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The Pessoa® Gen-X™ Natural XCH Saddle features covered leather that feels instantly broken-in and gives the rider great comfort and grip. This jumping saddle is available with forward or regular flaps, and has pencil knee rolls to assist with leg position. Equipped with XCH system tree and Bayflex® contoured panels. 100-year warranty.
This Marcel Toulouse Premia Saddle is made of soft, doubled leather with anatomic knee rolls and a narrow twist. This is a great looking close contact saddle that is perfect for jumping.
Made for horse and rider comfort, this Stübben 1894 Dressage Saddle features a deep, soft seat, large knee rolls, gusseted flocked panels, a wide channel and stabilizing girthing system. Soft, grippy leather feels instantly broken-in, and patent leather details lend fashionable style.
Covered leather for durability and increased grip make the Next Generation Bates Elevation Saddle with CAIR® panels an excellent choice. Narrow twist and deep seat for security over higher jumps. Large molded knee pads help hold the leg in place. Adjustable Flexibloc system allows the rider to customize knee and thigh blocks.
For a custom feel in the saddle, this Marcel Toulouse Premia with Genesis adjustable tree is a great choice. Its nicely padded seat is slightly flatter with a narrow twist. Combination foam and wool panels, movable knee blocks for a custom feel. Anatomic knee rolls and a leather reinforcement at flap bottom. The Genesis tree is backed by a 10-year guarantee.
The Bates Isabell with CAIR® Panels positions the rider in a central, balanced position. This deep seat leather dressage saddle has an adjustable stirrup bar and covered leather flaps. For the dressage horse, it offers flexibility of fit with the EASY-CHANGE™ Gullet and EASY-CHANGE™ Riser Systems, plus a generous panel design with the CAIR® Cushion system.
Handcrafted of natural, vegetable-tanned, pigmented and aniline finished leather, the Marcel Toulouse Celine has a hand-laminated beechwood tree with steel reinforcement. Tree carries a 10-year guarantee.
The Marcel Toulouse Annice saddle features a close-contact feel and a traditional show ring-ready look. Featuring a slightly wider, medium-deep seat and a moderate twist helping hold the rider in the correct position. Genesis™ adjustable gullet system allows for a single saddle to custom fit multiple horses.
The Aachen Dressage Saddle offers the rider a sense of security with its deep seat and fully covered leather flaps. This leather dressage saddle has a medium twist and is equipped with the Adjusta-Bloc system, discreet, traditional air cushioned knee pads and the Y-girthing system. It has flocked panels and is built on a standard beechwood laminated spring tree.
Featuring the Contourbloc that is anatomically contoured to the rider's leg, the Bates Innova Dressage Saddle results in unprecedented security. Multi-layered densities of foam create a luxurious feel. This saddle can be adjusted for horse fit and comfort with the EASY-CHANGE™ Gullet and EASY-CHANGE™ Riser Systems.
Elegant, comfortable and grippy, this Warendorf Classic Dressage Saddle features a padded deep seat and covered leather flaps. It's made on a wooden spring tree and offers a wide channel for clearance of the horse's spine, wool flocked panels and a double "V" billeting system. Subtle dark green piping accents the seat and stirrup leather keeper.
One of Stubben's most popular and versatile saddles, the Stubben Roxane S has a forward cut flap and deep seat. Square cantle, front and rear blocks, along with sculpted extra-soft padding on the front and rear of the flap are designed for rider comfort.
The Thorowgood® T4 Broadback All-Purpose Saddle offers a near custom fit for your round-backed horse. This easy-care, lightweight, synthetic saddle is well suited for a cross-discipline riding with a slightly deeper seat and forward cut flap. Equipped with the Thorowgood changeable gullet system for versatility in fit, it has four girthing options to achieve maximum saddle stability.
Stubben Genesis D Special represents comfort for horse and rider. The half panels without knee roll offer a closer feel and greater shoulder freedom for the horse. Riders will appreciate the Biomex seat. The depression between the pads in the seat can eliminate most of the pressure on soft tissues surrounding the seat bones.
Designed for the ultimate close contact, the PDS® Carl Hester Grande Monoflap Dressage Saddle is ideal for horses with low to medium withers. It's crafted of premium leather on a carbon fiber polymer tree with the X-Change® System and AMS® panels. Made without front panel gussets and point straps, this monoflap saddle encourages freedom of motion in the horse.
Stubben Portos Deluxe features a wide channel for wither clearance and newly designed memory foam panels for the close contact feel many riders prefer. In fully covered soft leather, this saddle offers an instantly broken-in feel and extra grip.


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Spring Valley Nature Center/ Volkening Heritage Farm
135 acres, natural history museum, handicapped-accessible trails, 1880's living history farm and pioneer cooking demos. Cost for some programs.
Spring Valley Nature Center/Volkening Heritage Farm
135 acres, natural history museum, handicapped-accessible trails, 1880s living history farm and pioneer cooking demos.
Springbrook Golf Course
Located in west central Naperville and adjacent to the DuPage County Forest Preserve's Dragon Lake, Springbrook Golf Course commands some the finest views of Naperville's open space and trails. Built in 1974, the facility features a challenging 18-hole championship golf course, a 28-stall natural turf driving range, two practice putting green with bunkers. Its beautiful, mature and lush foliage and trees complement the manicured greens, tees and fairways. Combined with its exceptional course design, golfers of all skill levels return time and again to play.
Springbrook Nature Center
The present Springbrook facilities includes a barn-styled building with a classroom, open area with activities, a large aquarium and restrooms. The land includes 2 miles of trails that are open year-round. Whether you are walking through a tunnel of prairie grasses or standing four feet above a cattail marsh on the 700 foot long boardwalk, the sights will take you back to the days of the explorers. Along your walk you'll discover a flowing brook, shady woods, flower-filled meadows and prairies, and marshes thick with cattails and ancient willows.
St. Charles Paddlewheel River Boats
Cruise the scenic Fox River from Pottawatomie Park in St. Charles on the Fox River Queen or the St. Charles Belle paddlewheel riverboats. Daily afternoon sightseeing trips or private charter cruises May 1-October 15.
CITY:St. Charles
Stade Dairy Farm
A producer of milk, vegetables and grains since 1977, the farm offers tours, and presents the annual Shades of Autumn festival during the month of September.
Stade's Farm & Market
Stade's Farm & Market is located in scenic McHenry County in Northeastern Illinois, approximately 50 miles from Chicago. We produce 2,200 acres of crops that range from traditional corn and soybeans to specialty crops including many fruits and vegetables commonly grown in Northern Illinois. Through our own farm market, we sell our fresh fruits and vegetables directly to consumers in our local area. Our goal is to provide our customers with the finest quality produce possible.
Streamwood Oaks Golf Club
Championship 9-hole course. Water comes into play on all 9 holes -- a challenge for any golfer. Full-service pro shop. The club house has a beautiful central fireplace and exterior patio.
Sycamore Family Sports Center
Enjoy family fun at the Sports Center with a golf driving range, an 18-hole mini golf course, six batting cages from Little League to professional, go-karts and soccer kicking cages.
Sycamore Farmers Market
The Sycamore Farmer's Market features locally grown produce, wine, baked goods and artisan crafts! Enjoy some live music from local artists and fresh foods brought to you directly from the farmers themselves! Every Tuesday (June 7th - Sept 27th) 3pm - 7pm - Corner of Somonauk & Elm St, Sycamore, IL.
Sycamore Golf Club
This par 71, 18-hole golf club offers watered bent grass fairways, a putting green, swimming pool, tennis courts and horse shoes. Seats up to 120 people for meetings and events.
The Arboretum Club
This beautiful 30,000-square-foot clubhouse features an upscale restaurant with patio seating and 18 holes of championship golf.
CITY:Buffalo Grove
The Dome at the Ballpark
Seventy-mile per hour riseballs, 240-foot frozen ropes, soft hands and lightning-quick reactions all wound into seven feverish innings of gritty, gutsy, fast-paced action. Welcome to hard-hittin', fast-pitchin', affordable family fun. Welcome to National Pro Fastpitch! Come out and chear on the teams!
