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Compliments of RVA, Beach Castle Resort expands from the bayside of Longboat Key to the Gulf – providing a place to launch your kayak and cast a line, a chance to spot exotic birds that stop here for our mild temperatures and to view a picture-perfect sunset over the Gulf of Mexico -- all courtesy of Mother Nature.
The grounds here are impeccable – from the well-manicured vegetation to the vast palm trees that dot this serene Longboat Key location. The buildings at Beach Castle are the color of sunshine and are accented by Bahama shutters and railings that resemble palm trees. Each unit is individually owned, which means no unit is alike and provides a unique vacation experience to our guests. However, all units provide a full kitchen, living room and private lanais – never compromising the comforts of home.
This secluded hideaway exudes a classic charm that, as vacationers, we yearn for. A place to get away from it all, relish in the Florida sunshine and reconnect with family and friends; all this while enjoying white-sand beaches, privacy and most importantly, vacation memories that last a lifetime.
Limited Membership Privileges: Guests of Beach Castle Resort #17 will have the option of temporary membership privileges at Cedars Tennis Resort located at 645 Cedars Court on Longboat Key. The limited temporary membership allows the guest access to 10 fully-lit Har-Tru tennis courts (after 1 p.m. daily and subject to availability), community bicycles, fishing pier and Jr. Olympic heated swimming pool. The guest will also have access to the 24/7 community fitness center.
Accommodations: Beach Castle Resort is a quiet, 21-unit condominium resort midway on the exclusive island of Longboat Key with a variety of views including Gulf front, Bay front, pool and garden views.
Unit #17 Features: One-bedroom, one-bathroom unit located on the bay side centrally located with garden views from the privacy of your lanai, tile floors, flat screen TV's and wireless Internet. Decorated in light, bright furnishings with classic Florida charm Unit #17 has all the ingredients for a relaxing vacation in paradise!
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Bedding: 1 King, Queen Sleeper Sofa
Parking: All guests have use of 1 assigned parking spot during their stay. Additional spots are available at a nearby community on a first-come, first-served basis. We kindly ask guests to plan accordingly.
Resort Features: Full-size Kitchen, Spacious Floorplans, Heated Community Pool, Community Hot Tub, Grills, On-site Office, Private Lanais, Complimentary Laundry Facilities, Shared Boat Docks (available on a first-come, first-served basis, a 26' boat limit, and guest is responsible to find off-site parking for boat trailer), Cable TV, DVD Players, Wireless Internet Access by Community Pool, Complimentary Guest Parking, Complimentary Computer & Printer in Office (during office hours), Private Beach Access, Complimentary Lounge Chairs & Umbrellas
Please Note: Beach Castle is a self service resort; we do not provide daily housekeeping services. For your convenience, an amenity "Starter Kit" is provided to assist you upon your arrival. Any essentials required after the initial provided, such as toilet paper, dish soap, etc. is the responsibility of the guest.
Dining: Although Beach Castle Resort does not feature an on-site restaurant, it is centrally located to nearby hotspots – some within walking distance! Our recommendation is The Blue Dolphin Café, a local favorite that features the flavors if the island and is just a short stroll from your front door. Longboat Key restaurants include Harry's Continental Kitchens, Euphemia Haye Restaurant and The Haye Loft Lounge & Dessert Room, The Dry Dock Waterfront Grill, Mattison's Steakhouse, and MarVista Backside Restaurant and Pub.
Attractions: Longboat Key is rich in high-end boutiques and five-star restaurants making it an ideal destination for vacationers who like their beach getaway on the swankier side. As a barrier island to the town known as the area's "cultural capital", an assortment of entertainment options can be found at nearby Sarasota where attractions and activities abound for all age groups.
The island of Longboat Key is home to several premier, private golf courses, however nearby Sarasota and Bradenton areas offer top-rated golf courses a short drive off the island for golfers of every handicap.
The Centre Shops is located just north of Beach Castle Resort and includes shopping options of art galleries, restaurants, a dry cleaner, pharmacy and a UPS store – all the ingredients for the perfect spot to pick-up all your necessary beach essentials and remembrances. If you're looking for higher-end shopping, traveling to Lido Key's St. Armand's Circle is well worth the trip. Rumor has it that circus magnate John Ringling won Lido Key in a poker game that turned the sister island of Longboat Key into a world-famous attraction.


