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The Lotus Blossom skirt
Added Apr 2, 2011
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This is my anthropologie knock off skirt! I pulled out my craft scissors and glue and figured out how to make these awesome pockets (for a full how-to, click here and then tweaked a straight skirt pattern, adding a fly front, waistband and funky hem shaping. Yay skirt!
More pictures and endless explanations on the fitting adjustments can be found on my blog
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Oct 2, 2013, 08.52 AMby frularsson
What a wonderful skirt! Totally love it! Love this type of skirts with a modern twist! Have to try making the pockets to some of my upcoming projects!
Keep up the god work!
May 18, 2013, 05.53 PMby gerberdingerson
Nice pockets!
Aug 16, 2011, 10.42 PMby blmfld
this is brilliant!! love the pockets
Aug 16, 2011, 10.09 AMby Mai-der
WOW!!!! I only can tell you… great job!
May 5, 2011, 01.28 PMby foxyroxy
I'm in love….I'm already jotting down notes. super super supre cute.
May 3, 2011, 09.36 PMby wonderliza
wonderfull i just love it !!!!
May 3, 2011, 04.12 PMby lischen
I love love love how you took the theme of the pockets and use it in the hemline of the skirt (or the other way round ^^ ) You did an awesome job! Thanks for the tutorial!
May 3, 2011, 02.11 PMby Denim Skirts Etc
I love the pockets!
Apr 6, 2011, 11.58 AMby FabricUiPhoneApp
These kinds of pockets are easy to do with a lot of practice. What impresses me here is the stitching…if you notice it gets smaller around the corners….which is what the creative seamstress will do to get around those corners correctly. Yes, as you approach a corner, decrease stitch length until you're almost at 0. Once you're around the corner, increase gradually. Most won't notice the shorter stitch length, just the fantastic pocket! I've thought of doing this kind of pocket – basically a large buttonhole – in the shape of a pair of lips on jeans. I'd have red textured faux leather for the 'lips.' That would be hot, to paraphrase Paris Hilton.
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Apr 6, 2011, 08.00 PMby pattythesnugbug
huh – i didn't do anything special with the stitching! other than forget to lengthen the stitch length for the tops of the pockets…I just sewed to the corner, stopped and pivoted -
Apr 6, 2011, 11.25 AMby sabzarap
I love this pocket-detail! anthropology.com is a very good inspiration ;O) I just had a look yesterday and found some shirt patterns I want to sew…
I love your skirt when you wear it with the yellow blouse, because you can sea the pockets. I also like the way you did the hem line and the parallel stitching. Grade job!!! PS: your tutorial on your blog is so easy to follow, well done
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Apr 6, 2011, 08.01 PMby pattythesnugbug
I liked the hem a lot too – and all that topstitching gave it some weight so it wasn't so stiff.
Apr 6, 2011, 05.34 AMby carolyn-s
These pockets are absolutely awesome! Great job! btw, I remember your name from me-made March… I don't think you showed this off then? Perfectly fabulous skirt…!
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Apr 6, 2011, 08.01 PMby pattythesnugbug
Nope – I haven't worn it in real life, so it missed me-made-march! Maybe this summer…
Apr 6, 2011, 12.22 AMby elegantmusings
Those pockets are a knock-out detail! Great job!!!! :)
Apr 6, 2011, 12.05 AMby dixiediy
wow, amazing details! i want to try those pockets, too! and your outfit styling is great as well :)
Apr 5, 2011, 08.53 PMby christina031106
So awesome! Thanks for the tut!
Apr 5, 2011, 08.12 PMby AprilNicole05
Fabulous job!
Apr 5, 2011, 07.41 PMby Judy Garland
It looks great on you! I love all the details.
Apr 5, 2011, 05.40 PMby smoke signals
i love this!
Apr 5, 2011, 04.51 PMby aleah
Wonderful! You look LOVELY in them.
Apr 5, 2011, 04.14 PMby carottesauvage
I am amazed! Exquisite indeed!
Apr 5, 2011, 07.12 AMby fifilina
lovely skirt! your technique is excellent
Apr 4, 2011, 02.56 PMby xanray
Wow. The details on this skirt are FABULOUS!
Apr 4, 2011, 03.49 AMby mnavoy
I love this!
Apr 4, 2011, 02.35 AMby grainline
all the little details are so beautiful, love it!
Apr 3, 2011, 11.54 PMby Olivia Anne
amazing..I LOVE the pockets and the hem and everything!
Apr 3, 2011, 04.00 PMby hoodelali
What a great skirt! I LOVE the fly front! And yes, the pocket is AMAZING! Once I get better at sewing I'll give it a whirl
Apr 2, 2011, 09.24 PMby supercalla
This is soooo cute
Apr 2, 2011, 04.37 PMby lili123
super nice skirt, i love the pockets.
Apr 2, 2011, 02.37 PMby justbev
very cute pockets
Apr 2, 2011, 12.50 PMby knighttemplar
The Pockets are great! I'll use your tutorial for sure!
Apr 2, 2011, 12.32 PMby skeeler
Super impressive! I am blown away…
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Outside Magazine Names New Belgium Brewing as One of America's Best Places to Work in 2012
New Belgium ranks fifth out of 100 selected companies
[PRESS RELEASE] Ft. Collins, CO, August 13, 2012 – Outside Magazine's fifth annual "Best Places to Work" list includes New Belgium Brewing once again. New Belgium ranks fifth out of 100 selected companies. Profiles of the top-ten-performing small, medium, and large companies will be published in the September issue of Outside magazine, available on newsstands August 14, 2012. The full list of 100 is now available at outsideonline.com/bestplacestowork.
Outside's "Best Places to Work" project celebrates the innovative companies setting a new standard for a healthy work-life balance. The list was compiled with the help of the Outdoor Industry Association and Best Companies Group. The yearlong selection process began with an outreach effort that identified a wide range of non-profit and for-profit organizations with at least 15 employees working in an office in the United States. Participating companies were sent confidential employee-satisfaction surveys and employer-questionnaires to collect information about benefits, compensation, policies, job satisfaction, environmental initiatives, and community outreach programs. The experts at the Best Companies Group then analyzed the results and selected the companies that best enable employees to pursue active lifestyles, while also supporting their social and environmental contributions.
In past years, Outside has highlighted 50 outstanding companies. This year, Best Companies Group determined that there were so many top-quality applicants that the list needed to be expanded. Outside editors agreed, and doubled the size of the list.
"New Belgium fosters a high involvement culture where co-workers are encouraged to bring their best selves every day," said New Belgium Spokesperson, Bryan Simpson. "Through employee ownership and open book management, we have a highly engaged work force working at top form. It's an honor to receive this recognition."
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Rockies Announce Non-Roster Players For 2014 Spring Training
Twenty-Four Players Receive Non-Roster Invitations
DENVER - The Colorado Rockies announced today the club's non-roster players for this year's Major League Spring Training camp. Below is the current list of 24 players, broken down by position.
|Pitchers (12)
|Infielders (4)
|Outfielders (2)
|Catchers (6)
|Christian Bergman
|Paul Janish
|Jason Pridie
|Ryan Casteel
|Brooks Brown
|Angelys Nina
|Tim Wheeler
|Dustin Garneau
|Greg Burke
|Ben Paulsen
|Matt McBride
|Eddie Butler
|Rafael Ynoa
|Michael McKenry
|Manuel Corpas
|Tom Murphy
|Yohan Flande
|Jackson Williams
|Jonathan Gray
|Pedro Hernandez (L)
|Chris Martin
|Nick Masset
|Scot Oberg
|Josh Sullivan
Four of the 12 pitchers that received non-roster invites have Major League service time, including Manuel Corpas (5.144), who made 31 appearances for the Rockies during the 2013 season. Greg Burke (1.074), Pedro Hernandez (0.077) and Nick Masset (6.146) all have Big League service time as well. Burke made 32 appearances for the New York Mets in 2013, while Hernandez appeared in 14 games/12 starts for the Twins last season. Masset has missed the last two seasons due to injury but last pitched in 2011 for Cincinnati, when he owned a 3.71 ERA in 75 appearances.
