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New identity pieceJuly 30th, 2009
Identity for ToprakveSu, a Turkish hydroponics company. It was fun to do and I like the result. So did they. Check it out on the identity section.
Identity for ToprakveSu, a Turkish hydroponics company. It was fun to do and I like the result. So did they. Check it out on the identity section.
I got to be in a book. A design book. Yay for me. This book (a good 2 kilos btw) is about blogs of designers. It is called BLOGS - Mad about Design, is published by Maomao Publications, a Barcelona based company and Roundpixel got to be a part of it. POIDH follows.
New website and identity for Metropotravel. Check it out on the web section and also on the identity section. .
It's been almost… wait, wait.. it's been 2 days since my last update! No, there's nothing wrong with me, I'm not going to make a habit out of posting oftener - heaven forbid I should do such a thing. I found a couple of icons I made for my girl a while ago and thought they'd make good ..well goodies. Especially since the originals are vectors. So here goes - get it on the goodies page .
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It's been a while - again. So here goes : 8 new-ish websites, 6 or 7 identity pieces. As usual, they're in no particular order, some are really old now… I've said that before haven't I? I'm still working on 3 huge projects and a small one. Hope to finish at least some of them soon enough so that I can do so some things for myself. I forgot the last time I took a picture or drew something just for the heck of it.
I never update as soon as I have something new. Well, not this time. This time I'm putting it out here so that people can see it. Made a website for a milk farm. Got to shoot (photograph) old cows, baby cows and a truck Check it out on the web portfolio page or go right to the website here : ferma de lapte.
My last post was on April 10th. That's 7 months ago… Damn, time flies when you're NOT having fun as well.
Oh well - had a lot of work… a few bad things happened, you know - life. But who cares right? According to my stats more than 80% of the people coming to my site do it for the freebies. So.. ok - freebies it is. I have a cute little bug for you - a Nautilus shell.
Also I promise I will try to post more often and add more goodies. And I also promise myself I will update my portfolio as well.
On to the freebie. You can of course get it on the goodies page as usual.
You can see the original drawing and its evolution to vector:
Fun weekend project.
So here goes… Remember when Steve got out the MBA from that manilla folder? We all wow-ed right? Well, turns out my significant other got so wowed she decided she must have one. MBA that is.. not the manilla folder. But lo and behold there's no sleeve or folder or case for the MBA. Not here in the boons anyways.
So she could either order one from manila mac and wait forever (as it seems they're all sold out most of the time) or… she could punch her boyfriend in the shins saying "you're a designer right? you can do better than those dudes."
So yeah. I got my revenge. I used one of her coats. Leather.. and wonder of wonders - with a leopard underside hah!
Of course it wasn't enough to have just a sleeve. There's the adapters, cables and whatnot that need to be carried as well. So I made a pouch too.
This is what came of it.
the buttons are leather too. I found those in my mom's buttons case. She has this old navy biscuits tin can filled with buttons and needles and such. Things like that are so ubiquitous I'm willing to bet 60% of households worldwide have a tin can filled with buttons (must write essay on tin cans and buttons)
the edges of the sleeve are stiffened with a meter-long piece of IV transfusion tube sewn inside a leather flap. The tube should provide some cushioning too in case the laptop falls on its edge… I hope never to test it. Also since the whole thing was sewn by hand it provided a nice way to cover my not so straight lines.
the open pouch. I figured since the MBA uses Leopard… and since time immemorial leopard print was used to pimp stuff up … well it went well together. You can see some of my less fortunate sewing techniques here. When it's closed you can't see the bad parts though
For more (and larger) pics head on to the Sleeve&Pouch Project set on flickr.
It's been so long since I've updated the portfolio I almost forgot what to put up : 8 websites, lots of print stuff, an identity piece. I'm sure there's more somewhere… but I couldn't find it. As usual, they're in no particular order, some are really old now…
I wanted to do something for Halloween. Well I didn't. I did a few things last year and they should be still good this year as a "special theme " item. So instead I made the zodiac signs. I just realized last Halloween was also the last time I put anything "free" on the site. I'll try and do better heh.
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Joe: So tell us about HIT, the 40,000 word prequel to the Codename: Chandler series.
Joe: The character of Heath (the sexy spy) also appears in Three (coming June 25). I love this guy, and think he's among the best you've ever created. Coming from a romance background (4 million books in print) what makes Heath both a good and an unlikely romantic hero?
Ann: Heath has a lot of attitude, humor, bravado, sex appeal, and he loves women. He's also an over-the-top romantic, a guy who is in love with love, and a champion for the downtrodden.
So how is he not the perfect romance hero?
Well he also happens to be an assassin with an adrenaline addiction. He adheres only to his own code. He lives for revenge and doesn't believe in trust. And even if you're the love of his life, if he is forced to kill you, he just might.
In other words, he's the perfect guy for Chandler.
Joe: Like the others in the series (Exposed, Flee, Spree, Three) does Hit also contain graphic sex?
Ann: Of course! To me, sex is a way to dramatize a character's inner conflicts. Instead of sittin' and thinkin' about their deepest desires and most devastating fears, a character is engaged in an action that strips away their defenses and shows them for who they really are. And of course what a person does shows who they are far more than anything they could possibly say or think.
Violent scenes can bring out the same type of true, uncensored character moments as sex, although for Chandler violence is a day at the office. The emotion surrounding sex is much more dangerous territory.
Joe: So I heard your co-writer, Konrath, only wrote about 5000 words of this, and you wrote 35,000, yet somehow he still get's 25% of the profits. How does that work?
Ann: Yeah, that Konrath is worthless, isn't he? ;D
You created the character of Chandler, and in the first book, you invited me on board to help flesh her out and make her human. From there, we've come up with storylines and backstories together, and we decided early on that we would share the profit of any Chandler story. But while the novels are 50/50 in work and profit, we decided that on projects where one person wrote the majority of the book, we would split the proceeds 75/25.
We've spent a lot of time writing the novels (some are rather long), but we're also working on other projects. This arrangement enables us to write more Chandler stories while also doing other things. So while Joe was writing Stirred with Blake Crouch, I wrote most of Exposed. And while he was writing Haunted House, I wrote most of Hit. Now he will be writing Naughty while I'm focusing on Cut Too Deep.
Joe: So does that mean, when I finish Naughty (the next short novel in the series) you get 25% even if you don't write a word?
Ann: Hell yes! Didn't you read my explanation above? But I'm sure I'll contribute a few words. I wouldn't want you to have all the fun.
Joe: This series can be read in any order, and it isn't necessary to read everything to enjoy any story by itself. But for the diehard fans who insist on chronology, we wrote it so Flee, Spree, and Three all take place in the same week, and Hit, Exposed, and Naughty take place prior to that trilogy.
If you're obsessive about this sort of thing, the order goes:
NAUGHTY (coming soon)
What makes this series different than other spy novels about assassins, say like that guy Barry Eisler I've heard about?
Ann: Barry who? ;)
I adore Barry's books. Barry strives for realism, and his books reflect that. Joe and I aim for a more over-the-top sort of spy story with realism taking a back seat. I like to describe the Chandler books as action movies in book form. They are meant to be thrilling, exciting, sexy, humorous, and above all, entertaining. An emotional rollercoaster of sexy spy craziness. But suspend your disbelief before entering her world, and put your tongue firmly in your cheek.
