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I'm not sure if this has been covered here, but a lot have heated conversations seem to start if you say anything negative to say about certain dog breeds.
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Concept Jeeps Unleashed at Moab Easter Jeep Safari 2014Posted in Events on April 11, 2014
If you're a hardcore off-road enthusiast than you're probably well aware of what's coming next week. The largest gathering of Jeeps and all things 4x4 is kicking off this weekend in the picturesque land of Moab, Utah. If you've never been to Moab, picture the real life backdrop of Wile E Coyote and the Roadrunner. The land is mysterious and features some of the gnarliest terrain in the world. Not surprising then that Jeep and Mopar always decide to bring out the big guns in Moab since 2002 by unveiling their latest and greatest in the off-road specific segment.
This year, they're really going all out and will be unveiling six new off-road concepts at the 48th Annual Moab Easter jeep Safari. Jeep and Mopar will be unleashing their newest off-road concepts on the slick rock to show off their seven-slat heritage.
Since we know you can't wait until the official unveiling to check out this year's class of Jeep and Mopar off-road bruisers, we're giving you a firsthand look at these off-road concepts that are built with one thing in mind, no frills off-road machines that can make it through tough and challenging trails.
Check out the Jeep and Mopar Concepts from this year's Moab Easter Jeep Safari!
Jeep Wrangler Level Red
This isn't just some sticker package Jeep Wrangler; this thing is built to conquer the highest levels of difficulty on any off-road trail. This also happens to be the reason this Jeep Wrangler is called Level Red. Only the toughest trails can get the Level Red difficulty designation and since this Wrangler is mean to conquer it all, the guys at Jeep and Mopar have stuffed a set of Jeep Performance Parts Dana 44 crate axles front and rear as well as a Jeep Performance Parts 2-inch lift kit. As if that wasn't enough, the Level Red Wrangler is also outfitted with 4.10:1 gears and even a Rock-Trac transfer case with a 4:1 low ranger that allows this concept to crawl through unforgiving trails without breaking a sweat.
Under the hood is a 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 engine that has been fitted with a cold-air intake as well as a high-flow exhaust system. To back up the power of the Jeep Wrangler Level Red is a six-speed manual transmission that when paired with the Rock-Trac transfer case and the 4.10 gears, gives the Red Label a crawl ratio of 73:1.
The sleek Pitch Black exterior of Wrangler Level Red features a TorRed prototype graphic stripe that runs along the top of the hood near the bottom of the windshield and halfway down the body sides. A set of 10th Anniversary Rubicon front and rear bumpers gives the Jeep Wrangler Level Red concept adequate trail protection that's perfect for navigating treacherous trails.
Since brute power and low gears aren't all you need to build a solid trail rig, a set of 35-inch BFGoodrich Mud Terrain tires mounted on a unique set of prototype 17 x 8-inch beadlock-capable wheels that are accented with TorRed color on the beadlock ring.
You'll also notice that the Jeep Wrangler Level Red concept has been modified with a Mopar half-door kit as well as a prototype Jeep Performance Parts tire carrier and rock rails. This concept has also been deemed worthy of Jeep's "Badge of Honor", which signifies that this Jeep has earned a coveted badge that are exclusive to Jeeps that have conquered any of more than 30 approved high-profile trails across the United States. The list of modifications also extends inside the Level Red concept with Tuscany Katzkin leather seats that feature sleek red stitching.
Jeep Wrangler MOJO
The Jeep Wrangler MOJO (the "OJ" in the name stands for "Orange Jeep") is built for the off-road enthusiast who needs or wants an even tougher vehicle with the functionality to tackle the most extreme trails in the world. To make sure the Wrangler MOJO concept has what it takes to crawl around off-road, the guys at Jeep and Mopar have upgraded it with a Jeep Performance Parts 2-inch lift much like the Wrangler Level Red concept. The difference between the Wrangler MOJO concept and the Level Red are that the Wrangler MOJO features all the same off-road gear as the Level Red Concept but also features higher clearance fenders that allow it to ride on a set of 37-inch BFGoodrich Mud Terrain tires mounted on prototype beadlock wheels with Mopar Bronze on the beadlock rings. A set of shortened bumpers and a winch give the Wrangler MOJO concept the ability to conquer the toughest technical trails that Moab has to offer.
Although the Wrangler MOJO also features the same Dana 44 front and rear axles as well as a 4:1 Rock-Trac transfer case, it features a less aggressive crawl ratio of 59:1.
The Bright Orange body work of the Wrangler MOJO is protected by prototype Jeep Performance Parts "Shorty" bumpers and prototype flat-top fenders. The Mopar Rubicon X hood has a distinct look via prototype topographical graphics that contain bronze mapping accents and flow down to the side panels. Since the Wrangler MOJO is meant to crawl the most treacherous trails around, an under-bumper skid plate and a prototype Jeep Performance Parts winch give it the ability to come out of them unscathed. To keep rocks from reaching up and damaging the rockers, a set of Jeep Performance Parts rock rails are used to further protect Wrangler MOJO on extreme trails.
The Wrangler MOJO also features a set of Prototype LED headlamps and fog lamps help make night trips on the trail easier while a front and rear prototype two-tone half-door kit and a soft top further add to the open-air fun and freedom all Wrangler vehicles offer. A Badge of Honor plate is added to show the trails Wrangler MOJO has mastered, and a prototype Jeep Performance Parts tire carrier allows you to safely carry a full size spare tire even on the trail.
The no frills interior of Wrangler MOJO is perfect for the off-roader that isn't afraid of a little dust or mud. The two-tone instrument panel and console complement black Katzkin seat covers and allow for simple cleaning. With the carpet removed, rugged all-weather floor mats shield the interior, and a Mopar sunbonnet and roll bar pads are trimmed in a Driftwood sand color, matching Wrangler MOJO's overall appearance.
Jeep Wrangler Maximum Performance
The Jeep Wrangler Maximum Performance is the top of the line in off-road capabilities and features new Jeep Performance Parts-exclusive push-button electronic-locking Dana 60 axles front and rear that have been stuffed with 4.88 gears while a 4:1 Rock-Trac transfer case gives it a greater crawling ability to get through any obstacle in it's path with its 70:1 crawl ratio. A prototype Jeep Performance Parts 4-inch lift kit gives enough room for a set of massive 37-inch BFGoodrich Mud Terrain tires mounted on prototype eight-lug beadlock wheels that feature accented Mopar Blue beadlock rings.
With tires this big you would think it would be almost impossible to mount a full size spare out back but the guys at Jeep and Mopar have given the Wrangler Maximum Performance a prototype tire carrier and even a 37-inch spare tire cover featuring the Jeep Performance Parts logo. The Wrangler Maximum Performance also sports the five Moab "Badge of Honor" badges signifying the tough technical trails it has conquered.
The Wrangler Maximum Performance concept also features a prototype Jeep Performance Parts Stinger front bumper that can handle whatever the terrain dishes out, especially when paired with a front bumper skid plate, Jeep Performance Parts Rubicon rock rails and a prototype flattop fender kit. A menacing Mopar black grille give this concept a meaner appearance while a prototype Jeep Performance Parts winch ensures it can go to the edges of the world and back. A set of prototype LED lights mounted to the top of the Jeep light up the night during night wheeling adventures while a prototype hood graphics package depicting the Moab landscape lets everyone know where this Jeep was designed to go.
The biggest thing that stands out from this Jeep concept is the bright Mopar Blue paint and this theme is also carried over inside via accents on the HVAC bezels and steering wheel. You'll also find a set of Katzkin leather seats with embroidered Jeep logos featuring blue accent stitching. The interior is further enhanced with satin trim on the instrument panel, shift knob and HVAC controls, while the steering wheel spokes and dash grab handles are underscored in black for a cleaner overall appearance.
This is one Jeep that was really created for hard-core enthusiasts who don't mind getting the occasional trail pinstripe.