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As I was photographing these butterflies, they were completely oblivious to my presence. The only thing on their minds was checking each flower for nectar. I really enjoyed seeing them!
I was amazed at their beauty, and that's a fact.
Awesome work.
Thank you, John. I take credit for pointing the camera and clicking the shutter. As for the butterflies and coneflowers, as the old hymn says, "To God be the glory, great things He hath done..."
Hey "G" ___ Did'ya know that pro photographers put subject butterflies in the refrigerator first to slow them down.
Your shots turned out quite nice. Do you remember my "blue eyed" butterfly from quite some time ago? http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VJzxlNC0Uzo/RtGPlzgsBSI/AAAAAAAAAJw/SAEIjYm8skE/s1600-h/BlueEyeButterfly.jpg
Your dedication continues to shine brightly on all your posts! later, kfH:)
CONTENTMENT: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry, live simply, expect little, give much, sing often, pray always, forget self, think of others and their feelings, fill your heart with love, scatter sunshine. These are the tried links in the golden chain of contentment.
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IT IS STILL BEST to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasure; and to be cheerful and have courage when things go wrong.
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Bandai Namco has announced that they will be hosting an open beta for the upcoming Gundam Versus game for the Playstation 4. The open beta for the game will allow players to access both the online & offline modes of the game as well as allow players to access 94 mobile suits along with the Striker units. The beta will be available to all Playstation 4 players including players who don't have a PS Plus account. The full schedule will go as followed: August 29: Pre-load available for the GUNDAM VERSUS open beta September 2: Beta opensRead More
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The Memphis City Council's approval of $15 million in city funding for the Crosstown redevelopment project last December was supposed to be the last piece of a $180 million funding puzzle for the mammoth undertaking.
Shelby County Commissioners have approved $5 million in funding for the Crosstown redevelopment project for infrastructure work.
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So when the administration of Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell came to Shelby County Commissioners last week in committee with a $5 million ask in county funds, some on the commission had a lot of questions.
Those questions continued over about two hours Monday, March 10, before the commission eventually approved the public funding.
Other commissioners said the $5 million for infrastructure by the county had always been a part of the project's financing, the bulk of which is private.
"I'm not real fond of the timing of this project," Luttrell said as he urged the commission to nevertheless approve the funding. "In a sense, it establishes a precedence of amending the budget in mid-year. … That's bothersome. I would hope that this is not the catalyst for other attempts to amend a budget in the middle of the (fiscal) year. But it is a time-sensitive issue."
But Commissioner Mike Ritz, who has consistently voted against such public funding for the conversion of The Pyramid and the Highland Row development near the University of Memphis, termed it a project from "another group of who's who people in Memphis."
"They've already got a 20-year PILOT," he added, referring to a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes break approved by the Downtown Memphis Commission.
Commissioner Walter Bailey attempted to amend that 20-year PILOT to a 15-year PILOT, but the county attorney's office ruled the commission has no authority over the tax break approved by the Downtown Memphis Commission and cannot change terms of a PILOT.
Ritz was also critical of founding partners in the project from Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital who didn't support the proposed half-cent increase in the county sales tax Ritz advocated for to support public education.
Voters rejected the 2013 referendum measure at the polls.
"We did not get any help from those entities when we tried to do our half-cent sales tax to help public schools – no help," he said. "And now these founding partners want our help. I can't go there, commissioners. I just can't do it."
McLean Wilson of the development team said the county funding will be used toward the end of the project's construction timeline, which calls for a 2015 opening. And the funding resolution indicates the infrastructure uses for the money will include some demolition as well as work on the public parking garage.
Luttrell said his administration has identified where some of the $5 million will come from, but not all of it at this point.
"We cannot invest county dollars in a for-profit relationship," Luttrell said. "It's got to be focused on infrastructure issues, issues of common use by the entire community. … We are asking the management team of this project to bring their projects to us … to determine whether it's a legitimate investment."
Commissioner Heidi Shafer described Crosstown as "a project that needs to move forward" and will help with blight issues in the surrounding neighborhoods.
She also said a delay might prompt other commissioners to seek additional county funding for projects in their districts.
"We don't have that much money," she said. "It would probably sink this project. I would urge us to resist that."
As the commission debated Monday, at least one Memphis City Council member was doing a different kind of math.
"So Memphis chips in another $3.5 (million) for this project," council member Harold Collins tweeted, referring to his calculation of the share of the county funding represented by the percentage of Shelby County residents who live within Memphis.