Joe: Are we going to see Chandler and Heath again?
Ann: Definitely. At the end of Three, the story is over, but only for now. Chandler has much ahead of her, and we hope to explore that in our next Codename: Chandler book, FREE.
As for Heath, this annoying buddy of mine keeps bugging me to write a book featuring him, so maybe I'll put some thought to that.
Joe: So when is the sequel to your bestseller Pushed Too Far coming out?
Ann: I'm working on Cut Too Deep right now. So look for it late this summer. Dead Too Soon will follow before Christmas. And how about your next Jack Daniels book, Joe?
Joe: I'm doing Last Call with Crouch, which will tie up the Jack Daniels/Luther Kite/Lucy & Donaldson arcs. Fans want it, and Blake and I have a fun idea for it, if I can pull him away from his Wayward Pines TV show and M. Night Shyamalan long enough...
Any regrets leaving Harlequin and going indie?
Ann: The fact that you can ask that question, Joe, proves that you haven't been reading your own blog. ;) Try this story.
To add to the 2012 numbers I revealed in the blog, Pushed Too Far has now made more in its first year of release than any of my traditionally published books have in up to thirteen years. And of course that's not my only self-published work.
Besides money, the other amazing thing about self-publishing is the sheer fun of writing stories exactly the way I want to write them. When I published with Harlequin, I was lucky to have editors who allowed me to push the boundaries a little bit, especially earlier in my career. Later things became more restrictive. That isn't a bad thing, necessarily. There are reader expectations to consider. But I felt I wanted to do more.
With Pushed Too Far, I originally planned to submit to the Big Five (formally Big Six), and that was the game plan I worked out with my agents. But the landscape of the publishing industry changed beneath me. And I happen to have this friend who had been examining these changes for a while. So I listened to him and chose not to submit Pushed Too Far to anyone. Instead I self-published.
Best decision I ever made.
Joe: Any advice for authors?
Ann: Sure.
First, focus on the quality. Always. Forever. All writers, no matter how long they've been writing, no matter how they've chosen to be published, need to focus on telling a good story, a story readers are willing to pay to read. That is not an easy thing to learn. As Alexandra Sokoloff said in the comments section of her recent guest post on this blog, if you're not in it for the long haul, you're probably not going to see a lot of success.
The marketing is easy compared to learning to give good story. Publishing in any form is not a get-rich-quick scheme.
Second, look around you. The people who are going to help you most in your career are your friends.
In 2006 I attended a mystery conference called Bouchercon. I wrote romantic suspense, had never attended a mystery conference, but I picked this one since it was held in my home town of Madison, Wisconsin. I met a fellow author in the bar, and we got into a debate about the value of conferences over a few beers. He insisted that conferences were useful to authors because they allowed us to meet fans and sell books.
I like meeting fans and selling books, but maybe because of our gender difference, or maybe because I came from the romance world, I saw things a bit differently. To me, the biggest value of conferences (and to a lesser extent social media) was and is meeting friends. Sometimes those friends are readers. Most of the time they're other writers. Occasionally they are even publishing industry professionals. But regardless of specific walk of life, I can say without hesitation that my career, my creative life, and my personal sanity have benefited more from making friends than from anything else I've ever done.
So my biggest advice to new authors is to find friends. Those are the people who will help you grow as a writer, and you will help them. Friendship is deeper than networking, and it's different from mentorship. Friendship is about genuine connection, and the benefits of that connection flow both ways.
Joe: Nicely put. I met you, Blake, and Barry at conferences, and have worked with you and them on many occasions. Not only have I made money with you guys, but I've learned with you as the industry changed, and I've been able to up my game as a result.
Collaboration is a wonderful way to become a better writer, double your fanbase, and increase your output (which increases your virtual shelf space.) And with the right partner, it's also a lot of fun.
Now everyone go and buy Hit. It's loaded with violence and explicit sex, and it's only $2.99.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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"I feel," she wrote once, "that it is necessary to me, prescribed for me, to be alone, an outsider and alienated from every human context whatsoever." And on another occasion, she jotted in her journal the self-reminder, "Preserve your solitude!" What motivated her was no selfish desire to withdraw from the ordinary concourse of men, but precisely the opposite impulse. She knew that one remains alienated from a particular allegiance, not by vainly attempting to deny all beliefs, but precisely by sharing them all.
But over the course of the last couple of days, I may have begun to crack the code. As so often is the case, my epiphany came from sober drunks: two engaging, attractive but otherwise perfectly ordinary young woman, neither of whom, I'd wager, have ever heard of Simone Weil. One spoke of how, after getting drunk after work, she took to driving (narrow, winding, mountain road) Mulholland Drive home, hoping she'd go off in a cliff in a blackout and figuring that, since she technically wouldn't have been a suicide, her mother wouldn't feel as bad as she might have otherwise.
The second woman also spoke of her bad track record in the driving department and of her habit, in her drinking days, of riding a scooter instead of operating a motor vehicle so that if she got in an accident, she'd only kill herself and not hurt anyone else. "That was a nice enough thought," she'd now realized, "but I also saw I didn't really know how to take care of or love myself."
Such are the profound metaphysical questions, I'm proud to say, that occupy the minds of we garden-variety ex-drunks. But more to the point, these gals had both been thinking, as I so often have, like Simone Weil. They'd been willing to sacrifice themselves, but for the wrong reasons and out of subtly misguided motives.
For one thing, Church tradition has it that Christ himself descended into hell for three days after his death: he's already in solidarity with the souls in hell (and so are we, simply by virtue of being human). But to say "I'm not going to technically kill myself, I'm just going to drive along Mulholland in a blackout and hope I die," or "I'm going to ride my scooter and kill only myself" is to give the living the type of help they don't need and didn't ask for (as both of these women had seen, which was why they were telling the story at all). Someone's going to have to scrape your mangled body off the side of the road. Your mother's going to have to grieve for you whether you were a suicide or not. To refuse to be baptized so as not to leave one's brothers and sisters behind is like an alcoholic saying, "I'm going to keep living in the hell of drinking so as not to leave behind the drunks." But the way to help all drunks, past, present, and future, is not to keep drinking, but to get sober yourself. Which requires a quality that Weil, perhaps fatally, seemed to lack: not the willingness to help others, but the willingness to ask for help herself. For all her supposed solidarity with "the workers," it apparently never occurred to her to befriend any of them. It never occurred to her that the workers themselves might have spiritual insight, wisdom, experience, strength, and hope that could shed light on her situation (plus tell her a much-needed joke or two).
None of us are equipped to know the workings of another person's soul. I have to believe our suffering goes toward relieving the suffering of others no matter how it's undergone. But especially for those of us who like to think of ourselves as "intelligent," maybe the real suffering consists is in realizing our utter ignorance, brokenness and poverty. It's in casting our lot with the rest of humanity and realizing that religion is both sublime and in the utterly mundane and seemingly ordinary. I'm sure there's a special place in heaven for the ones who did go off the cliff, or crash the scooter into a tree, or voluntarily starve themselves to death ostensibly so another could live. But what really helped me yesterday was hearing that the gal who used to ride her scooter wasted has sobered up, stopped smoking pot, trained herself over the course of two years to get up early, and is now going to college.