The Grove National Historic Landmark
The prairie grove, covering 123 acres of ecologically diverse prairie land, is preserved and maintained as former home of the visionary horticulturist and educator Dr. John Kennicott, who brought his family from New Orleans to settle on his land in 1836. The Grove, located in Glenview, is a National Historic Landmark and is on the National Registry of Historic Places. It offers many opportunities for educational, environmental and historical enjoyment including two historic homes, the Kennicott House and the Redfield Estate; the Grove Interpretive Center, a Native American Village, a Log Cabin, a Schoolhouse, a Wetlands Greenhouse and numerous interpretive trails.
The Kayakers.com
Take a kayaking class or a kayaking trip with an ACA certified instructor on the beautiful Fox River, Batavia. It's fun and informative. Check out some videos on what you will learn in the different classes. Several group and private kayaking classes - first time kayakers to intermediate. See the calendar for dates and times. So grab your friends and let's go paddling!
The Morton Arboretum
Magnificent, 1,700-acre museum of trees and plants from around the world. Hiking trails, paved roads, restaurant, gift shop, open-air tram and handicapped accessible facilities.
The Quarry Cable Park and Grille
The Quarry Cable Park & Grille is located on the 32-acre North Lake of Three Oaks Recreation Area in Crystal Lake. Enjoy wakeboarding at this next-generation cable wake park complete with a Full-Size Six-Tower cable system with jumps and features for experienced riders and two System 2.0 Two-Tower cable systems for beginners. Stay a little longer and enjoy the lakefront tap & grille, fire pits, live entertainment, sand volleyball, baggo, and open-air yoga. While promoting recreation and relaxation, The Quarry aims to provide a new approach to staying active for visitors near and far and invites everyone to unearth their potential.
CITY:Crystal Lake
Theis Farm Market
Since 1981, Theis Farm Market has been providing high quality, exceptionally great tasting local produce. Family owned and operated, they take pride in their work and are constantly striving to meet new demands by delivering even better tasting produce and higher quality products. They started out with a wagon by the road full of vegetables. Greenhouses came as a necessity for the starting of our field plants. They decided to do a few flowers for fun and that quickly turned into the place to go for top quality beautiful bedding plants, including Barb's original mixed planters and baskets. Now they have bedding and vegetable plants starting in the spring following through to summer with ripe tasty vegetables and into the fall for pumpkins, squash, gourds and all your other fall decorations. They always carry fresh eggs, homegrown popcorn, honey from the bees on their farm, syrups and jams from slack's. May1st-October 31st Monday-Saturday 9am-6pm Sundays and Holidays 10am-5pm Closed: July 4th
CITY:Maple Park
Vernon Hills Family Aquatic Center
The Family Aquatic Center offers something for everyone, including grassy areas to relax and catch some sun! Some of the amenities include: zero-depth leisure pool with six lap lanes; a zero-depth leisure pool with waterfalls, sprays & jets; 700-foot lazy river, body slide; body & innertube slides, a fully enclosed body flume, sand play area, 20 foot shade umbrellas, lounge chairs, and more.
CITY:Vernon Hills
Vernon Hills Golf Course
This golf course has been ranked as one of the top ten 9 hole golf courses in Chicagoland. Situated in Vernon Hills, this challenging 9-hole municipal course boasts small greens, rolling terrain, tight fairways and seven holes featuring water. Golfers of all skill levels will appreciate both the playability and the eye-catching views. The full-service clubhouse features a varied lunch menu, which is served all day and a full-service bar. Banquet facilities available for up to 80 people.
CITY:Vernon Hills
Vernon Hills Park District Sullivan Community Center
Overlooking park land, the Community Room, equipped with a stage and kitchen, can serve 260 dinner guests or 400 people theater seating. Smaller meeting rooms with a capacity of 10-140 people including a gymnasium rental are also available.
CITY:Vernon Hills
Villa Olivia Country Club
This Killian/Nugent-designed course features five water holes. An Olympic-size pool is available for free to golfers, along with sand volleyball, tennis, a softball area and more.
Villa Olivia Country Club Ski Area
Villa Olivia is a public facility. Slope ticket required to access ski and snowboard activities including 7 runs, quad chair lift and 6 rope tows. Villa Olivia has skiwee for kids 4-9 years old, snow tubing, ski, dining, golf, lessons, snowboarding, sleigh rides.
Volo Bog State Natural Area
Just 45 minutes northwest of Chicago is a state natural area featuring the state's only quaking bog with an open water center. Volo Bog State Natural Area was created when the melting of glaciers pushed deep into the ground 12,000 years ago.
Wagner Farm
A visit to Wagner Farm affords you the opportunity to take part in and experience first-hand the workings of a genuine American farm. Wagner Farm is an 18.6 acre farm preserved for the educational and recreational enjoyment for all. See how bread was made in a wood cook stove, hear the rooster making time with his crow or milk one of the farm's many cows. Explore the world of agriculture and rural life as it existed in 1920-1950's.
Walnut Greens Golf
Championship 9-hole. Perfect course for beginners and teens. Great practice course for all skill levels. Unique Killian and Nugent design.
Warrenville Park District
DuPage County, Chicago's Western Suburbs - FitnessNOW - State of the art cardiovascular equipment; Cybex cardio equipment with built in TVs; three lane indoor track; strength training; personal trainers; affordable fees; fun, knowledgeable and motivated staff; and convenient location. Enjoy nine community parks and a variety of sports and activities.
The Water Works is an indoor water park located in the Schaumburg Park District Community Recreation center. It features three water slides, rapid water channel, water playground, diving pool, lap pool, gradual beachlike entry pool, whirlpool, family changing room and a nursery.
Western Acres Golf Course
DuPage County, Chicago's Western Suburbs - This 9-hole, par-35 course stretches over 3,000 yards. The well-maintained fairways and greens, along with sand and water hazards, offer a unique and challenging golf experience. The newly remodeled clubhouse is a picturesque location for a special event.
Wheaton Park District
DuPage County, Chicago's Western Suburbs - Enjoy 829 acres of park facilities that include a water park, children's zoo, teams course, golf course, playgrounds, open space, athletic fields, sand volleyball, tennis, ice skating, playgrounds, swimming pools, in-line skating and hockey area and more!
WhirlyBall Vernon Hills
WhirlyBall is a combination of basketball, hockey, lacrosse and bumper cars all rolled into one exciting sport. The Lake County location also includes a two-level laser tag arena, climbing wall, video games, pool tables and a sports bar. A second suburban outpost is located in Lombard.
CITY:Vernon Hills
WhirlyBall Vernon Hills
WhirlyBall combines basketball, hockey, lacrosse and bumper cars all rolled into one exciting sport! Whether you're planning a holiday party, corporate outing or meeting, team building session, bar/bat mitzvah, bachelor/bachelorette or birthday party, WhirlyBall is the most complete venue in Lake County offering a variety of entertainment options including WhirlyBall, two-level lasertag, climbing wall, video games, pool tables, complete food & beverage menus, fully-loaded sports bar and flexible event facility that comfortably accommodates 400+ guests.
CITY:Vernon Hills
Whisper Creek Golf Course
This beautiful course is set on 240 acres rich in bluegrass, protected wetland environments, and even magnificent rock formations with casading waterfalls.
White Deer Run Golf Club
Built on the well-known Cuneo Estate in Vernon Hills, White Deer Run Golf Club is an 18-hole public course sprawling over 240 acres of rolling terrain and picturesque lakes with bent grass greens and fairways. Able to accommodate small and large group outings and banquets.
CITY:Vernon Hills
White Pines Golf Club & Banquets
A local favorite since 1928, White Pines is conveniently located minutes from O'Hare, and its two year-round 18-hole courses are situated on 240 beautiful acres. Banquet facilities are perfect for golf outings, weddings, business or social events, large and small.
