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Steiner 7x50 Commander XP C Binoculars w/ Compass 395
Specifications for Steiner Commander-XP 7 x 50 With Compass Marine Binoculars: Item no.: Steiner 395 ... Binoculars w/ Compass: The most important feature in Steiner 7 x 50 Commander XP Binocular ... Commander XP C 7x50mm Marine Binoculars with Compass RainGuard Objective Covers Strap Case In addition ... to Steiner 7x50mm Commander XP C Binoculars w/ Compass 395, make sure to check out all the other ... The most important innovation in Steiner Commander XP C 7x50mm Binoculars 395 are the XP Optics: ... for the electronic compass illuminator Features of Marine Steiner 7 x 50mm Commander XP C ... a choice of eyecups with the Steiner Commander XP Waterproof Binoculars: a winged, profiled set (to...
Steiner 7x30 Commander XP Marine Binoculars w/ Compass, optional
7x30mm Commander XP Binocular w/ optional compass is among the world's finest marine binoculars ... Binoculars Steiner 396: 7x30 Commander XP Binoculars with HD-Stabilized Compass, a built-in compass ... this compass is the largest ever fitted to a binocular. Specifications for Steiner Commander XP Marine ... The Steiner Commander XP 7x30 Binocular carries all the same features as its larger brethren, ... that come with sailing. The view through the Steiner Commander XP 7x30 Binoculars is smooth sailing, ... @1000 yards Eye relief: 17mm Features of Steiner XP Commander 7x30mm Binoculars: Mil-Spec ... Package Contents: Steiner Commander XP 7x30mm Marine Binoculars Padded carrying case Shoulder strap...
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Steiner 7x50 Commander XP Global Marine Binoculars w/ Digital Compass
The Steiner 7 x 50 Commander XP Global Binoculars with Digital Compass is a top-of-the-line marine ... sea fishing vessel. The Steiner Commander XP Global 7x50mm Binoculars combine stabilized ... that comes with hard use. The Steiner 7x50mm Commander XP Global Marine Binoculars feature ... 7x50 Commander XP Global Binoculars Specifications for Steiner Global Commander XP Marine ... armoring Package Contents: Steiner 7x30mm Commander XP Global Marine Binoculars Padded carrying case Shoulder strap ... binocular, made to deal with any conditions you encounter on the water. Compact size makes ... this a fantastic binocular to use on any boat or ship, from a small outboard motor boat to a full sized deep...
Steiner 295 Commander XP 7x50 Marine Binoculars (No Compass)
Porro Prism Binocular, Blue, No Compass Specifications for Steiner Commander-XP 7 x 50 Waterproof ... Commander XP Marine Binoculars w/out Compass: The most important feature in Steiner Commander XP ... 295 Commander XP 7x50mm Marine Binoculars (No Compass), make sure to check other Steiner Binoculars and other Steiner products offered in our store. ... The most important innovation in Steiner Commander XP C 7x50mm Binoculars 295 are the XP Optics: ... binocular made: the Steiner 7 x 50mm Commander XP Binoculars . Steiner has created HD (High Definition) ... turning on a spotlight. Each Steiner Commander 7x50 XP Binocular is hand-built to be mil spec ... Binoculars (No Compass): Item no.: Steiner 295 Color: Blue...
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Steiner 7x50rc M50rc Commander Military Binoculars
Good enough for the US Navy seals, the Steiner 7x50rc M50rc Commander Military Binocular w/ Mil ... give the Steiner 7x50rc M50rc Commander Military Fogproof Binocular the highest light transmission ... ability of any compass binocular making easy viewing at night or in poor light conditions. Steiner ... 7x50rc M50rc Commander Military Tactical Binoculars are built to military specification standards ... 7x50 Commander III Binocular Specifications for Steiner 7x50rc M50rc Commander Military Tactical ... Special Features: Mil Ranging Reticle Package Contents: Steiner 7x50rc M50rc Commander Military Fogproof Binocular ... Ranging Reticle is the ideal choice for your tactical needs. These binocular from Steiner feature...
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Brunton Geo Pocket Transit Waterproof WP Professional Compasses
Brunton GEO Pocket Transit Waterproof Professional Compass continues the commitment of Brunton ... The Brunton GEO Pocket Compass comes from years of listening to owners of Brunton pocket transits, ... The billeted aluminum, waterproof compass contains a fast, magnetic north seeking, rare-earth magnet, ... declination settings to 180 degrees. The Brunton GEO Transit Compass is the ultimate field tool. Our ... web-based store carries a full selection of Brunton Compasses, surveying transits, and navigational ... compasses for orienteering, water and land navigation, education, and more. Brunton doesn't stop ... with compasses and transits. If it goes outdoors, Brunton makes it. From camping gear and camping...
Starts at $478.99
Steiner 7x50 Navigator Marine Binoculars w/ Compass, optional
Steiner 7x50mm Navigator Binoculars with optional Compass are made to cut through the fog and haze ... Steiner 3531: 7x50mm Navigator Binoculars - without compass Steiner 3541-DEMO: DEMO, 7x50mm ... Navigator Binocular w/ Compass Steiner 3541: 7x50mm Navigator Binoculars - includes built-in illuminated ... HD-Stabilized Compass, the largest compass ever fitted to a binocular! This large-sized compass lets ... that can obscure your view on the water. These waterproof binoculars are made to take on the waves ... the internals secure against the hazards of the external world. The Steiner Navigator 7x50 Binoculars ... - so go ahead, bang them around a little. These Steiner binoculars can take it, and will still...
Starts at $399.49
Steiner 7x30mm Navigator Marine Binoculars w/ Compass, optional
The Steiner 7x30mm Navigator Binocular w/ optional compass is a welcome companion on any seafaring ... at a premium. Steiner Heritage Warranty Steiner 3521: 7x30 Navigator Binoculars - without compass ... Steiner 3551: 7x30 Navigator Binoculars - with built-in LX Precision Compass, a fluid-dampened ... illuminated compass with integrated bearing marks. Specifications for Steiner Navigator Marine Binoculars ... compact, lightweight and waterproof binocular design. The Steiner Marine Navigator 7x30 Binocular is made ... the Steiner Marine 7x30mm Navigator Binoculars can handle with ease the rigors of boating life. ... The compact size makes these Steiner Binoculars great for all types of watercraft including sport fishing...
Starts at $219.89
Barska 7x50 Deep Sea Waterproof Binoculars - Marine Binoculars w/ Rangefinder and Compass - AB10160
Barska 7x50 Deep Sea Waterproof Binoculars - Marine Binoculars w/ Rangefinder and Compass AB10160 ... Sea Waterproof Binoculars - Marine Binoculars w/ Rangefinder and Compass Carrying Case Neck Strap ... and Compass - AB10160, make sure to check other Barska Binoculars and other Barska products offered in our store. ... are the binoculars specifically engineered for the nautical world and boating enthusiasts. The 7x ... Barska Deep Sea Marine Binoculars. The dry-nitrogen-purged binoculars feature lenses that remain ... fogproof in both saltwater and freshwater conditions. Barska Deep Sea 7 x 50 mm Binocular is O-ring ... sealed for complete waterproof protection against the roughest of seas. Barska Marine Binoculars offer...
Steiner 15x80c M80c Commander Military Binoculars
Warranty Steiner 416-DEMO: DEMO, 15x80 M80c Commander Military Binocular with Compass Specifications ... Tripod Mount, HD Stabilized Compass, Mil Ranging Reticle Package Contents: Steiner 15x80c M80c Commander Binocular w/ Tripod Mount & Compass ... Commander Binocular w/ Tripod Mount, but are light enough to be hand held. Steiner Heritage ... for Steiner 15x80c M80c Commander Waterproof Binoculars: Magnification: 15x Objective Lens ... Many military and tactical spotters are discovering these high power Steiner 15x80c M80c Commander ... Military Binoculars are easy to use. These binocular manufactured by the experts at Steiner feature ... performance and are 30% lighter than look alike competitors. Steiner 15x80c M80c Commander Waterproof...