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SOCORRO, N.M., February 25, 2003 - For the first time in its 30-year history, the annual New Mexico Women's Studies Conference will be hosted by New Mexico Tech, this coming Friday and Saturday, February 28-March 1, at various locations on the research university's campus.
The conference, Transforming Tradition, features faculty from New Mexico Tech and other New Mexico universities who will be presenting a variety of topics, ranging from "Women Transforming Religion" to "Gender, Science, and Engineering."
The name of the conference was inspired by a quote from the founder of Radcliffe College -- a women's college -- when it joined with Harvard, which had never admitted women. The founder stated that the joining of the universities was not eroding Radcliffe and Harvard's traditions, but was instead "transforming their traditions."
Margaret Randall, the keynote speaker of the two-day conference, has authored over 100 books of poetry, essays, and oral history, and has had success in photography.
Randall told Dr. Susan Field, assistant professor of humanities at New Mexico Tech and director of the Tech Women's Resource Center, that she plans to "talk a bit about transforming power vis a vis an analysis of power." Randall says she also plans on presenting her own "journey of transformation" by drawing on experience in her own personal history and reading related poems.
The New Mexico Women's Conference will also feature a forum theatre piece directed by Dr. Leslie Bentley, assistant professor of humanities at New Mexico Tech. The piece, titled "Theatre for Action," will be an interactive exploration of women's issues.
Audience members will be encouraged to participate in the presentation. Dr. Bentley promises that it will be "a great opportunity for students, professors, and community members to discuss issues of gender and have a lot of fun."
The Women's Studies Conference will begin on Friday, February 28, with tours of the nearby Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Very Large Array (VLA), and New Mexico Tech research laboratories. The first session will begin that afternoon at 3:35 in the Jones Hall annex; and, a welcome reception at 5:15 p.m. will be followed by a concert by the all-woman woodwind quartet Calico Winds at Macey Center.
Margaret Randall will then speak at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 1, followed by a morning session. A vegetarian luncheon for conference participants will then be held in Socorro's historic Garcia Opera House, with entertainment provided by Dr. Bentley's "Theatre of the Oppressed." Conference sessions will resume at 2:00 p.m.; and the closing gathering will be held at Martha's Black Dog, a Socorro cafe.
The conference registration costs are $40 for regular participants, $20 for community members with no college or university affiliations, and $15 for students. The cost of attending the Bosque del Apache tour will be $4, and discounted tickets to the Calico Winds concert will be $10 each. For more information on attending the New Mexico Women's Conference, or on the New Mexico Tech Women's Resource Center, visit http://www.nmt.edu/~women/.


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text: Application vulnerabilities: Closer than you think Posted on August 15, 2013 by Tim Burke Consider: Last year, according to Verizon, 54% of data breaches began as attacks on web applications, and for years one type of attack — SQL injection — has been the means by which 83% of stolen records were extracted. Meanwhile, says Gartner, 25% of all DDOS attacks this year will be application-based, and an increasing portion of these attacks may actually be diversions in which the bad guys use remotely accessible malware to target user accounts (for personal data or, in the case of financial institutions, for money). Continue reading →


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The photographer Xavier Lucchesi doesn't use a camera to capture his portraits; instead, he penetrates the human body with an advanced x-ray machine, revealing organs, arteries, and bones. The artist adds color to the medical images, highlighting the intricacies of the human body in electric blues and deep, bloody reds. For Luccesi, the act of seeing is active and passionate; a passing glance is insufficient, and to truly view another truthfully is to dissect and peel away exterior layers.
Lucchesi's portraits are perhaps those of our deepest human core: when our superficial features are stripped back, a more primal self emerges. Lucchesi's sitters are laid completely bare; though they might pose or strain, their bodies betray secret inner worlds and open them up to a profound vulnerability. A triptych presents a man in three stages of undress: clothed, then nude, then uncovered and unprotected by skin. As he lays with his arms crossed, the x-ray bears down on him, and he becomes increasingly naked, at the mercy of our eager, inquisitive eyes.
As we reach new levels of intimacy with our own bodies, they reveal themselves like brightly colorful and graphic foreign roadmaps; red blood vessels line the figure like highways, leading to pale geometric bone or grassy green lungs in either direction. Like an intricate maze of machinery or a small, delicate cityscape, the miraculous pieces of the human being—the flesh, the lungs, the ribcage— function autonomously, just beneath the surface of our gaze. Take a look. (via Design Boom)


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(Reuters) - U.S. health regulators will add warnings to the labels of widely used cholesterol lowering drugs, such as Lipitor, to indicate that they may raise levels of blood sugar and could cause memory loss.
The Food and Drug administration announced the changes to the safety information on the labels of statins such as Pfizer Inc's Lipitor, AstraZeneca's Crestor and Merck & Co's Zocor.
Statins have been shown to significantly reduce the risk of heart attack and heart disease, and the FDA said the new information should not scare people into stopping taking the drugs.
"The value of statins in preventing heart disease has been clearly established," Amy Egan, deputy director for safety in FDA's Division of Metabolism and Endocrinology Products, said in a statement. "Their benefit is indisputable, but they need to be taken with care and knowledge of their side effects."
Lipitor, which became available late last year in generic form as atorvastatin, is the world's all-time biggest selling prescription medicine with cumulative sales of over $130 billion.
The generic version of Zocor, simvastatin, in 2010 was the second most widely prescribed drug in the United States, according to IMS Health.
The FDA said it was aware of studies in which some patients taking statins may have a small increased risk of higher blood sugar levels and of being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
The statin labels will also now reflect reports of certain cognitive effects such as memory loss and confusion experienced by some patients taking the drugs, the agency said. It said those reports generally have not been serious and the symptoms were reversed by stopping use of the statin.
One safety warning long associated with the class of medicines will be reversed, the FDA said: Patients taking statins will no longer need routine periodic monitoring of liver enzymes.
"FDA has concluded that serious liver injury with statins is rare and unpredictable in individual patients, and that routine periodic monitoring of liver enzymes does not appear to be effective in detecting or preventing this rare side effect," it said.
Other statins, most of which are available as generics, include Livalo, Mevacor, Pravachol, Altoprev and Lescol. There are also combination medicines that include statins, such as Merck's Vytorin and Abbott Laboratories' Simcor.
The agency also said Merck's Mevacor, the world's first approved statin, known generically as lovastatin, should never be taken with certain drugs used to treat HIV and certain bacterial and fungal infections due to increased risk of a serious muscle disease.
