued it in and they are almost solid! I've never had a problem with the velcro giving way.
Velcro is the way to go.
as far as the rivets;
on the left gauntlet,rivet the flamethrower on as well(leave the bottom piece off when you rivet,then glue it together.)
on the right rivet the outside edge of the gaunt,I only used 2 rivets -one on each end.
Beware! Make sure that when you fibreglass them they still slot together. Because without fibreglass they are quite flexible and can be squashed a little to allow them to fit, but once fibreglassed they are very rigid.
Don't forget to sand the insides well so the fibreglass keys OK.
Good luck.
Thanks for the tip. I was definately going to rough up the inside with like an 80 grit before I glassed the inside.
I have his ROTJ gauntlets. I as well used rivets on the left gaunt and I didn't need any for the right. I just used screws to attach the whip cord launcher and it holds the two shells together. For the inside I used Industrial strength Velcro. Works vary well. Check out TK409's Boba site for some good pics of his. I think there still up. I will get some pics of mine up just to give u an idea of what to do.:D
If you glass the inside of the gauntlets make sure that the heat doesn't warp the plastic. You can use a cold cure resin that will not heatup while it cures. That's what I did for mine and it worked great!
BTW I just bolted my two outer halfs together and used velcro on the inside.
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Hmm, I just got a pair of rotj gauntlets from ruffkin and they where not all that flexible, I have to push them pretty hard to bend them to get it inside the other part. Maybe He has recently beefed up the gauge? It at least .125 hmm I dunno hehe
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If you glass the inside of the gauntlets make sure that the heat doesn't warp the plastic. You can use a cold cure resin that will not heatup while it cures. That's what I did for mine and it worked great!
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I have had a little experience now so I can share with you.
If you have gauntlets from Ruffkintoys, they are made from styrene and will warp with heat increases so you cannot use a urethane resin for the FG you need to use an Epoxy Resin. Preferably a cold cure but all of them have thermographic properties.
I found a Fiberglass Supply house here in Detroit that I was able to get my supplies from.
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Now, you only have about 15 minutes of workable time so you have to be sort of quick. I already had my Fiberglass cloth cut into strips so that I could lay them overtop of the epoxy. You then take the glue brush and sort of use a tapping motion to get the epoxy to soak into the cloth. Paint a little epoxy over the top of the cloth as well making sure you get all the little nooks and crannies. You don't want air bubbles so even after the epoxy sets up in your cup, the epoxy on the cloth will be tacky and still setting. spend the rest of the time tapping down the bubbles with a popsicle stick and or the brush until it sets up. Let them sit overnight so that they are nice and hard and then you can trim it all up.
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where <math>r_1</math> and <math>r_2</math> are given by the projection of the inclusion of the relation into the product onto either factor. Then, the coequalizer of this setup is an object <math>X/R</math> such that whenever <math>x\sim_R y</math>, then <math>q(x)=q(y)</math>.
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1 Useful limits and colimits
With the tools of limits and colimits at hand, we can start using these to introduce more category theoretical constructions - and some of these turn out to correspond to things we've seen in other areas.
Possibly among the most important are the equalizers and coequalizers (with kernel (nullspace) and images as special cases), and the pullbacks and pushouts (with which we can make explicit the idea of inverse images of functions).
One useful theorem to know about is:
Theorem The following are equivalent for a category C:
- C has all finite limits.
- C has all finite products and all equalizers.
- C has all pullbacks and a terminal object. Also, the following dual statements are equivalent:
- C has all finite colimits.
- C has all finite coproducts and all coequalizers.
- C has all pushouts and an initial object.
For this theorem, we can replace finite with any other cardinality in every place it occurs, and we will still get a valid theorem.
=====Equalizer, coequalizer===== Consider the equalizer diagram:
A limit over this diagram is an object C and arrows to all diagram objects. The commutativity conditions for the arrows defined force for us fpA = pB = gpA, and thus, keeping this enforced equation in mind, we can summarize the cone diagram as:
Now, the limit condition tells us that this is the least restrictive way we can map into A with some map p such that fp = gp, in that every other way we could map in that way will factor through this way.
As usual, it is helpful to consider the situation in Set to make sense of any categorical definition: and the situation there is helped by the generalized element viewpoint: the limit object C is one representative of a subobject of A that for the case of Set contains all .
Hence the word we use for this construction: the limit of the diagram above is the equalizer of f,g. It captures the idea of a maximal subset unable to distinguish two given functions, and it introduces a categorical way to define things by equations we require them to respect.
One important special case of the equalizer is the kernel: in a category with a null object, we have a distinguished, unique, member 0 of any homset given by the compositions of the unique arrows to and from the null object. We define the kernel Ker(f) of an arrow f to be the equalizer of f,0. Keeping in mind the arrow-centric view on categories, we tend to denot the arrow from Ker(f) to the source of f by ker(f).
In the category of vector spaces, and linear maps, the map 0 really is the constant map taking the value 0 everywhere. And the kernel of a linear map is the equalizer of f,0. Thus it is some vector space W with a map such that fi = 0i = 0, and any other map that fulfills this condition factors through W. Certainly the vector space fulfills the requisite condition, nothing larger will do, since then the map composition wouldn't be 0, and nothing smaller will do, since then the maps factoring this space through the smaller candidate would not be unique.
Hence, just like we might expect.
Dually, we get the coequalizer as the colimit of the equalizer diagram.
A coequalizer has to fulfill that iBf = iA = iBg. Thus, writing q = iB, we get an object with an arrow (actually, an epimorphism out of B) that identifies f and g. Hence, we can think of as catching the notion of inducing equivalence classes from the functions.
This becomes clear if we pick out one specific example: let be an equivalence relation, and consider the diagram
where r1 and r2 are given by the projection of the inclusion of the relation into the product onto either factor. Then, the coequalizer of this setup is an object X / R such that whenever x˜Ry, then q(x) = q(y).