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Bushnell Marine 7x50 Binoculars with Grid Reticle & Illuminated Compass
Bushnell 7x50 WP Marine Waterproof Binoculars w/ Grid Reticle & Illuminated Compass 137500 ... nature. Bushnell 7x50mm Marine Binoculars with Compass deliver clear images in even the most foul ... an integrated internal grid reticle as well as an illuminated compass. These binoculars are water-tight, ... are a must have! NOTE: The compass built into these Binoculars is calibrated for use in the Northern ... Marine 7x Binoculars with Grid Reticle & Illuminated Compass 13-7500: Power x Obj.: 7x50 Size ... Yes Features of Bushnell 7x50mm Marine Binoculars with Grid Reticle, Compass: BaK-4 porro ... Reticle & Illuminated Compass, make sure to check out the other Bushnell Binoculars and other...
Starts at $179.99
Celestron Oceana 7x50 WP-IF/RC Binoculars 71189 Compass, Rangefinder Reticle, Individual Focus
Reticle/Compass Binocular belongs to Oceana Series from Celestron that features waterproof models ... In addition to Celestron Oceana 7x50mm WP-IF/RC Binoculars 71189 Compass / Rangefinder Reticle, Individual ... Celestron 7x50 WP-IF/RC Oceana #71189 is Waterproof & Fogproof Porro Prism Binocular ... (7.0-Degree Angle of View) with Compass and Rangefinder Reticle (Individual Focus). Oceana 7 x 50 IF/RC ... for marine use. Celestron Oceana 7x 50 WP-IF/RC Binocular - 71188 is rubber covered to protect against ... The Oceana Series 7x50mm WPIF-RC Focus Binocular features a completely waterproof - dry ... and temperature changes. Also Oceana Binocular 7x50 WP-IF-RC presents easy-to-grip, large objective...
Brunton Classic Field Compass Educational Kit
Brunton Classic Field Compass Educational Kit gives educators the tools for teaching basic compass ... use and map reading. This pack includes a full set of 12 or 24 Brunton Compasses together with all ... the aids and accessories to train new users in compass navigation and orientation. Available models ... of Brunton Classic Filed Compass Education Kit include: F-8900C-12: Brunton Classic Compass ... Educational Kit 12-Pack 12-9020 F-8900C-24: Brunton Classic Compass Educational Kit 24-Pack 24-9020G Our ... web-based store carries a full selection of Brunton Compasses, surveying transits, and navigational ... compasses for orienteering, water and land navigation, education, and more. Brunton doesn't stop...
Starts at $144.95
Brunton International Pocket Transit Professional Compasses
Brunton International Pocket Transit Professional Compass features the International suspension, ... working on projects throughout the globe. The International compass design, as delivered by Brunton, ... effectively reduces compass needle "dip" when surveying professionals travel to different hemispheres ... of the globe. This transit compass features powerful Alnico V magnets, mounted to a polished, cupped ... sapphire jewel bearing, allowing for smooth compass needle movement. This Brunton Compass is made ... including Brunton Compasses, surveying transits, and navigational aids. Brunton specializes in professional ... mapping and survey equipment, including professional compasses for orienteering, water and land...
Steiner 10x 56mm Nighthunter XP Roof Prism Hunting Binoculars w/ HD Optics
coatings. Steiner was the first company to integrate a compass into a binocular. Law enforcement ... Steiner 10x56 NightHunter XP Binoculars 5561 provide the power to reach out to greater distances ... without sacrificing brightness. The larger 56mm objectives of these Steiner Binoculars ensure ... a 42mm lens, the Steiner NightHunter XP 10x56mm Binocular lets you see considerably more. The ergonomic ... design houses the larger optics, but the binocular body remains small and easy to hold. Twist down ... the eye cups for for full eye relief with eye glasses. Steiner Night-Hunter XP binoculars are built ... and waterproof performance, and include a 30-year limited warranty.The Steiner Nighthunter XP Binocular...
Starts at $969.99
Steiner T42r Tactical 10x42r Binoculars w/ SUMR Reticle
Steiner T42r Tactical 10x42r Binoculars w/ SUMR Reticle will survive anything with its features, ... ergonomics, rugged reliability and visual excellence that are unsurpassed anywhere. This binocular ... toughness and dependability. The Steiner T42r Tactical 10x42r Pocket Binocular puts you closer ... provide crisp, bright images and little eye fatigue. Steiner T42r Tactical Ops 10x42r Binoculars ... Tactical R Binoculars, Charcoal, 10x42 Specifications for Steiner T42r Tactical Ops 10x42r ... Binoculars: Objective Size: 42 mm Objective Diameter: 1.7 Magnification: 10 x Weight: 28.1 oz Width: ... Eyecups: Twist-up Compass: No Armoring: NBR Accessories: objective covers, neoprene rainguard...
Starts at $489.99
Barska 7 x 50 mm Battalion Binoculars w/ Internal Rangefinder and Compass - AB10510
Barska 7 x 50 mm Battalion Binoculars w/ Internal Rangefinder & Compass AB10510 are Binoculars ... of Barska Battalion Binoculars w/ Internal Rangefinder & Compass AB10510 allow viewing under ... Battalion Binocular 7x 50mm: Internal Range Finder and Directional Compass Waterproof - O-ring sealed ... conditions Package Contents: Barska 7 x 50 mm Battalion Binoculars w/ Rangefinder and Compass - ... and Compass - AB10510, make sure to check other Barska Binoculars and other Barska products offered in our store. ... Binoculars, the Barska Battalion 7x50 Binocular is O-ring sealed for complete waterproof protection ... against the toughest conditions. Barska 7x50mm Battalion Binoculars offer an individual eyepiece...
Steiner 7x50 Marine Binoculars 575
Steiner Marine Optics 7x50 Marine Binoculars 575 is the package you've always wanted. Leave it up ... in Germany. The 7x50 Marine Steiner Binocular features fully multi-coated optics for excellent low light ... and shockproof. Nitrogen pressurized. Guaranteed to outperform any other binoculars in this price ... optical surfaces and outstanding light transmission give the 7 x 50mm Marine Binocular ... 7x50 Marine Binocular is equipped with Steiner's Sports-Autofocus system - everything is in focus ... from 20 yards to infinity once set for the user's eyes. Steiner Marine binoculars are guaranteed ... and a soft case. Steiner Heritage Warranty Steiner 575-EE: Marine Binoculars - 7x50, Waterproof, Porro...
Starts at $249.49
Steiner 8x22mm Predator Xtreme Waterproof Roof Prism Hunting Binoculars
Steiner Predator Xtreme 8x22 Waterproof Binoculars 2341 is a compact binocular that's packed ... with performance. Like all Steiner Predator Extreme binos, this hunting binocular is designed to make ... game pop out of the background at long distances. These compact binoculars features a wide field ... for bow hunting, backpacking or hiking. The Steiner 8x22 Predators make excellent pocket binoculars - ... The Steiner Predator Extreme 8x22 Hunting Binocular represents the sixth generation of contrast-enhancing ... optics developed by Steiner. These hunters binoculars feature Steiner's unique CAT (Color Adjusted ... These Steiner Binoculars add more game-finding contrast to the image by filtering out light around...
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Steiner 10x42mm Night-Hunter XP Roof Prism Hunting Binocular w/ HD Optics
Steiner also is known as the first company ever to integrate a compass into a binocular. Law enforcement ... Steiner 10x42 NightHunter XP Binoculars 5421 let you hunt earlier and stay in the field later. ... Compact and powerful, the Steiner Night Hunter XP10x42 Binocular is the most light-weight field ... binocular in its class when compared to other low-light binoculars. When it comes to brightness vs. weight, ... the Nighthunter XP 10x Binocular is clearly the winner. The binocular features proprietary Steiner ... HD optics that will change the way you see game. The Steiner NightHunter XP Hunting Binocular series ... Nighthunter X-P Binoculars unlock the darkness, letting you penetrate the shadows and spot your...


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Police credit one Minneapolis teen's quick thinking -- and quick dialing -- with helping them safely locate an abducted child and the suspect in his disappearance on Wednesday.
In just one day, Daisy Buenrostro has received a lot of surprise recognition from city officials and the Backyard Initiative for playing such a vital role in making sure Carlos Orozco was reunited with his mother.
But Buenrostro doesn't think of herself as a hero. Instead, she credits the AMBER Alert that came across her father's cell phone just an hour before police reunited the boy with his mother.
"Wow! Wow, thank you," Buenrostro said on Thursday as she received an Engaged Citizen Award from the Backyard Initiative and the Cultural Wellness Center.
City leaders, Minneapolis police and others gave the girl a well-deserved standing ovation on Thursday at Midtown Global Market because she and her father made the 911 call that led to the arrest of suspected kidnapper Isabel Diaz-Castillo.