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I have discovered this when planning my wedding, shopping for baby stuff (for friends), and now with shopping for Ellie...purple is always going to be the stepsister to the more popular pink. Purple is my favorite color since I was a kid but I have never seen it as much as I would like. The color options are almost always blue and pink. So I ask you super online shoppers to help me find some stuff for my princess Ellie in purple. Ill be honest I prefer to lighter shades (lilac, lavender,etc) but I'm not that picky as its slim pickings out there. I already bought her the purple puppia harness and leash from tiabellas.com I want to buy her a few shirts and sweaters and such though and if I could find them in purple I would love that. So any help would be much appreciated. :D


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Porter's Return Lifts Little Giants Spiritsby Jocelyn Hopkinson '15 • September 14, 2013 Share:
C.P. Porter made a rather spectacular and emotionally-uplifting return to football Saturday. The senior running back shattered his leg a little more than 11 months ago.
Porter's 2012 season came to a gruesome halt when he broke his leg Oct. 20 against Wooster.
"I just waited so long for this," Porter said. "It felt really good. Everybody was so supportive, my team, and the fans. It was just great to get out there."
Porter returned looking like he'd never missed a beat. He capped a 10-play scoring drive, carrying the ball seven times himself, with four-yard push across the goal line. The defense stood him up at the four but Porter's healthy legs drove the pile into the end zone.
"I was pretty confident," he said. "After the first initial hit and getting back up, it was back to what it was - just football."
Porter carried the ball 6 times for 36 yards and the score. He admitted the leg is still on the mend.
"I'm constantly going to rehab," he said. "An injury like this, it's something I'm going to have to deal with for a long time. I just keep working, keep rehabbing, and keep stretching."


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First Look: Cocktails at M.Y. China, San Francisco
Daniel Baird, bar manager at the newly-opened M.Y. China in San Francisco, has come a long way since he first got his start behind the bar. Baird's first gig was at a local watering hole in Harrisburg, PA. "I'd just gotten laid off, and I went to drown my sorrows," he tells us. "And they'd just laid off their bartender...four years later, I left."
M.Y. China, the first San Francisco restaurant from celebrity chef Martin Yan, is certainly a far cry from the "kind of redneck bar" Baird worked at in Harrisburg. The restaurant, which is located under the dome in the Westfield San Francisco Centre downtown, has gotten noticed for its noodle-pulling antics, its dim sum selection, and its cocktails, too.
"We wanted these cocktails to have a real theme, and to pair well with the food," says Baird, who relished the challenge of working to create cocktails that complemented the restaurant's elevated Chinese cuisine. Baird brought in Nate Bartell of Betelnut and Alan Chen of Presidio Social Club and Ice Cream Bar to help craft the menu.
The result is a 12-drink menu including Asian-inspired variations on classic cocktails, concocted to highlight the flavors of Yan's food. Take a peek at the drinks in the slideshow above.
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Biological Sciences
Research Highlights
October 2007
NIH Funds New Biomarkers Center at PNNL
Center to identify biological response markers for chronic inflammatory stress to cigarette smoke and obesity
Results: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been awarded a $5.9 million grant by the National Institutes of Health's Genes and Environment Initiative for a Center for Novel Biomarkers of Response. Scientists in this new center intend to create new exposure assessment tools to better understand the role of gene-environment interactions in human disease. They are studying cigarette smoke and obesity as causes of chronic inflammatory stress.
Methods: Using state-of-the-art proteomics and sensors, researchers at PNNL and the University of Utah will identify and validate proteins in human plasma that give specific information about biological responses to these environmental stressors and early markers of disease. This work will contribute to an understanding of the modes of action of disease and the organs they target. This research focuses on environmental stress response in humans using mice as models to define biological stress responses to specific exposures. In addition, the results comparing humans and mice will improve the scientific community's ability to compare, contrast and extrapolate biomarkers—signals of biological stress—between humans and mice.
Plasma samples for the study will be obtained from 500 individuals participating in a study being conducted by the University of Utah. That study includes non-smokers, smokers, smokers with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and people exposed to second-hand smoke. Researchers at the W.R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a DOE national scientific user facility located at PNNL, will identify the peptides from these samples using state-of-the art tandem mass spectrometry.
Acknowledgments: PNNL senior scientist Joel Pounds is director of the center, and Rick Corley and Diana Bigelow are associate directors. Jon Jacobs, Rick Zangar and Yuehe Lin are principal investigators on the proteomics, ELISA microarray and sensor cores, respectively; and Dick Smith (PNNL) and John Hoidal (University of Utah) are on the internal steering committee and are investigators. Cheryl Baird, James Follansbee, Monica Lee, Guodong Liu, Colette Sacksteder, Weijun Qian, Susan Varnum, Jun Wang, Katrina Waters and Bobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson (all PNNL) and Mary Beth Scholand and Martin Villegas (University of Utah) are co-investigators.
For more information, See the PNNL news release "Linking cigarette smoke and obesity: What our genes and environmental factors tell us," which was issued October 3, 2007.


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Nov. 16 ( Bloomberg) -- Netflix Inc., the world's largest video-streaming service, said it expects activist investor Carl Icahn to start a proxy battle after acquiring an almost 10 percent stake in the company.
Netflix, while willing to consider offers, isn't interested in seeking a buyer, Jonathan Friedland, a spokesman for the Los Gatos, California-based company, said today by telephone. He confirmed comments by Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings reported by the Wall Street Journal.
Icahn disclosed his investment in Netflix on Oct. 31, saying he built the holding of stock and options because of the company's "dominant" market position in video streaming. Its international growth prospects also make it an attractive acquisition target, he said.
Netflix adopted a so-called poison pill on Nov. 5 to defend against a hostile bid. On Nov. 14, CNBC reported that Icahn was reaching out to potential buyers.
The company is positioned to remain independent after 10 years on its own, Hastings told the Journal.
Netflix fell 0.7 percent to $80.90 at the close in New York. The shares have advanced 17 percent this year.
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I personally hate everyone that HATES over handhelds. In my opinion, handhelds are the future of gaming
I'm glad the 3DS is doing well. I will not down-talk the Vita. It's not necessary to trash-talk the competition,especially when they're already struggling in sales and software. I'm personally not interested in Vita, but I view its competition as a rather good thing.
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College & State University Department of Athletics announced today that head women's basketball coach John Carrick has decided to retire and will not return for the 2010-11 season. Carrick, who had been head coach for 27 years, officially retired from full-time employment at the university in 2007 but continued to coach the team on a part-time basis.
The university will seek a full-time replacement, according to Athletic Director Wendell Staton, with a target date of July 1.
"Coach Carrick truly has created an outstanding legacy for the women's basketball program," Staton said. "Finding the right individual to maintain and challenge the standard that John set will be a tall order."
In his 27 years, the most of any head coach at Georgia College, Carrick compiled a record of 474 wins and 305 losses. This past season, the Bobcats went 21-8, the ninth team under Carrick to win at least 20 games, and won the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) West Division title. With 21 winning seasons and six NCAA Tournament appearances, Carrick established a strong, winning program.
More than his reputation as a winner, Carrick took pride in the fact that 92 percent of his players graduate from college.
"I'd like to thank Georgia College for 27 wonderful years," said Carrick, the dean of the PBC. "I'd also like to thank Mike Peeler and Jim Wolfgang for hiring and guiding me through my first few years of stumbling through college coaching."
"I'm proud of the program we've established over the years, and I do mean we. I owe a lot of success to the young women and men that worked as assistant coaches, as well as the outstanding young women that have played here."