Ritz was the only "no" vote on the funding, which he said at the outset of Monday's debate wasn't a vote against the project.
"I'm not against this project at all. I think we ought to support the project," he said. "But I think supporting the project and putting money in it are different things. There will be a groundbreaking whether we play or not. I'm absolutely convinced of that, no matter what they say. Five million dollars on a project of this size is not that big a deal. If they really thought our money was important, they'd have come to us a year and a half ago and told us how important we were."
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Blood Bank Honors Tech For Saving Lives
SOCORRO, N.M. Oct. 7, 2009 – United Blood Services of New Mexico presented New Mexico Tech with a special "Life Sustaining Award" for helping save lives via student blood donations.
Representatives of the non-profit group presented university administrators with a certificate during the Friday, Oct. 2, blood drive on the third floor of the Fidel Center on campus.
|Andy Fry (from left), Shawn Eddings and Michele Moore-Wright of United Blood Services, Tech vice president Dr. Peter Gerity, director of auxiliary services Louise Chamberlain and housing director Ruth Ann Stoddard show off Tech's "Life Sustaining Award" during the October 2 blood drive on campus.
Michele Moore-Wright, donor recruitment representative for the organization, said New Mexico Tech has committed to being a life-saver.
Any organization that organizes donations of more than 320 units of blood is honored for saving lives. United Blood Services supplies 320 units of blood every day to 44 hospitals in New Mexico and southwest Colorado. Moore-Wright said 320 units will save about 1,100 lives.
She said UBS gets more donations at New Mexico Tech than at any other university in the state. Tech hosts four annual blood drives on campus – two each semester. In 2008, Tech students and staff donated 368 units. After two blood drives in 2009, the university community had donated 161 units. The October drive collected 112 units, bringing the annual total to 273. The final blood drive of 2009 will be December 4, sponsored by Beta Beta Beta, the biology honor society on campus.
"New Mexico Tech students are great donors for a couple of reasons," housing director Ruth Ann Stoddard said. "No. 1 – Tech has a very civic minded group of students. Our students are involved in many community service projects and they help others in times of need. No. 2 – our students, because of their interest in science, are more sensitive to the medical needs of people in emergencies."
New Mexico Tech has won awards from UBS twice in recent years for having the best collegiate blood drive in the state.
"That says a lot about our students," Stoddard said.
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by Micah Hart
Being a part of the Olympic Games is a special experience that must be hard for any participant to explain to someone who hasn't been through it. Fortunately, through the wonders of technology and social media, the fans can at least get a glimpse of life from the inside looking out. Many of the members of Team USA have been documenting their time in London with the popular photo-sharing app Instagram, giving a nice little peek behind the curtain.
CNN.com has compiled a nice photo gallery of some of the team's best images so far – definitely check out the whole thing as they take in the tourist sites, mingle with their fellow Olympians (like Deron Williams goofing off with U.S. track star Lolo Jones above), and prepare for the task of bringing home a gold medal for the second straight Olympiad.
I haven't seen any Instagram photos from the Nigerian basketball team, but I imagine they look a lot like this.
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Ravens running back Ray Rice has been charged with aggravated assault in the February incident in which he is accused of knocking his fiancee unconscious in an Atlantic City casino elevator, a more serious charge than he originally faced.
Rice, 27, initially faced a charge of simple assault for striking Janay Palmer in the Revel Casino, an incident that authorities say was caught on tape. Prosecutors in Atlantic County, N.J., reviewed the case for several weeks before presenting it to a grand jury, which handed up the indictment, officials said.
Third-degree aggravated assault, a felony, carries a potential sentence of three to five years in prison.
Prosecutors said Thursday that they have dismissed a charge of simple assault that had been filed against Palmer, 26.
Rice's attorney, Michael Diamondstein, said neither Rice nor Palmer "wishes to go forward with this prosecution." Palmer's attorney declined to comment.
"They're together," Diamondstein said. "They're in counseling."
"Ray Rice is not going to put blame on Janay Palmer," he said. "The state chose only to prosecute Ray Rice, and we ask that the public reserve judgment until all the facts come out."
The Ravens released a statement that said, "This is part of the due process for Ray. We know there is more to Ray Rice than this one incident."
Attorney Joseph A. Levin, a criminal defense expert based in Atlantic City who is not involved in the case, said the new charge is appropriate, given the allegations. He said a requirement of third-degree aggravated assault is "significant bodily injury," which includes loss of consciousness.