Wilder Park Conservatory
A historic tradition lives on at the Elmhurst Park District Conservatory and greenhouses, located in Wilder Park. The conservatory holds four main plant displays a year: a Easter and Calla Lilies in the spring, Chrysanthemums in the fall, Poinsettias in December and an Environmental show with various themes in the Winter. In addition youth education programs are offered with our in house Horticulturist.
Wildlife Discovery Center
The Wildlife Discovery Center is a special place offering programs for people of all ages who have an interest in wildlife and their habitat. Children's classes, adult programs, and school field trips focus on wildlife conservation, field biology, and ecology. The Center also offers self-guided nature hikes, workshops, eco-based summer camps, wildlife ecology trips, group presentations, traveling animal exhibits and exciting volunteer opportunities. You can visit eye-to-eye with over 150 animals including a bobcat, raptors, Kookaburras, and an assortment of venomous and non-venomous reptiles like crocodilians, snakes, turtles and tortoises. The Wildlife Discovery Center is home to one of the largest public exhibits of rattlesnakes in North America, including four species that are native to Illinois. Indoor exhibits hours are Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10:00am to 4:00pm. The outdoor exhibits and walking trails are open year round.
CITY:Lake Forest
Willow Crest Golf Course
Willow Crest Golf Course is an 18-hole championship golf course with water, sand, bunkers and beautiful landscape with multi-tiered tees and bent grass tees. Group outings, memberships and overnight packages are available.
CITY:Oak Brook
Willow Glen Golf Club
The Willow Glen Golf Club is home to a picturesque 18-hole layout that provides an enjoyable challenge for all skill levels. The new clubhouse is home to Buckley's Restaurant and Pub making Willow Glen one of the finest golf and dining experiences on the North Shore. Open to the public!
CITY:Great Lakes
Willowbrook Wildlife Center
DuPage's premier wildlife rehabilitation and educational facility. Over 90 species of injured native wild animals are on exhibit. Open daily. Donations encouraged.
CITY:Glen Ellyn
Wing Park Golf Course
Accessible and perfect for a quick nine, Wing Park's greens are small and hard to hit. The course is a manageable length for beginners and seniors.
Wright Woods Forest Preserve
The Wright Woods Forest Preserve located in Mettawa offers 4 miles of scenic trails: a short loop for hikers, bicyclists and skiers that circles a pond, and a 3-mile loop for hikers, bicyclists, skiers and horses. This preserve also has footbridge spanning the Des Plaines River, which links Wright Woods to Half Day Forest Preserve.
Xtreme Trampolines
Trampolines on steriods!! This giant warehouse is filled with commercial grade trampolines that are connected together. Play trampoline basketball, trampoline dodgeball and land in a huge foam pit. Kids of all ages love the fun and completely forget that they are getting exercise. Check out this exciting concept online for more pictures and videos.
CITY:Buffalo Grove
YWCA Camp Tu-Endie-Wei
Trails, fishing, cross-country skiing, skating, cabins on Willow Lake.


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MONTGOMERY, Ala. ---- Senior forward LaKenya Drayton had 22 points, while shooting 14-of-18 from the free throw line, to lead the Auburn Montgomery women's basketball team to a 54-49 victory over No. 9 Lee.
Drayton added 11 rebounds for her third double-double of the season. Katie Williams also scored in double figures, finishing with 11 points and making 3-of-4 3-point attempts.
"Today's win was a total team effort," Drayton said. "We all came out and played hard. We played great defense and we made our free throws when it mattered."
Free throws played a huge factor in the game, with AUM scoring 23 points from the line, compared to only eight for the Lady Flames. Four Lady Flames fouled out of the contest. Overall, the Warhawks shot 23-of-39 from the line, making 19 of their final 27 attempts (70.3 percent) after starting out only 4-of-12.
"I think we understood the fact that if we didn't start making our free throws, we were probably going to lose the game," Drayton said. "At the end of the day, we knew what was at stake. Free throws win games, and we knocked them down when we needed to."
AUM is now 6-0 for the first time since the 1999-00 season, and the Warhawks also improved to 1-0 in the Southern States Athletic Conference.
"Lee has been the standard for this conference for the past 7-8 years," Head Coach Dan Davis said. "Everybody knows it. Lee is always going to get everybody's best game. I think this win should give us a lot of confidence. The best part about this team is that they know they've got another worthy opponent coming in tomorrow, and their focus will be right for that game."
Lee (3-1, 0-1) entered the game with a 15-3 advantage in the series between the two programs, including victories in the last three meetings. The Lady Flames led 24-19 after the first half, and had a 45-37 advantage with 6:20 remaining.
A Drayton layup then started a 15-2 run for AUM. Two free throws from Drayton with 2:20 remaining gave the Warhawks a 49-47 lead, their first advantage since it was 3-2 early in the game. AUM's final seven points were scored from the free-throw line, as the Warhawks held on for the upset.
"This is a game that gives you confidence," Davis said. "This is the sixth game in a row that we've held our opponent under 50 points, which is always a big thing for us. We've still got a lot of things that we can work on to get better. We've just got to stay humble and focused."
AUM's defense held Lee to 3-of-22 shooting from 3-point range. The Lady Flames were led by Hollie German, who finished with 17 points and five rebounds. Thirteen of those points came in the first half, however, and Davis credited the defensive efforts of Amber Bennett for containing German in the second half.
"I thought Amber and Psachal Maize were big sparks for us off the bench in the second half," Davis said. "Amber's defensive work on German in particular. Getting the ball out of her hands was a big game changer. We locked down defensively down the stretch and were able to make our free throws."
The Warhawks return to action tomorrow afternoon against Southern Wesleyan. The game begins at 3 p.m. at the AUM Gymnasium.


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I also used boneless, skinless chicken thighs but otherwise followed the directions, only cutting the number of garlic cloves in half as it seemed excessive. The resulting dish was delicious and relatively healthy.
Braised Chicken Thighs with Broccoli & Olives
From EatingWell: September/October 1992
Black olives and lemon juice join steamed broccoli to make a rich-tasting sauce to spoon over sautéed chicken thighs and garlic cloves. Serve this stew over brown rice or barley.
2 Reviews for Braised Chicken Thighs with Broccoli & Olives
The fact that this recipe has 2 of my husband's least favorite ingredients~chicken and broccoli~and I still gave it a rating of AWESOME should tell you something!! He liked it as well as our 4 year old son!! I did make a few changes but nothing minor. I used boneless, skinless thighs~because that's what I grabbed at the grocery store and just cooked it for 10-12 minutes instead of 20. . I did not use the flour to avoid carbs and gluten. I used chicken broth instead of the wine because I did not have any on hand. Again, it's a must try and I certainly will time and time again!!


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Forums → Newcomers Forum → [FAQ] How to add a Friend
What is a Friend?
A Friend is a user you have friended by adding them to your Friends list. Having Friends gives you a link to your Friends' profiles from your profile. It also allows you to compare high scores in flash games using the Armor Games high score system.
How do I add a Friend?
You can add another user to your friends list by clicking the (Add Friend) button on their profile. This will only add them to your Friends list and will not send a request to them. They will have to add you to their own Friends list.
How do I search for or find a Friend?
You can't. There is no way to search for other users on this version of Armor Games. You will need to know their full username or contact them again.
How will I get to their profile to add them?
1.) If you know their exact username, you can go directly to their profile using
Type in their exact username where it says USERNAMEHERE. For example,
will go to my profile.
2.) If you do not know their username, you will need to try to contact the user.
a. If you met them on a multiplayer game you can try to find them again in that same game. If you cannot find them, try to look through the game's comments to see if they may have made a comment. If they have made a comment, you can click on their username to go directly to their profile. However, not everyone you meet in a multiplayer is playing from Armor Games, so they may not have an Armor Games account.
b. If you know them in real life or from somewhere else, you can try to get them to tell you their exact username. You can also have them post on your thread in this forum. if they post on the forum, you can click on their username to get to their profile.
Hopefully this hasn't been too inconvenient and has helped you in getting to a friend's profile to add them, so you don't forget who they are!