A 1974 Georgia College physical education graduate, Carrick took over as head coach in 1983 on the heels of a dismal 2-22 season. Under his guidance, the then Lady Colonials battled to respectability, and Carrick's first winning season came in 1985-86.
Carrick's teams posted back-to-back 20-win campaigns in 1987-88 and 1988-89, helping Georgia College to average 18 wins a season under Carrick. He picked up his 200th career win during the 1995-96 PBC Championship season with a 68-55 victory over rival Kennesaw State and his 300th win in 2001 with an 85-67 victory at Lander. He notched his 400th win in the first round of the 2006 PBC Tournament with a 63-60 victory over Armstrong Atlantic.
Even the 1990 switch from competing at the NAIA level to NCAA Division II and entering the Peach Belt Conference did not slow Carrick's ability to bring home a winner as Georgia College finished 18-11. The following year, Carrick's team was the PBC regular season co-champion with a 12-2 conference mark and 22-7 overall record.
The wins kept adding up, capped by a sensational two-year stretch during the 1995-96 and 1996-97 seasons in which Carrick led his team to its first outright regular season PBC title, first PBC Tournament title, and two NCAA Tournament berths. The Bobcats made history in 2002 after becoming the lowest seeded team to win the PBC Tournament -- the first team to win four games in the tournament and also knock off both No. 1 seeds to advance to the NCAA Tournament for the third time.
Under Carrick, Georgia College did it again in 2004, winning four games on the way to its third PBC Tournament title, knocking off both top seeds. The Bobcats advanced all the way to the "Sweet 16" at the NCAA Tournament, falling in the regional championship game. Georgia College won the PBC Tournament again in 2006 to earn its fifth berth into the NCAA Tournament.
In addition to his bachelor's degree, Carrick earned a master's degree in health, physical education and recreation in 1976, also from Georgia College. As an undergraduate at Georgia College, he competed in soccer and tennis, and was named GC Male-Athlete-of-the-Year in 1974. Carrick has one son, Josh, who attended GCSU and has been a student-assistant coach on his staff.
Carrick started his coaching career at Putnam County High School in Eatonton, Ga., where he coached football, baseball and girls' basketball. In 1982, he took a perennial loser and led them to a 29-0 record and a Class AA State Title. He was named the Class AA Coach-of-the-Year and was selected as the Macon Telegraph Middle Georgia Prep All-Sports Coach of the Year.
"When I look back on it all, the thing I remember most won't be the wins and losses, it'll be the relationships formed with co-workers, staff and the players. We all worked hard to give the young women an experience they could be proud of, and one that would prepare them for their professional lives."
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Georgia College prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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These beneficial insects will eliminate bad bugs from your garden without the use of harmful pesticides.
Using Beneficial Bugs in the Garden
When it comes to controlling insect pests in the garden, you have basically two choices: [1] You can apply chemical pesticides and hope that your health holds out longer than it takes the uninvited bugs to become resistant. [2] You can save your money, save your health, do a good turn for the planet, and boost your overall yields dramatically by turning natural predators — including other insects! — loose on your unwanted garden visitors.
Once, not long ago, while I was inspecting my roses, I spied a tiny green insect creeping up one plant's stem. Though it was legless, the wormlike creature moved toward a nearby aphid colony with remarkable speed. Then, just short of the colony, it stopped, and — stretching its body forward quickly — the little beast took what looked like a blind swing at the aphids. To my surprise, contact was made on the first try. An aphid kicked and struggled as the legless (and apparently sightless) marauder wheeled it up high overhead. In a few moments, the invader flung its victim's shrunken skin aside and went after another aphid . . . then another . . . and another . . . until the entire colony was completely wiped out.
Meanwhile, it seemed that a tiny, gray, alligator-shaped insect had been patrolling another stem. This little beast, which had long, curved "pincers" at the front of its head, literally raced along until it spotted a lone aphid. Then, with startling fierceness, the "alligator" seized and pierced its victim with those hypodermic-needle pincers and refused to let go until the aphid's body was a mere shell.
I didn't know it at the time, but the first insect I'd observed was a syrphid fly larva, which — I learned — is indeed eyeless. And the little "alligator" that so aggressively scoured my rose bush was — I later learned a lacewing larva, more commonly known as an aphidlion. Both creatures, it turned out, had been voluntarily practicing biological control in my garden.
Biological Insect Control: The Only Way to Go
I'm now firmly convinced — after having studied my own backyard pest situation in some detail — that biological control (especially the eradication of "bad" insects by "good" ones) is the only way to go when it comes to zapping pests in the garden. By letting insects do the work of chemical pesticides, you not only save money (since pesticides are — as a rule — expensive) . . . but you [1] help conserve petroleum (the "raw material" from which many pesticides are made), [2] ensure your — and your family's — continued good health, and [3] do not needlessly pollute the biosphere.
And you don't need a degree in entomology to put biological control to work in your garden! The chances are excellent that—like me—you already have an armada of "beneficial" insects working away for you out there in the garden right now . . . and with a couple hours of practice, you should have no trouble telling these "good" bugs from the ones that spell trouble for your crops. (Even if you don't have any friendly insects in your vegetable patch — and that's unlikely — you can import some. See the list of "insect livestock suppliers" which accompanies this article.)
Right now, let's talk about which "biological control" insects you should look for in (and/or add to) your garden, and why they're so valuable . . . beginning with one of the most beneficial—and familiar—insects of all.
Ladybugs — or ladybird beetles — are among the most widely distributed and (for the gardener) most beneficial of all insects. The mature ladybug — with its distinctive bright red, hemispherical shell—is a familiar sight to most gardeners. The ladybug larva, on the other hand, is a bit less familiar to most folks. Look for a mostly blackish, spiny-bodied little beast with six short legs and (depending on the species) brilliant red, blue, or yellow spots.
Both the adult and the larval ladybug eat two and a half times their own weight in aphids, mealybugs, moth eggs, spider mites, and/or scale insects each and every day of their lives. (A single ladybird larva will—before it pupates into an adult beetle—consume a total of 90 mature and 3,000 juvenile scale insects.) Even more impressive is the fact that ladybirds — because they taste bad and give off a disagreeable (to other bugs) odor — aren't preyed upon by other insects.
Obviously, ladybird beetles are nice "pets" to have around!
Dragonflies and Damselflies
Any insect that can devour 40 houseflies in two hours — and the dragonfly can — is definitely a "beneficial" insect. The same goes for the damselfly, a very close relative of the dragonfly that differs only in size and repose. (Damsels are smaller and rest with their wings folded, as opposed to the dragonfly's wings-outstretched posture.)
Chances are, you'll miss seeing these swift-moving insects in action . . . because nature equipped both dragonflies and damselflies with wings to propel them at unbelievable speeds (they've been clocked at 60 miles per hour). These remarkable insects also have enormous eyes (each of which contains more than 20,000 lenses) that can spot moving objects 60 feet away . . . and long, spiny legs to aid in catching and eating their prey in flight.