Levin said defendants with no criminal record have a "presumption of no incarceration" in New Jersey, and might be eligible for a diversionary program that could result in the charges being dismissed. Rice has no prior record.
As for Diamondstein's contention that Palmer does not want to prosecute, Levin said that does not matter.
"It's not a matter of whether the alleged victim wants to prosecute or not, it's a matter of whether the state feels the prosecution is worthy," Levin said. "Apparently, the state feels it is very worthy."
He said that if the couple were to marry before the charge against Rice is resolved, Palmer likely could not invoke marital privilege. There is an exception in New Jersey law when the spouse is the alleged victim, he said.
Prosecutors said the next court hearing date has not been set and declined to say whether bail had been set. Diamondstein said Rice would not be taken into custody.
The altercation occurred about 2:50 a.m. Feb. 15 in an elevator at the Revel Casino. Casino security called police, and police said officers watched surveillance video in which the couple struck each other with their hands.
A 50-second video obtained by TMZ shows Rice lifting Palmer by her arms out of an elevator and placing her on the floor. She appears limp as he pulls her legs away from the elevator doors and props her up.
Diamondstein has said the video only "shows the very end of what transpired between Ray and his fiancee."
This week, Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti called Rice's arrest "embarrassing and disappointing" but vowed to stick by the three-time All-Pro running back.
"Ray will be here," Bisciotti said in an interview with The Baltimore Sun at the NFL owners meetings. "This is a singular moment six years after we drafted him. It's embarrassing for him and his fiancee. It is especially hard to see somebody that is proud of his reputation have to take this kind of public relations hit."
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday that the league was continuing to monitor Rice's case, indicating no timetable or decision on whether Rice will be punished by the league. Though Rice has no history of off-field issues, first-time offenders have been suspended in the past.
When asked during a news conference in Orlando, Fla., at the NFL league meetings whether the case is being watched by the NFL and whether Rice will be disciplined, Goodell said: "Yes, and I don't know on the second part. We'll let the facts dictate that."


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With cell phones, video games, laptop computers, iPads, Facebook – or even just TV – today's children are exposed to so many digital devices and media. With so many distractions, it's hard to "disconnect" your child and enforce more traditional, yet fundamentally important, activities such as reading a book, riding a bike or imaginative play.
To help you create a balance for your child in our highly digital world, here are a few simple tips.
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- Children younger than 2 years old should not be regularly watching TV or using other forms of media. This includes "background" TV.
- Keep TVs out of your children's bedrooms, as they can interfere with normal sleep.
- Although there are many educational programs available, remember that your kids still benefit from "old-fashioned" play. Examples include: coloring, playing with blocks and pretending with dolls or action figures. This type of "play" may improve their creativity and help them learn to entertain themselves, rather than constantly needing something to entertain them.
- Older children's media use should be limited to two hours per day or fewer.
- Monitor your older child's online activity and watch what he or she posts on blogs and social networking sites such as Facebook.
- Talk to your kids about Internet safety. Remind them to use caution when posting photos or sharing information. Sometimes, they do not really know who is seeing this information. Also, some posted information can never be removed.
- Encourage in-person communication rather than Skype, FaceTime or texting. Personal connections help develop strong friendships.
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CONCORD — The following is a list of Legislative Service Requests (LSRs) for 2013, whose Prime Sponsors are State Senators Sam Cataldo (Dist. 6) and Majority Leader Jeb Bradley (Dist. 3). District 6 comprises the City of Rochester and the towns of Farmington, New Durham, Alton, Barnstead and Gilmanton. District 3, which extends to the Washington Valley, includes the local communities of Brookfield, Wakefield, Wolfeboro, Middleton and Milton. Cataldo and Bradley are co-sponsors on additional LSRs. This list represents the LSRs each representative proposed.
Sam Cataldo
LSR 812 (SB16): Relative to taking of Red Deer and Elk. This bill allows for the taking of red deer or elk and establishes regulation of the process. It removes elk as a protected species. According to Cataldo, this bill was submitted in 2006. It passed the House and then it was Inexpediate to Legislate in the Senate. The Bill has been re-written and has been resubmitted this year with appropriate changes, Catlado noted. SB 16 was in Committee as of this article's writing.