Five of the pitchers were originally drafted by Colorado, including Christian Bergman (24th round of 2010), Eddie Butler (Supplemental first round, 46th overall, in 2012), Jonathan Gray (First round, 3rd overall, in 2013), Scott Oberg (15th round of 2012) and Josh Sullivan (5th round of 2005). Chris Martin was acquired along with left-handed pitcher Franklin Morales from Boston in exchange for infielder Jonathan Herrera on December 18, 2013. Brown, Burke, Corpas, Flande, Hernandez and Masset were all signed to Minor League free agent contracts this offseason.
The only infielder with previous Major League experience is Paul Janish (4.115), who played in 55 games with Atlanta in 2013. Ben Paulsen was originally drafted by Colorado (3rd round of 2009) and Angelys Nina was originally signed as a non-drafted free agent (on February 9, 2007) by Colorado. Rafael Ynoa signed as a Minor League free agent this offseason.
Of the two outfielders, Jason Pridie (1.052) has played in parts of five Major League seasons, including four games with Baltimore in 2013. Tim Wheeler was originally selected by Colorado in the first round (32nd overall) of the 2009 draft.
Michael McKenry (2.136) and Matt McBride (0.042) are the only catchers with previous Major League experience. McKenry is returning to the organization that originally drafted him in 2006 (7th round). McBride played in 31 games for the Rockies in 2012. Ryan Casteel (17th round in 2010), Dustin Garneau (19th round in 2009) and Tom Murphy (3rd round in 2012) were originally drafted by Colorado. Jackson Williams and McKenry signed as Minor League free agents this offseason.
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Town, county begin to work together on garbage issue
After years of distrust, a new start
The festering debate between Mono County and Town of Mammoth Lakes over how to deal with garbage got an infusion of fresh air last week.
Mammoth's town manager took the reins and asked both sides to focus on one thing and one thing only—the numbers.
Garbage might sound like a mundane thing, but it is incredibly expensive to manage—expensive enough to financially break entire counties and towns, if not dealt with right.
Mammoth Lakes Town Manager Marianna Marysheva-Martinez, said taking the emotion out of the issue—the personality conflicts, the long-standing breakdown in communication—is imperative. The numbers—what does it cost to take care of the garbage based on the best options and what is each entity's fair share of that cost—are what is critical.
"We need to focus on three main things," she said. "One is whether or not a Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) is really the best and only option."
(A MRF is a recycling facility that would transform garbage into recycled materials and keep it out of landfills, a high priority for the state. Locally, 'to-build-or-not-to-build' a MRF has been at the heart of the breakdown between the Town and county, with the Town arguing the state is forcing it to build this recycling facility and the county unconvinced of the necessity for a MRF).
"Two," she continued, "if a MRF is the optimal and only option—and I have asked staff on both sides to talk to the state again and find out for sure if this is our only option—how are we going to build it, and where?" she said.
"Three, how are we going to move forward, the Town included, on preparing to close the Benton Crossing landfill? What is the Town's portion of this cost, what is the county's? How will we pay for it?"
Mono County Supervisor Byng Hunt, who attended a meeting last week where county and Town officials gathered to hash out "the solid waste issue", said he was relieved and pleased at Marysheva-Martinez's ability to focus on the pragmatic questions, not personality issues, and her willingness to talk openly to the county about the Town's perspective.
He was also impressed, he said, that she was willing to ask questions about issues—such as the 'inevitability' of the Town needing to build a MRF in the first place—and include the county in this discussion. He was also pleased that she accepted that the Town was responsible for some part of closing the Benton landfill when the lease is up in 2023. This issue—of who will pay to maintain, close and monitor the landfill, has been a big one for the county, because town residents create about 80 percent of all the garbage in the landfill.
"This is the most hopeful I've felt about this issue in a long, long time," Hunt said Tuesday at a county supervisors meeting.
Marysheva-Martinez also said looking anew at whether the current parcel of privately owned land now under consideration for purchase by the Town and next to the existing recycling facility, is still worth pursuing.
"There may also be other alternatives," she said, citing a 2010 study that outlines alternatives.
Coming up with a 'formula' that would fairly assign the cost of maintaining, closing and monitoring the Benton Landfill was another suggestion she put on the table at last week's meeting, she said.
"There will probably be a formula we can agree on," she said.
County and Town staff will bring the issue back to the table in June, the next time the Town/County Liaison members meet again, she said.


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1. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few IpadBobLevine May 10, 2011 4:31 AM (in response to Pierluis)1 person found this helpful
You don't have to buy anything but you do need an Acrobat.com account. You can use that to share your folios with other users. You can only have one folio at a time with free Acrobat.com account.
2. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few IpadPierluis May 10, 2011 5:42 AM (in response to BobLevine)
Thank you Bob!
I have a free Acrobat.com account and I can see my "test.folio" files in it, and also I understand that I can share with other Acrobat.com users.
But this is not the solution of my problem because what I would need is that this file could be downloaded and stored into my Ipad (so that I can read it any time I want without an internet connection) but I can not see how it is possible to transfer the .folio into the Ipad without using an internet connection.
Honestly I am still rather confused because I can not understand why the pre-release method (when I could have a "file.folio" saved on my desktop) has been so dramatically changed !!!
Furthermore I have also to say that if only I would have known in advance that the new features of the CS 5.5 for the creation of the folio files were so unusable I would not have bought the new Master Collection... and that's the reason why now I feel like I have been taken in by Adobe...
3. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few Ipaddiedänen May 10, 2011 5:53 AM (in response to BobLevine)
Hi Bob,
i am also a bit confused about the pricing and the hole publishing process. For example, a client of us wants to produce a small info magazine and wants to offer this magazine in the apple app store for free. But when i understand it right you have to buy the Professional Edition to do this?! So, where are the solutions for small companys who wanted to publish a small info magazine for free and cant pay about 8.000 EUR per year for that???
4. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few IpadF vd Geest (WA Veghel) May 11, 2011 8:02 AM (in response to diedänen)
Yep, you have to deliver the big bucks to Adobe and Apple before you can publish a simple issue to readers!
No, not joking, you have to pay - big time! :-(
5. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few IpadFabthink May 12, 2011 3:42 AM (in response to BobLevine)
Hi Bob,
I agree with Pierluis that the new system is a bit confusing. My question is: how do I get my .folio into the iPad? I have a free Acrobat.com account and I can see my .folio online. But what I can't do is seeing my .folio on my iPad. How can I download it? If I sign in with my details into my Adobe content viewer, I would expect to see the .folio there? But it is not there. Could you please shed any light on this? Many thanks in advance!
6. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few IpadBobLevine May 12, 2011 5:19 AM (in response to Fabthink)
The current viewer is not compatible with the current tools. Unfortunately Apple is taking its sweet time in approving it.
There's nothing anyone can do but wait.
7. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few Ipadvantage_v May 12, 2011 5:25 AM (in response to Fabthink)
Agree with others above.