Jeep Cherokee Adventurer
The Jeep Cherokee Adventurer concept delivers Trailhawk capability with added utility and cargo convenience for the trail. The Adventurer concept features a 48:1 crawl ratio as well as Jeep Performance Parts rock rails, a two-piece underbody skid plate, a front suspension skid plate, an oil tank skid plate and a two-piece fuel tank skid plate to keep large rocks from tearing up the Cherokee Adventurer concept on the trail. A set of Red tow hooks ensure the Cherokee can be recovered when the going gets tough.
The Cherokee Adventurere also features a tan paint scheme that is accented with the Trailhawk black hood decal. A prototype matte black Mopar roof basket rides on top, with a bungee net holding down cargo. Adding to the no-frills look is an aggressive set of BFGoodrich All-Terrain tires that are mounted on prototype 17-inch wheels that feature aluminum granite crystal and black pockets.
Inside, you'll find a set of black Katzkin leather seats with perforated inserts. You'll also notice the maize-embroidered Jeep logos and maize stitching on the leather-wrapped steering wheel, arm rest and shift boot. The HVAC bezels, instrument panel, steering wheel and door switch bezels are upgraded with tan inserts to match the exterior paint scheme. The Jeep Cargo Management System is displayed with a Trailhawk bag, and is joined by a location-appropriate prototype Moab off-road bag. Bright door sill guards with the Cherokee logo, all-weather mats and a cargo tray complete the interior list of Mopar accessories.
Jeep Cherokee Dakar
The Jeep Cherokee Dakar concept is the most extreme Cherokee ever. The Dakar concept's wheel openings have been modified in order to accommodate larger 33-inch BFGoodrich Mud Terrain tires. Helping clear the larger tires is a prototype Jeep Performance Parts lift kit with additional suspension modifications help make it the most extreme Cherokee yet. A prototype set of wider fender flares with riveted bolts give a tougher appearance and also accommodate the wider track width. A prototype rear fascia allows for an aggressive departure angle to help it navigate technical trails. SInce the Cherokee Dakar is built with trail duties in mind, a 48:1 crawl ratio and an estimated approach and departure angles are 32 and 39 degrees, respectively give it the edge it needs to conquer difficult trails like no other vehicle in its class.
The Silver Steel Satin Gloss exterior skin is set off with prototype Flame Red graphics that encircle the window and wrap around the black hood graphic. The Trailhawk 17-inch polished Satin clear coat wheels feature two large Flame Red pockets, with the Cherokee nameplate also changed to a Flame Red hue.
The Cherokee Dakar's front-end features are enhanced by two prototype Flame Red inserts on the traditional Jeep seven-slot grille, as well as through a prototype lower fascia trim. The Cherokee Dakar is also beefed up for off-road action, equipped with Jeep Performance Parts rock rails, an oil pan skid plate, front suspension skid plate, two-piece fuel tank and underbody skid plates to keep it from succumbing to large boulders and rocks on the trail.
Inside The Cherokee Dakar concept you'll find prototype Katzkin black leather seats with "Machined Gunmetal" inserts that are heightened with Header Red stitching, which is also found on the steering wheel, armrest and shift boot. A Flame Red insert accents the entertainment center. On top of that you'll also find a few accessories from the Mopar catalog inside which include all-weather floor mats, bright door-sill guards with the Cherokee logo, a cargo tray for storage, and the JCMS with the Trailhawk bag, as well as the prototype Moab off-road bag.
Jeep Grand Cherokee EcoDiesel Trail Warrior
The Trail Rated Grand Cherokee EcoDiesel Trail Warrior sits higher thanks to its Quadra-Lift air suspension to help keep the body away from rocks and other trail obstacles. A prototype set of 20-inch cast aluminum wheels in Satin black wrapped in aggressive BFGoodrich All-Terrain tires help the Grand Cherokee EcoDiesel Trail Warrior get the traction it needs in the dirt while a 44:1 crawl ratio ensures it can climb up and over steep large boulders and rocks on the trail. A set of Jeep Performance Parts tow hooks and rock rails keep five the Grand Cherokee EcoDiesel Trail Warrior adequate trail protection while also offering solid recovery points if need be.
The Mojave Sand exterior color is topped off with Satin Black flourishes on the grille, hood, lower front fascia, door handles, mirror caps, wheel flares and badging while a prototype Mopar roof basket, mounted on production cross rails, provides plenty of space to transport gear and provisions for outdoor excursions.
The Grand Cherokee EcoDiesel Trail Warrior's interior offers a black-and-tan dual tone scheme with gloss black accents on the HVAC bezels, steering wheel and instrument panel. Additional Mopar accessories include all-weather floor mats, door-sills, lighted Jeep logo sills, a pedal kit and a cargo tray.


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Sanders' fiery play stokes Milwaukee crowd
Ersan Ilyasova's Sector 7 made its debut during the Milwaukee Bucks' 2012-13 season opener at the BMO Harris Bradley Center on Saturday.
The raucous group of fans occupying a portion of Section 212, formerly known as Squad 6 prior to the trade of Andrew Bogut to the Golden State Warriors last March, was in midseason form during the Bucks' buzzer-beating, 105-102 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The occupants were hand-picked by Ilyasova and his panel of judges, but they didn't reserve their enthusiasm for the Turkish forward. In fact, when Milwaukee forward/center Larry Sanders fouled out of the game during its waning seconds, Sector 7 saluted one of his career-best performances with chants of, "Lar-ry! Lar-ry! Lar-ry!"
And Sanders, before taking his seat on the bench, showed his appreciation, raising his arms to bring the chanters out of their seats, then doing the same to those sitting in the adjacent seats at that end of the court.
Maybe Sanders will have his own cheering section someday soon (the Crazy 8s?), because he has certainly developed into a Milwaukee fan favorite since the Bucks selected him with the 15th pick in the 2010 National Basketball Association Draft.
"I heard the chants," Sanders said. "I love that. I love it anytime our crowd pumps up our team.
"It was our first home game of the season. We need to start a tradition here. We built great momentum and the crowd was a big part of that. It was something we've been missing a little bit."
Sanders missed only once on what was a personal-best performance for him. He made eight of nine field-goal attempts, one of two free throws and finished with a career-high 17 points, eclipsing his previous mark of 15. He also snagged seven rebounds and blocked a game-high four shots during his 29-minute, 59-second stint off the bench.
Sanders was one of the key contributors as the Bucks' bench outscored Cleveland's 35-5 in the first half, hammering down two dunks and deftly hitting a hook shot.
And then, when the Bucks needed a lift down the stretch, Sanders delivered again, scoring 10 of his points in the fourth quarter with a repertoire that included another dunk, a jump hook, a jump shot and two layups.
Sanders talked afterward about pouncing his opportunities on the offensive end of the court with a variety of moves Bucks fans haven't seen before.
"I think my teammates are trusting me out there, and I trust them," Sanders said. "They were able to hit me and not be worried about me finishing those plays. "It feels good to get opportunities. We just have to keep working together and getting the continuity right."
Minutes after achieving his career-best NBA point total, though, Sanders was even more impressed with another accomplishment.
"My four blocks," he said. "I think I did a pretty good job of protecting the rim – not just with the four blocks, but by holding my ground down there and not letting them get easy shots.
"Most importantly, though, I think the team just played well. Everybody buckled down, especially in the fourth quarter. That gave us a chance to win, and we did."
Sanders' big home debut followed up a 10-point, seven-rebound, two-block performance during a 22-minute stint in Milwaukee's season-opening 99-88 victory at Boston the previous night. They were the byproducts of a summer filled with basketball for the 6-foot-11-inch, 235-pound Florida native.
"I was down in Florida for a couple of weeks at IMG," Sanders said. "Then I went to Virginia and worked out with the guys back there (at Virginia Commonwealth University, his alma mater). Then I stayed here in Milwaukee and worked out with the other players and coaches.
"My main focus this summer was my pace, and making decisions where I can catch the ball around the basket … making better decisions when I do get offensive rebounds and putting my team in better positions.
"When I'm away from the basket, I have to set good screens. I have to know when to release, when to cut to the basket, things like that – timing things. I think that starts with my pace and how I play. Great players find an even pace and it works for them."
Sanders enjoyed the freedom of a summer during which he didn't have to be concerned about the impending lockout of 2011, the cancellation of summer league and training camp and 16 regular-season games.