LSR 945 (SB33): Making changes to the Judicial retirement plan. According to Cataldo, this Bill is a housekeeping amendment to RSA Chapter 100-C. Changes are being submitted to change the definition section, 100-C:1, IX. The definition of "member" is being changed to "any full time supreme court or circuit court judge." Also, in the section dealing with administration, a change is proposed relative to the Chief Justice getting advice and consent for appointment of trustees.
LSR 949 (SB34): Relative to the appointment of bail commissioners. Cataldo explains that this Bill prohibits bail commissioners from being employees of law enforcement agencies. Concerns have been expressed that the bail commissioners should not be employees because the position of bail commissioners requires a person who is independent of both the prosecutor's and the defense office. This change should be prospective only, Cataldo noted.
LSR 952 (SB35): Relative to the master jury list. This proposal seeks to modify "certain provisions relative to jurors due to implementation of jury management software." It also includes a provision for the Secretary of State to provide the judicial branch with the date of the birth of voters, pursuant to RSA 654:45, VI, so the judicial branch is certain to summons the correct person in cases where two or more individuals have the same name, Cataldo explained.
LSR 988 (SB38): This bill establishes the rights and procedures for the conduct of audits of the records of pharmacies. The proposal includes rules for advance notice before initial on-site audits, who should be involved in clinical judgments, maintaining records at pharmacies, appeals and audit recoupment.
Jeb Bradley
LSR 260: relative to political contributions and expenditures and relative to reporting by political committees. This is a bill that is similar to something that passed the senate last year, but didn't pass the house, Bradley explained. It will require more heightened disclosure of funding for political campaigns.
"People are going to know what group is spending how much for or against a particular candidate," Bradley said.
LSR 262: revising the New Hampshire business corporations act. This proposal passed senate previously, but not the house, according to Bradley. It rewrites the business corporations act, with the intent of making the creation of a corporation and filing as "user friendly and up to date in terms of what other states are doing."
LSR 852: relative to transparency of medical costs and outcomes. Bradley noted he didn't have much in way of details at the time of this article's writing, but work was being done with people in the health care field. The intent of the proposal is to make procedure costs and hospital rankings more readily available to patients. Bradley noted that Medicare and Medicaid help make the proposal complicated, but he hopes eventually to have forms available on every hospital's website.
LSR 853: relative to changes in New Hampshire retirement system membership requirements. Bradley calls the LSR a tweak intended to prevent "double dipping." He explained that people can retire and can go back to work even on a full-time basis without then contributing to the retirement system. The LSR proposes a cap of 1,600 hours per year to be considered part-time.
LSR 907: relative to collocation and modification of personal wireless services facilities. This LSR tries to ensure that as new technology changes take place — for example, cell towers switching from 3G to 4G transmitters — new site plans and planning board re-approval aren't required.
LSR 983: relative to electronic funds transfers. This proposal was made a couple years ago, but the Department of Labor opposed it. Currently employees can opt for paper checks. This LSR would allow businesses to offer solely a debit card type payment or direct deposit. He added that the LSR could go nowhere if both sides don't come to an agreement.
LSR 263 (SB 1): increasing the research and development tax credit against the business profits tax. Neither Cataldo nor Bradley are prime sponsors on this bill, but they have both signed onto it. The proposal was touted by Gov. Maggie Hassan (D) in her inaugural address. Bradley noted that the bill is widely recognized between Republicans and Democrats as helping to create jobs. The proposal passed the senate last year, but the house attached an abortion bill to it, Bradley said, and it failed there. He added that the proposal doesn't involve "a huge amount of money," but that this version would make it permanent.


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ROCHESTER — A gas leak caused the Lilac Mall to be evacuated for almost an hour Tuesday.
According to Fire Capt. Steve Johnson, the gas leak came from two air handling units on the roof, above the main corridor just outside of Kmart and Papa Gino's Pizzeria.
The evacuation took place around noon on Tuesday, after a customer reported smelling gas, said Ellen Paquette, manager of the Lilac Mall. The report of the smell was made to Lilac Mall management, which then notified the Fire Department.
Fire officials called for evacuation as soon as they got to the scene and started smelling gas, said Johnson.
Kmart assistant manager Jinja Rachkoskie estimated that 200 customers at the mall, about 70 to 80 of whom were from Kmart, were evacuated in a fast and orderly fashion.
"We were pretty busy," said Rachkoskie, who said most of the customers had driven from the mall after the evacuation. "The parking lot was full, of course (now) they're gone."