I wanted to create some internal interactive publications for our company (just a couple of hundred people), newsletters, building maps that kind of thing. But this is not possible due to the massive costs of actually creating distributing the completed digital publication. As I understand it I'll need to sign up for a Professional account so I can use Viewer Builder to create the App (IPA) and submit to Apple.
Adobe really want this to be be for mass market magazines rather than the small guy.
8. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few IpadPierluis May 12, 2011 9:09 AM (in response to BobLevine)
Hi Bob,
I need just a confirmation from you in order to be sure I have understood correctly.
Today I have installed on my new Ipad2 the "Adobe Content Viewer" and I have connected using the same ID I have for the acrobat.com hoping to download the "test.folio" file that I have created through Indesign: unfortunately my "test.folio" did not appear in the library of the Viewer...
Do you mean that the next version of the Viewer will permit to download my test.folio on my Ipad2?
If the matter is that I have only to wait is ok for me... instead what I would consider a real fraud from Adobe is not to let me simply save a .folio file on my Ipad2...
Did you noticed that "Safari" on the Ipad2 is not able to open the Acrobat.com page? Quite funny that the Adobe site where are stored the files created on purpose for the Ipad can not be seen on the Ipad...
I have also seen again the presentation on the Adobe.tv made by Terry White about the new features of .folio files created with CS Indesign 5.5 (I have bought the Master Collection immediatly after I saw that video) and I can not find any clue of the fact that you can use .folio files only paying expensive subscriptions... don't you think this is not "politically correct"?
Let's hope in any case that Adobe will make happy all their customers... and not only great publishing companies :-)
9. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few IpadBobLevine May 12, 2011 9:18 AM (in response to Pierluis)1 person found this helpful
Again, the current viewer won't work with the new tools. You're going to have wait for Apple to approve the updated viewer and the everything SHOULD work.
10. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few IpadPierluis May 12, 2011 10:06 AM (in response to BobLevine)
Thank you Bob, this is a good news ;-)
Now I am just a little bit worried for the use of "SHOULD" rather than "WILL" but I am confident about Adobe and Apple capabilities :-)
11. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few IpadDogwalker1251 May 12, 2011 1:09 PM (in response to Pierluis)
However, it is STILL not clear from the last answer if Adobe is going to allow one .folio file to be saved to your local copy of iTunes and then when synced, viewed on the iPad. The question is - will the new viewer app on the iPad allow that task? If not, we have really been mislead, because Terry White and others have implied that all you do is just create your document, and presto! You can watch it right on your iPad. I've already invested heavily because of these statements and if (as a lone individual) I am NOW required to purchase the expensive DPS solution as if I were a large publisher, I'll be asking for refunds.
12. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few IpadPierluis May 12, 2011 11:31 PM (in response to Dogwalker1251)
Hi Dogwalker,
as far as I am concerned Bob has told we only have to be patient, so I have assumed that Adobe is going to solve the problem.
But I fully agree with you that if I am not able to save my personal .folio file on my personal Ipad (important to notice I mean not a .folio magazine and not to be sold or broadcasted) then undoubtedly Adobe at the moment has cheated me.. and all their customers!
Anyway I consider an absurd solution to compel me to save my .folio file (my file = the file I have created by paying the purchase of Master Collection CS 5) on their server... maybe in the future we should expect then we will be compelled also to put all our .indd or .pdf files in the hands of Adobe?
And I can add that on the 5 of May here in Milan (Italy) Adobe made the official presentation of the new features of Indesgin CS 5.5 and Ipad application: same show as the video of Terry White but not a single word on the obligation to purchase the DPS subscription...
Now just wait and see what happens...
13. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few Ipadvantage_v May 13, 2011 1:24 AM (in response to Dogwalker1251)
Sideloading (loading a folio using iTunes) is no longer available in the final version of CS 5.5
14. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few IpadIvan.V May 13, 2011 7:40 AM (in response to Pierluis)
I agree with Pierluis that the new system is a bit confusing.
Why actually it wasn't possible to save a .folio file onto my desktop to be sideloaded later onto the Ipad ?
Honestly I am still rather confused because I can not understand why the pre-release method (when I could have a "file.folio" saved on my desktop) has been so dramatically changed !!!
ps. Pierluis are you Italian ? I can contact you?
15. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few Ipadvantage_v May 13, 2011 7:51 AM (in response to Ivan.V)
Why has it been changed? So you have to pay.
16. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few IpadPierluis May 13, 2011 8:37 AM (in response to Pierluis)
Hi Ivan.v,
I have received your post in my email but I do not see it published here... quite strange ?!
It is correct that now you can not save anymore a .folio file on your desktop so that you can not sideloaded on the Ipad: so if you (like me) have paid Adobe thinking that the new CS 5.5 would have supplied what Adobe wanted you to believe... welcome in the club of the unsatisfied customers :-)
I am still waiting to discover if later some day (when Apple will approve the new version of the "Adobe Content Viewer") it will be possible to access with the Ipad your Acrobat.com account where you can store only a single .folio file and (maybe) you will be able to save it onto you Ipad, so it seems we still have a chance to get (almost) what we have paid for...
p.s.: yes, I am in Monza (Italy) :-)
17. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few Ipadlandrvr1 May 13, 2011 8:54 AM (in response to Pierluis)
What a fantastically confusing mess this DPS has been thus far. From early betas to name changes to program/app discontinuations. A total mess. They should immediately take down those Digital Magazine clips on Adobe TV. Worthless at this point.
Finally I find this thread...in which the OP asks the absolutely CRITICAL question "Will we be able to simply distribute .folio files ourselves?"
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that a huge percentage of Digital Magazines created would NOT be done so for subscription distribution, but for private - mostly corporate usage. Interactive presentations/brochures that sales people could show or email to clients, etc. The potential we have here is enormous in that respect. If there ends up being some sort of free or low cost subscription model, that will no doubt take off as well, but the real potential here is an interactive brochures.
Of course, we're not going to know until the app update is released, but if Adobe restricts this so that we will not be able to privately distribute .folio files I'm going to take my copy of CS5, place it in the middle of my street, and light it on fire.
18. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few Ipadlandrvr1 May 13, 2011 8:58 AM (in response to Pierluis)
@ Pierluis
Wait, you are saying that you can't save a .folio file to the desktop, but you can save it to an Acrobat.com account?
Again, this just gets more and more confusing.
19. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few IpadDogwalker1251 May 13, 2011 9:04 AM (in response to landrvr1)
I don't believe the new viewer (whenever Apple decides to approve it) will solve the things we're complaining about here. I was told to complain on the Adobe Facebook page for the DPS. Really? I would rather take my $12,000 (minimum) expense and hire an iPad developer to create my OWN shell. Then, nobody can control the distribution of my own content, make changes to agreements and software without letting anyone know, mislead us via videos, blog posts, etc, and as soon as we get in, raise the price. Do you think if Apple had charged everyone $12,000 a year to make an app that there would be ninety gillion of those things available? Adobe - do you think if you charged little guys $0 and made money off the content that was sold you would make a WHOLE lot more? Come on people - common sense here - I am really pissed because this slight change killed a fantastic business idea I'd been working on for weeks. Now, I'm trying to figure out how to do it and write Adobe totally out of the loop.
20. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few Ipadvantage_v May 13, 2011 9:09 AM (in response to landrvr1)
Lets get this straight, this is what I know and believe to be correct:
- You can publish 1 .folio file to your acrobat.com account for free.
- You then install the Adobe Viewer on your iPad login into your account and view the .folio in the Adobe Viewer, but at the moment the Adobe Viewer requires an update which has been submitted to Apple so currently you will get an error until the update is released.