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3 Free and forgetful functors
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text: Very interesting. We have three teams ahead of us in the power rankings right now (Jazz-2, Magic-3, and Lakers-6) that have some of our players that have been on our team within the last three years. Okur, Arroyo, Darko, Parker, and Evans. Parker is actually starting for the Lakers now I think (he sure has alot of minutes). Looks like Phil had his eye on our bench. We need to tell these other teams to leave their mitts off of our players (tongue in cheek of course). Somehow we need to find a way to quit stocking other teams ahead of us in the power rankings. Joe needs to get his touch back.


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This boat accessories include.. a layout blind and a seat designed for laying out with a head rest.
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Electoral Registers & Poll Books
Electoral Rolls & Poll Books are a valuable and a greatly underused source of information for the family historian. They pre-date the census and can be good indicators of the wealth and status of your ancestors.
The History of Electoral Registers & Poll Books
In 1696 Parliament passed an act which it was hoped would curb fraudulent behaviour in elections. Sheriffs were charged with making a list of those who were eligible to vote and which candidate they voted for in county elections. These were then published and became known as Poll Books. It was thought that making public who voted for whom would stop the bribery and corruption that had become rife. These poll books were used until the idea of secret ballot was introduced in 1872.
The registers were usually valid for one year and then the gathering in of names and checking of eligibility was once more undertaken. During the time periods 1916 – 1917 & 1940 – 1944 registers were not published due to WW1 & WW2.
Who will you find in Electoral Registers & Poll Books?
Not everyone could vote so do not be surprised if you don't find all your ancestors in electoral registers and poll books. Up until 1832 voters needed to be freeholders or meet property requirement and even if your ancestors did meet the criteria if they didn't cast their vote then they will not appear in the poll books.
The property requirements were eased during the 19th century and finally in 1918 most men aged 21 years and older were allowed to vote. Also in 1918 some women aged 30 years and over who met property requirements were given the right to vote. In 1928 the voting age for both men and women was amended to 21 years and older.
What can be found in Electoral Registers & Poll Books?
Details of the election such as who were the candidates, when it took place and what position the election was being held for are noted in the books. Then there will be a list of the names of those who voted, their qualifications for being eligible, the name of the place where the property was held that meant they were eligible, and lastly, until 1872, who they voted for.
In later electoral registers names, address and parliamentary district only will be found. The registers are generally arranged by polling district, street, house number and then surname. However the electoral registers and poll books that are now available online have been indexed by surname so finding your ancestors has been made much easier. It is a good idea to note the names of others who are living at the same address as they may be family members.
Where can I find Electoral Registers & Poll Books online?
Ancestry.co.uk has the following registers & books online. Note that the U.K. collection is far from complete so if you can't find your ancestors in the index an email to the local County Record Office will clarify whether they hold Electoral Registers for your ancestors area and if they have been scanned by Ancestry or FindMyPast.
- London Electoral Registers 1847 – 1965
- Dorset Electoral Registers 1839 – 1922
- U.K. Poll Books & Electoral Registers 1538 – 1893
- Australian Electoral Registers 1903 – 1980
- New South Wales, Australia Electoral Registers 1842 – 1864
- New Zealand Electoral Registers 1853 – 1981
- New Zealand Maori Voters & Electoral Registers 1908 & 1919
FindMyPast has entered into an agreement with the British Library to scan and indexes some of the library's holdings. It is hoped that the collection of Electoral Registers, which is extensive, will be online by the end of 2012.
- Cheshire Electoral Registers 1842 – 1900
Guides to Electoral Registers & Poll Books.
London Metropolitan Archives have a good online guide to London Electoral Registers.
A number of county record offices also offer online guides, a Google search for the record office for the county in which your ancestor lived will take you to their website.


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Several British groups have asked the government to release Cabinet minutes for the meetings of March 13 and March 17, 2003 when discussions were held about the decision to support the Bush invasion of Iraq. Information Minister Richard Thomas ordered the release of the minutes arguing that their publication was in the public interest. His decision was supported by an independent tribunal last month. But, for the first time, the Brown government has decided to make use of "Section 53″ of the Freedom of Information Act which allows it to veto the release of documents. By drawing upon this section of the law it is impossible for challengers to take the case to court. According to a government spokesperson, the release of the documents would do "serious damage" to the frank discussions that took place on those two momentous days.
Members of parliament from every aspect of the political scene protested the decision. Many insisted the Brown decision showed disrespect for the people of Great Britain and their right to know why their nation got into a war. Of course, the men and women who died might complain of "serious damage" to their lives by the decision of Tony Blair and his associates.


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Gilberto Santa Rosa
Born Gilberto Santa Rosa Cortés on August 21, 1962, in the Santurce district of San Juan, Puerto Rico, El Caballero de la Salsa grew up listening to the salsa of the 1950s and '60s. He was chiefly influenced by El Gran Combo, a trailblazing salsa group including Rafael Ithier, Pellín Rodríguez, and Andy Montañez, each of whom left a lasting mark on the impressionable Santa Rosa. He began singing salsa at age ten and made his formal singing debut on January 6, 1975, during a television special commemorating Three Kings Day. He was only 12 years old at the time, and thereafter he wholeheartedly began pursuing his aspirations of becoming a professional salsero. His first recording opportunity came courtesy of trumpeter/arranger Mario Ortiz, who was a member of the Puerto Rico All Stars. During that recording session for Borinquen Records, Borinquen Flame (1977), he became acquainted with a growing circle of local salsa artists, including Elías Lopés and René Hernández. Santa Rosa became especially close with Lopés, a musical director, arranger, and trumpeter with whom he worked for a while; for instance, the two worked together on We Love N.Y. (1978), by José Canales' Orquesta la Grande. In turn, Santa Rosa worked with Tommy Olivencia, appearing on the T.H. Rodven Records album Tommy Olivencia & His Orchestra (1979), and also with the Puerto Rico All Stars, appearing on the Combo Records album Tribute to the Messiah (1979), where he can be heard singing lead vocals on the song "Busca Lo Tuyo." He also worked again with Lopés on Borinquen All Stars (1979). Then from 1981 to 1986, Santa Rosa worked as a backup vocalist for Willie Rosario; he can be heard on such T.H. Rodven-issued albums as The Portrait of a Salsa Man (1981) and Atizame el Fogón (1982).