Two Fire Department engines were on site for about an hour, as the gas leak was being investigated. Officials from Unitil, which provides propane to the Lilac Mall, were also on scene, running their meters along with fire officials, to find the location of the leak.
Johnson said it took about a half-hour to 45 minutes to locate the leak.
Keven Surette, loss prevention manager for Kmart, said he's glad that a customer that smelled the gas leak had notified mall officials.
"I didn't even smell anything," said Surette.
Dr. Joseph Jordan, owner of Jordan Family Eyecare at the Lilac Mall, was in the middle of conducting an eye exam on a patient suspected of having glaucoma, when a coworker notified him that the mall was being evacuated.
Jordan said he could not smell anything at first, until he went back into the building to take his phone and keys, shortly after evacuation. Once he returned to the building, he noticed a strong smell of gas, and saw firefighters walking through the common area of the mall, he said.
Employees and customers were allowed to enter back into the building shortly before 1 p.m. By that time, the building had been ventilated, said Johnson, and no gas levels were detected.
The two leaking air handling units had been shut off after the leaks were found, and a repair company was notified of the problem, said Johnson.


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Occasional chairs are the furniture equivalent to the little black dress. They can go anywhere, but more than that, they can be easily accessorized to set just the right tone. A stroll through some of my favorite house tours left me with a renewed appreciation for these little hosts and their ability to make a whole room interesting and inviting.
It was only after I had collected the images for this post that I realized that almost all the house tours had the word "retreat" in the title. But that's exactly the tone that the chair vignettes evoke: quiet, cozy, relaxation. Unlike tables, which are meant for display, a chair conveys a subtle concept of welcome. Since their main purpose is for sitting, they have that inviting draw even when being used as a backdrop.
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Versatility is what this boat is all about. With forward facing seats, a large dinette, and an enclosed head (with a shower option), the Sea Sport Aleutian 2600 offers plenty of space for four people to enjoy year round comfort and smooth cruising. The huge hardtop can easily handle anything. Now you can cruise comfortably in foul weather, yet still enjoy the outdoors on nice weekends.
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The Crestliner 1850 Super Hawk is over 18' of premium versatility. Constructed with a wood-free transom and all-welded aluminum hull, these fish and sport boats are built to last. Whether you're spending your day on the lake with seven of your closest friends, you're heading out for a quiet day of fishing, or you want to do a little bit of both, the 1850 Super Hawk is equipped to enhance your on-the-water adventure. The large bow casting deck converts to comfortable seating in a matter of seconds, and the premium starboard console is equipped with plenty of conveniences including drink holders, a Boss Bluetooth stereo, and an MP3 cubby. There's storage wherever you turn including bow and stern livewells, an in-floor rod locker, and quick access rack systems for rods, ski pylons, and more. Color: black metal base / bright white accent / gray interior - not as shown on pics Measurements • Overall Length: 18' 9" • Boat/Motor/Trailer Length: 21' 5" • Boat/Motor/Trailer Width: 8' 6" • Boat/Motor/Trailer Height: 6' 9" • Beam: 94" • Chine Width: 78" • Max Depth: 42.25" • Max Cockpit Depth: 25.25" • Transom Height: 25" • Deadrise: 17º • Weight (Boat only, dry): 1,650# • Max Weight Capacity: 1,800# • Max Person Capacity: 8 • Min HP Capacity: 115 • Max HP Capacity: 200 • Fuel Capacity: 32 gal. • Aluminum Gauge Bottom: 0.100"
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WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - An advocacy group on Tuesday demanded an investigation into what it called interference by U.S. health officials in the oversight of a federally funded study involving breathing problems in premature infants.
Public Citizen said Department of Health and Human Services officials interfered with a government probe into whether parents had been fully informed of possible risks to the babies in the ongoing study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the government's medical research agency.
Nine bioethicists and Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the ranking Democrat on the U.S. House of Representatives panel overseeing health funding, joined Public Citizen in calling for an investigation by the HHS Office of Inspector General.
At issue is the conduct and oversight of the study, called SUPPORT, investigating experimental ventilation treatments to improve breathing in premature infants who were enrolled between 2005 and 2009 at about two dozen facilities.
The Office of Human Research Protections, an independent office at HHS tasked with protecting patients in clinical trials, in February 2013 cited the University of Alabama, which was a lead investigator in the study, for using consent forms that did not adequately address possible risks such as brain damage and blindness, and called for reforms.