"I was so shocked," she recalled. "I was like, 'Oh my God. This is the car.' So, I ran back inside the house and told my dad."
She did it without any thought of reward, but said the commendations came as a pleasant surprise.
"I would hope that everyone would do the same thing, so I'm just really happy that somehow I got all these awards," Buenrostro told FOX 9 News.
Police reunited 8-month-old Carlos Orozco with his mother in a matter of hours thanks to Buenrostro's report.
"The first thing I told my daughter was to get on her knees, put on a candle and be thankful that he came back safely," Veronica Hernandez, the boy's grandmother, told FOX 9 News by phone.
Vicky Orozco told FOX 9 News she had put her son into a car seat for a nap while she took a shower and came out to find he was missing. While the family is certainly relieved to have him safely back at home, Hernandez said there's also heartache because the boy returned with much shorter hair.
"She was crying and saying how she doesn't have his first lock of hair," Hernandez explained. "At the same time, we're thankful that we have him back."
The Bureau of Criminal Investigation credits the first Wireless Emergency Alert with leading to a quick and safe recovery, adding that the cell phone alerts issued on Wednesday were the first of the kind in the United States to lead to a successful recovery of a missing child.
In a release on Thursday, the BCA mentioned Buenrostro's use of the WEA alert as an example of its success.
"Teenagers are on their phones a lot, but in this case, it helped law enforcement reunite a little boy with his mother," said Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner Mona Dohman. "Wireless Emergency Alerts are another important way to ensure the public receives vital information right away, wherever they are."
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The beach is wide and kept clean. The condo is nice with a balcony but does not have a clear view of the beach. There is a nice pool and whirlpool. It can get crowded at the pool during peek season. The condo is clean but there is no daily service. About 1 hour from Busch Gardens.
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The management staff are wonderful, from booking questions to extremely helpful once you arrive. They took care of all our needs
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This unit is really great, all the space and everything we would need. Clean and neat, the only thing , I would get rid of the silk
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very clean well kept condo nice view and quiet and restful setting. would absolutely stay again and would reccomend it for anyone wanting a great place to go for vacation
A wonderful condo and ideal location. Everything was clean and plenty of towels and bedding. The Managers of the property were only too pleased to help with anything and were extremely friendly. Have stayed at Maderia Beach/Treasure Island many times but never in this condo - we will be back to stay again, but this time would like a beach front condo. Our daughter and her boyfriend came with us for the first time and they love the place so much are planning to go back next year! We love FLORIDA!


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The staff and friends of the Mental Health Association in Orange County, led by Nadia Allen, executive director, enjoyed the recent fundraising Silver Ball. It was conducted at the Round Hill House in Washingtonville, with several hundred attending.
A highlight was presenting Sidney Hirschfeld, a former director of Mental Hygiene Legal Service, second judicial district, with the nonprofit's prestigious Silver Bell Award.
The 2013 Corporate Bell Award was presented to Orange Regional Medical Center. It was received by Scott Batulis, president and CEO of the hospital, Rolland Peacock III, chairman of the hospital's board of directors, and Sher Singh, a board member.
The concert is titled "Another Lifetime," which also is the title of her latest album of jazz in which her playing is described by her husband, rock guitarist Carlos Santana, as "fire of passion."
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Summary: When Oprah Winfrey chose Mary McGarry Morris's Songs in Ordinary Time for her book club, she brought more than a million new readers under the spell of a novelist whom the Boston Sunday Globe has called "brilliantly acute...remarkable", and USA Today "extraordinary...deeply satisfying." Critics have compared her to John Steinbeck and Carson McCullers, among others.Now, Morris returns with Fiona Range, a powerful story about a promiscuous woman trying to get her life in order. Raised by a prominent aunt and uncle near Boston, thirty-year-old Fiona Range has developed a high threshold for emotional pain. Her recklessness, generosity, and poor judgment have landed her in more scrapes than her well-bred family -or small-town community -can tolerate. Beautiful, volatile, and smart tongued (or trashy, erratic, and wild, depending on whom you ask), Fiona hits rock bottom with a strange man in her bed after a hapless end to a party. Determined to change, Fiona is certain she fits in somewhere beyond the disapproving family her unwed mother abandoned her to. Maybe comfort lies with Patrick Grady -the scowling Vietnam veteran, scarred in face and soul, her rumored father who wants absolutely nothing to do with her. Undeterred by this dangerous man's threats and angered by the warnings of family and friends, she begins to pursue him...Fiona Range is the compelling story of goodness undermined by guilt, of perilous obsession, and of the twisted bond of betrayal committed in the name of love.
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Art school is hard.
On one hand you are there to learn technical skills so you can be more 'professional' and that's awesome and useful, and lets you do a whole new spectrum of things that you didn't think you would be able to pull off.
But on the other, you are put under pressure to conform to the accepted artistic conventions. You start noticing clichés and repetitions, you pick your own work apart and start only creating things to satisfy grades and tutors.
Many of my 'art school friends' have said the same as me. After going to college to study art, the creativity has gone, I no longer create art for fun because I'm so focused on what has to be done.
Certainly BA year has been a lot better and we have been encouraged to do as much creative free thinking as possible, but it seems too late, my creativity has been broken, and nowadays I am more of a thinker. I think so much into art that I hate it all. I miss the days where I created things because they were pretty and that was enough.
I know it is kind of preparing you for working in an art industry but that makes me sad that the professional 'creative' world is actually not that creative, it's more structured and elitist. That world seems closed minded and uninterested in anything 'different'. Different in this way meaning anything not weird and conceptual. It's gone so backward.
I should make some art about this….


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I designed this dress, made the pattern for it, and then made it. My mom gave me the fabric which I couldn't have found better. I made the lace piping to go with it. I love everything about this dress!
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beautiful dress and photos! i love it!
Aug 28, 2011, 06.53 PMby katexxxxxx
What a cute frock. Well done. Love the piping…
Aug 28, 2011, 05.50 PMby stars
Gorgeous dress, very romantic and a fantastic photo shoot, it really sets the scene.
Aug 29, 2011, 08.57 AMby RoniBarr
I have to agree! And the fabric is amazing! Kudos on doing the designing and making the dress pattern. :)
Aug 28, 2011, 02.46 PMby mlichtenwalner
I can see why this made it to the front page. Stunning!
Aug 27, 2011, 06.55 PMby The Tropical Sewist
Awh! Perfection!
Aug 27, 2011, 10.51 AMby jellybear
Awesome! So feminine.
Aug 27, 2011, 09.55 AMby dabura
Simple and stylish-well done :) Congrats!
Aug 27, 2011, 03.59 AMby wildcatspow
I love it! Great job!
Aug 27, 2011, 12.14 AMby lily yey
reminds me Russian stile , soviet union , easy and beautiful . when i saw it just waned to go back to my country by one of those dresses and get marred thank you. love your work <3
Aug 26, 2011, 09.38 PMby saylavie
beautiful dress!!
Aug 26, 2011, 04.58 PMby urdujabee
beautiful! it's stunning!
Aug 26, 2011, 03.36 PMby kihli
What a stunning dress you made! I love the seamlines and the buttons at the front!
Aug 26, 2011, 02.26 PMby daughterfish
Lovely! So pretty with the handfull of lace!
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Aug 19, 2011, 09.13 PMby mojo elgin
It's gorgeous!
Aug 19, 2011, 11.26 AMby elsa
Lovely dress and pictures! It looks fabulous on you!
Aug 18, 2011, 10.41 PMby fatface
This is lovely and your pictures are great – so creative
Aug 18, 2011, 08.24 PMby freakusbzzz
Its beautiful
Aug 18, 2011, 06.18 PMby cyndi-de-crafti
LOVE this dress SO MUCH! <3
Aug 18, 2011, 04.37 PMby leahfranqui
So beautiful, and the photos are phenomenal!
Aug 18, 2011, 02.11 PMby Menke
What a lovely pictures and ofcourse what I lovely dress, fitt's beautifully. Wow. weldone!
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i cant wait to see it!!! i think im going to have to wait for it on dvd though
i havent seen breaking dawn part 1 yet :(
shes like the wind is one of my all time favourite songs! i love all of the songs from dirty dancing! yeah, i think im ready for breaking dawn! not completely sure if i will be able to see it at the cinemas though :( but my boyfriend is going to try his best to take me!
oh, i cant believe that i forgot about grease!! i love that film! also i kinda like the old musicals which my mum loves!! what are your favourite songs from dirty dancing? i have got the soundtrack!