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This is much like a sticky you just locked and unstickied. What's different about this from the previous how to friend sticky? Also, if there is little or no difference, why was a new sticky made?
What's different about this from the previous how to friend sticky? Also, if there is little or no difference, why was a new sticky made?
He added more to the A section and there isn't an edit post button, so the only way to update it is to create a new thread.
How do I search for or find a Friend?
will you be able to do that on AGv.3
will you be able to do that on AGv.3
The search bar in AG3 will search for games and users better. If you only know part of their username then it'll show everyone with that. Example: Someone wants to find my profile but they don't know my full username, they only know the first part - they search Ghost and it'll show every account with Ghost in the username.
i have had trouble, but i just find their name in a comment or something...
i have never used the search bar i just find their name in a comment...
Having problems adding friends in game...
What do you mean "having problems adding friends in game"?
I dont even know how to talk to other people on this site besides through the forum any way.
The best way to find a friend (Right now on AG v2) is to contact them and ask them their username and put it in the taskbar after www.armorgames.com/user/theirusernamehere
In the theirusername part put their username (the one you got from them!) and it will take you to their page. Make sure to use correct punctuation capitalization and spelling otherwise, who knows what will happen? If this doesn't work, ask them to comment on a game that you are on, and refresh the page and click on their comment and you will be for surely (is that a word? i don't know.)taken to their page.Hit the friend button!*acheivement theme song plays* You have a new Friend! Now go play some Armor Games!
no entendi mucho
to find friends google armorgames.com/user/their username
e.g. search : armorgames.com/user/fidget1000
hello i am raffy453 so yea to add a frend you have to go to armorgames.com/user/put their username here and dont forget to use all the appropriate stuff like caps or it wont work and then enter search and itll take you to their profile and in the top right corner in green words ill say add frend and you click it so they will be your frend and then go to your profile ( go to the top where you login and then click your name ) and scroll down to the messenger and on the left of it itll show all you frends you added hoped it helped :P
there IS a way to search friends but it might take some time. All you have to do is go to
you will still need to know their username.
Thanks so much, this is really helpful.
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One Dish Dinner
9 Oct 2010
Ingredients1 pound ground beef
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 small green pepper, finely chopped
1 small onion, chopped
1 teaspoon ground oregano
1 teaspoon fennel seeds (optional)
1 (8-ounce) package noodles, uncooked
1 (17-ounce) can cream-style corn
1/2 teaspoon ga
Brown beef in oil in skillet; add green pepper, onion, oregano, and fennel, if desired.
Cook noodles in boiling salted water for 5 or 6 minutes; drain.
Layer half of noodles, meat, and corn in a greased 2-quart casserole; season with garlic salt and peppe
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Good luck to SuperBuffBob and Aliciaca on your 10K training programs. I did my first 10K last weekend. I never used a program (kind of wish I had) but just kept increasing my long run each week until I was running 7 miles. I need to work on speed now.
Kathy - sorry about the watch. I don't think anything is perfect with the gps - yet - but I plan on keeping an eye out on any new technology. I'll keep using my smartphone for now - much more affordable because of all the multi-tasking it can
Did a 5K today. I wasn't planning on doing a 5K the week after my 10K but that's when the races were planned and I wanted to do both. Mile 2 was all uphilll - a very very steep hill! I knew it was going to be a hill, I checked the map, I know that side of town (although I'd never driven on that particular street before) and was still not quite prepared for its hilly-ness. I usually run rolling hills so I didn't think it would be an issue. I walked the last 100 feet or so just to save something for the last 1.1 miles of the race. Despite the hill, I managed a PR of 32:05. I really wanted 31:something but considering that hill I'm pleased. Next task - hill repeats!
Happy running all!!
Kathy, sorry the watch didn't work so well. I am selling my Garmin 305 with HR monitor for $150 but would not recommend it if you want something simple. Timex makes a nice one around $40 my bro bought at Costco. Gtg this site is acting wonky.
Good runs all!
Mary Kay
Running: Started 5/6/2011; Graduated C25k - 7/21/11; Graduated B210k - 11/24/11;
PRs: 5k - 36:42; 8k - 1:10; 4.15 m - 53.41; 10k - 1:18; HM - 2:56:31
I may be slow but I'm persistant.
Goals: 5k under 30 min.; HM under 2 hr.; AG award in the USAF HM! and one full marathon.
It won't be easy but it will be worth it!
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Well, I am shipping back the GPS watch today! I just found it extremely frustrating and too complex for me to use. The reason I wanted it was to keep track of my pace and mileage. Since the mileage is off, then it calculates me running at a much slower pace. I just had trouble getting it to work right. I just know it is a half mile around my neighborhood...I've driven and mapped it, so I don't want to be frustrated with the wrong mileage. Maybe it just wasn't the best GPS watch to begin with since I got such a deal on it. I'm able to return it for a full credit and no shipping to return.
Whenever I get a smartphone "someday", I'll just use an app from the phone. I guess nothing is really perfect yet with these GPS's.
GPS can be off at any indivdual reading by as much as 10 meters, though 3 or 4 is more typical. Over several miles, one hopes it averages out - off in one direction one reading, off in the other the next - but there is no guarantee. And, of course, the sampling rate (number of readings per mile) comes into it as well. Going around corners can have an effect. Up and down hill has some effect - relatively small. ETC. I read a comment in Runners World, by someone who reviews GPS watches, that the reading could easily be off by 300 ft or more over 3 miles - a little less than a tenth of a mile.
I can use Mapmyrun 5 times over the same course and get 5 different readings.
Car odometers typically read 3% to 5% high (so the speedometer also reads high). So also not the best way to measure the distance.
What seems to be most accurate for amateurs like us is a bicycle speedometer/odometer that can be calibrated to the tire size on your bike. They can be had for $20 or so. You have to ride the course though.
I've been sidelined since Sunday with a piercing knee pain. Two trips to the PT and no running so I figured it was time to try. May not have been the best idea. Had sharp pain within minutes, pushed through and now have strong muscle cramping like last time. I guess time will tell. But on the GPS side, I ran with my Motoactv but something told me to take the phone, too. So, I'm listening to the Moto and at the end of the first mile it said my pace was 16 min. 26 sec. Well, that did it. I started to bawl. It was the last straw. I was in pain and pushing past it and felt like I was running at least 14 mm only to find out I could walk quicker? I kept going because the pain didn't get any worse and at the end of mile 2 Moto said I was running an 18 mm. Now, I knew that was wrong so I checked the phone, where I also had Endomondo tracking and sure enough, I was running between 13 and 15 mm. All that drama for nothing and now I'm annoyed. The Motoactv was not cheap. If it can't track GPS as well as my iPhone, I have no use for it. The iPhone is heavy but not so heavy that I carrying it makes a difference. Just letting you all who are considering purchases in on one person's experience.
Mary Kay
Running: Started 5/6/2011; Graduated C25k - 7/21/11; Graduated B210k - 11/24/11;
PRs: 5k - 36:42; 8k - 1:10; 4.15 m - 53.41; 10k - 1:18; HM - 2:56:31
I may be slow but I'm persistant.
Goals: 5k under 30 min.; HM under 2 hr.; AG award in the USAF HM! and one full marathon.
It won't be easy but it will be worth it!
Have you considered taking your knee pain over to The Med Tent? Maybe one of the knowledgable people over there can help with diagnosis and cure. One of the few times I took a break from running was due to knee pain something like what you describe. After 8 weeks off (GAK!) the pain did not come back. And it took me some time to figure out what had caused it - something I did that was totally unrelated to running.
Heilo All!
I finished the C25K with my run this morning, doing the 5K in 33:28, not terrible, not fantastic. Loved the program, but now I'm a little stuck. Just trying to figure out where to go next with my running.
Looked at the bridge to 10k but don't think I want to do that yet. I'd like to stick to running right now, and not a run/walk plan. Going into summer, the 5k race season is slowing down here in Florida. There are a ton of races when it's cooler, but when we get into 90+ degree days and 90+% humidity, they don't run as many races for some reason. :)
I'd like to keep running 3-4 days a week and work on improving my time and distance. I know the 10% per week rule for total distance. And I figure I'll stick to just 3 days a week for a couple weeks while I get more in the groove of running 3+ miles at a time.