At this point in his early twenties, Santa Rosa had grown into a talented sonero, earned recognition in the salsa community, and was no longer known as El Bebe de la Salsa, as he once had been. Granted, he didn't establish himself as a songwriter, nor as an arranger. Yet his talents were well evident, for he was a rousing performer with a deep-rooted grasp of tradition, which garnered him respect among salsa purists; plus, even early on in his career, he was a well-capable interpreter of songs, tailoring them fittingly for various moods. It was no surprise, then, when he pursued a solo career with Combo Records, one of the leading salsa labels of its time. Santa Rosa made his solo debut with Good Vibrations (1986), a formative album featuring arrangements by Mario Ortiz, Tommy Villariny (aka Tommy Villarini), Humberto Ramírez, Ramón Sánchez, and Carlos Torres, all of whom would contribute to successive albums. Keeping Cool! (1987) was another formative effort, and then with De Amor y Salsa (1988), Santa Rosa settled into the styles that would become his trademark: a wide-ranging style that encompassed salsa romántica as well as straight-ahead salsa, boleros as well as frenetic dance songs. His fourth and final album for Combo, Salsa en Movimiento (1989), was similarly impressive and individualistic, so much so that he began considering a move up to the major labels.
In his last year with Combo, Santa Rosa was extended an offer by CBS Discos, one which he eventually accepted, partly on account of the label's rich tradition. The CBS deal opened up new doors for him, as his music would now be distributed internationally, far beyond the shores of Puerto Rico and the streets of New York and Miami. Santa Rosa's CBS debut, Punto de Vista (1990), featured arrangements by Guillermo Calderón, Louis García, Humberto Ramírez, Ramón Sánchez, and Carlos Torres -- the same team he'd worked with on his Combo albums, for the most part. An important addition to the Santa Rosa team, however, was songwriter Omar Alfanno, who was just beginning to establish himself as a sure-fire hitmaker. "Vivir sin Ella" was the first of many Alfanno songs that Santa Rosa would sing, and it was not only the album-opener, it was a major hit, one of four on Punto de Vista (others included "Perdoname," "De Cualquier Manera," and "Impaciencia"). The hit parade continued with the release of Santa Rosa's second album for Sony Discos (formerly CBS), Perspectiva (1991). The album was the salsero's greatest success yet: it was his first to reach number one on the Billboard Tropical/Salsa album chart, and its reach spanned across the Americas, as far down as Ecuador and Peru. Once again, the album-opener, "Conciencia," written by Alfanno and arranged by Ramón Sánchez, was the big hit. The same team of arrangers and songwriters who had worked on Punto de Vista worked on Perspectiva, give or take a few: the arrangers notably include Calderón, García, Luis Ortíz, Lenny Prieto, Ramírez, Sánchez, and Villariny; the songwriters, Alfanno, Charlie Donato, and Jorge Luís Piloto. This resulted in a similarly styled yet more-refined batch of songs. Indeed, Santa Rosa recorded a number of truly great albums over the course of his long career, yet Perspectiva remains one of his most memorable and most perfect achievements.
For his next album, A Dos Tiempos de un Tiempo (1992), Santa Rosa took a different approach: he recorded a tribute album to Tito Rodriguez, a Puerto Rican legend whom he had never met yet had long admired. Rodriguez had died 20 years earlier, and this album commemorated his passing. The old-fashioned style of A Dos Tiempos de un Tiempo was far afield from the high-energy salsa of Perspectiva; for instance, the opening song, "Mama Güela," opens lavishly with saxophone, strings, and keyboards, as well as a gentle tempo. Most of Santa Rosa's normal team of arrangers, songwriters, and musicians were absent for this album. Louis García and Angel Peña are the musical directors, while invited guests include Juancito Torres, Eddie Feyjóo, Elías Lopés, Victor Paz, Arturo Sandoval, Papo Lucca, and Jesus Caunedo. Each of these veterans was at one point in time somehow affiliated with Rodriguez, and their presence and playing greatly contributed to the old-fashioned style of A Dos Tiempos de un Tiempo. The standout song is "En la Soledad," a technologically enabled duet featuring the vocals of both Santa Rosa and a ghostly Rodriguez. Following this fairly well-received album, Santa Rosa returned to his typical style of music on Nace Aquí, which reteamed him with his usual collaborators (Alfanno, Donato, García, Prieto, Ramírez, Sánchez). Notable hits included "Buscame," "Sin Voluntad," and "Me Volvieron a Hablar de Ella," the latter two penned by the ever-reliable Alfanno. Next came De Cara al Viento (1994), which was a slight change of pace, with its added layers of strings and stateliness. The album was helmed once again by Ramón Sánchez and spawned a major hit, "Te Propongo," written by Juan Luis Guerra; however, some fans were dismayed by Santa Rosa's unceasing employment of romantic themes and gestures. For better or worse, this drift toward elegance continued on En Vivo Deside el Carnegie Hall (1995), which was a prestigious affair.