- You cannot sideload .folio files in the production release of CS5.5 to the Adobe Viewer.
- You cannot save a .folio file locally on your HD, you must publish to your acrobat.com account
- You have to have a Pofessional or Enterprise account to publish your .folio and make them into a App that you then can submit to Apple. Only with a paid subscribtion will you get acces to the Adobe Viewer Builder, this is what turns your .folio into an App.
I agree with other comments, corporate brochures, internal corporate guides and publications for small businesses would be great but it seems Adobe are targeting DPS at large magazine publishers who have 1000's of readers. Adobe are missing out here.
21. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few IpadPierluis May 13, 2011 9:11 AM (in response to landrvr1)
Yes landrvr1,
as far as I am concerned at the moment all what you can do (apart from paying Enterprise or Professional subscription) is to save from Indesign CS 5.5 only one .folio file on the Adobe server (Acrobat.com) where of course you must have an account (and you can have it free).
According to what Bob Levine has explained, it SHOULD then be possible to access the page where your file is stored on the Acrobat.com through the Adobe Content Viewer via the Ipad so that you SHOULD download the file on you Ipad.
At this moment I have been able to put the .folio file on my Acrobat.com free account, but the Adobe Content Viewer on my Ipad does not see anything; this is normal because Adobe is waiting Apple to approve the new version of Adobe Content Viewer (the current version do not work fine) so we must be patient.
In any case you will have to pass through the Adobe server, so in case you do not have an internet connection there is no chance to move your .folio file into your Ipad.
22. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few IpadPierluis May 13, 2011 9:24 AM (in response to vantage_v)
Yes vintage_v, the situation should be exactly as you explained.
Actually I have bought CS 5.5 because I thought to be able not to create an "app magazine" (just like the WIRE as an example, which is a stand-alone application with his own logo as thumbnail), I just thought I could create a .folio file (which is not a stand-alone Ipad application) to be read by using the Adobe Content Viewer.
I thought the system was similar to the .pdf: you create starting from Indesign, you save it on your desktop, you give it to who you want and they read it using Acrobat Reader...
I absolutely agree with Adobe that if you want to create your personalized app to be sold on I-Tunes you must pay, but that is not what I want to do.
I do not discuss the politics of Adobe, if they have choosen to create a service only for great publishers is up to them and I do not claim... but I have to remark that if Adobe would have explained exactly how the system worked I would not have bought CS 5.5...
Bye :-)
23. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few Ipadlandrvr1 May 13, 2011 10:02 AM (in response to Pierluis)
Okay, interesting replies. I'm not ready to get the gasoline tank out just yet.
Now, the questions are these:
If you have a Basic or Plus Acrobat.com account, will that enable you to host more than one .folio account that others would be able to load onto their iPads?
If yes, would they also need their own FREE or PAID Acrobat.com account? Or could you send them a download link?
How and where did you guys hear about the Acrobat.com hosting option? Is that in the CS5.5 help files? I can find no info on this page: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/digitalpubsuite/home/
Is the .folio file actually STORED on the iPad; to be viewed without an internet connection? Or is it a 'streaming type' service? I don't mind in the least that someone would have to download, but if it's a streaming type file that would be horrid.
How in the world do you test your content? Within InDesign?
24. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few IpadBob Bringhurst - Adobe May 13, 2011 10:59 AM (in response to landrvr1)
If you have an Acrobat.com account that allows you to create multiple workspaces, you can create multiple folios. When you use the Folio Builder to create a folio, the folio is stored on Acrobat.com. When you sign in to the Adobe Content Viewer on the mobile device, you can download any folio that you have access to. You can share any folio you create with anyone else who has a valid Adobe ID, and they can download folios to their mobile devices. Once downloaded, these folios remain on the mobile devices, even without an internet connection. To answer your question, it's not streamed.
One issue that's causing confusion is the question of sideloading .folio files. With the old workflow, you could create .folio files and share them with others. Anyone could use iTunes to sideload those .folio files to their iPads. With the new workflow, regardless of account type, the .folio file format happens behind the scenes. Sideloading to the Adobe Content Viewer is no longer possible. The Share option replaces sideloading. (Sideloading is still available with custom development apps for paying customers, but that's a different issue.)
Another issue that's causing confusion is that people think they can use acrobat.com to edit and publish folios. That's not the case. Paying customers can use the http://digitalpublishing.acrobat.com site to edit and publish folios. Non-paying customers can create folios and share them with others, but they cannot publish them to any of the stores (App Store, Android Market, App World, etc.).
25. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few Ipadlandrvr1 May 13, 2011 11:16 AM (in response to Pierluis)
Thank you, Bob, for some clarity.
It's great that we can at least publish 1 or multiple folios using Acrobat.com without needing the DPS subscription service. At least the Basic and Plus Acrobat.com account pricing is realistic! I'm sorry to see the sideloading feature vanish...it's clear that Adobe wants a $piece$ of the action in terms of any content delivery method. On one hand I can see your position, but on the other it's a bit of nickle and diming just because it's digital content as opposed to printed. I'd urge Adobe to rethink that position. Adobe doesn't get a fee for printed documents I might produce and deliver to my co-workers and clients, but they expect some $ for digital? Yikes.
26. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few Ipaddiedänen May 13, 2011 11:51 AM (in response to Pierluis)
I can not understand the attitude of Adobe and annoy me just yet. Just take it like Apple does. 30% of the price of an app as a fee, and if the app costs nothing, you have to pay no fee. Thats simple! What's next? Fees for each InDesign file, or any SWF? That's really disappointing. And now will not come back with the cloud and Acrobat. We simply want to take apps by Sideload, or right to offer for free on the App Store without paying thousands of Dollars! It's really not fair Adobe...
27. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few IpadDavid Ben May 13, 2011 2:23 PM (in response to diedänen)
I think its perfectly fair the way the pricing structure is thus far. Apple charges you a yearly fee for a license to upload... test.. and create apps.. even if your making free apps your still paying that yearly licensing fee. Adobe charges you for a license on a monthly basis to access .. test.. edit ... distribute.... and then charges you for "folio credits" if your app requires multiple folios to be downloaded. I do however believe Adobe should work out a method to continue to distribute your content while you still have "credits" available and not necessarily renew your license. I mean options like mag+ follow this same reasoning.. and can become even more expensive than the DPS... and that option will cost you $2,500 for your first app.....
28. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few Ipadlandrvr1 May 13, 2011 2:33 PM (in response to Pierluis)
When I create a print document for distribution throughout my company, Adobe makes ZERO money off that process. Nada. Zip. Zero. Zilch.
As it well should be.
The only difference here is that we are now looking at digital content. There shouldn't be a difference, period.
Removing the sideloading feature now forces people to essentially pay Adobe for the priveledge of using InDesign to create privately distributed digital content.
Widespread subscription models? Fine. No problem. Charge away. Adobe's gotta eat. But an electronic iPad presentation that I want to load privately onto a dozen salespeoples' iPads? It's absolutely Ludicrous that we should have to pay to do that.
As soon as a viable sideload option becomes available from another vendor, I'm switching toot sweet.
29. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few Ipadlandrvr1 May 13, 2011 2:39 PM (in response to landrvr1)
I mean, what's next? Is Adobe planning on a way in which all Flash swf files that I create will require some sort of subscription purchase? No matter how low the cost or convenient? lol.
Again, this entire launch is a hamfisted mess. Nevermind the goofy subscription approach for creating private content...How in the world was this also not designed and marketed as an interactive presentation and brochure tool? I mean, there's not even a slight amount of verbiage on that approach ANYWHERE to be found, lol.