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I'll be in a few places in Europe these next two weeks, and would love to meet up with anyone who's available.
I feel bad for not mentioning Øredev earlier (so you might actually be able to plan attending), but it's a world-class software developing conference with great speakers including Billy Hollis, Lisa Crispin, and Brian Foote. And, for some reason, I made the list and will be giving a talk on Ugly Code
NLUUG is the association of (professional) Open Systems and Open Standards users in the Netherlands, and is holding a conference focused on Software Development. It's a good mix of topics from C++11 to Scrum, and of course, an exploration of Ugly Code by yours truly.
Who's up for grabbing a few drinks in Amsterdam this Friday? Please drop me a note so we can get a group together and figure out a time/place. Thus far, we're thinking 6:30P at Waag.
Next week, I'll be talking about NuGet for the Enterprise and then heading to the pub with user groups in Cambridge (Monday), Oxford (Tuesday), Gloucestershire (Wednesday), and Southampton (Thursday).
It's pub night on Friday (Nov 16)! Meet at 7PM at Burger Breakout at The Old Crown, 33 New Oxford St, WC1A 1BH, and make sure to contact me if you're coming.
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Can you spot the gamer in this picture, taken at yesterday's thrilling Yomiuri Giants baseball game?
No? Here's a closer shot.
There he is! Nothing like some quality time with the DS when your family has shelled out for a bunch of seats at the Tokyo Dome. I love you, Mom and Dad! Just not as much as Professor Layton! By the way, the Giants were playing to clinch the pennant in this game, so it ought to have been pretty exciting (and it was—the Giants won).
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Oil Spill - Fish and Shellfish Consumption Advisory
Because of the presence of oil in Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is recommended that people not consume fish, shrimp or crabs from areas where oil is present. Persons should discard fish, shrimp or crabs that have oil on them or have a hydrocarbon smell or taste. For the full advisory from the Texas Dept. of State Health Services including answers to common questions, click here.
Seafood Consumption Advisories
While Galveston Bay is an outstanding place to fish, you need to be aware of seafood consumption advisories!
The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) issues seafood consumption advisories when tests on fish and shellfish indicate there is an increased risk to human health from the presence of toxic pollutants.
This map shows the seafood consumption advisories that are currently in place in the Galveston Bay system and its tributaries. There are really four areas, each having its own set of affected species.
Species Affected, and DSHS Advisories in Each Area of Concern
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|The Houston Ship Channel and all contiguous waters north of the Fred Hartman Bridge (Hwy. 146), including the San Jacinto River below the Lake Houston Dam.
|All species of fish and blue crab.
|Dioxin, organochlorine pesticides and PCBs.
|Upper Galveston Bay and all contiguous waters north of a line from Red Bluff Point to Five Mile Cut Marker to Houston Point.
|All catfish species, spotted seatrout, and blue crab.
|Dioxin and PCBs.
|Galveston Bay system south of a line from Red Bluff Point to Five Mile Cut Marker to Houston Point, including Chocolate Bay, East Bay, West Bay, Trinity Bay, and contiguous waters.
|All catfish species.
|Dioxin and PCBs.
|Clear Creek upstream and west of Clear Lake.
|All species of fish.
Consumption Advice You Should Follow for All Areas Except Clear Creek
In each of these three areas for the species listed, the following advice should be followed to decrease risks to human health:
Women of childbearing age and children under the age of 12 - DO NOT EAT ANY AMOUNT OF THE SPECIES LISTED!
Women past childbearning age and adult men - DO NOT EAT MORE THAN 8 OUNCES PER MONTH OF THE SPECIES LISTED!
Consumption Advice You Should Follow for Clear Creek Upstream of Clear Lake
All persons - DO NOT EAT ANY AMOUNT OF ANY SPECIES OF FISH!
Why Is There a Risk from Consuming the Species Listed in These Areas?
When fish and crab eat, they accumulate toxic pollutants present in the prey they consume or in tainted sediment or water they filter. This process is called bioaccumulation. These toxic materials - such as organochlorine pesticides, dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) - are in the environment as a result of rainfall runoff from land, spills, leaks, and improper disposal of industrial wastes.
These pollutants can especially accumulate in the fatty areas, glands, and organs of fish and crabs. As a result, some species of fish that have higher fat content - such as spotted seatrout and catfish - are listed for the advisories while others - such as red drum, black drum, croaker, and flounder - are not. However, in areas of heavy industry such as above the Lynchburg Ferry, all species of fish and blue crabs may have higher concentrations.
Exposure to organochlorine pesticides, dioxins and PCBs can cause a range of illness from skin rashes to immune system and nerve disorders to liver damage and increased risk of cancer. These toxins also pose a risk of birth defects and the development of children. The Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry has more information on dioxins and PCBs.
What about Shrimp, Oysters and Clams?
There are no DSHS seafood consumption advisories on shrimp, oysters, or clams. However, the harvest of molluscan shellfish (oysters, clams, and mussels) is illegal in DSHS designated "Prohibited Areas" that are in proximity to sewage treatment plant discharge locations, known contaminated areas, or other area with a high potential of containing unsafe levels of a pollutant. For example, the Houston Ship Channel/San Jacinto River upstream of Morgan's Point is a prohibited molluscan shellfish harvest area. You can find more information and maps on the DSHS Shellfish Harvest Classification webpage.
How You Can Reduce Your Risk from These Toxins
You should do your best to follow the advisory recommendations for consumption of the species listed in these areas. Instead of eating the same type of fish from the same waterbodies, you should fish for different species from a variety of waterbodies. You should eat smaller, younger fish that have less time to accumulate toxins in their bodies. Last, if you clean and cook the fish or crabs so that you avoid eating their fatty portions, you can reduce your risk.
DSHS has detailed information on each of these advisories. Click on the following links for PDF versions of each advisory:
These advisories and much more information such as detailed maps, risk characterization studies, and Frequently Asked Questions can be found on the DSHS Seafood and Aquatic Life Group webpage. Just click on "Fish Consumption Advisory" on the left-hand side of the page.
What is Being Done About Contaminated Seafood?
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the Houston-Galveston Area Council have initiated total maximum daily load (TMDL) projects for the Houston Ship Channel, San Jacinto River, Upper Galveston Bay, and Galveston Bay to pinpoint sources of dioxins and PCBs and develop a plan to reduce them. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is overseeing a cleanup of the San Jacinto River Waste Pits Superfund Site, one such source of dioxin to the San Jacinto River and Galveston Bay. You are encouraged to participate as a member of the public in both of these projects!
For More Information
For more information on the seafood consumption advisories, please contact:
- Galveston Bay Foundation: Scott Jones at (281) 332-3381 x209 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Why Do Newborns Cry Without Tears?
The term "cry baby" is a bit of a misnomer, at least for the first weeks of life. Although newborns are physiologically able to produce tears, they almost always cry without them. No one knows exactly why this is, though some suggest immature neural wiring or that newborns simply don't have the emotional intensity necessary to elicit tears. (And, of course, they haven't seen Bambi yet.)
Babies are born with basal tearing, meaning their tear ducts deliver just enough wet stuff to keep the eyes moist and healthy, and reflex tearing, the kind you get when slicing an onion or battling with a stray eyelash. Newborns do not have psychic tearing (tearing that indicates emotional distress). It's between 2 and 4 months of age that a baby's psychic tears kick in. A trigger—loneliness, frustration—causes the baby's nervous system to stimulate a cranial nerve in the brain, and that in turn sends a message to the tear glands.
Be warned: A baby's dry-eyed wail is one thing, but add a little water to that puckered-up face and there won't be a dry eye in the house.
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These Minnesota college students get an A+ for adventure. Follow along as they explore the world while studying abroad.
Read about our contributors: Katelin Harned, Emily Atmore, Catherine Earley, Rachel Fohrman, Paul Lundberg, Andrew Morrison and Emily Walz.
As embarrassed as I am to admit this, before studying abroad I was anxious about almost everything that traveling involves. On the trip to Paris I took with my mom my junior year of high school I think I spent half the time we were there worrying. I was one of those people that focused on the who, what, where, when, why, and how's of travel, and wanted everything planned out. Now, 3 years later, I am here to say to anyone who is like I was, stop. Our lives are full of routines as it is, what time you go to work, when your favorite TV shows are on, homework deadlines, the list goes on. Travel should never be looked at as another thing you need to schedule, as it turns what should be an adventure into "What's next on our list?" So get rid of those guide books with the "Perfect itinerary for blank number of days in blank European City", and learn to let cities take you where they want you to go. While this line of thinking is true when it comes to most (if not all) European cities, my trip to Paris with my brother two weeks ago is the perfect example.