In turn, Santa Rosa decided to dissolve his orchestra and start over with a fresh sound that retained the tradition of his previous work all the same. He approached José Lugo, who had begun playing in Santa Rosa's band in 1994, and asked him to become his new musical director. For Esencia (1996), Santa Rosa picked the repertoire and sang while Lugo oversaw the musical aspects of the album; both were credited with production. Esencia proved extremely successful, as did the partnership between Santa Rosa and Lugo. Critics and fans were pleased by the fresh style of the music, which is eclectic and energized whereas the past couple albums had begun to show signs of stagnation. Moreover, the album was Santa Rosa's most commercially successful to date: Esencia itself topped the Tropical/Salsa album chart, while "No Quiero Na' Regala'o" topped the Latin Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart and reached the Hot Latin Tracks Top Ten. Other hits included "Esas Lágrimas," "Peligro," and "Yo No Te Pido." De Corazón (1997), also helmed by Lugo, was similarly well received, boasting two standout hits, "Que Se Lo Lleve el Rio" and "Esa Parte de Mi." Expresión (1999) was no letdown, either, as it charted well thanks in part to a pair of number one Latin Tropical/Salsa Airplay hits, "Dejate Querer" and "Que Alguien Me Diga." The same goes for Intenso (2001), which included three number ones: "Pero No Me Ama," "Pueden Decir," and "La Agarro Bajando."
For Viceversa (2002), Santa Rosa reached outside his usual circle of collaborators, teaming with hitmaker Kike Santander for the album's lead single, the sweeping ballad "Por Más Que Intento." The song was an across-the-board hit, going number one Tropical/Salsa Airplay and number ten Latin Pop Airplay. "Un Montón de Estrellas" and "El Refrán Se Te Olvidó" were also hits. On the heels of the Latin pop airplay garnered by "Por Más Que Intento," Sony unveiled Solo Bolero, a compilation of strictly romantic songs. The label had done this previously with Romántico (2001), a similar compilation. Following some time off, Santa Rosa returned vigorously with Auténtico (2004), which included no pop whatsoever. The album was consequently well received, even if it didn't cross over the same way Viceversa had. Three hits stood out, "Piedras y Flores," "Sombra Loca," and "Ensename a Vivir sin Ti." Never one to stick with one style or hitmaking formula for long, Santa Rosa resumed his romanticism for Directo al Corazón (2006). The album -- which is a mix of salsa/tropical and bolero/ballads, with a duet feature ("Hablando Claro") for Rosangela Abreu of reality show Objective Fama repute -- spawned two hits ("Locura de Amor," "Por la Herida de un Amor"), sold well, and won a Grammy for Tropical Album of the Year. Concurrently, Telemundo aired a TV special, No Te Duermas, commemorating Santa Rosa's 30-year anniversary as a performer. ~ Jason Birchmeier
Selected Discography
Track List: Necesito Un Bolero ((Edición De Lujo)[En Vivo])
Track List: Necesito Un Bolero
Track List: Canciones De Amor: Gilberto Santa Rosa
Track List: Gilberto Santa Rosa
Track List: Mis Favoritas
Track List: Irrepetible
Track List: Caballero De La Salsa
Track List: Contraste En Salsa
Track List: Contraste
Track List: Directo Al Corazon
Track List: Solo Bolero
Track List: Viceversa
Track List: Intenso
Track List: Romantico
Track List: Oro Salsero
Track List: 20th Anniversary
Track List: Expresion
Track List: De Corazon
Track List: El Caballero De La Salsa, Exitos Vol. 2
Track List: Esencia
Track List: En Vivo Desde El Carnegie Hall
Track List: De Cara Al Viento
Track List: Nace Aquí
Track List: El Caballero De La Salsa, Exitos Vol. 1
Track List: A Dos Tiempos De Un Tiempo
Track List: Perspectiva
Track List: Punto De Vista
Track List: Salsa En... Movimiento
Track List: De Amor Y Salsa
Track List: Keeping Cool!
Track List: Good Vibrations
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Vitals: Our Adam & Mary Ann Barber Families
For fastest retrieval, search by name, date, or subject; type "photo album" to go directly to pictures and documentsNEW 5/18/17: "A Vacation Back to the Future: From Michigan to Iowa"
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Hi everyone :-)
I know it's a bit cheeky to join up and immediately demand help but... I need it! I am a teacher of mainly young learners in central Poland but I have a special case coming up in the coming week. Because I am the only native speaker around (well, British English anyway, which is what they all seem to want here... lucky for me!) I get a lot of random requests for private lessons, individual lessons etc etc.
I turn some down, but I had a desperate plea yesterday from a lady who is being interviewed in 3 weeks time for a job where she will be required to speak both English and Polish. Her English is therefore being tested - baptism of fire style - by the fact that the interview is to be conducted in English.
She is coming to me for 3 1 hour lessons to brush up. I imagine that after the first lesson I will have a good idea of what needs work and what I should be focusing on -- but I am struggling with inspiration for structuring the first lesson. Actvities and such. I guess I should effectively be giving her a practice interview... but I can't just bark questions at her for three hours straight. I also suppose she needs a bit of grammar focus (eg. past simple, what I did and also the ability to talk about future plans and her demands from the company and job). Basically I am looking for a bit of advice, somebody to point me in the right direction really!
Would be HUGELY appreciated, really.
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The Iowa Lakes Community College Women's Cross Country team has earned a spot in the NJCAA Div. 1 top 25. The Lakers are ranked 21st in the Coaches Hill n' Dale Poll that was released on Thursday. This is the first time Iowa Lakes Cross Country has broken into the top 25.
In the first meet of the year the women placed 4th out of 8, with all seven members of the team placing in the top 50; the highest being freshman Leah Courtney earning 8th place overall.
"After placing fourth at our Region time trial two weeks ago, I had a strong feeling that we would end up in the rankings, I just wasn't sure where the other states were at this early in the season," said Head Coach Molly Struve. "Being ranked in the top 25 is a great accomplishment for our women's team."
Iowa Community Colleges seem to produce some of the nation's best cross country teams every year with three or four Iowa teams (out of eight) ranked all season long.