Jesus Wept.
30. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few Ipaddiedänen May 13, 2011 2:49 PM (in response to David Ben)
OK, Apple: yearly fee 99 $ for a developer account. Adobe: Round about 6000 $ yearly fee. Apple: 250.000 downloads of a free app, 0 $ fee. Adobe: 250.000 downloads of free app/magazine, round about 50.000 $. Or I'm wrong ?
31. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few IpadIvan.V May 13, 2011 2:46 PM (in response to landrvr1)
I totally agree with landrvr1
"Removing the sideloading feature now forces people to essentially pay Adobe for the priveledge of using InDesign to create privately distributed digital content.".................
But an electronic iPad presentation that I want to load privately onto a dozen salespeoples' iPads? It's absolutely Ludicrous that we should have to pay to do that.
32. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few Ipaddiedänen May 13, 2011 2:57 PM (in response to Pierluis)
perfectly fair ... no, perfect fail.
33. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few IpadDavid Ben May 13, 2011 3:05 PM (in response to landrvr1)
As we have been discussing in the pre-release...
We are a small design company and only produce one magazine and a few books. Again there are many routes to take when bringing your publications to IOS or android.. People are upset as if Adobe just cut off their legs and have prevented them from bringing their publications world-wide. We have two apps that we developed ourselves (by ourselves i mean i basically imported from indesign and coded the app myself in flash) and it works like it should, but we want a quicker and easier solution.... so we are willing to pay the price. In all reality Adobe hasn't been advertising this product to one app "self-publishers" .. Its advertised as a media and business solution.
Adobe probably would have gotten a lot less upset customers if they would have just distributed the DPS as a optional plugin... or a Paying Customer only plugin-- but they choose to include it inside InDesign CS5.5 as an "extended" feature .. with the option to upgrade...
Adobe is just being a business and charging for its own publishing solution.. and it is in no way preventing you from publishing or using indesign to make your own IOS applications.
34. Re: Publishing just one .folio to a few IpadDavid Ben May 13, 2011 3:10 PM (in response to David Ben)
And the DPS at $6,000 is competitively priced to other InDesign (and QuarkX) to IOS solutions.. we have tested MANY and all range from $6,000 to $12,000 a year.


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The price of oil moved higher above $97 a barrel Friday, buoyed by stronger economic growth and falling unemployment in the world's largest economy.
By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark U.S. crude for January delivery was up 27 cents at $97.33 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On Thursday, oil rose to near $98 for the first time in five weeks before closing at $97.38, up 18 cents.
U.S. data showed the outlook for hiring is improving and the economy is growing at its fastest pace in more than a year.
On Friday, the Labor Department said the U.S. unemployment rate in November fell to a five-year low of 7 percent from 7.3 percent in October. Employers added 203,000 jobs last month, many in higher-paying sectors like manufacturing and construction.
The jobs report came after Thursday's data from the Commerce Department showing that the U.S. economy grew at a 3.6 percent annualized rate in July through September, the fastest since early 2012. The numbers signaled momentum in the economy, although some economists cautioned that nearly half the growth came from a buildup in business stockpiles, a trend that could reverse in the current quarter.
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"The sled was just sitting there on the porch," said Philadelphia Police Officer Fred Wiley recalling a story from his childhood. Wiley was going sledding with his friends when someone suggested he borrow the sled. No one was around, so Wiley decided to borrow it and return it later.
Wiley, who grew up in Germantown, said his his family didn't have a lot of money after his Dad had died when he was young.
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Unfortunately for him, he borrowed a sled from a Philadelphia police officer's porch. Sure enough, the officer found Wiley sledding with his buddies and took down his name and address.
"I knew I should have asked, but I didn't," Wiley said. "I told him I was going to return it."
The officer replied that next time all he had to do was ask.
"And he did let me borrow it in the future when I asked," Wiley added, noting that he learned important lessons that day – not only to be an honest, law-abiding citizen but also the importance of making a connection with the people in your neighborhood.
They are lessons he has carried throughout his 32-year career in law enforcement. As Chestnut Hill's new beat officer, he will continue building relationships with the community's store owners and residents.
Prior to joining the police department in 1996, Wiley worked as a corrections officer in the Philadelphia prison system for more than 16 years. The 15-year police veteran has received more than 27 commendations for acts of heroism, bravery, valor and outstanding arrests.
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Edward Chang heads Google Research in China since March 2006. He joined the department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1999 after receiving his PhD from Stanford University. Ed received his tenure in 2003, and was promoted to full professor of Electrical Engineering in 2006. His recent research activities are in the areas of distributed data mining and their applications to rich-media data management and social-network collaborative filtering. His big-data research group (which consists of members from Google, UC, MIT, Tsinghua, PKU, and Zheda) recently parallelized SVMs (NIPS 07), PLSA (KDD 08), Association Mining (ACM RS 08), Spectral Clustering (PAMI 10), and LDA (WWW 09) (see MMDS/CIVR/EMMDS/MM/AAIM/ADMA/CIKM
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With an abundance of palm trees, golf courses and restaurants, the city of Boca Raton, Fla. is best known as a haven for retirees. However, if you're, say, the son of famous heavy metal drummer, you may find life there a little taxing, and look for other ways to occupy your time - such as crime. Justin McBrain, son of Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain, was picked up by the Palm Beach County Sherriff's Office on Friday (April 26) for alleged burglary and theft.
According to Boca News Now, the 20-year old McBrain knocked on a West Boca home and, when the homeowner opened the door, pushed his way in. While the woman called the police, he grabbed some items from her purse, including a half-eaten chocolate bunny, some cosmetics, a belly ring, a freezer pack and half an orange, which he ate.
McBrain was arrested shortly thereafter and charged with burglarizing an occupied dwelling and 2nd degree petit theft. At press time, he was being held on $25,000 bond.
This is the second occurence of recent legal troubles for the McBrain family. Two weeks ago, we reported that Nicko's wife, Rebecca, will appear before a judge in May as a result of an incident in February. She is alleged to have committed domestic battery by attempting to stab a man (who may or may not have been Nicko) in their home and then throwing logs at him.


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Helloooo! I wanted to pop in and let you know that I was asked to Guest Design for one of my favorite online scrapbook stores, Scrapbuck.com!
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From mending those scraped knees of childhood to adulthood illnesses and injuries, our bodies have complex and remarkable healing capabilities. Sometimes, however, we may suffer an injury that is difficult for the body to handle, and those natural healing processes need a helping hand. Difficulty in healing may happen because of the severity of a wound, or a health condition that compromises the body's ability to heal.
Wounds that won't heal – also known as chronic or slow-healing wounds – are a significant health concern. When you've been injured, ill or undergone surgery, an important part of your successful recovery is not only taking care of the original illness or injury, but also making sure any wounds associated with your condition heal properly.
Nearly 7 million people across the United States suffer from chronic or slow-healing wounds. Wounds fall into two categories: acute and chronic. Acute wounds are related to an accident, injury or surgery. Chronic wounds can also be related to an injury or surgery – but are also related to a health condition that impedes normal healing. If a wound does not heal within a month and requires medical intervention, it is considered a chronic or slow-healing wound.
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The good news is that a variety of medical treatments are available to help wounds that won't heal. Chestnut Hill Hospital offers specialized care for chronic wounds and their underlying causes, such as inflammation, infection, or chronic disease.