"I was also able to enjoy my summer and focus on that rather than focusing on when the season is going to start, or deciding whether or not I'd have to go play overseas," he said. "There wasn't all the stress I had to deal with last summer. I could just focus on my game and have some guarantees to look forward to."
Sanders came into his third pro season eager to join the team's revamped frontcourt do its part in upgrading the Bucks' defense, particularly on the interior, where the team struggled following Bogut's season-ending injury last season.
"We made some great additions," Sanders said. "Our mind-set for this year is definitely to be more sound defensively. Especially down low, when anybody comes in, we'll be able to protect that rim.
"It's all about position, getting to the front of that rim and not hanging around on the perimeter too much."
Sanders says Bucks fans can expect to see a lot more of the fiery intensity that has always been a trademark of his game.
"I think emotion is good in the game," Sanders said. "It drives you. When you're out there competing against the best players in the world, I think there's going to be emotion involved. There should be. You have to use that emotion to fuel you in a game."
Sanders and his teammates were rightfully enthused over the Bucks' 2-0 start, but he knows it will take them some time for the team's offseason acquisitions and the holdovers to achieve chemistry and cohesiveness.
He has a request for Bucks fans, too.
"Keep watching," he said. "Stay faithful. Nothing's going to be completely smooth. No one's perfect.
"But I think we're going to have great strides in the right direction this year. I just want everyone to stay faithful."
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INDIANAPOLIS – The NFL calendar has turned to March and that means the next event on the offseason schedule is approaching.
Free agency will take off on Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. EST with teams scurrying to find veterans to add to their roster.
Here's a look back on a very busy week in Colts world:
Monday, March 3:
(Article)-Where is
(Article)-Back at the Combine, the Colts said they had a plan in place for
Tuesday, March 4:
(Article)-What award did
(Photos)-Here's our Top Ten Photos of the week with a look at the equipment room.
Wednesday, March 5:
(Article)-This week's #ColtsMailbag in parts one and two.
(Article)-A look back on the offensive free agent signings from last year.
Thursday, March 6:
(Article)-A look back on the defensive free agent signings from last year.
(Article)-How did
(Video)-A one-on-one interview with D'Qwell Jackson.
(Photos)-Here's a look at D'Qwell Jackson arriving to the Colts complex.
(Blog)-What was the reaction from people after the D'Qwell Jackson news broke?
Friday, March 7:
(Article)-A total of 12 teams wanted D'Qwell Jackson. What made the Colts stick out?
(Article)-How did
(Video)-Listen to Matt Taylor and Kevin Bowen breakdown all of the Colts news from a busy week.


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Acute sinusitis (acute rhinosinusitis) causes the cavities around your nasal passages (sinuses) to become inflamed and swollen. This interferes with drainage and causes mucus to build up.
With acute sinusitis, it may be difficult to breathe through your nose. The area around your eyes and face may feel swollen, and you may have throbbing facial pain or a headache.
Acute sinusitis is most often caused by the common cold. Other triggers include bacteria, allergies and fungal infections. Treatment of acute sinusitis depends on the cause. In most cases, home remedies are all that's needed. However, persistent sinusitis can lead to serious infections and other complications. Sinusitis that lasts more than 12 weeks, or keeps coming back, is called chronic sinusitis.
Acute sinusitis symptoms often include:
Other signs and symptoms can include:
If you have mild symptoms of sinusitis, try self-care.
Contact your doctor if you have any of the following:
See a doctor immediately if you have signs or symptoms that may indicate a serious infection:
When you have sinusitis, the mucous membranes of your nose, sinuses and throat (upper respiratory tract) become inflamed. Swelling obstructs the sinus openings and prevents mucus from draining normally, causing facial pain and other sinusitis symptoms.
Blocked sinuses create a moist environment that makes it easier for infection to take hold. Sinuses that become infected and can't drain become pus filled, leading to symptoms such as thick, yellow or greenish discharge and other symptoms of infection.
Acute sinusitis can be caused by:
Some health conditions can increase your risk of getting a sinus infection that causes sinusitis, or can increase your risk of getting sinusitis that isn't caused by an underlying infection. These conditions include:
You may be at increased risk of getting sinusitis if you have:
Acute sinusitis complications include:
When you see your doctor, you can expect a thorough examination of your sinuses. Your doctor may also examine your eyes, ears, nose and throat. Be prepared to answer detailed questions about your symptoms. Your doctor may want to know:
Your time with your doctor is limited, so preparing a list of any questions you have before the appointment may help you make the most of your time together. For acute sinusitis, some basic questions to ask your doctor include:
Your doctor may use several methods to help screen for acute sinusitis, such as:
Most cases of acute sinusitis don't need treatment because they are caused by viruses that cause the common cold. Self-care techniques are usually the only treatment needed to speed recovery and ease symptoms.
Treatments to relieve symptoms
Your doctor may recommend treatments to help relieve sinusitis symptoms, including:
Antibiotics usually aren't needed to treat acute sinusitis.
Antibiotics used to treat acute sinusitis caused by a bacterial infection include amoxicillin (Amoxil, Trimox, others), doxycycline (Doryx, Monodox, others) or the combination drug trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (Bactrim, Septra, others). If the infection doesn't go away or if the sinusitis comes back, your doctor may try a different antibiotic.
If your doctor does prescribe antibiotics, it's critical to take the entire course of medication. Generally, this means you'll need to take them for 10 to 14 days — even after your symptoms get better. If you stop taking them early, your symptoms may come back.
Antifungal medications
Rarely, acute sinusitis is caused by a fungal infection, which can be treated with antifungal medication. The dose of medication — as well as how long you'll need to take it — depends on the severity of your infection and how quickly your symptoms improve.
If allergies are contributing to your sinusitis, allergy shots (immunotherapy) that help reduce the body's reaction to specific allergens may help treat your symptoms.
These self-help steps can help relieve sinusitis symptoms:
No alternative therapies have been definitively proved to help ease the symptoms of acute sinusitis, but products containing certain combinations of herbs may improve your symptoms. These combination therapies, sold under such brand names as Sinupret and SinuComp, contain a mixture of cowslip, gentian root, elderflower, verbena and sorrel. Possible side effects include stomach upset, diarrhea and allergic skin reactions.
Take these steps to help reduce your risk of getting acute sinusitis:


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Okay, I explained the ins and outs of BB creams recently. You can read that here if you haven't already. Now, I'm approaching the confounding and vexing world of …dun dun dun…. CONCEALERS.
Perhaps maybe it's not as vexing and confounding as say, eye creams (I'll tackle this next time), or brain surgery. I mean, this is just make up folks. But if even celebrities can do it wrong on the red carpet, what are little people like us to make of all this mumbo jumbo?
Here's what I learned:
Don't go with a lighter color than your face. What? Oh, Frugie- you been smoking again? No. Here's why.
Raccoon eyes, you do not want. Now you don't want dark shadows (sorry, Johnny Depp not included), but you don't want white strips under there either. See awful pic above.
You want to MATCH your skin tone and foundation. Yep, your foundation and concealer should be pretty much the same shade. Now I'll tell you a trick to use with either a lighter concealer or a handy dandy HIGHLIGHTER product.
Now, not only did I just blow your mind with telling you to match your concealer color, but here's the really confusing part- the formula.
Are you crepey and wrinkled like me? Do you have extra dark bluish circles? Are you oily and are looking for blemish cover too? Or maybe all three? Hey- it's possible.
Here's my faves and what I like about them. I'll give you high-end and drugstore brands to pick from. Personally, this is where my extravagant hussy self comes out. I will spend more on a concealer than most other things. You really do get what you pay for. But there's some decent ones out there in all price points.
Let's just cut to the chase people. You want the best? Here it is. Beauty editors are not lying when they talk about this stuff:
Cle de peau. Pronounced Kla deh Poe. Or Klee dee poo if you're immature like me.
This stuff is $70. Yep, you just have to sell half a kidney and you are set. But, it lasts more than a year. Really.
It's creamy, blends, doesn't crepe, covers well. Doesn't break me out. Yeah. It's the BOMB!