"We have some great competition throughout our region and hopefully we will continue to perform as well, or better, than we did at the first meet," Struve stated. "If all of our runners can stay closer to each other and closer to Leah, who is currently our front runner, we have a good chance to stay in the rankings all year."
With numbers in the Lakers favor Coach Struve is optimistic about the upcoming meets.
"We have eight total women on the team, which is the largest women's team we have ever had," Struve said. "Since five times count toward the team score, having three other runners allows us to have flexibility in case injuries arise and also allows for competition amongst our own team."
The Lakers Men's and Women's Cross Country teams will be back in action this Saturday Sept. 8 at the Nike Heartland Preview in Sioux Falls, SD.


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Investigators Probe Quebec Rail Disaster
Authorities Confirm Five Deaths, With Dozens More Missing
LAC MEGANTIC, Quebec—Canadian authorities have confirmed five deaths and estimate some 40 people are still missing after a runaway train carrying crude derailed and exploded, demolishing a large swath of this small town, with as many as 30 buildings incinerated.
A police spokesman said on Sunday that several investigations were under way to determine the cause of the derailment. Because deaths were involved, he said Quebec police...


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|Topic Review (Newest First)
Lesson learned
Glad to hear so many Sailnetters came through the storm so well.
Yesterday I went out to the boat and she was exactly where and how I left her. Aside from a coating of salt and a few bits of seaweed here and there, it was difficult to find any evidence that she'd been through 45-50 kt sustained winds for 6+ hours and higher gusts. Seas in the harbor were running 4-5 ft at times.
The mooring set up I used was three pendants to the ball: two 1" x 20 ft made up by Yale Cordage, and one 1" three strand nylon I made up a number of years ago. Each of these was set with about 12-18" of slack differnetial between them. As the "fail safe" device I shackled the boat's 1/2" anchor rode to the mooring top chain below the ball and swivel. I left the chain with about 5-6 ft of slack relative to the slackest of the pendants. I lashed them all to the bow rollers in much the same way shown in Bene505 pictures above.
All pendants had good chafeing gear.
The anchor rode with 5+ ft of slack was wrapped around the bollard and then wrapped completely around a cleat on the deck such that the chain was pretty well jammed and couldn't put any pressure on the windlass.
The only thing that was different when I stepped aboard the boat yesterday was that the chain was really jammed into the cleat. It took some doing to release it. That tells me that at some point the chain took a heavy load -- so much so that it chipped the paint below the cleat in several places. That means that the rodes (all 20-23 ft) stretched at least 5 ft and possibly more-- without breaking.
I reviewed all this with a salty old commercial fisherman who happened by and he had two suggestions on improvements for "next time":
1. He said I might consider shackleing the chain rode to the bottom chain rather than to the ball so that if the top chain parted I'd have the reduncancy I was looking for. Or as an alternative to that dropping an anchor a few feet away from the boat.
2. I should have used short snubbers on the chain rode even though it was the last line of defense and had a lot of slack in it. He suggested making up two snubbers of slightly different lengths and diameters, with the smaller diameter the longer of the two. That way the smaller of the two stretches first and farthest, but the larger takes a load as soon as the smaller of the snubbers has stretched 10-15% of its length. He recommended two snubbers for redundancy.
Both of these suggestions are on my to do list for the next storm, but first on the list for next time is getting the hell out of the water!
Three sailboats came up on the beach in Provincetown. None damaged seriously and all due to pendant chafe. All still had sails bent on, one with it's jib still on the furler partially shredded. Obvious lessons here are better chafe gear and removal of all canvas.
One more thing: I rigged an anchor with nylon rode and chain and laid it all out in the cockpit in case the boat went on the beach and an anchor was needed by anyone who might come to her rescue.
As it happened one of the three beached boats mentioned above was saved from going hard on the beach because we were able to find an anchor in the forward locker. Working in thigh deep water / surf at dead low tide, it took some doing to get it untangled and deployed, but we finally did get it set. That said it was a pretty light rode/anchor for a boat in a storm -- looked more like a lunch hook. As the tide rose and the boat started floating again the anchor held. On the first high tide after the storm the boat was towed to it's mooring without difficulty.
I would recommend to anyone who leaves a boat on a storm mooring to help out those who might help you by getting a good storm anchor and having it ready for rescuers to deploy quickly.
|We were a little West of Bene505, in East Hampton, at our non floating dock in our pretty protected inlet. I stripped all sails and bimini, took off most everything else removable that created windage. We normally use mooring whips, which we kept in place, but supplemented with extra lines off the bow at about a 35 degree angle to keep the bow off, and an anchor off the stern to help ease the strain on the stern whip. We doubled all lines and things went very well. I don't know the peak wind speeds, but the winds were pretty strong, knocked down some trees, and lasted a long time, but fortunately all was well with our boat.
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|Very excited to report that 2d Wind appears to have come through without a scratch (except for a bit of wood finish that came off with the tape I had put on a few cabinets). We moved up to Haverstraw on the Hudson from Sea Bright, NJ, where thankfully I think the storm was much weakened by the time it came through. We did take off the head sail and the dodger (frame and all), which might have ended up being more prep than was needed, but I'm still really glad we did it.
|Nicely done Brad. Few problems here in Hempstead Harbor, even the boats on moorings that didn't even take the trouble to remove their sails and canvas. Actually the winds on the backside of the storm were worse than the storm landfall. Forty plus knots out of the NW (worst direction for us) from about 3PM Sunday until dark.
Originally Posted by CalebD View Post
That your boat survived speaks to the care you took to prepare for TS Irene. We survived on the Hudson as well.
My advice? More beer.
You were in my thoughts as the Hudson River expert, in case I needed to bug out to there. Glad it worked out, you were a lot closer to the eye than we were.
(Maybe you could help me pilot Hells Gate this winter. Beer afterward.)