Damselflies and dragonflies are predaceous in all stages of their development and feed mainly upon flies and mosquitoes . . . two of the peskiest of all insect pests. If you live near a pond where damsels or dragons thrive, consider yourself fortunate to have these fast-flying fellows around.
Praying Mantises or Mantids
Sometime — to really gain an appreciation for how skillfully some insects work—you should observe a praying mantis in action. This handsome insect will sit quietly poised on a stem — body erect, head bent forward, front legs meekly folded in supplication — until a grasshopper (or other prey) approaches. Then the mantid — tilting its head ever so slightly to keep a constant watch on the approaching prey — will wait patiently for the victim to move closer. And — finally! — the tall, green insect suddenly thrusts its spiny forelegs out to clasp the grasshopper in a viselike grip! From that point on, the grasshopper is doomed.
The nice thing about mantids is that they'll adapt to virtually any setting and eat anything that moves. Although their favorite foods are flies and grasshoppers, you'll find that praying mantises will — from time to time — also consume aphids, leafhoppers, white grubs, beetles, chinch bugs, and several species of caterpillars.
Because of the disagreeable (to humans) odor that they sometimes give off, lacewings are often referred to as "stinkflies". In the adult stage, these fragile-looking, light-green insects are primarily nectar lovers (although some are known to be carnivorous) and are thus of little importance as agents of biological control. The lacewing's larvae — otherwise known as aphidlions — however, are a boon to the gardener: They have a gluttonous appetite not only for aphids but for mealybugs, mites, leafhoppers, thrips, moth eggs, bollworm larvae, whiteflies, and scale insects.
If you should discover lacewing eggs in your garden (look for very tiny, ovoid eggs suspended on threadlike stalks, usually on the undersides of leaves), count yourself lucky!
The small, brownish-gray damsel bug (a close relative of the ambush and pirate bugs) is a common inhabitant of fields, orchards, and gardens everywhere. (Look for them in the shadows of leaves or flower petals.) Don't let these insects' small size fool you: They'll more than do their part to keep aphids, leafhoppers, lygus bugs, spider mites, treehoppers, and small caterpillars in check in your pea patch.
Syrphid, Tachinid and Robber Flies
It may come as a surprise to you to learn that the fly family has many beneficial (to gardeners) members . . . but it's true. Three types of flies, in particular, merit special attention: the syrphids, the tachinids, and the robbers.
Syrphid flies — commonly known as hover flies or flower flies — resemble bees more than they do ordinary flies . . . and — like bees — adult syrphids live entirely on flower nectar and honeydew. Syrphid fly larvae, on the other hand, are "meat-eaters": They have voracious appetites for aphids, scale insects, and other soft-bodied bugs. A single syrphid fly larva will, in fact, easily consume an aphid a minute, given the opportunity. (Not bad, considering the larva's small size and total lack of sight organs! )
Adult tachinid flies — which (at first glance) look like overgrown houseflies — spend most of their time buzzing from flower to flower, and sipping nectar like bees . . . since, as adults, they're strict vegetarians. Every mature tachinid, however, passed its larval stage as an internal parasite of some other kind of larva . . . such as that of a butterfly, moth, grasshopper, army worm, bollworm, wood louse, or centipede. (In Hawaii, one species of tachinid larva has been successfully employed as a biological control against the troublesome sugarcane weevil.)
Robber flies can be recognized by their whiskered faces, long, spindly legs, and (usually) long abdomens. (Some have broad, hairy bodies and look very much like bumblebees.) Probably the only time you'll see these strong fliers is when they've landed on a leaf or stem to eat right after they've made their catch. On the menu: anything from grasshoppers, flies, beetles, dragonflies, bees, and wasps to the bumblebees these handsome insects mimic.
Like the fly family, the wasp family contains both predators and parasites. Among the food insects that the large, predatory adult wasps catch to feed to their young are houseflies, blowflies, moth caterpillars, army worms, and corn earworms.
Aphids are also attacked by wasps, but in a different way: Watch an aphid colony long enough, and you're bound to see a very tiny female wasp carefully deposit an egg with her long ovipositor into the body of one of the little sapsuckers. When the larva hatches, it'll feed off its aphid host.
A variety of worms and caterpillars are also parasitized by wasps. If you happen to notice small, white, oblong objects on a tomato hornworm's back — for instance — you're looking at the cocoons of the braconid wasp's larvae. (Eventually, these cocoons will completely devour the hornworm.) Braconids also parasitize corn borers, various butterflies and moths, birch leaf-mining sawflies, wood-boring beetles, bark beetles . . . even ants. In every case, the parasitized pest insect is killed before it can do damage to its host plant.
Several species of tiny wasps are raised commercially for their pest control (i.e., parasitism) value. These wasps include:
Trichogramma Wasps: Collectively, the various members of this group lay their eggs inside the eggs of more than 200 insect pests, including those of bollworms, leafworms, fruitworms, cutworms, army worms, cane borers, and most moths and butterflies.
Fly Parasites: Maggots are the target of this group, which means that feedlots, poultry ranches, dairies, animal pens — anyplace where the common fly breeds — can benefit from having these parasitic wasps around. (It is estimated that the wasps in this category can destroy up to 95% of the developing maggots in a given locale in one season.)
Scale Parasite: This extremely tiny wasp (species designation unknown) lays its egg right under the scale that scale parasites secrete to protect themselves. The developing wasp larva then attacks the scale insect's body directly. Although this wasp primarily parasitizes the California red scale, it'll also attack a number of tree-loving scale insects.
Though they're technically arachnids, and not insects, spiders are — nonetheless — probably the most important "biological control insects" you'll find in your garden. Like mantids, spiders will adapt to a variety of settings and feast on just about every kind of insect that happens by.
Spiders come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. Some weave webs . . . others constantly stalk the soil and surrounding vegetation for prey. Some varieties — such as the crab and orb spiders — openly sit and wait for their victims . . . others (the majority of spiders, in fact) are elusive and prefer to remain "under cover" until their food comes along.
Closely related to spiders are the mites, which also technically fall into the "arachnid" classification. Here, the gardener has three true friends: the greenhouse mite, the Pacific mite, and the Willamette mite . . . all of which feed on the much-cursed spider mite.
Other Biological Control Insects
There are, of course, many other "biological control insects" that you'll learn about once your eyes have been opened to this method of zapping the pests in your garden. (Ground beetles, for instance, feed on cutworms, army worms, grasshoppers, snails, and slugs in both the larva and adult stage . . . and they do their best work at night, when you're slumbering in bed.) The ones shown and described in detail here, however, are quite a sufficient introduction to some of the beneficial predators that can do so much good for your vegetable patch. If you succeed only in encouraging the ladybugs, mantises, flies, spiders, etc., listed above, you'll be way ahead of garden pests during the coming summer.
How to Establish (And Maintain) "Friendly" Insects in Your Garden
Biological control does not mean eliminating all insect pests from your garden. (Obviously, you can't expect the "good" insects to survive without any "bad" insects to feast on.) What it does mean is the establishment and maintenance of a critical balance between the number of plants, friendly insects, and insect pests in your vegetable patch.