Now I did in my investigative shopping, find a close second in terms of low-end brand. What the industry calls, a DUPE. Yep, here's my pick for a fraction of the cost.
L'Oreal True Match Super Blendable concealer crayon. It's around 8 bucks (I got mine for $7 at Target) and it works pretty darn good. And it has a point for getting in the corners of my eyes.
Others that I've tried and my opinions:
Milani Secret Cover concealer cream– Covered well, less than $10, but it was drying for me. Showed up crepey after a few hours.
Chanel Corrector Perfecteur long lasting concealer. This comes as a wand and it is nice. I found it at Costco of all places! I think it's not the best coverage for me. I'm very dark under my eyes.
CoverGirl + Olay concealer balm– I didn't like this. The light was too dark and it sunk into my lines. No thanks.
Maybelline Age Eraser Dark Spot + Concealer and Treatment– not bad. This goes on any spot on your face and heals or fades it. I didn't really use it under my eyes so much as just some discoloration spots. It's okay. Not as good as a high-end product, but better than nothing.
Hard Candy Glamoflauge Heavy Duty Concealer. Oh boy do they mean it! This was cheap, found it at Wal-mart, and it covers like a beast! Kat Von D makes one at Sephora that is similar. It's for covering scars and tattoos. Both are effective. The Kat Von D costs more but a little goes a long way.
This is what I was talking about above. You want to take match your concealer, remember? But you want to highlight UNDER your concealer. This gives more fullness to the cheekbone, distracts from your bags or circles and brings your face up like a lift.
The product that does this-
YSL Touche Eclat Radiant Touch- Sorry folks, another high-end product. It's $40 and I LURV it! I put it everywhere. On my cheekbones, over my lips, corner of my eyes, my forehead. It's perfect. You can use this as a concealer too. It's just a little lighter texture, so I like others to help cover with more thickness.
A question of 'to powder or not to powder' remains. I don't powder under my eyes. It just makes for crepey-ness. If you are 20 and line free and perfect, go ahead! I usually blot or take a q-tip to wipe away any excess. I'm just too old to powder and then it ages me.
So there is my 411 on concealers. Maybe different than what you've read in magazines or seen on Beauty Editor lists. But I try everything. And I'm constantly looking for the perfect one. I'll keep you posted if I find anything I like better than that fancy pants Cle De Peau.


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Thursday, 3 November 2011
Starting to make winter
I'm not sure how I feel about the winter. I like the idea of cosy time in front of the fire with my knitting or sewing and obviously Christmas is always something to look forward to, but I don't like the cold, dark evenings and being on a diet puts paid to enjoying lovely wintery comfort foods.
But as my contribution to making winter this week I thought I would show you some of my wintery "doings".
I can't really claim that knitting socks is a winter activity as it is something I seem to be addicted to doing throughout the year - but actually WEARING those hand knit socks is definitely an autumn/winter pleasure. I finished my second pair of Tadpoles using the gorgeous hand-dyed yarn that Quinn sent me in the new year and I really love them.
I also cast on two pairs of socks last month as part of Socktoberfest - my favourites are my autumn leaves socks made using this pattern.
I have to admit that the gorgeous yarn was initially intended for this beautiful scarf - but I did a few inches and realised that there was no way I was going to actually be able to face knitting a whole scarf - the pattern just wasn't interesting enough. Then I cast on a different pair of leaf socks and did the first few rows of the pattern before deciding I didn't like it either. Moogsmum and I have discussed this and I have come to the conclusion that I am an extremely fussy knitter - I have to absolutely LOVE the process of knitting the pattern to be able to do it and if I don't love it it's just not going to happen.
I've also cast on some embossed leaves to sort-of-knit-along with Lesley - except that I have done one pattern repeat and Lesley has nearly finished her first sock! She is a demon-knitter!!
But back to making winter........... Dot persuaded me back into the sewing room the other weekend after far too long a break from it and one of the projects I resurrected was my fox quilt from Syko's lovely book. This was a quilt that I started at the beginning of the year when I was still deeply depressed and struggling to get through each day and once I had pieced the front it just lay neglected because I didn't have any bondaweb left for the trees and it was just too much effort to go and get some.
But I love how it looks now and I'm enjoying hand-quilting very naive stars all over it - I have a horrible feeling it is going to pucker as I didn't have much spray baste to fix the layers but so far it seems to be going ok.
I'm a real humbug about Halloween and never really get into the spirit of it and wouldn't have even carved pumpkins this year if a neighbour hadn't donated two pumpkins to me on Monday because her grown up daughters no longer wanted them for their parties. So one got carved for Fred and put out on the front wall to welcome the trick-or-treaters.
Daisy went to a party straight from school and came back dressed like this - fortunately that's a spare school shirt that doesn't really fit! And Fred got dressed up in Gina's dare-devil outfit to open the door to give out sweets.
I am quietly promising myself that next year I will get myself organised to take Fred out trick-or-treating too as it is something I have never really done with him and the girls are now old enough to be organising their own activities or not doing anything at all if that's what they want.
And today I used the other pumpkin to make myself some delicious pumpkin and cumin soup for lunch and it was so tasty I ate the lot.
I have been struggling with my diet since our holiday but I've lost 2 stone 5lbs over the last 6-7 months and need to get focussed again to lose the next 3 stone to get to my dream weight. It's getting harder as the novelty has worn off and the children keep baking gorgeous cakes and biscuits and delicious apple crumbles. But my Slimming World leader gave me a pile of magazines to hold the other night that weighed 2 stone to remind me that I really didn't want to put it back on so I won't be comfort eating - much as I'd like to!
Finally I thought I'd show you the beautiful cushion that Dot made for me using a tapestry pattern from the Cath Kidston Stitch book
- she's done it beautifully!
15 comments:
- Ali said...
Your Syko quilt is a real joy!
I dare not stand on the scales. Don't think I'm feeling brave enough to face reality.
- 3 November 2011 at 15:21
- The List Writer said...
So many lovely things in this post. I particularly love your quilt - it looks so calm and peaceful.
- 3 November 2011 at 16:15
- Poshyarns said...
Oh the quilt is so beautiful, that little fox and such lovely colours. That is an amazing weight loss, well done you.
- 3 November 2011 at 20:41
- wonderwoman said...
I love your quilt!! I think emmas Idea of blogging positive things about winter is brilliant. I hate the dark nights and cold and wet but. I do like cosying up to the fire and eating lots of warming goodies! Xxxx
- 3 November 2011 at 20:48
- dragonfly said...
That fox! That quilt! So wonderful. As is your dieting success.
- 4 November 2011 at 07:57
- sandra said...
I am thrilled for you with your weight loss. I know how hard it is. Keep up the good work!
- 4 November 2011 at 11:14
- Julie said...
I'm far too scared to try knitting socks - looks way too complicated.
Your quilt is wonderful. It will be so lovely to snuggle under - I wouldn't worry about puckering, if it does it'll just add to the charm. And probably no one will notice except for you. juliex
- 4 November 2011 at 15:46
- Gina said...
I love your quilt Lucy... so beautiful and wintery. Well done on the weight loss... that's a brilliant achievement. Can't believe that outfit is still going strong!
- 4 November 2011 at 20:48
- Twiggy said...
That is a beautiful cushion. Your quilt is looking lovely too. I'm with you on Halloween, Twiglet was not impressed that I wouldn't take him trick or treating, we had to bribe him with a trip to Nana's house and I said I might erm, perhaps take him next year!!
Twiggy x
PS Well done on your fab weight loss, I've been following SW and have lost a measly 6 pounds - I've been ill most of the time for the last two months and can't atop scoffing !!!
- 6 November 2011 at 18:16
- silverpebble said...
That quilt is so wonderful Lucy. The fox is perfect! Love his little tail. Thanks so so much for joining in Lucy. As ever I am in absolute awe of your sock-making.
- 6 November 2011 at 18:43
- Sew Create It - Jane said...
Lovely to catch up on your news...I love the quilt you're working on...bet it will be fab when it's quilted!
- 7 November 2011 at 18:17
- dottycookie said...
I always tell my girls that if everyone went out trick or treating there would be no-one left at home to hand out the sweets - which is why we get dressed up and stay in. It has worked so far!