When my parents told me my brother was officially coming to visit, I could not have been more excited, and choosing between him flying into Amsterdam and Paris was an easy choice. I had been to Paris six times already but was still desperate to go back, so it was a given that I would choose my favorite city to show my brother. Other than booking our train tickets and where we would stay, I hadn't really thought of what we would actually do for 4 days in Paris. It wasn't until our last day there, when it was rainy and grey that I realized how bad plans can actually be.
When it comes to Paris and weather you never know what you're going to get. Rain could come unexpectedly, or the days you expected it to rain it could be a perfectly sunny day. On our last day in Paris, as the rain came down and my brother and I crouched under my umbrella, I caught a glimpse of the Eiffel Tower and thought of all those poor people who had planned to visit it that day. I think the worst advice any guide book can ever give is "book tickets in advance to avoid lines." Once you book tickets for something your day now revolves around that, rain or shine. You can't just wander the city, because you may actually get lost and miss the time on your ticket. You can't spend extra time at the museum you thought you'd only need a few hours for, because that would just ruin the whole day. I'm not saying you should go into a trip not having a few ideas of what you want to see, but to remember that most often times it's the things that surprise you that create the best memories.
You may be asking, how does one get the best of the planned and unplanned? It's quite simple, don't plan around the "tourist attractions", and fit them in when they work. The evening my brother and I went to the Eiffel tower we went because it was a clear day and I knew we would be able to actually see the city, and so we went. Going up the Eiffel tower on a nice day without advance tickets can seem impossible, but the stairs hardly ever have a line, and as my brother said, "Even on vacations, you shouldn't skip leg day." So while everyone waited in line for the elevators at the Eiffel Tower, my brother and I were already at the top sipping delicious, granted overly priced, champagne. When it comes to the Louvre, look at the forecast before bed and if it says rain the next morning, get there before it opens. Not only will you be one of the first in lines, but then you have a perfectly good reason to relax, enjoy a macaroon and espresso at Ladurée along the Champs Élysées later in the day. Get off at a metro or bus stop and walk. European cities are full of history; the chances of you running into something you wanted to see anyway are around 99%. On the off chance you don't, your chances of finding a delicious, not overpriced tourist restaurant have now gone up exponentially.
All the trips I've taken this past semester have slowly helped me come to this one conclusion: people need to stop having checklists of all the monuments they need to see, and all the museums they feel the need to visit. I hope that travel can eventually stop being about how many things one got to see, and start becoming about the things one actually stopped and experienced.
How Plum Flowers Embarrass a Garden
When everything has faded they alone shine forth
encroaching on the charms of smaller gardens
their scattered shadows fall lightly on clear water
their subtle scent pervades the moonlit dusk
snowbirds look again before they land
butterflies would faint if they but knew
thankfully I can flirt in whispered verse
I don't need a sounding board or wine cup
林逋 Lín Bū (967-1028)
(Poems of the Masters; translated by Red Pine/Bill Porter, Copper Canyon Press, 2003)
梅花 méihuā. Song dynasty poets were enamored with them. Prunus mume, Chinese plum, Japanese apricot, ume from the Japanese, mei from the Chinese, winter plum – the flowering tree goes by many names.
The annual International Plum Blossom Festival begins in late February. By March, the Zhongshan national park on the edge of Nanjing is bursting with five-petal blossoms.
A few months ago, when a friend asked "what is Nanjing famous for?" I answered, "the massacre." True, but a nicer answer would have been the plum blossoms. The festival officially launched in 1996, and while it still seems to be a well-kept secret, its organizers are aiming high, an event to rival Japan's cherry blossoms. The "international" month-and-a-half festival is one the city government's website boasts attracts millions.
I visited on a Wednesday, when only a sprinkling of people milled about. Sometimes I walked for full minutes without seeing anyone at all, a beautiful rarity in urban China. Many of the people there were workers pruning trees, or elderly people who seem to congregate in parks.
The smaller numbers might also have been because I entered the part of the park that required a ticket, leading to Plum Blossom Hill and the gardens staged after famous scenes from the novel Dream of the Red Chamber. I realized on my way out there was a back gate standing wide open.
That was toward the tail end of the festival, a beautiful late March afternoon. There were still quite a few blossoms, even if the lady selling tickets next to the big PLUM BLOSSOM FESTIVAL sign said when I asked where to find them, "oh, plum blossoms? Those are all gone."
I would lose money on a bet to differentiate between plum and peach and pear blossoms, or cherry, but trees all over the mountain were still in bloom. There might have been some jasmine blossoms thrown in there, too, possibly osmanthus. Without a field guide it was hard to say.
As early as the blossoms come, the trees bear fruit in June and July, coinciding with the rainy season of East Asia. The downpours are called 梅雨 méiyǔ, the plum rains. The fruit is used to make sour plum juice, 酸梅湯 suān méi tāng, and of course 梅酒 méijiǔ, plum wine.
The Asian plum trees originated in southern China around the Yangtze river, later spreading to the other parts of Asia. There are rumors of a tree in Hubei province dating from the Jin dynasty, some 1600 years ago.
Plum blossoms are important in traditional painting, invested with a wealth of cultural and symbolic meaning, named in a long series of numbered lists: one of the four season flowers, one of the four nobles, the five petals symbolizing five fortunes.
While unequivocally proclaimed the city flower of Nanjing, there's a bit of a contest over national flower status. The plum blossom since 1964 has been the national flower of the Republic of China, which is to say, Taiwan.
The Qing Dynasty declared the national flower of China the peony. The People's Republic has gone through several nomination phases, but no single flower has been ratified as the final choice. Several factions were pushing for a dual-flower recognition of both the plum blossom and peony.
On the way out, I went past part of the Nanjing branch of the UNESCO-recognized world heritage Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
It's a large park. I was wandering in the palace part, apparently still a hike from the actual tombs. The layout is similar to that of other famous imperial locales, the Forbidden City among them: thick-walled gates, wide outdoor corridors leading ever inward to taller guard towers and inner buildings.
Toward the back I ended up in a landscape that looked a bit like the Secret Garden. I kept wandering, not sure where it would lead, but eventually it looped back around to the palace complex where I could stand by the parapets and look down at the walkers and steamed-bun sellers below.
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Two weeks ago, I woke up in Rio De Janeiro to a cacophony of samba music and streets flooded with elaborately costumed belligerent tourists while the residents of Rio went about selling fruit and stocking their shops. It was 7:30 in the morning and my week long Carnival experience was merely beginning. A strike among the waste management staff in Rio had left the streets covered in garbage but people continued to celebrate no matter what they were stepping on. Carnival is like the marriage of Halloween and ancient African traditions to an average tourist but I wondered how actual Cariocas, people from Rio De Janeiro, actually feel about the festivities. To understand the customs of the holiday, I will take you into my experience and offer resources for you to learn more about this remarkable and cultural celebration.
[Traditional dances at Ipanema Beach were just one of the many cultural performances open to the public to participate it - Credit: Andrew Morrison]
Carnival was derived from ancient Roman Catholic traditions and was transplanted to Rio De Janeiro during the 19th century. The mixture of cultures making up the population of Rio and the extravagant samba school parades are what makes Rio one of the most unique Carnival experiences in the world. Last year, Carnival attracted over 2 billion tourists and generated approximately 2.5 billion in revenue. In Rio, Carnival is big business. The celebration differs regionally however, with the greatest popularity occurring in the northeastern and southeastern regions of the country. The large cities in these regions basically shut-down during the week of Carnival which takes place Friday to the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday.
[With waste management workers on strike and thousands of tourists flooding the city, garbage began to pile up rapidly during Carnival - Credit: Andrew Morrison]
The extravagant parades are made up of 12 different samba groups competing to be the best school of Rio De Janeiro. Each group represents a different neighborhood of Rio De Janeiro and they must develop a completely original choreographed song with an allotted 80 minutes to perform. These performances are practiced for seven months in a giant warehouse in complete secrecy and when Carnival finally takes place, each group of 5,000 plus performers takes public transportation to the famed Sambadrome and begins their show. The floats are enormous and highly elaborate like moving art galleries pushed by people for the entire 80 minutes. No machines are allowed in the performances. The best six of the 12 samba schools go on to the champion's parade but only one is the true champion.