So any suggestions of a running plan for the next few weeks? I do much better with a stated plan I have to follow rather than just winging it.
Open to any and all suggestions and appreciate any help anyone can offer.
43 Years Old, 6' 2" tall.
255 pounds on January 1, 2012
220 pounds on April 7, 2012 (and still falling)
Started C25K February 7, 2012
Graduated April 6, 2012 with a 33:28 time
Tampa, Florida
Croz 69
What I did when I finished the C25k was a process, because my long term goal was to eventually run some longer races (10K, Half Marathon). I live on the Ecuator, so I had the same heat issues, except mine are all year around so I always run early in the morning.
Based on a lot of advice, and a great book called the Runner's Handbook by Bob Glover, I took two weeks running 3 miles each time, just letting my body continue to adapt to the new work load. Then I worked to increase my running to 5xdays a week (simply because I found I stayed up with it better when I did it more often). After that I started extending my Sunday run into a long run. First 4, then 5,6,8,10 etc. About every 4th week I would drop down my long run distance, again to help my body adapt to the increasing work load.
so my weeks following the end of the C25K was:
Wk 1 3 3 3 3
Wk 2 3 3 3 3 3
Wk 3 3 3 3 3 4
Wk 4 3 3 3 3 5
Wk 5 3 3 3 3 6
Wk 6 3 3 3 3 8
Wk 7 3 3 3 3 6
Wk 8 3 3 3 3 8
Wk 9 3 3 3 3 10
And around week 7 I started working in some light speed work outs on Wednesdays - Fartleks or Hills or Tempo Runs (mostly Tempos).
It worked well for me. I ended up running up to 16 miles on a weekend and completed two 10ks and a Half. This year my goal is a to beat last years' times and to complete my first marathon. But you can level off at whatever level you are comfortable with.
Good luck!
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5K - 31:50 5K La Joya 2011 - Aug 2011
10K - 1:14:30 at Guayaquil Half Marathon - Jul 2011
Half - 2:32:22 at Guayaquil Marathon - Oct 2011
2012 Races
InterAmerican Family Fun Run (5k) 36:04 (Previous Year 39:22)
Emelec 5K 33:16
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15 June - 5K Ciudad Celeste
22 June 5K por los Ninos
1 July - Guayaquil Half Marathon
5 August - 5K La Joya
2 September - 30K Milagro
7 October - Guayaquil Marathon
18 November - 5K Villa Club
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Thank you! I appreciate the congrats and also the pointers. I think your plan will become my plan. I was trying to figure out how to add a longer run in once a week and extend my days of running to more than 3 days a week and you've already solved those problems. So I'm going to give your plan a try.
My company is sending my wife and I to Hawaii for a week, the week of the 15th (tragic, I know. Try not to shed too many tears for me) So I'm probably just going to try to run my 3 miles a few days this week and next and start extending things when I get back.
Thanks again for the help. It feels great finishing the program. I tried to explain to a few people how great it feels just knowing you can run three miles without stopping and they just don't get it. Looking forward to my run tomorrow.
43 Years Old, 6' 2" tall.
255 pounds on January 1, 2012
220 pounds on April 7, 2012 (and still falling)
Started C25K February 7, 2012
Graduated April 6, 2012 with a 33:28 time
Tampa, Florida
Len, thanks! I'll look for the med tent and check it out. I've been training for a HM on May 6th so am looking for options that do not include laying off. I was on schedule and in sight of 13.1 until last week and am now behind. Have only three weeks left to train and am a little twisted up about this.
Croz, looking at Richard's schedule and having tried to do something similar I now know that increase would be too aggressive for my body. A plan is a start. If you find your runs becoming frustrating when you start to add a day, relax into it and give yourself time to adjust. Whenever I add a day, I cut the mileage on my other runs short so that my total weekly mileage doesn't increase too much. If I don't do this, my body will do it anyway. Good luck!
27 days until the race and I have big plans for the next four weeks. I'm icing the knee 4x a day. Doing PT twice a week. Running at 6:30 am tues, thurs and sat or sun. and running hills tues and thurs. Now lets see if the brain/body goes along. I can't believe this might actually happen. If it does I am going to be the biggest crybaby.
Future starts now. Enjoy your runs!.
Mary Kay
Running: Started 5/6/2011; Graduated C25k - 7/21/11; Graduated B210k - 11/24/11;
PRs: 5k - 36:42; 8k - 1:10; 4.15 m - 53.41; 10k - 1:18; HM - 2:56:31
I may be slow but I'm persistant.
Goals: 5k under 30 min.; HM under 2 hr.; AG award in the USAF HM! and one full marathon.
It won't be easy but it will be worth it!
Deb- Way to go on the 5k following the 10k! Of course I think that's a fantastic time in and of itself, but a PR is a PR so go you.
Kathy- Sorry about your GPS. But I think with running we all have to find what works for us, not everyone will like the same gear. Hope you find the thing that works for you.
Hello and welcome to all the new folks that have just completed C25k and are joining this board, hope to see you around and talking about your runs!
Bob - I did "One Hour Runner" after C25k. I wasn't up to 3 miles yet, but it's time based like C25k so was a good transition for me (and no walk breaks anymore like Bridge to 10k does). I think that's a common question on this thread of what folks did after so you can probably look back a bit and see people's experiences.
MaryKay- So sorry to hear about your knee. I hope the PT helps. When's the last time you got a new pair of shoes? What are the insoles like in them? When I had foot issues crop up recently I got some more serious insoles for my high arches (though still not custom or anything) and it seems to have made a big difference. I also have stopped wearing my no-support flats and wear insoles as often as I can in all my other shoes. Seems to have helped though I was having foot issues not knee ones.
Well been really spotty here lately. Missed all my runs a few weeks ago due to work travel, then got back on track and did 20 miles with a 7 mile long run week before last. Saw a freaking rattle snake on my 7 mile just cruising along the path right where I was about to step. The human brain is an amazing thing; I'd already screamed and started moving away before my brain could even postulate that that was a poisonous snake I needed to avoid. Anyways went back to a more populated section to finish the 7 miles and think I have cured myself of any desire to run trails here for a little while, will go back to my asphalt road around the park I think for my long runs. Missed all my runs last week again due to work travel. Got in 4 miles today and was pretty brutal. Walked a LOT, but finished. Just trying to get through this week's runs at any pace, walking or running. Then next week maybe I can worry about taking fewer walk breaks. One thing at a time. Hope you are all having great runs!
C25k Completed 08/19/11
OHR Completed 10/23/11
5k 09/24/11: 39:10
2011: 280 miles, ~14:00 mm avg
2012: 321.2 miles (so far)
Miles, sorry your runs have been difficult. Once you get back to a consistent schedule they might get easier. A rattlesnake? OMG !! Thanks for the shoe reminder. I have been breaking in new shoes so I tried wearing the older ones today, just in case.
Mary Kay
Running: Started 5/6/2011; Graduated C25k - 7/21/11; Graduated B210k - 11/24/11;
PRs: 5k - 36:42; 8k - 1:10; 4.15 m - 53.41; 10k - 1:18; HM - 2:56:31
I may be slow but I'm persistant.
Goals: 5k under 30 min.; HM under 2 hr.; AG award in the USAF HM! and one full marathon.
It won't be easy but it will be worth it!
Looked into the color races and they look like so much fun! I want to do one!! Can't decide on Columbus, Indianapolis or Louisville; they are all the same distance. Anyone interested? http://thecolorrun.com/
Mary Kay
Running: Started 5/6/2011; Graduated C25k - 7/21/11; Graduated B210k - 11/24/11;
PRs: 5k - 36:42; 8k - 1:10; 4.15 m - 53.41; 10k - 1:18; HM - 2:56:31
I may be slow but I'm persistant.
Goals: 5k under 30 min.; HM under 2 hr.; AG award in the USAF HM! and one full marathon.