To achieve this natural balance, you may well have to "import" a rather large number and variety of predatory and parasitic insects to your garden at first. For instance, ladybird beetles alone may not prove capable of keeping aphids under control . . . but a combination of ladybugs, lacewings, and parasitic wasps might do the trick. Eventually, of course, as the pest population in your garden decreases to a normal "low" level, so will the population of pest-control insects.
To maintain this delicately balanced ecosystem, you'll need to make a concerted effort to keep the "friendly" insects in your garden. Follow three simple rules, and you should have no problem:
[1] Provide water. (Most insects need at least one drink a day.)
[2] Plant many different kinds of plants. A variety of flowering plants, vegetables, and fruit trees will do the best job of providing the pollen, nectar, and honeydew your insect friends need.
[3] Plant new crops for each season of the year. By rotating crops year round (as many farmers do), you'll find that beneficial insects are more likely to remain in your garden and pests less likely to get out of hand.
Beneficial Insects: In Conclusion
It's easy — when you're constantly confronted by examples of the damage that insects can do — to lose sight of the fact that insects (in their various forms) comprise about 85% of all the living creatures on this earth, plants and other organisms notwithstanding . . . just as it's easy to forget that of all the insects in the world, only one percent fall into the "pest" category.
Given these facts, doesn't it make sense to stop thinking of all insects as "bad" — to stop using chemical pesticides (which kill beneficial insects along with the pests) — and, instead, to start giving "good" insects their due? Don't put it off any longer. Give biological control a try this year. I think you'll be glad you did.
Insects for the Home
If you've always thought that insects belong outside — not inside — the home . . . you're right. Most insects do belong outside. Some kinds of bugs, however, can prove to be exceedingly useful indoor companions.
Mantises — for instance — will quietly (almost shyly) scour your home for insects. These fine creatures come the closest of all insects to being true pets: They'll learn to drink water from your spoon and even take raw meat — or live food — from your hand.
Likewise, house centipedes can do a good job of keeping damp, dark basements free of insect pests. (You won't find many roaches, flies, or clothes moths in your dwelling if there are house centipedes around.)
Spiders tend to find their way indoors whether we want them around or not . . . but that's just as well. In the first place, spiders are less apt to bite you than you might think . . . and — except in the case of the black widow or the brown recluse — spider venom isn't very poisonous anyway (unless you're allergic to it). Second, these elusive eight-legged creatures can really keep a house free of flies, moths, and mosquitoes. So the next time you see a spider in your house, either look the other way (chances are you'll never see it again) or gently scoop the critter up and place it outside on a plant. But for heaven's sake don't kill this best friend you ever had!


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Eureka Hex Screen House
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Forget about pesky bugs when you're inside the Eureka 3-Season Hex Screen House.
After you get your tent pitched take a few minutes to put together Eureka's 3-Season Hex Screen House. When the sun goes down and the bugs come out you won't have to retreat to your tent, and you can sit at a picnic table and play cards without drenching yourself with bug dope. The hexagonal screen tent has a hub and six poles with external clips, so you can set it up in a snap. The two doors open wide enough to move in a picnic table, and it doesn't have a floor, so you don't have to worry about dropping food during mealtime. With 126 square feet, it's like bringing a sunroom to the campground.
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Does this include stakes.
What are the open dimensions - we are both tall (6ft) and need to know the height mostly. your website fails to include very important information. Thx
Hi Barbara, The center height is 7'3" so you should be good to walk around just about anywhere in there. Please reach out to me directly if you have any other questions. - Matthew Pizza - Expert Gearhead
how do i find replacement parts ? need the...
how do i find replacement parts ? need the top part that the poles fit into. Had a bad storm and wind and broke the plastic thing the poles go in.
Hey Sherry,
You probably will have to contact Eureka directly. They do have replacement parts available, you just have to give them the tent name and item. There might be a small fee to get the replacement however it's cheaper than buying a new tent. Here is the contact info from their website as well as the FAQ section discussing replacement parts.
Customer Service # 800-572-8822
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The quality of fabric and poles are high. It works great as a sun and bug shelter, however, it seems much smaller than the dimensions would indicate,and since the walls are not vertical, it is not effective at all in the rain.
Do any of these screen rooms have a floor?...
Do any of these screen rooms have a floor? Used a screen room in Arizona fly country and without a floor they will get into your space.
Can you stake the sides down - not just...
Can you stake the sides down - not just the corners?
What do you do about the rain?
What do you do about the rain?
Hey there, yeah not much you can do... it does have a polyester top so it will stop most rain... but the sides? You might have to find a tarp to go over it or go inside when it rains/blows...
Year Round Use..
Great tent, the Hex Shape makes it more sturdy in windy conditions.. I mentioned "Year Round", I meant 3 seasons...
Your advertise show that is FREE ShiPPING,...
Your advertise show that is FREE ShiPPING, why do you we choose a method of shipping to send this item to CANADA???????
no free shipping to Canada. Just to the contiguous 48 united states. see this link:
Good fit.
I set this up alone with my ten year old without much trouble. We really enjoyed using this screenhouse.
It has a nice shape and color. Fits easily over large state park picnic tables. Kept out most of the bugs.
Was strong enough for the PA northwoods.
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I'm looking for a screened house that has shades attached so you can block the wind from any direction.
Has anyone one heard of one?
Perhaps overkill, but:
I'm looking for one too, 10 years ago I had a 6 sided spalding dining tent purchased through Canadian Tyre here in Canada, cost $159Cdn, it had bungie/chain loaded 3-piece poles for the sides and 2-piece for the roof, it was a fantastic dining tent, leave the fly off in nice weather or install it in inclement weather.
Every second panel was a door, 2 of them had single zipper flaps while the main one had double sippers (full-panel sized square door, zipped up each side).
I've been looking for one for years since mine was stolen 6 years ago!
The Cabela Alaskan Guide® Model Gazebo looks suspicously like a rebadged Spalding, but of course with a Cabela price tag. Even allowing for inflation $420US is a 250% increase from the Canadian price of 10 years ago.
Does this come with panels to block out...
Does this come with panels to block out the wind?
Does it come with guy lines? windy beach...
Does it come with guy lines? windy beach conditions on beach North of Avon, NC...
I'm looking for a shade/screen tent for...
I'm looking for a shade/screen tent for beach camping. Will this give enough shade or is the top canopy too small?
Is there any such thing as a screen room...
Is there any such thing as a screen room big enough to go around an above ground pool, with the roof also being made of screening to allow the sun to shine through? I need one about 30' x 30'. Would you have any idea where I might be able to get something like that?
I've never heard of anything like that. You're going to need to get that custom made.
Can you really seal out bugs without a...
Can you really seal out bugs without a floor? Won't they just come in thru the bottom?
I spray the bottom of my tent with any brand Insect repellent including the floor around the edge.. At night I hang a kerosene lantern from the center of the ceiling filled with citronella oil.. Gives you all the light you need without attracting all the bugs.. Works Great !!
I love the design of the Eureka Screen...
I love the design of the Eureka Screen House Shelter. I am looking for something to cover my 18 ft. round pool. Does this come larger or could it be made larger? How much would it cost for a larger shelter?