A leading treatment for wound care is hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which can speed the healing process and rebuild skin integrity. With this treatment, the patient lays inside a sealed, high-pressure chamber, breathing pure oxygen. The pressurized chamber surrounds the body's tissues with concentrated pure oxygen. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy increases the concentration of oxygen in the bloodstream, which improves circulation of blood to damaged tissue, and ultimately, promotes faster healing.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy was originally used to treat disorders related to diving, so, a treatment is sometimes referred to as a "dive." While the process is painless, some patients will experience pressure in the ears at the beginning of treatment, similar to flying in an airplane. Each treatment is typically two hours long, and patients often read, sleep or listen to music during a therapy session.
Chronic wounds that are often treated in this way include diabetic skin sores, pressure sores, persistent skin irritations, vessel disease wounds, surgery wound breakdown, traumatic wounds, burns, venous insufficiency, radiation injuries, spinal injury wounds and other non-healing wounds.
Your doctor will generally refer you to a wound care treatment team for hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Treatment usually begins with tests to learn about your medical history, including any circulation issues, infection and other conditions that may affect wound healing.
Learn more about the services available at the Comprehensive Center for Wound Healing at Chestnut Hill Hospital and HBO therapy by calling 215-248-8601.
Mark Kahn, M.D., is a vascular surgeon and chair of the Comprehensive Center for Wound Healing at Chestnut Hill Hospital.


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A federal appeals court in San Francisco today reinstated the murder conviction and death penalty of a Santa Clara County man who has been on death row for 33 years.
A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a 2011 decision in which a federal district judge in Oakland overturned the conviction of Marvin Pete Walker, 53, and ordered a new trial.
Walker was convicted in Santa Clara County Superior Court in 1980 and sentenced to death for the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Joseph Vasquez on Aug. 6, 1979, during a $150 robbery of a liquor store where the teenager worked.
He has been on death row at San Quentin State Prison since then during a series of state and federal court appeals.
Walker was also convicted of three counts of assault with intent to commit murder for shooting and seriously injuring the liquor store owner and another employee, as well as a medical building worker in a second robbery a month later. Most of the victims were shot execution-style in the head. Walker was 19 at the time.
According to trial testimony quoted by the appeals court, a second robber in the liquor store attack wanted to leave after they grabbed $150 from a cash register, but Walker said, "No, we're not going to leave any witnesses."
U.S. District Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong of Oakland had overturned the conviction on the ground that the trial jury might have been prejudiced by the fact that Walker was required to wear a leg-locking brace during the trial.
The plastic molded brace on one knee was under his clothes, but caused a visible limp when he walked to and from the witness stand during testimony in his trial.
But the appeals court concluded that the brace didn't affect the outcome of the trial because the device was relatively unobtrusive and the trial judge indicated to the jury that the use of it was somewhat routine.
In addition, the court said, the evidence of Walker's guilt was "very strong," including eyewitness identification by the two liquor store survivors.
Walker's federal appeal was made in a habeas corpus petition after the California Supreme Court in 1988 and 1992 upheld his conviction and rejected his claim that the shackling violated his rights.
Today's ruling allows him to go back to Armstrong's court in Oakland to pursue additional claims of errors in his trial.


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The Knik River valley is a preferred hunting ground for veteran trophy hunters. Just twenty-five miles from the city of Anchorage, the winding gorgecarved by prehistoric glacial icemakes it a perfect place to find mountain goats, Dall sheep, black bears, and moose. On September 12, 1982, John Daily and Audi Holloway, two off-duty Anchorage police officers, spent an afternoon hunting along the Knik River.
According to Butcher Baker by Walter Gilmour and Leland E. Hale, the two men had little luck and as darkness began to fall they decided to call it a day. The trek was not necessarily easy, but both men were familiar with the area and cut across a wide sandbar. However, as they progressed up the river, they noticed a boot sticking out of the sand. Normally a find like this would not be cause for concern, but for any police officer, curiosity denotes investigation. Upon closer inspection, the two men were taken aback. Sticking out of the sand was a partially decomposed bone joint. Once their minds registered what they were looking at, both men backed up from the scene. The last thing they wanted to do was disturb or contaminate any evidence. After making note of the location, both men made their way out of the gorge and back to their camp.
Gilmour and Hale wrote that Sergeant Rollie Port was assigned to cover the investigation. A decorated Vietnam veteran, Port was considered one of the top investigators on the force. He was meticulous with every crime scene and was known to spend hours going over the smallest area. Before disturbing the body, Port had photographs taken from every angle and carefully examined the body itself for trace evidence before having it bagged. Afterwards, he pulled out a large screen and began sifting through the sand around the body. It took several hours for him to finish sifting, but in the end it paid off. Lying on the screen before him was a single shell casing from a .223-caliber bullet. Port was familiar with this type of ammunition and knew that it was used in high-powered rifles like M-16s, Mini-14s, or AR-15s.
Back in Anchorage, a preliminary autopsy revealed that the victim was a female, of undetermined age, and had been dead for approximately six months. The cause of death was three gunshot wounds from .223-caliber bullets. Ace bandages were found mingled in with the remains, causing investigators to suspect that the victim had been blindfolded at the time of death. It took a little over two weeks to finally identify the body as that of 24-year-old Sherry Morrow, a dancer from the Wild Cherry Bar in downtown Anchorage. She was last seen on November 17, 1981. According to friends, she was going to see a man that had offered her $300 to pose for some pictures.
Anchorage police had a sneaking suspicion that Sherry Morrow's murder was not an isolated incident. Over the last two years, there was a sudden increase in the number of missing persons reports being filed, many of which were topless dancers and prostitutes. Prior to this latest discovery, the reports had not prompted much attention. Prostitutes tend to be loners and often travel from city to city, only to reappear years later. If there was a link, investigators did not want to tip the killer off. Any concerns they had were kept private.
When discussing Morrow's murder with The Anchorage Daily News, investigators said they doubted that it was related to the disappearance of at least three other women since 1980. "We don't believe we have a mass murderer out there, some psycho knocking off girls," said Anchorage police detective Maxine Farrell.
Alaska State Trooper sergeant Lyle Haugsven was assigned to determine whether or not Sherry Morrow's murder was an isolated incident. Working with the Anchorage Police Department, the two agencies began sharing files and comparing notes. According to Bernard DuClos in Fair Game, the first indication of a possible link appeared to be with two unsolved cases from 1980. In the first case, construction workers digging near Eklutna Road discovered the partial remains of a woman buried in a shallow grave. Animals had taken off with a majority of the remains and there was very little evidence at the scene. The victim had never been identified and was dubbed "Eklutna Annie" by police assigned to the case. Later that same year, another body was found in a nearby gravel pit. The victim was later identified as Joanne Messina, a local topless dancer. Unfortunately, her body was badly decomposed and, as with "Eklutna Annie", there was little evidence to be found. In the end, Haugsven had few leads to follow and very little evidence at his disposal.
As months passed, hope of catching the killer began to diminish. Then, on the night of June 13, 1983, everything seemed to turn around. Earlier that evening, a trucker was passing through town when he noticed a frantic young female waving her arms and calling out to him. The girl had a pair of handcuffs dangling from one of her wrists and her clothing was disheveled. She told the trucker that a man was after her and asked him to take her to the Big Timber Motel. Once inside, she had the front desk clerk place a call for her. As she waited outside for her pimp, the truck driver drove straight to the Anchorage Police Department and reported the incident.