It won't be easy but it will be worth it!
_Miles, thanks for the pointer to One Hour Runner. The page on Coolrunning.com appears to be gone, but with a little googling, I found a page that details the program a bit. Looks pretty good. We have a trip to Hawaii next week, so I think I'm just going to stick to 3m / 3x per week until after we're back and then decide where to go from there.
And for cool runs, I want to do this one: http://runforyourlives.com/ but I'm a big zombie fan.
And getting that link, I see they're coming to Orlando in November! I'm there! The entry fee is steep ($67 for early birds) but what a blast it's going to be!
43 Years Old, 6' 2" tall.
255 pounds on January 1, 2012
220 pounds on April 7, 2012 (and still falling)
Started C25K February 7, 2012
Graduated April 6, 2012 with a 33:28 time
Tampa, Florida
Hello everyone!
Well, I started b210k, and it went pretty well. I was reluctant to start another program with walking breaks, but I had to try something new. It was hard, but it was my longest run yet, so I'm happy.
I did day 1 and 2, and then had a nasty cold that lasted a week. I was able to go out and run again this morning, but I didn't want to push it so I chose to do an easy 2.5 km run. I felt very tired after running, so I guess I'm not 100% well yet.
I have a 6k race this sunday, and that cold was an unexpected setback. I guess I will try to do a 10 minute run and 1 minute walk thing. I'm hoping to finish in 40 minutes or less.
Anyone else racing this weekend?
I'll be running a 5K this Sunday, part of a big local charity run that finishes up in Michigan Stadium. This was my first-ever event, so I will always love it, even though it draws >10,000 5K runners! So crowded - there are no worries about wondering where the course is!
I continue to work through Ease into 10K, (iPhone, intervals of progressively longer runs separated by 1 minute walk breaks.) The 9 minute run still isn't feeling quite right, so I'll stay there until it does. I like the format of this program - it is very gradual, which I feel is important given my long standing PF problems.
I missed my usual Sunday run due to Easter and what I feared was the beginning of a cold (turned out to be nothing, gladly.) So, I fit in a short run Monday morning, and I'm going to work out tonight with a local womens' training group that is preparing for another local event in June. Then maybe one more easy run before the race on Sunday.
Happy Running!
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In such stunning novels of crime and character as Die Upon a Kiss, Sold Down the River, and A Free Man of Color, Benjamin January tracked down killers through the sensuous, atmospheric, dangerously beautiful world of Old New Orleans. Now, in this new novel by bestselling author Barbara Hambly, he follows a trail of murder from illicit back alleys to glittering mansions to a dark place where the oldest and deadliest secrets lie buried . . .
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It's 1835 and the relentless glare of the late July sun has slowed New Orleans to a standstill. When Hesione LeGros--once a corsair's jeweled mistress, now a raddled hag--is found slashed to death in a shanty on the fringe of New Orleans's most lawless quarter, there are few to care. But one of them is Benjamin January, musician and teacher. He well recalls her blazing ebony beauty when she appeared, exquisitely gowned and handy with a stiletto, at a demimonde banquet years ago.
Who would want to kill this woman now--Hessy, they said, would turn a trick for a bottle of rum--had some quarrelsome "customer" decided to do away with her? Or could it be one of the sexual predators who roamed the dark and seedy streets? Or--as Benjamin comes to suspect--was her killer someone she knew, someone whose careful search of her shack suggests a cold-blooded crime? Someone whose boot left a chillingly distinctive print . . .
His inquiries at taverns, markets, and slave dances reveal little about "Hellfire Hessy" since her glory days in Barataria Bay, once the lair of gentlemen pirates. Then the murder is swept from his mind by the delivery of a crate filled with contraband rifles--and yet another telltale boot print left by its claimant. When a murder swiftly follows, Ben and Rose Vitrac, the woman he loves, fear the workings of a serpentine mind and a treacherous plot: one only they can hope to thwart in time.
All too soon they are fugitives of color in the stormy bayous and marshes of slave-stealer country, headed for smugglers' haunts and sinister plantations, where one false step could be their last toward a...Wet Grave.
From the Hardcover edition.
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"Dazzling. January is a wonderfully rich and complex character."
Chicago Tribune
Sold Down The River
"A masterly piece of historical storytelling...haunting."
The New York Times Book Review
"The darkest time in American history comes alive in Hambly's unforgettable series....[A] fiercely burning picture of the horrors of slavery...astonishing."
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Graveyard Dust
"Seductive...Sweeps from lavish balls on elegant river plantations to voodoo rites in Congo Square and savage brawls in mean waterfront dives....January proves the ideal guide through these treacherous social strata."
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A New York Times Notable Book Of The Year
"From the highborn Creoles in their river mansions to the uncivilized Americans brawling on the levee, Hambly speaks all their languages, knows all their secrets, and brings them all to life."
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A Free Man Of Color
"Magically rich and poignant...In scene after scene researched in impressive depth and presented in the cool, clear colors of photography, Hambly creates an exotic but recognizable environment for January's search for justice."
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"A darned good murder mystery."
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The only time Benjamin January ever actually exchanged words with Hesione LeGros was when they were both hiding behind a piano in a New Orleans hotel hoping they wouldn't be massacred by pirates.
It wasn't a long conversation.
She said, "I'm gonna shoot that fuckin' man of mine for this."
And January--who had just turned nineteen and was hoping to make twenty--replied, "What makes you think any of us will live to see you do that?"
As it happened, someone else shot her man a number of years later in the Yucatan, but at the time January hoped that the dark-eyed little African Venus beside him would have that honor, and fairly soon. The man certainly deserved it.
The whole debacle began, tamely enough, with the arrival in New Orleans of Major-General Jean Robert Marie Humbert, formerly of the Grand Army of Napoleon. Humbert, in that year of 1812, was avoiding Napoleon's various domains because of opinions he'd rashly expressed after the Little Emperor had relieved him of command. Some said this was because Humbert's army had ignominiously failed to re-conquer the island of Saint-Domingue from rebelling slaves. But January's mother--a clearinghouse for gossip concerning both the white and the free colored communities in New Orleans--was of the opinion that Humbert's affair with Napoleon's sister had something to do with it.
"Though I don't see why Napoleon should cut up stiff over Humbert," Livia Janvier had added, pinning an aigrette of diamonds to the confection of rose-colored silk and plumes that covered her hair. She studied the result critically in the mirror. "The woman's slept with his entire general staff, most of his marshals, and is now working her way down through the colonels. I can't imagine how she keeps their names straight when she encounters them at military reviews."
She propped an elbow on the dressing-table and held up her hand preemptorily for her maid, who'd been gently dusting talcum powder into the fingers of a pair of long white kid gloves. Livia Janvier didn't even glance at the maid as the young woman set to work easing and moulding the soft, close-fitting leather over her mistress' knuckles and palm. When January's mother was dressing to meet her protector--the man who had bought her and her two small children from slavery eleven years previously--she displayed a meticulous patience, a concentration like an artist's that January found fascinating to watch. "Don't you stay out late after you get done playing tonight, p'tit," she added. "And make sure that M'sieu Davis pays you. Promises are cheap."
It went without saying that January's mother, slender as a bronze lily at the age of thirty-six, would not give her son so much as a nod when they separately reached the Marine Hotel. January would be present at General Humbert's birthday dinner strictly as a hired musician, a profession he'd worked at since the age of sixteen concurrent with such medical studies as were available to a young free man of color in that time and place. St.-Denis Janvier, his mother's protector, was one of the guests, a select gang of the wealthier businessmen of the town assembled to honor the elderly war-horse. Most of them would be accompanied by their mistresses. It was not the sort of party to which one brought one's wife.
And Livia Janvier--she'd taken her protector's name, as many free colored placees did--wasn't the sort of woman who'd admit to being the mother of one of the musicians. This would have been true even if her son hadn't been all of nineteen years old, six feet three inches tall, and very obviously the offspring of an African rather than a white man. As the guests came into the hotel's dining-room that night, to the bright strains of a Mozart overture, it was St.-Denis Janvier, and not Livia, who caught January's eye and smiled.