I love your fox quilt, he's so gloriously seasonal. And I am also enjoying the wearing of woolly socks again. Hurrah.
I'm in awe of your weight loss. I am starting (again) with about the same amount to lose as you had initially. Half a stone down so far but I can see it getting harder as we edge into colder weather.
- 9 November 2011 at 10:42
- ladydi said...
Such gorgeous socks! I am delighted that you are back in the sewing room - perfect for winter fun. I have to look "stone" up every time. I can't remember that it's 14 pounds - you go, girl! Very nicely done.
- 12 November 2011 at 13:33
- Rachael Rabbit said...
I love winter - it makes me feel happy, cozy and lucky to have a roof! I love the fox quilt - really pretty. Your weight loss is pretty amazing too!
- 19 November 2011 at 12:09
- Cathy at PotterJotter said...
I do so love your quilt - so evocative of winter with the trees and the little fox coming out of the woods. And hand-stitched quilted stars? You are a star!
- 20 November 2011 at 19:10


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Geeky Fun, Great Pi(e)By Jim Garringer Published: Mar 21, 2012
It is safe to say not everyone understands the significance of the mathematical constant Pi, which is symbolized by the sign π and starts with the numbers 3.14159265 before continuing into infinity. Even fewer might mathematicians actually celebrate it each March 14. And yet they do.
During Taylor's celebration of Pi Day, you couldn't find any pocket protectors, but there was an assortment of freshly baked pies by Taylor math faculty members and their spouses, mathematical games, and a whimsical video featuring Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land.
The event was held in the lower level of the Zondervan Library by Taylor's Math Club. "It is something the Math Club tries to put on and it's open to the whole campus," said math club president Aaron Milauskas, newly-elected student body president and a junior math education major from Batavia, Ill. "Most math majors and people who like math grew up celebrating Pi Day with pizza parties and pie parties. They grew up enjoying it – it is a strange math mind that enjoys it and looks forward to this kind of event."
And Milauskas means "strange" in the best possible way. The Taylor Math Club has lots of fun events throughout the year that don't always include discussions of, say, which number is better: Pi or e, another number which starts with 2.718281828... The club's social life includes events like Pick a Geek – a mathematical equivalent to the campus wide Pick a Date night. During Pick a Geek, math majors dress in, well, geeky clothes and take their respective dates for a fun night of bowling, a movie or maybe even a spirited discussion of the Bayes Formula.
The club also hosts progressive dinners that send Taylor's 40 or so math majors to their professors' homes and fall and spring banquets. According to math professor Dr. Matt DeLong, the added contact leads to better relationships and communication between students and professors – something that is vital as students advance through Taylor's math program.
But Pi Day is something for the whole campus. "We've had Pi Day for several years," said DeLong. "Sometimes there is a video or reenactment of the Great Pi Debate. We had a guy who memorized the first 300 digits of Pi, which is not so unusual."
Say what? "He had a rap," continued DeLong. "Our students are a pretty social group and that comes from the way we do our courses. We really encourage them to collaborate in the classroom."


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BRIDGEPORT — Bridgeport council is looking into more parking issues that are affecting residents and visitors in various parts of town.
One issue that the council is currently discussing is to remove the parking meters on Holstein Street between Fourth and Bush Streets.They are hoping that this will help the businesses in that area.
Another parking matter is the fact that many people do not know that there are certain times of the day that the meters do not require any money. The council is looking into making decals in-house to state that meters do not need to be fed between 11:30a.m. to 1:30p.m.
This matter was brought up before at the previous meeting on Feb. 12, but now council is acting more vigilantly towards the problem.


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MorningStar: Hedge Funds rose 1.9% in January
Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Author: HedgeCo.Net
New York (HedgeCo.Net) The Morningstar MSCI Composite Hedge Fund Index, an asset-weighted composite of nearly 1,000 hedge funds in the Morningstar Hedge Fund database, rose 1.9% in January and advanced 6.3% for the trailing 12 months. Almost all Morningstar MSCI hedge fund indexes rose in January, and the trailing 12 months showed declines in only the Short Bias and Systematic Trading categories.
Reduced global economic and political uncertainty during January fueled a
broad increase in appetite for risky
assets, Philip Guziec, alternative investing strategist at Morningstar, said. Excluding the Short Biased category, all hedge fund strategies were up for the month, and the most risk-sensitive strategies posted the strongest
January started with a two-day rally in equity markets that accounted for
most of the 5.2% rise in the S&P 500 Index
for the month. The Morningstar MSCI North America Hedge Fund Index, which primarily includes long-short equity
hedge funds, ended the month up 2.3%. Small-cap strategiesfaired even better. The Russell 2000 Index jumped 6.3%,
while the Morningstar MSCI Small Cap Hedge Fund Index rose 3.9%.
The Morningstar MSCI Emerging Markets Hedge Fund Index also rose
substantially, up 3.0% in January, driven by
positive economic news from China about GDP and exports. These positive signals also supported the performance of
the Morningstar MSCI Asia Pacific Hedge Fund Index and MSCI AC Asia Index, which climbed 4.9% and 2.5%,
respectively. Short sellerswere caught short by the broad-based rally, however, pushing the Morningstar MSCI Short
Bias Hedge Fund Index down 5.2%.
Widespread investor optimism also sent less risky fixed-income strategies,
such asthose involving Treasuries and
investment-grade corporate bonds, down during January, but high-yield and relative-value hedge fund strategies posted gains. The Morningstar MSCI Long-Short Credit and Fixed Income Arbitrage Hedge Fund Indexes increased 0.7 and 0.9%, respectively, in January. The month-long equity rally as well as rising prices across the energy, agricultural, and metal commodity futures markets also supported price-trend following managed futures strategies in January, leading to a 2.8% rise in the Morningstar MSCI Systematic Trading Hedge Fund Index. Januarys uptick was not enough to offset previous losses, however, and the Systematic Trading Hedge Fund Index was down 1.2% over the past 12 months.
In December 2012, single-manager funds in Morningstars Hedge Fund Database
saw outflows of $4.7 billion, marking
the fourth consecutive month of outflows, and representing more than half of the $7.0 billion that investors pulled from hedge funds in the database during 2012. This was a sharp reversal from investor behavior seen during 2011 and
2010, when funds in the Morningstar Hedge Fund Database received inflows of $17.9 and $10.1 billion, respectively.
The largest redemptions came from multistrategy hedge funds, which gave up $1.7 billion, or 35% of the redemptions
in the Morningstar database for the month. Over the calendar year 2012, however, multistrategy funds in the database
gathered more assets than any other category of $4.2 billion. Hedge funds in the Systematic Futures category, which
trade futures contracts according to trend-following and momentum-based strategies, also suffered in December,
losing $826 million, followed by U.S. long/short equity hedge funds, which lost $500 million. Only the Distressed
Securities, Emerging Market Long-Only Equity, and Debt Arbitrage hedge fund categories posted inflows of $46
million, $25 million, and $2 million, respectively, in December.