When Anchorage Police Officer Gregg Baker arrived at the Big Timber Motel, he found the girl alone and still in handcuffs. Once he removed her cuffs, she began telling him an extraordinary story. According to reports she gave to investigators, she had been approached on the street by a 40ish, red-haired man, and offered $200 for oral sex. She agreed to the price, but midway through the act the man locked a handcuff around her wrist and pulled out a gun. He told her if she cooperated he would not kill her. He then drove to his house in Muldoon, an upper class area not far from town. Once inside, the man brutally raped her, bit her nipples, and at one point shoved a hammer into her vagina. After a brief rest, the man said that he was going to fly her to his cabin in the mountains and told her he would let her go if she cooperated. Upon their arrival at the airport, her kidnapper shoved her inside a small plane and began loading supplies. The young prostitute knew she was in serious trouble and that the man would probably kill her once they got to his cabin. Waiting until his back was turned, she shoved open the door and ran for her life. According to her, he chased after her at first, but then relented when he saw her wave down the truck driver.
After making a formal statement at police headquarters, investigators drove the young prostitute to Merrill Field, the airport where she had been taken. They were hoping she could identify her abductor's plane. As they drove through the small airport, she spotted a blue-and-white Piper Super Cub, tail number N3089Z and identified the plane. A check with the flight tower revealed that the plane belonged to Robert C. Hansen, who lived on Old Harbor Road.
Gilmour and Hale wrote that after dropping the woman off at the hospital, Baker and a group of fellow officers went directly to Hansen's house. Hansen became outraged when confronted with the young woman's charges. He claimed to have never met the girl and stated that she was probably trying to shake him down for money. To him, the entire story was absurd. "You can't rape a prostitute can you?" he said. Hansen went on to state that his wife and two children were vacationing in Europe and said that he had spent the entire evening with two friends. His alibi checked out and no formal charges were filed.
Just as things seemed to be calming down again, investigators were called to the scene of another grisly discovery. According to reports in The Anchorage Daily News on September 2, 1983, just 10 days shy of the one-year anniversary of discovering Sherry Morrow, another body was found along Knik River. The remains were partially decomposed and buried in a shallow grave. The victim, later identified as 17-year-old Paula Golding, was a topless dancer and prostitute from Anchorage. She'd gone missing some five months earlier. An autopsy revealed that she had been shot with a .223-caliber bullet.
Investigators were now convinced they had a serial killer on their hands and contacted the FBI for assistance. This was not the first time Alaska authorities had dealt with a serial killer, but their last attempt was not successful. Between 1979 and 1981, serial killer Thomas Richard Bunday murdered at least five Fairbanks-area women. When police finally discovered who their killer was, he was already on the run. Just one hour after his arrest warrant was issued, he committed suicide by plowing his motorcycle head-on into a truck.
The FBI was known for its dogged determination in serial murder investigations and everyone seemed to agree on asking for their assistance. In response to Anchorage's request for help, the FBI's Investigative Support Unit sent Special Agent John Douglas, a legendary figure in law enforcement, to help profile Alaska's latest serial killer. Many local investigators felt that Robert Hansen was still a viable suspect and were anxious to share their suspicions with Douglas.
In his 1996 book Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, John Douglas describes his initial profile of Alaska's suspected serial murderer. According to Douglas, the perpetrator specifically chose prostitutes and topless dancers, because the majority were transients and usually went unnoticed. Upon the urging of local investigators, Douglas began looking into Robert Hansen's background. He took note of the fact that Hansen was of small stature, heavily pockmarked and suffered from a severe speech impediment. Due to Hansen's unsightly looks, Douglas surmised that he suffered from severe skin problems as an adolescent and was probably teased by his peers. In turn, he would have low self-esteem, which would have prompted him to live in an isolated area. Douglas considered the abuse of prostitutes a way for perpetrators to get back at women. If Hansen was the killer, he was probably using them as a way to get his revenge. Several investigators were familiar with Hansen and said that he was known around the area as a proficient hunter. He earned this reputation after taking down a wild Dall sheep with a crossbow. Perhaps, Douglas surmised, Robert Hansen tired of elk, bear and Dall sheep, and had instead turned his attention to more interesting prey. As the profile progressed, Douglas told investigators that if Hansen was the killer, he was probably a "saver" and would be keeping small souvenirs from his victims.
The only way to rule Hansen out as a suspect would be for investigators to find a hole in his alibi. Douglas suspected that his friends were lying for him and encouraged investigators to threaten them with charges if they were found to be lying. State Police sergeant Glenn Flothe decided to bring the men in for questioning. As it turned out, the strategy worked and both men confessed and said that they had not been with Robert Hansen on the night the young prostitute was abducted and brought to the airport. Investigators also learned from Hansen's friends that he was committing insurance fraud. Apparently, a burglary he reported to police in which several items were stolen from his home never occurred and Hansen was hiding the items in his basement. After learning of Hansen's deceit, Flothe went before Judge Victor Carlson with a 48-page affidavit and secured eight search warrants to be executed against Robert Hanson and his property.
On October 27, 1983, investigators followed Hansen to work and asked him to come with them to the police station for questioning. Hansen never bothered to ask why they wanted to talk to him and agreed to go along. Simultaneously, two groups of investigators served warrants on Hansen's house and plane. According to the book Hunting Humans by Michael Newton, investigators found weapons throughout the house, but nothing to implicate Hansen in any of the murders. Then, just as they were about to call it a day, one of the officers discovered a hidden space tucked away in the attic rafters. Within it, they discovered a Remington 552 rifle; a Thompson contender 7-mm single-shot pistol; an aviation map, with specific locations marked off; various pieces of jewelry; newspaper clippings; a Winchester 12-gauge shotgun; a driver's license, and various ID cards, some of which belonged to the dead women. As incriminating as these items were, the most important piece of evidence was found last -- a .223-caliber Mini-14 rifle.
Robert Christian Hansen was born on February 15, 1939, in Esterville, Iowa to Christian Hansen, a Danish immigrant baker and his wife Edna. DuClos wrote that Hansen had a difficult upbringing. His father was very strict and insisted that his son work long hours in the family's bakery. Adding to this ever-present strain, he was always considered small for his age and his face bore severe acne sores all throughout his adolescence. In later years, he would recall his face as "one big pimple." Although he was naturally left-handed, his parents forced him to use his right hand. In later years, he would claim that the resulting stress made his slight stuttering problem even worse. He had very few friends in school and those he did have never got close to him. In 1957, Hansen graduated high school and shortly thereafter enlisted in the Army Reserves. Following basic training, he was required to devote one weekend a month to the military. He spent the rest of his time working in his father's bakery and sometimes volunteering as a Pocahontas Junior Police drill instructor. During 1960, he fell in love with and married a local girl.
The first major event in Robert Hansen's life occurred on December 7, 1960. As retribution for perceived abuses by the people of Pocahantas, Iowa, he burned down the school bus garage. Unfortunately for Hansen, a friend turned him in and he was sentenced to three years in prison. His wife was ashamed of her husband's actions and immediately filed for divorce. After serving only 20 months, Hansen was paroled, despite being assessed as having an "infantile personality."
Shortly after his release, he met a young woman. The two hit it off and were wed in the fall of 1963. For the next few years, Hansen bounced from job to job and was arrested several times for petty thefts. In 1967, he decided it was time for a new start and left for Alaska.
Anchorage appeared to be the perfect getaway for Robert Hansen. Gilmour and Hale wrote that he was treated well by the residents and soon earned a reputation as a great outdoorsman and hunter. He would stalk Dahl sheep, wolves, and bear with a rifle or bow and arrow. In 1969, 1970 and 1971, he had four animals entered into Pope & Young's trophy hunting world-record books. Hansen's den was soon loaded with animal mounts.