[Perhaps the most iconic figure of Carnival is the Queen of the Drums - The woman that leads the entire samba school and must impress judges with her samba choreography - Credit: Ndecam via Flickr CC]
This year the group Unidos Da Tijuca won the competition with their "agility" themed performance. Every performer represented something related to speed like a pack of cheetahs or a swarm of racecars. Another group represented pirates of the Caribbean, complete with twirling sword fights and scallywags being shot out of cannons hundreds of feet above the crowd. The bit that consistently entranced me was the duo flag bearers that lead each group like a prom king and queen. They have the honor of presenting their school's signature flag and the mission of charming the crowd, judges and cameras. Often, but not surprisingly, a member of the duo is a Brazilian celebrity. The entire Sambadrome experience costs a minimum of $200 for basic admission. Tourists can also pay to participate in the famed parade, even wear the costumes and learn the choreography.
[The Sambadrome is the epicenter of Carnival in Brazil seating over 72,000 patrons - Credit: Chupacabras via Flickr CC]
The Reality
Some attend the Sambadrome annually and are loyal fans to specific groups but what I learned from my experience in Rio De Janeiro was that most Cariocas would rather participate in one of the hundreds of Blocos de Rua, or block parties. The block parties are where you can learn the dances, meet the samba band members, and actually participate in the new and old Carnival traditions. These Blocos occur across the city, are completely free, and each with a totally different vibe. Some are strictly samba while others might be alternative rock. The event begins with a band, followed by dancing, and finally a parade where everyone participates including children and elderly people in wheelchairs. It is a beautiful sight to see an entire community celebrating together.
[A young boy costumed as Captain America sprays silly string into the air as his mother holds his shield. These are the kind of parades in Rio that I truly appreciated - Credit: Andrew Morrison]
My 11 days in Rio De Janeiro proved that the city had all of the exotic charms I wanted to discover for myself. Carnival proved to be the most elaborate and extravagant party I have ever attended and not to mention the record-smashing number of men wearing bras. Ultimately, I fell in love with the freedom of the celebration and the inclusiveness for all people no matter where they rank socioeconomically, what age group they are in or what gender pronoun they choose. The workers strike finally ended with the group earning the increased rights and wages they had demanded and the streets of Rio De Janeiro returned to normal. The celebrations of the workers melted into the block parties almost as if there had never been a problem. Despite the major dispute, Carnival remains the week in every year where Brazil opens up their streets to the world and pushes you to ask, "so what is normal?"
My name is Andrew Morrison and I am an environmental science senior from the University of Minnesota completing soil science research in southern Brazil for an entire year. If you have suggestions or ideas please contact me via my site
To learn more about Brazil use these resources:
- The entire Sambadrome parade of 2013
- A free online course about the history of Brazil
Unlike "banana," "apple," and the inexplicable "apple with a banana flavor" my first Chinese textbook insisted was real (as best as I can tell, it's not), none of these fruits were a part of my beginning language classes. If I'd ever heard of them before, their names were nothing but bright abstractions conjuring islands, unfamiliar trees, hot suns. I learned to parrot the Chinese words for a series of fruits never real to me outside of Asia, in some cases later matching them with English names like "pommelo" or "red bayberry" or some other unfamiliar label (unrecognized by my version of Microsoft Word) that didn't help explain to my father what it was I was waving in the corner of his computer screen.
These fruits are an interesting study of the connection between object and language. Often, the language in which something is first known becomes the default, as though that thing is more firmly entwined with its name in that language, that Chinese is its true name and English a paltry shadow, or English tied to its essence and Chinese a clumsy affixation. Sometimes it's a matter of ease. Pommelo in Chinese has two syllables, 柚子youzi, and that becomes the name everyone around me calls it by, even in the midst of all-English conversations.
Having learned to categorize Clementines and Mandarins and Navels as "oranges" in the broad sense, I struggle in Chinese to make distinctions between fruits that all look like they belong to that family but are apparently strictly separated based on some invisible logic - small greenish globes with orange-like interiors; larger yellow-orange fruits also sectioned into slices sealed in semi-transparent white; palm-sized spheres slightly flat at the ends and easy to peel. They might be 橙子chengzi, 柑子 ganzi, 柑橘 ganju, or 橘子 juzi. No broader category of "orange" to sweep them all into. I'm still not wholly confident I have that one sorted out. Vendors are puzzled if I approach asking how much the chengzi cost while pointing at something that clearly belongs in the juzi category.
Names are the beginning. Learning to properly label a fruit is part one of the challenge that continues with finding out how to know when it is ripe and how to eat it, tasks that seem deceptively easy. It should be basic: peel, and eat, or don't peel and just eat, but even choosing which of those two methods to follow can be a decision fraught with uncertainty.
With its fuchsia rind, this sweltering tropical fruit is the only one to ever rival my love for the wild raspberry.
Those tiny orbs were long banned from the U.S., and once imports began to trickle through in 2007, they would sell for fortunes a pound in upscale East Coast groceries.
The woman who would become one of the best friends China ever brought me introduced me to the mangosteen in the warmer months of 2012. Mountains of those dark magenta spheres were tumbling out the front of fruit stands lining the streets we walked toward our favorite coffee-shop haunts. She had spent part of her childhood in Sri Lanka and knew far more about how to choose and eat the fruits stacked in piles in Beijing's bustling produce markets than I had learned growing up in Minnesota. It was summer in northern China. There were almost no blueberries, few strawberries, and not a raspberry for miles.
I wasn't precisely sure what a mangosteen was, or how it differed from a mango. She taught me to choose the ones that give a little when pressed, that the hard ones are no good. She showed me how to dig my thumbnail into the rind, to crack open the woody red-purple shell, to peel it away in chunks and pull out the tender white heart, divvied into wedges like a Clementine, soft and sweet and drippy, melting into a single oblong brown seed. We bought bags of them. My fingernails gained a semi-permanent magenta cast, my palms became sticky.
This was the first summer I spent in Beijing.
For a long time, the U.S. banned import of a lot of Thai fruits, including the mangosteen (ostensibly to protect against the Asian fruit fly), and given the fruit's fussy nature and short ripening window, few are imported from Asia even after irradiation has allowed for a reasonable level of security against invasive pests. A small number of persistent cultivators have started growing them in tropical Western hemisphere locales like Puerto Rico and Hawai'i. The New York Times reported $45-per-pound sales on 2007 Puerto Rican mangosteens in New York's ritzy health food shops. In China they are an everyman fruit, where a handful of yuan will get you a bagful in the right season, instead of a $10-per-tiny-globe deal. Even with prices dropping some, the logistics seem to be against bringing the mangosteen into widespread popularity in North America.
The mystery fruit
I stumbled upon this fruit up in the mountains of 广西/Guangxi, one of China's southern provinces. I have not seen it before or since. The sign read 猴头果 houtouguo. Google translate renders this as "hedgehog fruit." It looked like a giant berry, its drupelets grown large and unyielding.
I asked the vendor how to eat it. She said "like a grape."
When I was out of the mountains and back in Guilin, I showed the fruit to the woman working at my hostel and asked what it was. She told me she had no idea, and had never seen it before.
I carefully rinsed it and patted it dry, but as I plucked off sections and began to chew, (the outside fibrous and sort of mild ginger-fresh tasting), it occurred to me that "like a grape" might mean the way many Chinese people eat grapes, spitting out the skins, and not the way I was accustomed to eating grapes, skin and all.
At that point I decided to wait to make sure nothing bad was going to happen to me for swallowing sections whole before I continued my experimental fruit-eating.
The passionfruit with its firm-burst seeds was a fruit I'd seen only in beverages, most often chopped up into a beautiful mojito in one of Beijing's back-alley artisan cocktail bars, and not something I'd encountered whole. I didn't know it came in small bright-purple spheres, harder than a pear, smaller than an apple. Again, I had no idea how to eat it.
Visiting Guilin was the first time I saw people eating them as they walked, vendors sitting at the side of the road with buckets of them. Apparently one eats passionfruit with a spoon, cutting it open and scraping out the interior, butterscotch yellow tangles with black seeds to crunch through.
She sliced off the top and handed me a tiny plastic spoon. 1 yuan, 1 fruit.