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Long-Term Horoscopefrom January 2011
for Roger Federer, born on 8 August 1981
|Text by Liz Greene, Copyright © Astrodienst AG 2015
Table of Contents * January 2011 until December 2016
I. Introduction
Embracing the Future * The advent of the Aquarian Age
II. The planetary configurations
Pluto in Capricorn * Digging at the roots * Unlocking the inner child
Neptune in Aquarius * Neptune in Pisces * Earthing the imagination
Uranus in Pisces * Uranus in Aries * New insights III. Inner Changes
The Years 2011 and 2012 * Carrying the weight of the world * An instinct to fight * Broadening your horizons * The will to power The Years 2013 and 2014 * Obstacles and anxieties * Feeling loved and loving * Struggling against limits * Growing up * Seeking the impossible The Years 2015 and 2016 * Defining the boundaries * That homeless feeling * A time of fruition * Time to learn * Verbal fireworks * The urge to explore IV. Your generation group
The generation with Uranus in Scorpio * ... with Neptune in Sagittarius * ... and with Pluto in Libra Conclusion Appendix
http://www.astro.com/nat/nat_e.htm Suggested further reading On planetary cycles and movements:
«The Gods of Change» by Howard Sasportas (transits of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto)
«Transits: The Time of Your Life» by Betty Lundsted
«Planets in Transit» by Robert Hand
On individual planets and their meaning:
«The Astrological Moon» by Darby Costello
«Venus and Jupiter» by Erin Sullivan
«The Inner Planets» by Liz Greene and Howard Sasportas
«The Luminaries» by Liz Greene and Howard Sasportas
«Exploring Jupiter» by Stephen Arroyo
«The Outer Planets» by Liz Greene
«Saturn» by Liz Greene
«Neptune» by Liz Greene
«Chiron and the Healing Journey» by Melanie Reinhart
On the subject of fate:
«Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle» by C. G. Jung
«The Astrology of Fate» by Liz Greene
Other Astro*Intelligence reports written by Liz Greene can enhance the value of this report, because the greater your understanding of yourself, the more intelligently you can work with the meaning of the time. For an in-depth analysis of your birth horoscope, you can order the Psychological Horoscope Analysis. The Horoscope Career and Vocation will be very helpful to plan and develop your professional career. For deeper insight into your relationships, the Relationship Horoscope can offer a new perspective. And for a greater appreciation of the unique personality of your child or of your own childhood, you can order the Child's Horoscope. A more detailed analysis of your personal perspectives and inner soul themes for a period of 12 months is offered by the Yearly Horoscope Analysis. This report contains some of the same text material as you find in chapter III of the Long-Term Horoscope, but because it focuses on only one year, it is much more detailed. You can order these reports at the same sales point from which you received the report you are reading or from one of many other licensed distributors in many countries of the world. Technical Information
In order to create your Long-Term Horoscope, the following astrological factors have been examined:
- the transits of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto through signs and houses and their most important aspects to the natal chart,
- major progressed aspects of the Sun, Moon, Ascendant, MC, Mercury, Venus, and Mars to natal planets and angles.
- the Saturn transits which are important for inner development,
- the transits of outer planets over typical generation placements.
The report which results from these considerations is assembled from selected interpretation text sections. As the Long-Term Horoscope covers a period of six years, only the most important constellations are included in the printed report, only those selected by Liz Greene's model of interpretation. Otherwise - with a more detailed coverage as for example in the Yearly Horoscope Analysis - the report would be 200 pages long and result rather in confusion than clarification. As in all works by Liz Greene, the Placidus house system is used. In chapter III, some of the same text as in the Yearly Horoscope Analysis appears, while all other text is unique for the Long-Term Horoscope. The transit graphics
The timing of the transits and progressions within the focus period of this report is visually represented by 'transit bars'. They are printed in the graphical overview on page 4 and on the bottom of each page where the interpretation of a transit or progression is given. A transit bar begins at the moment when a moving planet enters for the first time into the orb of a natal planet, and it ends when the moving planet finally leaves the orb and does not return into it (until the next full cycle). When the planet is in orb, the bar is represented by a full line. A planet can leave the orb and return later into the orb. During this time, the bar is represented by a dotted line. A planet can change its direction of movement; when it becomes retrograde, this time is marked with 'sr' for 'stationary retrograde'. When it becomes direct again, the time is marked with 'sd' for 'stationary direct'. The moment when a transit (or progression) becomes exact is market with a little ' on top of the transit bar.
Astrological Data used for Long-Term Horoscope from January 2011 until December 2016
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By Ben Levisohn
Stocks finally rebounded today, as Nike (NKE), Google (GOOG), Amazon.com (AMZN) and Alpha Natural Resources (ANR) gained.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.1% to 16,256.27, while the S&P 500 gained 0.4% to 1,851.96. The Nasdaq Composite gained 0.8% to 4,112.99, ending it's big losing streak.
The Dow got a lift from Nike, which rose 3% to $72.92 after getting upgraded to Buy from Hold at Stifel, but that gain was equalized by Goldman Sachs (GS), which dropped 1.3% to $156.56. Alpha Natural Resources rose 7.3% to $.88 on optimism that the worst is over for coal stocks. Amazon.com rose 2.9% to $327.07 and Google advanced 3.1% to $554.90 as investors scooped up beaten-down momentum stocks and helped lift the Nasdaq, which had sustained its largest three-day drop since 2011.
Citigroup Private Bank's Steven Wieting shrugs off the Nasdaq's recent struggles:
Investors may forget that global shares suffered an intra-year correction of 24% within 2011 (-19% for U.S. shares) within the current, historic bull market recovery. Listening to recent press coverage of a "growth tech" collapse – as several U.S. tech issues have quickly sold off more than 20% – might leave listeners to think the entire U.S. equity universe has fallen similarly. Instead, broad U.S. shares have fallen about 2% from Wednesday's record high as we write. We must wonder how shrill the coverage will sound if and when equities post a statistically average 12% inter-year drop.
In essence, we fear that five quarters of exceptionally low market volatility – roughly half the long-term average – has left investors with a clouded perspective of how risk assets perform.
Deutsche Bank's Alan Ruskin credits U.S. payrolls for the muted volatility (the recent swings in the Nasdaq notwithstanding):
Another less obvious factor relevant for all asset classes, is that the single most important monthly data point, the monthly change in payrolls number from the establishment survey, has shown a dispersion - as measured by the 1 year rolling standard deviation of the change and percentage change – that has been hovering around its lowest level in at least 50 years! For all the distortions, payroll changes month to month in this upswing have been surprisingly steady. Just look at the 6m average at 188K, the 12mth average at 187K, the 36 month average monthly change at 187K and last month's 192K – no wonder all of bond vol, FX vol, and even equity vol feel constrained, while carry is supported! … I'm a believer that payrolls will show some acceleration in the months ahead and add new uncertainty about its trend, but the many FX and rates 'capitulation trades' seen after the March payrolls is a clear sign that the market is taking a view that 'seeing is believing'.
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Rocky Fielding, 26, recently extended his unbeaten run to 16-0 and captured the Commonwealth super-middleweight title in emphatic fashion.
Fielding is a boxer who came to prominence out of nowhere in 2011 when he stepped into the Prizefighter tournament as a late replacement for Kenny Anderson. Fielding was to announce himself in tremendous style by winning the tournament. Rocky stopped each of the three opponents he faced and suddenly threw his name into domestic contention.
Since taking the Prizefighter title he has gone from strength to strength and really has improves as a fighter and proved the doubters wrong.
Last night Fielding floored his opponent Akrong within seconds of the first bell with a good left-hook. Akrong returned to his feet and beat the count but was clearly in trouble and there for the taking. Fielding upped the pressure and was landing at will on the defenceless Akrong.
The ref stepped in to end the fight with Akrong against the ropes and clearly out of his depth. Fielding was absolutely dominant and destroyed the man in his way. It was an easy fight for him and he himself knows that much tougher fights are ahead for him in the not too distant future.
There are some fantastic domestic fights that can take place at super-middleweight including the likes of Fielding himself. There is the potential to face the likes of Callum Smith, Tony Dodson or perhaps even Paul Smith a little further down the line.
The super-middleweight division in this country is absolutely buzzing with the names already mentioned adding to names such as Carl Froch, George Groves and James Degale. It is great to see so many talented British fighters out there at the moment and we are certainly in a great place.
Personally I would like to see Rocky Fielding go in against the man he was supposed to be fighting, Tony Dodson. Dodson is an experienced, tough campaigner who would really test Fielding and show just where he stands at this point in time.
It would be tough to call a winner between the two and that makes for an exciting spectacle. It would be a big step up in class from this fight but that is what Fielding needs if he is to go on to achieve big things in this sport.
Fielding's promoter Eddie Hearn revealed that he is likely to schedule another fight for Rocky on the undercard of the Froch v Groves fight on November 23 so fans will not have to wait too long to see him back in action again.
I don't know how far Fielding can go in the sport but one thing I do know is that if he carries on the way he is than he will continue to defy the critics.
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Announcement: 3 October 1919
Site Dedication: 28 November 1921 by Heber J. Grant
Groundbreaking: 25 April 1922 by Heber J. Grant
Public Open House: Tours offered during the last two years of construction
Dedication: 23–26 October 1927 by Heber J. Grant
Public Open House: 19 March–3 April 1975
Rededication: 15–16 April 1975 by Spencer W. Kimball
Site: 20 acres.