That your boat survived speaks to the care you took to prepare for TS Irene. We survived on the Hudson as well.
My advice? More beer.
Plan A worked
Originally Posted by Bene505 View Post
My Plan A is to stay in Montauk if Irene makes landfall near Manhattan. That looks to be the case. (Plan B is a mooring off Greak Neck, Plan C is haul-out at Glen Cove. Both of those places look to be under the eye soon.) ...
A friend and I spent hours prepping the boat on Saturday. Here's a shot of the boat with all canvas down below. (Yes, I left the life raft in place. The canvas is on so tight, it will rip if I take it off.)
The boat was already up in the south corner of the lake, with little fetch to the SE, S and SW. We put 6 anchors off the bow rollers, like a Bahama mooring. Water is 10 feet deep, with the roller 5 feet off the water.
145' 1/2" chain, 44 pound CQR (to SW), snubbered pretty short with 7/8 line
150' 3/4" line, Danforth 90 H (to SE)
150' 5/8"? line, 2 x 100 pound Chinese, Danforth-copies (in tandem) (to South)
150' 7/8" line, 44 pound Bruce (to East)
300' 1/2" line, 30 pound Bruce (to NW, normal direction of fetch)
The 90H and Chain-CQR were already set as the only anchors, so I wasn't worried about having such a small anchor "up fetch". If it dragged, she'd be on the usual anchors.
Here's a shot of the anchors, Note the chafing gear around the lines and the angles off the bow.
And here's the final measure, to keep the lines inside the roller frame. This is the Anti-Anchorline-Jumping-Off-The-Roller-As-Depicted-In-Mainsail's-Videos technique. With such little fetch, this was probably overkill, but the hurricane could have swerved over us, right?
Lastly, here's a shot of the prep team. David (on the left) sailed his Catalina 38 to the USVI and back, a couple years ago. He's been chartering it all summer, see sailing montauk. David was a great help, with his ton of experience and eloquent words of wisdom. His boat got hit by lightning (150 feet from ours) only a week ago. She's totaled, at least he has insurance. If anyone knows of an inspected sailing vessel for a good price, let me know.
Note what sure else we could have done. If anyone has some suggestions, let me know.
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The key to sailing a boat without an engine, is thinking ahead... WAY ahead...
To be scrambling around Annapolis at the last minute as a hurricane is bearing down upon you, that's not the sort of guy who should be going engineless... Dude needs to have his head examined, if he really intended to ride out the passage of a hurricane in one of the outer slips at Horn Point Marina...
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Heart of Gold rode out the storm on her mooring in the Barrington River which is well protected. Most of the boats in the Barrington River were well prepared with sails and canvas removed. I didn't see any boats damaged in the River. We were lucky and dodged a bullet.
Here is the wind history from nearby Conimicuit light in upper Narragansett Bay. 50 Knots sustained for almost 4 hours with gusts to 70+ knots.
hurricane Irene wind data Conimicut Light Narragansett Bay Aug 27-28 2011 by chuckanastasia, on Flickr
Still have no power at home. Many downed trees and wires around the neighborhood. We are it will be expecting several days before power is restored throughout RI.
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by Ozarkruffrider, Apr 30, 2008.
La Bron and his buddy Damon Jones (dressed up again)...go fishin with Drew Carey and Kenny.
LA Dre---you da man!
This one is #1 so far. Good job. :winner_first_h4h:
Hornets join their favorite on the Gulf:
HUH??? Is that Duncan and Parker??? LOL---got ya thinkin ahead!
I had them lined up and ready ...just a few weeks early
TNT crew just analyzed the matchup with Celts/Pistons. Mainly Sheed/KG and they all feelin' Pistons. Sheed can do anything KG can do, but can't do it consistently. But KG can't hit the trey.
Well at least Tony can concentrate on better things now OooooH barracuda!!!
hey dre, im waiting
Well this is the one I had drawn up, now I have to go back to the drawing room
Heya Dre, could you please include Mike Abdenour?
Well just like the Pistons didn't show up in the 4th they failed to show up to go fishin with Kenny
LMAO. Beautiful. We really need to have a post of the year contest. This summed the season up perfectly.
Oops I almost forgot the last ones for the season We got the entourage crew, Snoop, Jack and Dyan joining Kobe Kobe with Kenny and Chuck
and one more just for the golfers Looks like Tiger is done for the season too
What a fun way to end the year. I have to remember that Bubba-Gump name. Somehow it has to be part of the pistons next year.
"RUN Walter, RUN!"
Bring them on Dre! I can hardly wait. I want to see them almost as much as the Pistons wanted to go on their trips.
AI is on this one!
Sad. After 6 straight ECF's, TNT feels so bad for the Pistons they can't even come up with a Gone Fishin' pic :(
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Wow Slicko, mate. It sounds like no one else ever lets their bees swarm...I'll have to let you know next season about where my bees decide to roost. Funny thing about where I have my feral girls. They're right next to our mandarine and macadamia trees...what do you reckon? Perfect trap? :-DPhil
hi slicko how are the bees going down that way.have they settled down.have you taken much honey off this season.


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the will contract in size over the winter. if you get at them early enough in spring, you should be able to easily remove them and with less mess. by then you not only will probably have fewer bees, but you won't have so much honey to mess with.
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Getting press in the way you do with the most mainstream of magazines does not SELL ZINES. it simply portrays you as a marginal, desperate force. Because you are defining your position in oppositional reactionism, you are not creating culture. You are defining yourself by what you oppose, what means that you are always responding to your enemies, rather than getting attention or credit on the merit of your own work.
Not true. I started and have kept going the Zine Hall of Fame. I am not defining my self by my opposition to anyone. I don't think Karl is either. What we're doing is giving our opinions to some ultra conservatives here in zinedom. I'm from Dallas and I know conservatives when I see them - they rush to oppose anything new.