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Harla R. Cheek
Harla R. Cheek of Hamilton died Nov. 6 at KU Medical Center in Kansas City.
She was born Sept. 9, 1956 to Harlan A. and Evelyn O. (Logan) Zager in Council Grove.
Cheek was a homemaker and certified nurse assistant for Home Health care. She graduated from White City High School in 1974.
She is survived by a daughter, Penny Swarts of Abilene; a son, Tenton Cheek of Wichita; a brother, Terry Zager of Wichita; and five grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her brother, Galen Zager, and her parents.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Hamilton United Methodist Church. Inurnment will be 11 a.m. Saturday in Sunset Hill Cemetery, Herington.
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Dark Whimsy: The Floral Wonderland of Thierry Boutemy
Belgian floral artist Tierry Boutemy is the darling of the fashion world, and it's easy to see why. His vision is unique, and his execution borders on the obsessive. Welcome to his world....
The March issue of Vogue UK has a fascinating feature on Boutemy, exploring his influences, processes, quirks, and inspiration. It also has an amazing gallery of his work, so I highly recommend getting your hands on a copy. Nowness also has a great feature on him, including priceless floral advice ("For birthdays: Wild. Spontaneous. Nothing holding you back... For saying sorry
Nothing. Flowers cannot serve as an apology.").
- The only description Thierry gives for this fascinating tablescape is "Private Event Belgium". That beautifully twisted branch might be manzanita (or maybe I just think that because I live in California), but I'm having trouble identifying any of the flowers. Do you think guests ate off this table, amongst the tea lights and petals? Magic and messy...
- At a fashion show for Lanvin, Boutemy takes the vertical succulent garden trend over the top, creating a wonderfully lush doorway. Wouldn't you like to walk through that everyday?
- This bouquet featured in Elle Belgium is one of the most traditional pieces I've seen by Boutemy, and though I usually don't go for bright, multicolor bouquets, they're pretty great. I think they work because they have so many colors and textures, and are so rich and vibrant.
- I'm not sure what lessons we can take away from this floral headpiece, other than 1. If you've got a cutie who looks good in glasses and a bow tie, why not cover them with flowers, too?, and 2. Sometimes way-too-much is just right. I can spot delphiniums, Chinese lanterns, spider mums, and roses in Laetitia Bica's photo, but there's so much more.
- Finally, there's Gaga. For American Vogue, Boutemy created this wild archway, a witchy portal to Lady Gaga's world. I would love to have my portrait taken under it, though perhaps in a less... stringy dress.
(Images: 1. & 2. Thierry Boutemy, 3. Elle Belgium, 4. Photographed by Laetitia Bica, 5. Photographed by Mario Testino for Vogue via Thierry Boutemy)


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It is part of the latter-day miracle, evidence of our 'marvelous work and a wonder' that the church has grown to the point where its 3,000th stake is in far-off Sierra Leone. —Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve
SIERRA LEONE, Africa — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints created a new stake early Sunday morning in Sierra Leone, holding significance not only as the first stake in this western African nation but also as the 3,000th stake in the church worldwide.
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve organized the Freetown Sierra Leone Stake.
"It is part of the latter-day miracle, evidence of our 'marvelous work and a wonder' that the Church has grown to the point where its 3,000th stake is in far-off Sierra Leone," Elder Holland told the Church News in a telephone call from Sierra Leone.
"What is particularly poignant for me is not only that this historic stake is created in a distant land for a people who have only relatively recently had the gospel brought to them but it is also created in a war-torn and tragic land where there has been so much bloodshed, so much violence and vice in an earlier time."
Elder Holland said the creation of the Freetown Sierra Leone Stake signifies the impressive way in which the gospel of Jesus Christ is spreading spread worldwide, "particularly to a place where it is so dearly needed, where they have so little and have had so much of tragedy. It is a wonderful statement about what the gospel does in a wounded world, why we take the church to all people, what it means to them to find it, embrace it and see it change their lives."
He said it is remarkable that a stake regardless of its status as the 3,000th worldwide has been created in Sierra Leone. "The Church is relatively new in this country," he noted.
The church's official beginnings here trace back to 1988 with the formation of the Wellington Freetown Branch. However, its roots in Sierra Leone reach back further. Several people played key roles in bringing the gospel's message to the country, among whom were Michael Sumalia Samura, Bai Sama Sankoh, Christian L. George, Elizabeth Bangura and Monica Orleans. Each joined the church in other countries and returned to Sierra Leone to share their new-found faith with relatives, friends and others.
Samura, who was baptized in the Netherlands in 1981, Sankoh, who joined the church in Spain in 1986, and George, who became a convert in Germany returned to Sierra Leone. Unbeknownst to each other, they wrote letters to LDS officials, asking for the church to be established in Sierra Leone. Elizabeth Bangura and Monica Orleans, who were baptized in Ghana, became influential in the spread of the gospel as they settled in Sierra Leone and told many people about the church.
On May 6, 1988, Liberia Monrovia Mission President J. Duffy Palmer and his wife, Sister Jocelyn Palmer, arrived in Freetown to welcome two days later the first missionaries called to serve in Sierra Leone: Elder Claire J. Fisher and Sister Ilene Fisher, and Elder C. Erwin Waite and Sister Colleen Waite.
The first converts, 14 in number, were baptized on June 11, 1988, at Atlantic Beach, Lumley.
Elder Richard G. Scott of the Quorum of the Twelve, traveling with his wife, Sister Jeanene Scott, visited Sierra Leone and, standing with a small group of Latter-day Saints on Leicester Peak, dedicated the land on May 18, 1989.
The new stake, which has a membership of about 2,250, is made up of eight wards: Belliar Park, Congo Cross, Dwarzak, Freetown, Goderich, Hill Station, Lumley and Mount Aureol.
At the time of the creation of the stake, there were four districts in Sierra Leone: Freetown, Freetown East, Bo and Kenema, the latter of which was formed on Nov. 25 as a division from the Bo District. (Bo remains a separate district in which reside some 3,000 Latter-day Saints who look forward to the day when Bo will become its own stake.)
Patrick Swarray Jr was sustained Sunday morning as president of the Freetown Sierra Leone Stake. Abibu S. Charles was called a first counselor and Theophilus Minna as second counselor.
Elder John B. Dickson of the Seventy and president of the Africa West Area, described the members in Sierra Leone as "a very faithful, friendly people that have great capacity. They love the Lord and have no trouble expressing their belief in God, no matter what their religious affiliation might be. The church is growing very rapidly, but carefully, under the direction of Sierra Leone Freetown Mission President Richard P. Roggia."
He said when the members learned the first stake was to be created in Sierra Leone, they were "very excited and many were moved to tears."
Elder Dickson added, "This has been much more than just having sufficient numbers to have a stake. They have worked very hard to be a consecrated, covenant-keeping people.
Elder Holland said, "As with everything in the gospel, there are blessings layered on top of blessings in such a day as this. It is wonderful for the institutional church that we are spreading to ever-more distant frontiers. But it is also wonderful for individual people in those individual countries where the restored gospel of Jesus Christ is being so cherished and so revered. In this latter-day light everything is seen more clearly, more hopefully and more beautifully."