Exterior Finish: Concrete reinforced with 130 tons of steel. Exterior is faced with glazed egg-shell colored terra cotta tiles.
Ordinance Rooms: Four ordinance rooms (stationary) and seven sealing.
Total Floor Area: 113,916 square feet.
Temple Locale:
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Located just east of the original Mesa Town site, settled by Mormon pioneers, the Mesa Arizona Temple anchors a historic district, which has predominantly retained its residential character. A public visitor's center shares the meticulously manicured grounds of the temple, which feature a cactus garden and large reflection pools. The Easter season brings thousands of guests to the temple grounds every year to watch Jesus the Christ, the largest annual outdoor Easter pageant in the world. At Christmas time, the grounds are converted to an exquisite Nativity display accented by hundreds of thousands of Christmas lights.
Temple Facts:
"Just as our Redeemer gave His life as a vicarious sacrifice for all men, and in so doing became our Savior, even so we, in a small measure, when we engage in proxy work in the temple, become as saviors to those on the other side."
"To you who are worthy and able to attend the temple, I would admonish you to go often. The temple is a place where we can find peace. There we receive a renewed dedication to the gospel and a strengthened resolve to keep the commandments."
- The Mesa Arizona Temple was the first temple built in Arizona.
- The Mesa Arizona Temple was the first temple to present the endowment in a language other than English. (The first non-English session was presented in Spanish in 1945.)
- The Mesa Arizona Temple was the first temple to reopen to the public for an open house prior to a rededication.
- The Mesa Arizona Temple was originally named the Arizona Temple.
- Before the Mesa Arizona Temple was constructed, Arizona members performed temple ordinances in the St. George Utah Temple. Because of the numerous bridal parties that traveled the wagon road between St. George and Arizona, the well-trod path became known as the Honeymoon Trail.
- The architects chosen for the Mesa Arizona Temple had recently designed the Utah Capitol Building.
- The Mesa Arizona Temple was designed around a grand staircase that leads to the Celestial Room, occupying the highest level of the temple.
- The Mesa Arizona Temple is one of three temples built with no towers or spires. (The others are the Laie Hawaii Temple and the Cardston Alberta Temple.)
- Carved friezes decorate each corner of the top of the temple, depicting the fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy that the Lord would gather His people in the last days from the four corners of the earth.
- The Mesa Arizona Temple features murals on the walls of its originally progressive-style ordinance rooms.
- Instead of a formal open house, tours were offered during the last two years of construction of the Mesa Arizona Temple to any interested visitors.
- The Mesa Arizona Temple was closed in February 1974, for extensive remodeling that equipped the ordinance rooms for motion-picture presentation of the endowment and that added a new entrance and an additional 17,000 square feet, providing much larger dressing rooms and increasing the number of sealing rooms.
- For many years, the Mesa Arizona Temple was known as the "Lamanite Temple," as it was the destination of annual temple excursions for Hispanic and Native American members of the Church, especially the Mexican Saints.
—Gordon B. Hinckley
—Thomas S. Monson


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Seth Baczynski
When and why did you start training for fighting? Five years ago – I saw it on TV and thought I would be good at it. Started training with Santino DeFranco and began trying it out. MMA is an addictive sport and very challenging to say the least.
What ranks and titles have you held? Nicest Guy in The Gym 2009
Do you have any heroes? My Dad is my hero. He marches to his own drums and I hope I can keep making him proud.
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? I know it is cliché to say, but it means everything. This is the pinnacle of MMA and to be the best you have to be a part of the best organization.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? N/A
What was your job before you started fighting? Construction, which I still do here and there.
If any, list ranks in any martial arts styles: Blue Belt in BJJ under Santino DeFranco
Favorite grappling technique: Triangle
Favorite Striking technique: Flying Knee
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But there's also something hypnotic about seeing so many of them together, with their formal color scheme (one of nature's most reliable for an ocean predator: black above and white below) completely appropriate in the austere landscape of rock, ice, and windswept ocean. Scanning the few hundred thousand of them that I see every day between November 15th and January 25th (the austral summer), I'm often entranced by the homogeneity--countless little black-and-white, bipedal beings; nothing human in view, for scale. This seems an ancient and unchanging scene, innocent of the anthropogenic perturbations so characteristic of the rest of the world.
Eventually, despite all the Adélies' life energy, your attention is drawn to the dead--to the thousands of carcasses that litter the ten square kilometers of the colony. They are everywhere, most of them dried and yellow--carcasses partially buried in stones or guano, small remains, many with penguins nesting on top of them. On my first visit here, in 1996, I asked David Ainley (former PRBO scientist and 38-year veteran leader of Antarctic expeditions) why there were so many dead penguins around--strikingly more than I had seen in other seabird colonies around the world. He explained that, at high latitudes, the extreme cold temperatures keep the processes of decay at near standstill. So, after thousands of years of occupation, a penguin colony at 77˚ S accumulates quite a pile of dead bodies.
But why hadn't skuas scavenged all the dead chicks? Cape Crozier is also home to the world's largest population of South Polar Skuas, which make short work of any penguin chicks that die or wander from their home territory even briefly.
My original questions persisted over the subsequent 11 austral breeding seasons that I've spent working mostly with the living--resighting individual penguins banded as chicks, attaching satellite transmitters to some that we track on their foraging journeys, making diet observations, and measuring chicks. We are investigating the processes that determine why penguin colonies exist where they do, why some grow very large, why some disappear, why some fluctuate wildly, and how they respond to climate change.
Some of the answers were found right under our feet, in the dead penguins themselves. With colleagues from New Zealand and Italy we have documented the rate of micro-evolution in the DNA of penguins, comparing 10,000-year-old DNA in tissue samples preserved in this environment to that from current populations occupying the same sites.
After a few years, having gained a bit more experience with high-latitude Adélie colonies, I asked David why so many of the dead, at Cape Crozier in particular, were about the same age. A high percentage are crèched chicks (out of the nest but still dependent on their parents for food), about three weeks old, that appear to have died in a single season rather than representing accumulated mortality of centuries. He speculated that perhaps a giant iceberg had broken off of the adjacent Ross Ice Shelf when most of the parents were out foraging, blocking access to and from the colonies, with subsequent mass starvation of the chicks. Another explanation was offered by Steve Emslie (former PRBO Farallon biologist, now a paleo-ornithologist and professor at University of North Carolina), who visited our study site during the 2000-2001 season to ascertain the dates of the original occupation of the Cape Crozier colony. He was also astonished by the numbers of bodies. He guessed they were between 100 and 200 years old, affirmed that most of them appeared to have come from a single event, and suggested that perhaps a giant snow storm one year had buried all the chicks alive.
I have to admit that neither explanation seemed very convincing to me at the time, given that I had never seen either a giant iceberg or a giant snow storm (Antarctica is by far the driest continent on Earth), and that the scene I'd been observing then for several years seemed so permanent.
Events since then have shown that both hypothetical explanations are plausible. We have seen giant icebergs break off the Ross Ice Shelf (most notably in 2001--at 160 kilometers long, 'B15' was the biggest ever observed by humans) and crash into Cape Crozier, blocking almost all access to not just one colony but four of them simultaneously (at Cape Royds, Cape Bird, Beaufort Island, and Cape Crozier). This resulted in the deaths of many thousands of adults and chicks. We have also seen, especially in December 2001 and January 2005, the biggest snowfalls anyone can remember and some of the highest winds, depositing up to three meters of densely packed snow over scores of subcolonies in a single day, burying thousands of nests, adults, eggs (2001), and chicks (2005)--and skuas, too. Even today, many of those dead birds have yet to emerge. With all due respect to the dead, I feel amazingly lucky to have observed such spectacles first-hand. The odds are indescribably long of witnessing events never before seen by scientists (or anyone else) and thought to have happened only once in the past thousand years.