January knew most of the other guests by sight. In 1812, New Orleans wasn't that big a town. The women present were mostly friends, or enemies, of his mother. These ladies of the free colored demimonde were by and large placees--placed--with a single protector, though one lady he recognized as a highly-paid courtesan. About half the men were businessmen and planters: he noted the tall, powerful form of Jean Blanque the banker, whose name graced nearly every financial transaction in the town and whose young and beautiful wife (not present) was the daughter of Barthelmy de McCarty, brother of the wealthiest planter in the district. De McCarty came in just behind Blanque, joking with his brother Jean Baptiste. Both of their mistresses, exquisitely-gowned women of color, wore silk tignons--headscarves--that were plumed and jeweled mockeries of the law that forbade women of African ancestry, slave or free, to go about in public with uncovered hair.
Bernard Marigny was there, a lively little French Creole planter notorious for his gambling and his duels. As he came in he was laughing over something with a tall, black-clad gentleman whom January recognized as Jean Lafitte.
If you wanted anything in New Orleans, duty-free or difficult to obtain, you could probably get it through Jean Lafitte. Four years previously, when it became illegal to import slaves into United States Territory, Lafitte had surfaced, lounging around the blacksmith shop he and his brother owned on Rue Bourbon or drinking with businessmen and planters in the Cafe Tremoulet. Somehow, the handsome young Gascon always had a slave or two to sell. Of course these slaves were always warranted born in American territory. Of course the sales were private, between gentlemen, nothing on the open market. Lafitte sold brandies, too, and fine French silks. . . . In fact, anything you might want.
And cheaply, as if United States customs duties did not exist.
Though Lafitte didn't have a mistress with him, he didn't arrive at the birthday dinner alone. In addition to Marigny--who was friends with everyone in town except his own wife--Lafitte entered with his usual coterie of "friends:" a planter named Huette, who had a place on Bayou St. John where boats could be landed that came off the lake; the fair-haired Pierre Lafitte, his newest mistress on his arm; a dark little man named Laporte who kept the books for the Lafitte brothers; and Jean Baptiste Sauvinet, one of the most prominent bankers of the town. Lafitte moved in the highest circles of French Creole society, among the men, at least.
There were others, less respectable, whom January had seen only at a distance in the cafes and the market. The fierce and jovial sea-captain Dominic Youx. Cut-Nose Chighizola, whose face was a mass of scars--at the moment he was explaining in voluminous Italian-accented French to a planter named St. Geme how he'd lost his nose in battle against the Spanish. The dark and sinister Captain Beluche, of the "Bolivian" privateer vessel Spy. Vincente Gambi, another Italian, strode along on the outskirts of the group, glancing at the silverware and the cut-crystal pitchers on the tables as if calculating their worth. He had, January noticed, what looked like a couple of fresh cuts on his face, superficial but adding to his appearance of coarse menace.
The placees of these "friends" drifted behind them, gowned in silks and chattering among themselves. They were less fashionable, more sumptuous, and far more heavily jeweled than their town counterparts. Down on Grand Terre, where Lafitte had his headquarters these days, the free colored ladies lived with their men openly, as wives, instead of keeping separate establishments as the town placees did. January noticed that his mother and her friends kept their distance from them, not in open enmity, but with a cool politeness that spoke volumes for what was going to be said about their dress, speech, and taste in ornamentation over chicory-laced coffee the following morning.
Hesione LeGros was one of these Grand Terre ladies.
January noticed her because she was one of the youngest, probably his own age, and also one of the darkest. Among the free colored community, as among the whites, dark skin and African features were not admired. January had grown up with the knowledge that his own huge size and African blackness were a reminder of the slave father whose name his mother never spoke, and this knowledge was ground in upon him every time any stranger, white or colored, heard the delicate strength of his piano-playing and looked astonished.
From the first time he'd played a recital, he'd been aware that they would not have looked so surprised if he were fair-skinned or white.
Most of the placees were quadroon or octoroon, complexions shaded anywhere from soft matte walnut to the hue of very old ivory. A few, like his mother, were mulatto, of African mothers and white fathers. The wealthiest businessmen of the town favored the lightest-skinned women: fairness itself was a commodity. Hesione--though January didn't learn her name until years later--was richly dark. Unlike most of the others she pointed up undeniably African features by wearing a gold silk gown so vibrant it bordered on rust, a color no white woman would have dared to put on. A necklace of topaz and citrine ringed her throat like a collar of fire, and plumes dyed gold and black blossomed above her tignon. As January played--Mozart rondos and snippets of Rossini, light-handed on the five-octave Erard in the corner of the Marine Hotel's dining-room--he looked out over the jostle of heads and backs and saw that nodding explosion of sable and flame, like the single oak on a little island in a marsh.
The tables were set out in the old-fashioned French manner, sparkling with the hotel's very fine silver and Limoges-ware dishes. Oysters in lemon, gumbo of shrimp, Italian pates and vol-au-vents; artichokes and turkey-poults and turtle roasted en croute. As the hotel servants went around with the wine--which the new owner, Mr. Davis, bought from Lafitte at a substantial discount--the conversation grew louder. The bankers speculated as to what full statehood in the United States was going to mean now to Louisiana and freely slandered the new Governor Claiborne and all his works. The planters cursed what the war between the Allies and France was doing to sugar prices. January heard for the first time about the sinking--by pirates--of the American brig Independence, a subject brought up by a pink-faced British planter named Trulove and hushed at once by Jean Blanque: "The less said of that," the banker murmured with a glance toward the table of Lafitte and his cronies, "the better for all it will be." News had reached New Orleans only that day of the Independence's destruction. Brought by a man named Williams, the sole survivor of the massacre.
"What I want to know, is," persisted Trulove, who like everyone else in the room was fairly drunk, "what was a dashed Massachusetts merchantman carrying from Africa to Cuba in the first place, eh? Dashed Americans complain about Lafitte and his men smuggling slaves in through the Barataria marshes, and what are they buying along the coast of Africa, eh? Bananas? Tell me that!"
"I shall tell you nothing of the kind," replied Blanque gently, laying a restraining hand on the young Englishman's arm. He hadn't anything to worry about, really, for Lafitte and his men were roaring with laughter over Dominic Youx's tale of the Bishop of Carthagena and a shipload of whores from Port-au-Prince. January let his hands float from song to song, alternating popular overtures and opera-tunes with the quadrilles and cotillions that he'd play when hired by the wealthy for balls. Though he was studying medicine with a surgeon named Gomez, he had always loved music, and St.-Denis Janvier had paid for him to be taught by one of the best instructors in town. That instructor, an emigre Austrian named Kovald, was only lately dead. January played the antiquated airs of Pachelbel and Purcell that the grim old musician had loved, sadness in his heart that his teacher had not lived to return to Vienna. Had not lived to see Napoleon defeated and cast out, as he must, January believed, one day be.
With the after-dinner cognac came the cigars, the ribald laughter, the sly jests. In short order there would be trouble. For twenty-two years France had been torn by violence, Europe subjected to bloodletting and fire. There were men in the room whose fathers had been beheaded in the name of the French Republic, whose family fortunes were destroyed by the Revolution and by the Emperor who had climbed to power in the wake of chaos. Any minute now, he thought, someone was going to say regicide or Corsican upstart--or accuse someone of having the manners of an American. . . .
January knew the signs.
"Now that Bolivar's in in the south, the whole Spanish empire's going to crumble," prophesied Joffrey Duquille. He was a big, robust saturnine planter, with the obligatory reputation as a womanizer and a duelist. "A man can get letters of marque in Carthagena, and go after anything flying the Spanish flag. . . ."
"Lafitte should have known better than to go after an American ship, slaver or no slaver. . . ."