Made in the moon's image, the most famous Mid-Autumn festival food are the dense, round pastries known as mooncakes, or yuè bĭng 月饼, given as gifts between family and friends.
It had originally been the tradition to hand-make mooncakes. I live in a dorm. I have no oven and no idea where to start making a mooncake. This year, I joined the majority of people in opting to purchase mine pre-made. From the traditional lotus seed paste and salty duck eggs (the roundness, again), to sweeter flavors like taro and pineapple paste, there are an unpredictable variety of fillings to choose from.
Beyond their role as snack and traditional gift, mooncakes are something of a cultural icon. Legend has it that secret military plans baked into mooncakes helped in a Han uprising against the ruling Mongols during the Yuan dynasty, letting the Ming revolutionaries spread messages coordinating their attack. This year, the Wall Street Journal ran photos of pandas in Guangzhou province being fed special bamboo-powder mooncakes for the holiday. Even merchants like Starbucks and Häagen-Dazs have gotten in on the game, creating for sale their own versions of mooncake-shaped sweets.
Mooncake-giving has also become linked to status, and in some cases, corruption, when incredibly lavish cakes are given to politically and socially influential figures in the hopes of gaining favor. Gifts to officials in past years have reportedly included gold-encrusted cakes stuffed with sharkfin and other expensive delicacies, and beautiful boxes with room for hiding bribes. This year, demand for these most luxurious mooncakes is said to be down following the new president's emphasis on cracking down on corruption. Mine were a more garden-variety, picked up from the grocery store, shoved into a flimsy plastic bag and weighed by the gram. It was a little more than 14 yuan for the dozen I got, or about two dollars - nowhere near the highest-priced boxes that sell for hundreds.
All this and despite my best efforts, I still have no idea what the majority of the filling flavors were.
This week marked 中秋節 (zhōngqiū jié), or the Mid-Autumn festival. Celebrated in several Asian nations, Mid-Autumn festival falls on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, when the moon is full (September 19th this year). The same as the Northern hemisphere's harvest moon, it falls during the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox. Given the importance of the full moon, the holiday is also referred to as the Moon festival.
The history of celebrating the autumn harvest is very old, and the accompanying veneration of the full moon also goes back several thousand years. The festival in its more organized form seems to have gained popularity during the Tang dynasty (618-907AD).
Today, Mid-Autumn festival is a public holiday in China. Traditionally a time for reuniting with family and giving thanks, most people spend the holiday with relatives. The moon in its roundness is said to symbolize family unity.
I spoke with my Chinese roommate about her plans to spend time with relatives for the holiday. Not having enough time to get back to her immediate family, she is spending time with other relatives, including an uncle. The word she used for "uncle" led us to a discussion of vocabulary for relatives, which is far more complex in Chinese than in English. There is one word for "uncle" used when speaking of one's father's elder brother, and another for one's father's younger brother, and yet other words for maternal uncles and uncles-by-marriage in what seems to me to be an almost endless variety of combinations. In this case she explained the relative is really her mother's cousin, but since it's her mother's side of the family she used the word for maternal uncle. We briefly digressed into the many words for "cousin." Having some forty-odd first cousins, this particular family vocabulary complexity has always plagued me. I am usually reduced to describing the relationship (the daughter of my father's younger brother, who is younger than I am) instead of using the proper word.
In addition to the different words for cousins on your father's and mother's side, she also reminded me that the correct term also depends on whether your cousin (male or female, elder or younger) is born to your father's brother or sister. Essentially, there is one category of words for the cousins who share your last name, or "belong" to your family, and another for the category of cousins born to female relatives who "belong" to someone else's clan/household and have other last names. She said though that sort of thinking is outdated, the words are the vestiges of the idea that girl children are born to be "given away" and after marriage, she will no longer belong to your house, and any children born to her belong to husband's family.
Of the many fables surround Mid-Autumn festival, one of the most popular is the story of Houyi, the mythical hero who saved the world from drought and famine by shooting down nine of the ten suns in the sky until only one remained, and Chang'e, his wife. Houyi was rewarded for his efforts with an elixir of immorality, which he gave to his wife for safekeeping. Once when Houyi was away, an evil disciple came to Chang'e and demanded the elixir. To protect it from falling into his hands, she drank it herself and floated away in the sky, coming to rest in the moon. Heartbroken, Houyi lined up her favorite cakes under the moon, hoping to bring her back. Others in sympathy joined him in setting out offerings. Chang'e's outline is said to be seen in the full moon.
This story has many variations, one of which was acted out by my classmates in shadow-theater style.
Chang'e is also known as the moon goddess, or the goddess of immortality. The first spacecraft in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program was a lunar orbiter named "Chang'e 1." Chang'e 3, China's first lunar rover, is set to launch later this year.
For those who cannot see their loved ones, the festival is also a time for "expressing the strong yearnings for family and friends who live afar," with whom we share the same moon, no matter the distance. Poetic, and fitting for the many foreign students who are my classmates, all of us far from home.
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In the event we did a lot of wandering, it proved tricky to find something to fit the precise brief but on a walk out to the St George's chapel at the south eastern tip of the island we spotted a possible candidate. A flat 10 minute walk-in, east facing so offering p.m. shade (which is quite rare on the island) and about 25m high. A return with a rope and a quick abseil confirmed that the rock was generally good, there were some decent lines but sadly though, the whole thing was just a bit steep for my tastes.
I have been climbing with Colin Binks for well over 40 years now and I know he loves a challenge. He has done a fair bit of new routing in Yorkshire including putting up some of the big sport routes at Foredale Quarry - I assumed he would know one end of a drill from the other. As his 65th birthday was fast approaching I made him an offer of a birthday present I hoped he couldn't refuse; a 10 day 'all-expenses-paid' trip to Kaly in return for a bit of 'help'.
In theory the Municipality of Kalymnos provides the gear (bolts, drill and lower-offs) for the equipping of new routes on the island, but it isn't quite that simple. It looks a bit like it depends on who you are and/or who you know, which is fair enough I guess, they don't want to be throwing gear at all and sundry. I managed to get hold of the drill, though the 'material' was harder to come-by. Despite his best efforts a load of metalwork ordered from Jim Titt of Bolt Products in Germany (at a very fair price) failed to make it on time. In the end I had a chat with a French guide - Simon Montmory - who lives out here and I bought a load of Raumer kit off him.
The usual scenario was have a good look from below then head to the top of the crag, sort out some belays on threads and blocks, then negotiate the razor sharp rock and scattered loose boulders along the cliff edge - lugging the drill, crowbar, hammer, spanner, bolts, secateurs, slings and quick-draws and the spare rope, all of which conspired to snag and catch on every sharp projection and shrub. Once over the edge it was a fairly quick job to drill a couple of holes, place what would be the belay bolts and crabs and set up an abseil rope. Then it was a matter of leaving the drill on the belay and heading down the line giving it a good cleaning as you went, getting rid of any dirt, loose rock and nasty prickly plants.
Next stage was to work the route on a top-rope to find the best line, and to mark with a chalk stick the best places for the bolt runners bearing-in-mind the spacing and the ease of clipping. Once back at the belay, collect the drill (it was damn heavy) and back down the line to actually place the bolts. That takes less time than you might expect though the routes we did were all only vertical which eases the task; a minute or so to drill the hole and another couple to place and tighten the bolt. Then FINALLY it is time lead the route and start the endless discussions about possible names. The hardest route was put up on Colin's Birthday and that night Babis organised a surprise party and we celebrated with a few bemused locals - beers plus pizza in the bar. The route weighed in at about 6c+ and the name was a given; CB 65.
We beavered away and in six days of effort we placed about 80 bolts and produced 10 climbs. I am not sure you would call the experience enjoyable, and it is nothing like climbing either, but there was a certain satisfaction in a job done. On one of our 'rest days' from bolting we did a couple of long two-pitch climbs on the Dalle de Patouch and clipped in the region of 90 bolts. I take my hat off to the guys who do this all the time, especially those putting up the multi-pitch routes or hard climbs on really overhanging rock.
After Colin was packed off home myself and Sherri walked into Sector St George, as it had become known, one last time to paint the names on the rock, I produced a topo and that was it - job done. It isn't the best crag on the island (by a mile!) but it is all ours.