Nonetheless, all his good fortune was short lived. In 1977 he was arrested for stealing a chainsaw and sentenced to five years in prison. After a customary mental evaluation, a prison psychiatrist concluded that Hansen suffered from "bipolar-effective disorder" and requested that the courts order him to take lithium to control his mood swings. Regardless, the order was never enforced and Hansen was released after serving just one year.
During the early 1980s Hansen reported a burglary to his home, which in the end netted him $13,000 from the insurance company. Shortly after receiving his settlement, Hansen opened his own bakery at the corner of 9th and Ingra. By this time, Hansen and his wife had two children and his problems with the law were all but forgotten. His business prospered and he was considered a successful and respected member of the community.
Back at State Police Headquarters, Hansen denied any involvement in the murders. After a brief game of cat and mouse, he grew tired of the allegations and requested an attorney. Hansen was then placed under arrest and charged with assault, kidnapping, weapons offenses, theft and insurance fraud.
On November 3, 1983, an Anchorage grand jury returned four indictments against Hansen: first-degree assault and kidnapping, five counts of misconduct in possession of a handgun, theft in the second-degree, and theft by deception in insurance fraud. Investigators were still awaiting the ballistic test results on Hansen's rifle, so the state decided to hold off on charging him with murder. Hansen pleaded not guilty to all charges. Bail was set at a half-million dollars.
Newton wrote that the ballistic test results finally came in on November 20, 1983. The FBI crime lab in Washington, D.C., determined that the shell casings found at the gravesites had all been fired from Hansen's rifle. The firing pin and the extractor markings were identical.
Given the mass of evidence building against him, Hansen realized that the chances of him winning in court were slim. So, on February 22, 1984, Hansen had his defense attorney, Fred Dewey, arranged a meeting with Anchorage D. A. Victor Krumm. During the meeting, Krumm offered Hansen a deal. In exchange for a full confession, the D.A. guaranteed him that he would only be charged with the four cases that they knew of, and he would be able to serve his time in a federal facility, rather than a maximum-security institution. Hansen reluctantly agreed to the conditions.
After both sides signed off on the agreement, Hansen began describing one of his typical abductions. The following transcript, which has been edited for space, was originally published in Gilmour and Hale's book: "I pull out the gunI think the standard speech was, 'Look you're a professional. You don't get excited, you know there is some risk to what you've been doing. If you do exactly what I tell you you're not going to get hurt. You're just going to count this off as a bad experience and be a little more careful next time who you are gonna proposition or go out with,' you know. I tried to act as tough as I could, to get them as scared as possible. Give that right away, even before I started talking at all. Reach over, you know, and hold that head back and put a gun in her face and get 'em to feel helpless, scared, right there I'm sure--maybe it's not the same procedure for you--you always try to get control of the situation, so some things don't start going bad maybe I've seen some cop shows on TV, I don't know, OK?"
Whenever Hansen got a victim under his control, he would normally take her to his plane and fly them out to his remote cabin. According to Newton, he would brutally rape and torture the women. Afterwards, he would strip them naked, sometimes going so far as blindfolding them, and set them free in the woods. Hansen would give his victim a brief head start and then hunt them down with a hunting knife or a high-powered rifle. In describing his hunts to investigators, Hansen said that it was like "going after a trophy Dall sheep or a grizzly bear."
When investigators first heard Hansen's confession, they couldn't help but think of the popular fictional story "The Most Dangerous Game" by writer Richard Connell. The story is about a shipwrecked trio that find themselves stranded on an uncharted island, where they meet a Russian Count, known only as General Zaroff. The group is initially delighted to find someone else on the island, but their happiness turns to sorrow when they realize that the shipwreck was no accident and the good general had lured them there so he could hunt them down. Up until the early 1980s, Richard Connell's story was a work of fiction, the product of one man's imagination. Robert Hansen was conducting a real life version of "The Most Dangerous Game."
As the interview neared its end, Hansen was provided with a large aerial map of the region. He identified 15 gravesites, 12 of which were unknown to investigators. Since it would have been nearly impossible to locate any of the graves going by Hansen's checkmarks on the map, investigators decided to fly him to each location. The following day, Hansen accompanied the men to the Anchorage International Airport, where they boarded a large military helicopter. Their first stop was along the Knick River, not far from where Paula Goulding was found. Afterwards, they flew east to Jim Creek, and then west toward Susitna. Their final stops were due south, at Horseshoe Lake and Figure Eight Lake. At every stop, Hansen led investigators to the site, now heavily covered in snow, and they would mark the trees with orange paint. By the end of the day Hansen had revealed the gravesites of 12 unknown women.
According to articles published by The Anchorage Daily News, Robert Hansen pled guilty on February18, 1984, to four counts of first-degree murder in the cases of Paula Golding, Joanna Messina, Sherry Morrow, and "Eklutna Annie." One week later, on February 27, Superior Court Judge Ralph E. Moody sentenced Hansen to 461 years plus life, without chance of parole. He was then remanded to Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in Pennsylvania.
By May 1984, investigators had found seven bodies at the gravesites Robert Hansen pointed out to them. No other bodies were ever recovered. The summary went as follows:
On April 24, Sue Luna - Knik River.
On April 24, Malai Larsen - parking area by old Knik bridge.
On April 25, DeLynn Frey - Horseshoe Lake.
On April 26, Teresa Watson - Kenai Peninsula.
On April 26, Angela Feddern - Figure Eight Lake.
On April 29, Tamara Pederson - one and a half miles from old Knik Bridge.
On May 9, Lisa Futrell's - south of old Knik Bridge.
In 1988, Hansen was returned to Alaska and became one of the first inmates in the new Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward, where he remains today. Shortly after his conviction, the record keepers for Pope & Young removed Hansen's name from their record books. Hansen's wife and two children tried to remain in Alaska, but after two years of harassment, his second wife filed for divorce and left Alaska for good.
Conservationist Gareth Patterson recently published an article on his website entitled "The Killing Fields." In the piece, Patterson compared the similarities between trophy animal hunters and serial killers. "Certainly one could state that, like the serial killer, the trophy hunter plans his killing with considerable care and deliberation. Like the serial killer, he decides well in advance the type of victim--that is, which species he intends to target. Also like the serial killer, the trophy hunter plans with great care where and how the killing will take place--in what area, with what weapon. What the serial killer and trophy hunter also share is a compulsion to collect trophies or souvenirs of their killings. The serial killer retains certain body parts and/or other trophies for much the same reason as the big game hunter mounts the head and antlers taken from his prey...as trophies of the chase," he said.
On February 21, 2003, more than 20 years after her decomposed body was found, Alaska State Troopers asked for the public's help in identifying "Eklutna Annie." In an effort to help solve her identity, state police released information regarding her clothing and jewelry.
According to the report, which was published by Kenai Peninsula News, an Alaska newspaper, the victim was a white brunette in her 20s. When found, Annie was wearing knee-high, reddish-brown, high-heeled boots, jeans, a sleeveless knit top and a brown leather jacket. Troopers were also hoping that someone might recognize her jewelry; a silver cuff bracelet with polished stones, possibly handmade. Anyone with information should call investigator William Hughes at 907-269- 5058. Email: email@example.com


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Our rights to enjoy the outdoor hunting experience may be changing, friends. With the final coat of post-season gun oil on all metal parts and firearms returned to secured safe places and storage cabinets, there appears to be clamoring discussion in many corners of these United States about the very freedoms of the season in change. Hunting with a firearm of our choice may be about to take new meaning.
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