What you are failing to realize, in your marketing, is that the underground is much bigger than the mainstream and has a much longer attention span. In the mainstream, most book purchases are gift items. The major retailers are going out of business. These economies of scale do not affect zines and people are naturally avid readers do not frequent the Barnes & Nobles or read The New York Times BOOK Review.
You can't hide from corporate art - you as zinesters have been banished to the sidelines. You think your message is safe and secure. I don't think so at all. You can't even allow much decent here on a zine blog. How do you think people who say anything different are going to be safe and secure.
Whereas, getting a solid plug on a blog can literally sell thousands of zines in a week. Because those people read and aren't afraid to drop a couple bucks. I think this is the path to getting your work read and it's not easy work necessarily, but it develops a bigger audience than any piece of mainstream press and is not a "path to obscurity".
After 17 years of zine-ing, my experience is that that is not true.
And the more I think about it, the ill logic here is that people aren't going to read your work that aren't inclined toward it; no matter how hard you try. So first, your work would have to appeal to your audience and second, you would need to be good to bringing that to them. I think the mainstream fails both of these tests - especially with most any zine!
"The curious thing to me is why someone would take the ULA to task for perceived minor faults, yet come out in support of enterprises backed by media monopolies."
This comment is hilarious! Did anyone (let alone everyone here) side with McSweeney's over the ULA? Because I think the general vibe is that everyone can think that both sides are quite preposterous. This is a prime example of speaking FOR US. It's funnier when Tom Hendricks does it but this instance is fairly priceless.
But the funniest thing was when we published THE FLOW CHRONICLES and Karl was upset that we wouldn't immediately pay to fly the author to Philly for one reading event. There were a series of insults directed our way afterwards, as if the event would have sold hundreds of books and we were selfish capitalists. We had published the book after a year of fundraising.
The people who read Writers & Poets are aspiring writers who want to get published. I suspect the reason the article in question refers to chapbooks instead of zines is because they are comprised of POETRY.
You are very good at bringing attention to yourselves but haven't done much to promote your own works as a result, which I guess is more fodder for saying "the real writers never get any attention" in the same reactionary way. Where would the ULA be when there's no mainstream press left to be angry at?
Making a living at writing.
Perhaps it would have to go back to insulting and speaking for people on We Make Zines.
I have never heard Karl insult anyone. I haven't insulted anyone. The name calling isn't from us.
But like Karl said, I'm one of those zinesters who lives in a trailer on a piece of land. I don't own a TV or read mainstream press. I ride my bike to work and do carpentry projects. I'm not trying to make a living from writing. I'm happy with "scraping by". Despite this, thanks for making me look relatively sane ULA.
Back online for a few more minutes. A coupla more points.
Ciara's argument doesn't bother me, as I'm not a purer-than thou zinester.
This is different from letting non-DIY people steal the DIY brand, which is happening.
Other: did my manner offend people when I was running the ULA? I guess. To me it was business. I wasn't playing pattycake. The job I had before creating the ULA was freight-forwarding, in which I did a lot of screaming over the phone-- and was screamed at-- over this or that missing truckdriver with an assembly line waiting. I wasn't prepared for the gentility of some zine people. I was not AT ALL from a gentle environment.
I worked hard for the writers who were not paying me. I hit every possible outlet.
What did in the ULA more then anything, halting our mementum, was when we exposed CIA funding of some esteemed lit pubs. The entire print media closed ranks against us. (We turned out to be right.)
Was exposing corruption worth doing? Hell yes! I wouldn't have had it any other way.
What pr is worth having? NY POst is fairly populist.
Or, Village Voice and Shout NY were good achievements-- obtained from our extremely exciting debate with the lit-snobs at CBGB's, of all places. Well worth doing.
The ULA was always a CELEBRATION of zines and zine writing. Did we promote zines as a literary movement? Absolutely! Guilty as charged. That's exactly what it is. You're making literature, like it or not. A crude, populist kind of lit, sure, but literature in the best Mark Twain-Jack Kerouac tradition of America all the same.
i don't understand this point that they keep trying to make that "DIY" is going to be taken over by the mainstream. DIY is simply an abbreviation for Do-it-yourself. It is not a brand. It is NOT a term only used by the underground artist. You do realize there is a fucking television network CALLLED "The DIY Network" that shows people how to fix their houses and do crafts and shit.
The idea to do things yourself isn't a secret.
Ugh, this incoherant rambling and paranoia about things that aren't even issues is driving me nuts.


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I still can't believe I didn't know about it beforehand! It was in the press when it opened on November 9th, but I guess I wasn't paying attention. Earlier in 2012, a Star Wars Miniland had opened at Legoland Windsor, and the one at Legoland California has been open since March 2011 and an expansion has recently been added.
GeekMom has written plenty already about Legoland Florida, so while my husband and I were planning our trip, I wasn't considering post fodder. But there it was — some fresh new geekery to shout about to the masses. GeekMom Dakster's husband trooped at the grand opening, but I think I might have been the first GeekMom to actually see it (and be it known it's rare for me to be the first GeekMom to get to do anything this cool!).
And we almost missed it altogether! It's tucked in a wooded area towards the back of the Miniland U.S.A. section of the park. You Moms know how it goes … the kids see something off in the distance and you're getting pulled in a different direction than you were intending. In our case, while we were at Miniland USA, the kids were begging to ride on the Dragon rollercoaster in the Lego Kingdom section.
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Ann, OK my dear girl. Now you are really getting me excited about the promise of the summer and its evening fragrance with so many flowers we grow!!!!!. Datura, bragmansia, whatever we will call it, is on my wish list for propogation and cultivation this year. Going to get the seeds set after the new year and see where we go. Remember I told you I grew datura many years ago? Well, from that experience I know I can propogate it and have it flower the same year, but I need to set my mind back into some research about the cultivation of datura. Oooohweeee, summertime is coming!!! The long dog days of summer. Beautiful day, beautiful life. Cindi
Rats!!! By the way, I tried my darndest to grow that Moonflower vine we were all talking about last spring. I recall posts about the intoxicating evening fragrance. Zoot was the one that had me really excited about this night fragrance. Do you think that I could get it to grow even more than one foot long. I have the greenest of thumbs, but when it came to this species, forget it, doing something really, really wrong. Eeeks!!!!