The resilience of the penguins to such rapid and drastic environmental change is awesome. After the big blizzards, most of the parents were able to eat their way out of the snow that buried them, and they learned how to navigate tiny passageways that remained around the giant iceberg, so they could get back to the open ocean and food. Adults subsequently moved between colonies at unprecedented rates to find ice-free nesting habitat and to improve their access to food. In the course of a single year, Adélies abandoned locations that had been occupied for centuries.
Now that the giant icebergs have gone north, knocked out of their positions by waves from a particularly violent storm in the North Pacific a few months ago, the penguins are having a great breeding season. It's almost as though the hard years served as training for their next opportunity, which they seized by breeding a week earlier than usual and raising very large chicks. Though several thousand more adults than usual were killed by storms and icebergs between 2001 and 2005, the breeding population is as large as it has ever been in the 30-plus years for which there are data. Apparently the penguins can cope--so far.
High winds and heavy snow lately have provided our research team with an unusual amount of hut-time (this is the sixth day out of the last eight that we have spent mostly indoors). I'm taking advantage of the time to catch up on data synthesis, do some writing, and wonder about the future. The penguins will keep trying as hard as they can--that's the nature of Adélies, and they are remarkably flexible. There is bound to be a lot of new nesting habitat available to them on a warming Earth--at least for several decades to come--since there are still hundreds of kilometers of future coastline to emerge from under Antarctica's ice-sheets. What's less certain is whether the ocean will continue to provide the apparently endless quantities of fish and krill that these birds rely on--especially now that industrial fishing ships are tempted into the Ross Sea's pristine waters by the collapse of the world's remaining fisheries.
Antarctica may seem huge to a penguin or an awestruck biologist, but the planet, in many respects, is rapidly becoming smaller.
Grant Ballard is a Senior Scientist in PRBO's Terrestrial Ecology Division, our Informatics Specialist, and als a research biologist in Antarctica.


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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN 6) — Decades of recently uncovered speeches given at Portland State University are now available to the world once more.
Original audio from more than 200 speeches given by some of the largest names in modern American history — Robert F. Kennedy, Alan Ginsberg and Carl Sagan among them — has officially been transitioned to a digital format.
The clips capture campus talks from the 1950s, '60s and '70s.
"One thing I think is really amazing about this collection is that it captures an amazing time here on campus," said PSU library technician Carolee Harrison. "This collection really captures a lot of the conversations that were going around."
A collection very nearly lost. In 2010, library archivist Christine Paschild stumbled upon boxes filled with reel-to-reel audio at the college's off-site warehouse.
"I popped them open and realized they were original recordings made on campus, not copies of national speeches," Paschild said.
Realizing the importance and delicate nature of the aging tapes, Paschild obtained a $10,000 grant to pay for an audio professional to transfer the 257 hours of audio into digital recordings.
A speech from Branford Miller, Portland State College's president in the 1960s and the namesake for PSU's main library, was the first digital audio to be tested.
"As soon as we heard his voice, we teared up because the tape worked, and also because we heard his voice," Paschild said. "We never knew what he sounded like until then."
After a year-long effort, nearly all of the recordings were successfully adapted to digital renderings. All the surviving clips can be heard on the PSU library's website,


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SOMERSET, N.J. - The Sacred Heart University swimming team has been picked fifth, out of seven, in the Northeast Conference Preseason Coaches' Poll. Saint Francis (PA) received five first place votes on its way to being selected as the favorite to win the NEC title at year's end.
The Pioneers will look to improve on its fifth place finish from 2010 with the help of All-NEC senior Katie Marshall (Cumberland, R.I.) . Marshall nabbed the lone SHU swimming medal of the meet when she out touched the rest of the field in the 200 butterfly with a time of 2:05.47.
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Court TV: December 23, 1993. Waiting for the verdicts in the trial of Lyle and Erik Menendez for the shotgun murders of their parents on August 20, 1989, in their Beverly Hills, California, house. A three-million-dollar "mansion" it was, to set the scene. The crime and the trial, as shown on television, have become a national attraction, one of outstanding gruesomeness, with the parents literally "blown away," a phrase sometimes heard in court, as they sat eating ice cream and, like us, watching television on a Sunday evening. The Menendez sons, twenty-one and eighteen years old at the time of the murders, engaged in an interesting span of activities until, some months later in October 1989, the brothers rashly confessed to a psychologist. But the confession was not given to the police until March and they were at last arrested by, in this instance, a sluggish Los Angeles Police Department.
Incarceration followed and gradually the brothers offered a defense of unusual squalor, or perhaps a usual squalor spreading its scrofulous blight over the American landscape. They claimed years of sexual abuse by their father, abuse almost unremitting in the case of the younger brother, Erik. The tear-stained faces of the two sons described the sexual assaults in detail on the witness stand—"massages," oral ejaculation, and all the rest. Along with that claim, a more opaque motive or justification of the murders was offered. The brothers testified that, after an unpleasant scene, they threatened to reveal the "secret," and the consequence was that they believed their parents were going to kill them. Bursting into the house with the shotguns blasting away was to be seen as a preemptive strike in self-defense. That the mother was included in the slaughter proved a delicate problem, which the defense lawyers met with a sometimes coarse efficiency in disparagement of any sympathy that might come the mother's way.
When the defense laid out its plans for the architecture of the self-defense plea, the judge did not find the peculiar foundations strong enough to sustain a "perfect self-defense" and allowed the indictment of first-degree murder to stand in the death-penalty, gas-chamber state of California. For its vivid attractions of money, worldly position, sex, bizarre details, flamboyant lawyers such as Leslie Abramson defending Erik, and above all for its being shown on television almost moment by moment, the trial became a huge success in arousing a squabbling public interest.
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Gov. Pat Quinn announced the plans Tuesday in Sauget, just across the river from St. Louis. He touted the company's decision as an endorsement of his administration's efforts to lure business to Illinois.
Quinn's office says the FedEx Ground facility will support 25 full-time jobs and 150 part-time jobs once it opens, in August 2014. FedEx Ground already operates 16 facilities in the state.
Illinois is offering the company tax credits worth $459,000 over 10 years if it meets a commitment to create jobs at the Sauget site and invest in the community.
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I was bullied when I was in the first grade really badly, and on the last day that year (the end of the year was when it was at the worst), my sisters and I were taken from school and put into foster care for over a year because our parents had been neglecting us. I've been researching it, and I think I'm exhibiting symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Would what happened to me be traumatic enough to cause PTSD?
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Your question reminds me of a line from one of my favorite poets, Rainer Maria Rilke, who said, "Don't think that fate is more than the density of childhood." I know many people both personally and professionally who have spent their adult lives haunted by the pains of childhood. Increasingly, psychiatry is recognizing that these types of everyday -- but horrible -- experiences can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder, depending on their severity and the vulnerabilities of the people involved.
Your case is especially painful to hear because I am sure that the horrors of the bullying you experienced were heightened immeasurably by the fact that your parents were unable to provide the type of support, both practical and emotional, that might have made all the difference. That you were placed in foster care unequivocally demonstrates that their lack of support was no figment of your childhood imagination.
We now know beyond a shadow of a doubt that childhood is a time of especial vulnerability to stress and that stress encountered during this period has the ability to program a person's brain and body to be on "high alert" for the rest of their lives.
This high alert status might have been protective in the distant past, when a painful childhood honestly signaled that the rest of one's existence was likely to be a dangerous one. Nowadays, however, this high alert status doesn't seem to be of any benefit and, in fact, exacts a terrible cost in terms of all sorts of mental disturbances and physical illnesses.
I do a great deal of research with foster children, and I can tell you from this experience and from many other lines of evidence that the experience of going into foster care can be a horrendously stressful experience in and of itself. Even if parents are neglectful, children are programmed by nature to cling to them. In fact, the more neglectful the parents, the more clingy the kids and the more painful the separation, even if that separation is needed for the child's safety.
So I can tell from your brief question that you have a great deal of pain in your childhood. Whether the troubles you struggle with now are best considered as PTSD or as depression or another condition is a question for your mental health professional. The important point for now is that you should not be surprised that you are still struggling with the losses and hurts of your early years. Finally, the good news is that a number of effective treatments exist that won't fix the past but can markedly improve the future.
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