The air condensed to a golden roux of wine and food and pomade; the candles in the wallsconces burned low, and the crystal-hung chandeliers dripped wax onto the tablecloths. The great dining-room seemed stuffy and close. A servant opened the long windows that looked down onto Rue Chartres and January slid into "Childgrove," a country-dance tune that could be endlessly embroidered. His mother, at Blanque's table with St.-Denis Janvier, flipped open her sandalwood fan and looked down her nose as Cut-Nose Chighizola's mistress took the scar-faced privateer's pipe from his mouth and blew a cloud of smoke herself. Chighizola gestured extravagantly, and shouted to Hesione LeGros how he'd lost his nose escaping from an Algerian dungeon. . . .
Talk pattered on all sides, like summer rain.
"Shut up, you fool, he'd never have done something that damn-fool stupid! Sink an American ship? He knows what side the bread's buttered on. . . ."
"It's all Spanish prizes of war, after all . . ."
". . . a giant black, six, seven feet tall and as wide as a door, coming down upon me with a battle-ax . . ."
". . . pegged the interest at ten percent, plus an additional two percent the first two years. . . ."
The voices were getting louder. The Italian captain, Gambi, announced into a momentary hush, "Privateer this and privateer that, bah! Like there was any disgrace in being a pirate! Pirate is what I am and I don't care who knows it! Nobody tells me who I'll sink and who I'll spare!"
From the Hardcover edition.
Meet the Author
Barbara Hambly attended the University of California and spent a year at the University of Bordeaux, France, obtaining a master's degree in medieval history. She has worked as both a teacher and a technical editor, but her first love has always been history. Ms. Hambly lives in Los Angeles. She is at work on the seventh Benjamin January novel, Feast Among the Bones.
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Hesione LeGros¿s murder as a poor, drunken prostitute is far removed from her younger days as the beautiful, fiery mistress of a pirate captain. The city guard is busy with the death of a white plantation owner, so it is left to Benjamin January to investigate during the grueling summer heat in New Orleans. But January¿s inquiries quickly take a backseat when disaster strikes closer to home. Soon, Benjamin and his sweetheart Rose are caught up in a tangle of conspiracies ¿ gun running, slave revolt and pirate treasure. Forced to flee New Orleans, they work to untangle the many mysteries in the surrounding plantations and swamps. This is the sixth book in Hambly¿s series about 1830s New Orleans and Benjamin January, well-educated freeman and seeker of justice. Hambly provides enough of a history recap for readers new to the series. The rich descriptions put you directly on the streets of the tarnished jewel that is New Orleans. Hambly is as effective as ever in her depictions of the many colliding cultures, the contrast of the lives of the haves and the have-nots, and the heartbreaking injustices and indignities suffered because of race. One of the best things about this series is that the characters and relationships continue to grow and change. Benjamin and his friends and family are all complex characters. The villains however, seem to be almost over-the-top evil. The pacing steams along steadily until the climax, which is riotous barrage of action. Hambly does an excellent job of wrapping all of her plot threads together. I have one minor quibble - so many things were wrapped up, I¿d be afraid for the series if I didn¿t know that the next book was already out.
This was a treat, and what an ending! Benjamin January fans will adore this latest addition to the series.
This is Barbara Hambly's best Benjamin January mystery yet. The storyline is intriguing - why is a horrifically poor freed black prostitute killed with a dubloon, which could have been used to elevate her standard of living, in her pocket? - and the twists and turns of the plot from there are of the 'never a dull moment' variety. But best of all, there's an ending to this particular mystery, the sixth in the Benjamin January series, that will make readers stand up and cheer. Go for it - go out and buy this terrific book!
She fidgeted with her dress.
Another great Benjamin January story. I love this writer! She makes me feel the story. I can feel the moist heat, the sense of hopelessness in being black and the coarseness of the "Kentucks". The story is good- the writing even better.
In 1835 New Orleans, Olympia Snakebones sends for her brother Benjamin January to come to the poorer side of town because someone killed a free colored lady, Hesione LeGros. The victim was stabbed to death with the culprit obviously searching her shack for something, but it was not for financial reasons. The killer never robbed Hesione or took the money in her possession. The city guards fail to arrive to investigate the homicide as they are busy with the murder of a white plus blacks receive ¿leftover¿ justice in the same way slaves receive food scraps. Refusing to ignore the crime, Benjamin accompanied by his beloved Rose Vitric begins making inquiries into the brutal death of an old woman. The January historical mysteries are some of the best nineteenth century tales on the market regardless of genre. The story line vividly brings New Orleans with its caste society to life so that the reader feels as if they are visiting the locale. The who-done-it is cleverly designed to further bring out the era and the hero. Fans of historical tales, especially mysteries will want to read WET GRAVE and the previous January novels that Barbara Hambly has written because these are insightfully top quality. Harriet Klausner


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Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
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- Yitao DuanAffiliated withComputer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley Email author
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Link analysis algorithms have been used successfully on hyperlinked data to identify authoritative documents and retrieve other information. They also showed great potential in many new areas such as counterterrorism and surveillance. Emergence of new applications and changes in existing ones created new opportunities, as well as difficulties, for them: (1) In many situations where link analysis is applicable, there may not be an explicit hyperlinked structure. (2) The system can be highly dynamic, resulting in constant update to the graph. It is often too expensive to rerun the algorithm for each update. (3) The application often relies heavily on client-side logging and the information encoded in the graph can be very personal and sensitive. In this case privacy becomes a major concern. Existing link analysis algorithms, and their traditional implementations, are not adequate in face of these new challenges. In this paper we propose the use of a weighted graph to define and/or augment a link structure. We present a generalized HITS algorithm that is suitable for running in a dynamic environment. The algorithm uses the idea of "lazy update" to amortize cost across multiple updates while still providing accurate ranking to users in the mean time. We prove the convergence of the new algorithm and evaluate its benefit using the Enron email dataset. Finally we devise a distributed implementation of the algorithm that preserves user privacy thus making it socially acceptable in real-world applications.
Keywordslink analysis data mining text analysis privacy HITS graph algorithms lazy update
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- Privacy Preserving Link Analysis on Dynamic Weighted Graph
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Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
Volume 11, Issue 2 , pp 141-159
- Cover Date
- 2005-07
- 10.1007/s10588-005-3941-2
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- 1572-9346
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- Kluwer Academic Publishers
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- link analysis
- data mining
- text analysis
- privacy
- graph algorithms
- lazy update
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- Yitao Duan (1)
- Jingtao Wang (1)
- Matthew Kam (1)
- John Canny (1)
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- 1. Computer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley, 387 Soda Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720-1776


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This patent is comprised of mainly open source technologies all put together. Can open source items be patent in this manner without a reference? The open source project I'm referencing is Kegbot (http://www.kegbot.org, https://github.com/Kegbot). This open source project does the exact same thing this patent specifies and has been in existence since 2010.
To the question (paraphrasing) - Can open source technology all put together be patented ?
First, anything published before the date of filing or priority date can be used to show that a potential claim is not new, or if new, is obvious. Whether the earlier publication was a journal article, a patent, a rejected patent application or an open source project is generally immaterial. The earlier technology being open sourced doesn't make it any weaker or stronger prior art than if it were proprietary technology disclosed to the same level of detail.
Second, most new things are old things put together so that, itself, does not answer the question about non-obviousness. It is taken on a case-by-case basis.


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* Lars Trieloff (JIRA): > The cocoon-deployer-plugin has currently no support for XPatch, > which makes it difficult to modify the web.xml when developing > cocoon blocks. For example the cocoon-xmldb-impl block should > add, when deployed, a servlet for xindice and a servlet mapping > for the xindice servlet. This was possible in 2.1 using the > XConfToolTask, but is no longer possible with the current state > of the deployer-plugin. > > My patch adds support for patching the web.xml file using *.xweb > files in the /conf directory of a block by filtering the block's > jar file during deployment for conf/*.xweb files, caching the > patch document temporarily and applying them (using code from > the orgiginal XConfToolTask in 2.1) to the web.xml. The patch > has currently no support for other files than conf/*.xweb files > and does not support any property expansion. Hey, that sounds good. Has anyone been able to review this contribution? -- Jean-Baptiste Quenot aka John Banana Qwerty http://caraldi.com/jbq/
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