OK Ann, tell me, what is your favourite, datura or brugmansia? Tell me your tale, I am interested. I remember that picture that you took and put on the forum of the white flowers shining in the evening. What that the datura? Which do you find more fragrant? You know me, I am after fragrance. I need to know what cultivar of these to begin to propogate, (is there any that you find especially attractive?). I will be needing to order seed soon.
It was a very disappointing year for the Matthiola Bicornis (Evening scented stock) that I grow everywhere. It must have been because of the lack of the sun rays for a good part of the summer. Generally, on summer's evenings, the moment that the sun goes down, this intoxicating fragrance (I love that word) permeates the air. I rarely smelled the scent from the flowers this past season, lots and lots of the pretty mauve flowers, but hardly a scent. I plant them on my bedroom patio and their heady fragrance always drifts through my bedroom patio doors and windows all night long, makes the most aromatic room in the house. But it just was not there last year, such an enormous disappointment. Even the nicotiannas' (which I plant en masse and the bees love) night fragrances were barely noticeable. Never have I experienced this before with either of these species. It was a bummer. Oh well, there is always next year.


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|Goodo......now you have peace of mind
Thanks to all of you who replied. Sorry for the blurring in the photo. My camera sometimes finds it challenging to take close up pictures of a wiggly doggie.
The vet looked at her lump and told me that it was her body reacting to the inner sutures. Some of you mentioned that. I looked at her lump today and it is a little bit smaller. She is almost back to her full hyper self, but I am still keeping her up in a smaller pen. I will let her back out in the pasture when her lump is gone. She wants out to run very badly!!
Anyway, thanks again to all you shepherd experts!
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I would have your vet check out, tho like anubis said the pic is rather blurry, it looks rather "lumpy" to me, lumpier than normal.
I had a female who had a reaction to the gut sutures,,it was very red, not as swollen as your picture, oozy, just didn't seem to heal right after staples removed..Took her back, she had to be opened up and have the internal sutures removed..bad batch of gut stitch..
Don't want to scare you, not saying this is the case with yours, but I think I'd want the vet to check that out
|It never hurts to take good photos and email them to the vet for their opinion. Or go in and have them look at it again to ensure the healing process is going well
|This never happened to any dog that I ever spayed. I can say when I had my cat spayed she had something that looked very close to that and about the same size maybe a tad smaller. I took her to the vet because it just did not seem right to me. It turned out to be a huge infection. If I had waited any longer she would of died, she was sick but did not show any real signs. My brother talked me into a low cost spay program that was in Burlington, WI. She was kept at her regular vets for a few days. She made it and is doing fine. I felt real bad after because I think I should of had her spayed at her regular vets. If you are not sure a trip to the vet is well worth it, just to have peace of mind and to know that it is not something more.
|Lumps like this are common BUT should always be checked for herniation......get it checked to be on the safe side.....shouldn't cost you anything and will not take more than a couple minutes to have a poke.
Like what LoveDogs said, if there was lots of redness, if it was hot and especially if there was drainage or puss I would be very concerned and bring her in. I see lumps on spay scars all the time, its normal and part of the healing process. My dog never had that big of a lump if it does look like whats in the picture, so just keep an eye on it.
Make sure exercise is restricted and little to no jumping! If it started doing any of those other red flags, you can bring her in for peace of mind and to make sure it still looks healthy for a spay scar. I know that i am a worry-wort and it's better to be safe than sorry in any case and also therefore having a faster healing process.
|ummm the post-removal picture is blurry and hard to see, but almost looks like a herniation to me. I would be concerned that the internal sutures holding the internal layer of muscles together dehisced and now there is basically a hole in the abdominal wall. It also looks like a fairly large lump. Even if it is something like a suture reaction that is still extremely concerning - went back in to surgery one time on a dog that had a suture reaction after a spay and the surrounding muscle and tissue literally looked like hamburger meat it was such a severe reaction.
|It's normal and will go away. Seen it plenty after spaying rescue dogs. We had a 13 year toy poodle needing an emergency spay at the hospital last week due to a pyometra. It is horrible for dogs to go through.
|I'm not a vet, but I would say I would be concerned if there was redness, heat, drainage, puss, or if the dog was having abnormal behavior or pain. In the photo, from what I can tell, it's a raised area without redness, drainage, or puss. It could be something as simple as the internal sutures causing a local reaction. If it concerns you greatly, take her back to the vet physically to have your vet put your mind at ease or to take care of the situation.
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Re: Printing from Mathematica 5.1
Hi John,
actually, I can't help you with your problem but add a related one: I
used to put my companies logo into the page header by adding
Cell[GraphicsData["PostScript", -some postscript data-], "Graphics"]
to the header. With Mathematica 4.1, this worked fine, with 5.0
Mathematica crashes when I try to print the notebook. My conclusion:
There is something wrong with the printing in the newer versions. But I
don't have a clue what this could be :-((
John Roberts wrote:
> I have not been able to print from Mathematica 5.1.0 -- every time I try
> to print it gives "A system error has occurred, please try again or
> restart your computer and try again" -- restarting the computer does not
> help.
> I could print from Mathematica 4.1 on this same computer and OS and
> printer without any problems, and I can print from all the other
> programs on this computer -- this printing problem only happens with
> Mathematica 5.1.0.
> I'm using Windows XP sp-2 and printing to an HP inkjet printer.
> Thanks in adance for any help you can give,
> John R.