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That's why Macmillan Cancer Support and the Public Health Agency have published a free booklet, 'Your Life and Your Choices: Plan ahead'. 2014-06-27T00:00:00Z 2014-06-30T11:33:00Z http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Fundraising/Inyourarea/Northern_Ireland/Latest_News/Macmillan tailors award-winning patient advice for Northern Ireland.aspx Wini wins: top accolade for Macmillan nurse at ACE awards Wini McCausland has won an award for all her good work as Ward Manager of the Macmillan palliative care unit at Antrim Area Hospital. 2014-06-27T00:00:00Z 2014-06-30T11:54:00Z http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Fundraising/Inyourarea/Northern_Ireland/Latest_News/WiniwinstopaccoladeforMacmillannurseatACEawards.aspx Cancer patient's widow £30,000 better off after seeking benefits advice Information on Cancer patient's widow £30,000 better off after seeking benefits advice 2014-06-04T09:34:00Z 2014-06-04T09:27:00Z http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Fundraising/Inyourarea/Northern_Ireland/Latest_News/Cancerpatientswidow30,000betteroffafterseekingbenefitsadvice.aspx Patients in Northern Ireland rely on charity to help with the cost of cancer Information on Patients in Northern Ireland rely on charity to help with the cost of cancer 2014-05-07T11:23:00Z 2014-05-07T11:21:00Z http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Fundraising/Inyourarea/Northern_Ireland/Latest_News/PatientsinNorthernIrelandrelyoncharitytohelpwiththecostofcancer.aspx Helping Northern Irish patients claim vital benefits Information on Helping Northern Irish patients claim vital benefits 2014-05-07T11:17:00Z 2014-05-07T11:15:00Z http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Fundraising/Inyourarea/Northern_Ireland/Latest_News/HelpingNorthernIrishpatientsclaimvitalbenefits.aspx Information on 2013-04-16T16:50:00Z 2013-04-16T16:50:00Z http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Fundraising/Inyourarea/Northern_Ireland/Latest_News/Macmillan-fundraiser-to-run-six-marathons.aspx Royal Information and Support centre celebrates anniversary and receives National Award A drop-in service that offers support and information to people affected by cancer in Northern Ireland today celebrated their two year anniversary and was presented with a prestigious national award. 2012-11-15T00:00:00Z 2012-12-11T14:50:00Z http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Fundraising/Inyourarea/Northern_Ireland/Latest_News/RoyalInformationandSupportCentreCelebratesAnniversaryandReceivesNationalAward.aspx Belfast City Airport has chosen Macmillan Cancer Support as its new charity partner The airport will be supporting the charity by getting involved in fundraising events and encouraging staff and customers to help raise crucial funds. All monies raised will go towards providing medical, financial, practical and emotional support for the 55,000 people in Northern Ireland living with cancer. 2012-09-25T00:00:00Z 2012-09-28T14:02:00Z http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Fundraising/Inyourarea/Northern_Ireland/Latest_News/BelfastCityAirporthaschosenMacmillanCancerSupportasitsnewcharitypartner.aspx Cancer patients rely on charity help to keep warm Information on Cancer patients rely on charity help to keep warm 2012-08-28T10:10:00Z 2012-08-28T10:14:00Z http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Fundraising/Inyourarea/Northern_Ireland/Latest_News/Cancerpatientsrelyoncharitytokeepwarm.aspx General Manager awarded the MBE for services to cancer patients Information on General Manager awarded the MBE for services to cancer patients 2012-06-18T00:00:00Z 2012-06-26T10:56:00Z http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Fundraising/Inyourarea/Northern_Ireland/Latest_News/GeneralManagerawardedtheMBEforservicestocancerpatients.aspx Antrim unit unveiled Thursday 8 March marked the opening of the new palliative care unit at Antrim Area Hospital and Northern Ireland Health Minister Edwin Poots was there to cut the ribbons. 2012-03-08T00:00:00Z 2012-03-12T15:24:00Z http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Fundraising/Inyourarea/Northern_Ireland/Latest_News/Antrimunitunveiled.aspx Macmillan at Stormont Heather Monteverde & Thomas Cottam of Macmillan Cancer Support gave evidence to the Department of Social Development Committee at Stormont this week – to highlight the changes needed in Northern Ireland's services to cope with the UK Welfare Reform changes. 2012-02-10T00:00:00Z 2012-02-24T10:24:00Z http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Fundraising/Inyourarea/Northern_Ireland/Latest_News/MacmillanatStormont.aspx Cancer patients to receive £100 fuel payment Macmillan is delighted to announce that after years of campaigning, the Stormont Assembly has confirmed a £100 fuel payment to be issed for cancer patients. 2012-01-31T00:00:00Z 2012-02-01T15:29:00Z http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Fundraising/Inyourarea/Northern_Ireland/Latest_News/CancerPatientstoGet100fuelPayment2.aspx the Biggest Thank You To help celebrate its centenary year in 2011, Macmillan Cancer Support invites you to take part in the Biggest Thank You. We've created this website so you can say a public Thank You to those special people who have helped you, or someone close to you, through a cancer experience. 2011-07-28T11:56:00Z 2011-07-28T11:56:00Z http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Fundraising/Inyourarea/Northern_Ireland/Latest_News/theBiggestThankYou.aspx Moy Park pull in people power for Macmillan Moy Park will be raising the bar for Macmillan Cancer Support this year right across the company encouraging all their staff to join with them in raising £20,000 for the charity. 2011-04-07T16:00:00Z 2011-04-08T16:26:00Z http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Fundraising/Inyourarea/Northern_Ireland/Latest_News/MoyParkPullinPeoplePowerforMacmillanCancerSupport.aspx Clough Primary School raise £520 Macmillan Cancer Support wish to thank the pupils of Clough Primary School for their fantastic fundraising efforts. 2011-03-21T11:00:00Z 2011-03-22T12:35:00Z http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Fundraising/Inyourarea/Northern_Ireland/Latest_News/PrimarySchoolPresentation1.aspx Clough's Scally Rally team raise £3554.76 Christine Hayes from Macmillan Cancer Support recently received a cheque for £3554.76 from Clough's Scally Rally team. 2011-03-21T11:00:00Z 2011-03-22T12:11:00Z http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Fundraising/Inyourarea/Northern_Ireland/Latest_News/ScallyRallyChequePresentation.aspx H&J Martin to work with Macmillan in 2011 H&J Martin has chosen Macmillan as its first Charity of the Year following a company-wide vote. 2011-03-03T00:00:00Z 2011-03-04T15:32:00Z http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Fundraising/Inyourarea/Northern_Ireland/Latest_News/HJMartintoworkwithMacmillanin2011.aspx Work starts on £5m Antrim palliative care unit Work has started on a £5.36 million unit that will provide the first ever specialist palliative care beds within the NHS in Northern Ireland. 2010-01-22T00:00:00Z 2010-02-08T13:32:00Z http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Fundraising/Inyourarea/Northern_Ireland/Latest_News/Workstartson5mAntrimpalliativecareunit.aspx Cancer sufferers unable to work face poverty trap As more people in Northern Ireland survive cancer, it is vital they can access the support they need, argues Heather Monteverde in the Belfast Telegraph. 2010-01-08T10:00:00Z 2010-01-26T14:37:00Z http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Fundraising/Inyourarea/Northern_Ireland/Latest_News/Cancersufferersunabletoworkfacepovertytrap.aspx Minister opens new Breast and Endocrine Centre at the Ulster Hospital Health Minister Michael McGimpsey has officially opened the new Breast and Endocrine Centre at the Ulster Hospital, Dundonald. 2009-10-26T16:20:00Z 2009-10-26T16:20:00Z http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Fundraising/Inyourarea/Northern_Ireland/Latest_News/MinisteropensnewBreastandEndocrineCentreattheUlsterHospital.aspx Charity launches Northern Ireland's toughest golfing challenge A leading cancer charity is calling on people across Northern Ireland to take on one of its toughest fundraising challenges yet - a game of golf. 2009-07-01T18:04:00Z 2009-08-14T14:08:00Z http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Fundraising/Inyourarea/Northern_Ireland/Latest_News/CharityLaunchesNorthernIrelandsToughestGolfingChallenge.aspx


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Big congratulations to Kenneth Faried, who scored a game high 40 points on 18 of 22 shooting to help lift Team Chuck to victory in the All-Star Weekend Rising Stars Challenge game. He also pulled down 10 rebounds, and his superlative performance earned him the game's Most Valuable Player award.
For a nice breakdown of the game, including some quotes from the Manimal, check out Justin Verrier's recap at ESPN.com here.