Then, in June 2013, the office sent another letter saying no further corrective action was needed, advocates said.
Emails obtained by Public Citizen and released on Tuesday showed that top officials at HHS and NIH were involved in reviewing and revising the letter, the advocacy group told HHS Inspector General Daniel Levinson, calling for a probe.
Such interference is a direct conflict of interest given that NIH funded the study, which cost more than $20 million, set up the research protocol and included many of its staff as investigators, the advocates said.
The emails show that officials who appear to be involved include NIH Director Francis Collins and HHS Deputy Secretary Bill Corr, among others, the group added.
"They should have had no involvement at all in the investigation," Michael Carome, director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group, told Reuters. "That type of interference is unprecedented."
HHS, in a statement, said that after the research office sent the initial letter, it "became aware of different understandings of what is meant by 'standard of care' and risks that must be disclosed to potential subjects in the research context" and is currently drafting new related guidelines.
Carome called the HHS response "not believable" and urged HHS to make public all records related to the matter.
Don White, a spokesman for the HHS Office of the Inspector General, said the office would carefully evaluate the group's request for an investigation. (Reporting by Susan Heavey; Additional reporting by Will Dunham; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)


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Sølve Sundsbø
Sølve Sundsbø is a Norwegian photographer who lives in London. His career began when four months into a course at the London College of Printing he became Nick Knight's assistant. Now Sundsbø is a regular contributor to magazines including Pop, i-D, Dazed and Confused, Numéro, Visionaire and Vogue Nippon. He has also worked with various high-profile clients including Yves Saint Laurent, Hermes, Nike, Lancôme and Mac cosmetics, as well as shooting album covers for Royksopp and Coldplay. Sundsbø was voted best newcomer at the 'International Festival of Fashion' in Hyeres in spring 1999 and was chosen as Fashion Photographer by Creative Review for their 'Creative Futures' exhibition in Autumn 1999. He also contributed to the Biennale Florence with Alexander McQueen and held a personal exhibition at the International Festival of Fashion in Hyeres in 2003.
Sølve Sundsbø is represented Art + Commerce (+1 212 206 0737).
Selected Exhibitions
- 'Saturated', Spring Studios, London
- 'Making Differences', Stockholm, 2004
- 'Unit F Buro fur Mode', Vienna, November 2003
- 'Archaeology of Elegance- 20 Years of Fashion Photography', Hamburg and Paris, April 2002
- 'Fashion Images de la Mode', Proud Gallery, London, October 2001
- 'Tomorrow is Today', Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, January 2001
- 'Now', Stockholm, 2000
- 'Kobe', International Festival of Photography, Autumn 2000
- Sølve Sundsbø features in a project.
- Sølve Sundsbø creates a fashion film.
- Sølve Sundsbø creates a fashion film.
- Sølve Sundsbø features in a project.


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Make a mind-blowing remote controlled "Meka-Inchworm" robot with this fun, no-soldering-required kit. You've got to love a machine that moves like a bug! It's Japanese, but we've got English instructions at makezine.com/go/inchworm. MAKE is proud to be the exclusive distributor in North America for these brilliant kits, part of Gakken's Mechanical Animals Series.
Reviewer Tyler Bennett of Cary, N.C., writes: "This kit was a lot of fun for me as well as my 11- and 12-year-old grandkids. The kids put the kit together (with me looking over their shoulders) in around two hours and then we all enjoyed running it around on the floor."


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| The AMPHORA ebook
Alcohol Policy in Europe: Evidence from AMPHORA
This publication gives an overview of the findings of each study carried out under the AMPHORA project, with chapters written by the scientists responsible for the research:
For individual chapters, please see below.
AMPHORA Documents and publications
Hughes K, Quigg Z, Bellis MA, Calafat A, Van Hasselt N, Kosir M. Drinking behaviours and blood alcohol concentration in European nightlife users. BMC Public Health. 2011; 11:918. DOI:10.1186/1471-2458-11-918. [Download full text]
Hughes K, Quigg Z, Bellis MA, Calafat A, Van Hasselt N, Kosir M, Voorham L, Goossens FX, Duch M, Juan M. Drunk and Disorganised: Relationships between Bar Characteristics and Customer Intoxication in European Drinking Environments. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health. 2012, 9, 4068-4082; DOI:10.3390/ijerph9114068. [Download full text]
ADDICTION SUPPLEMENT - Introducing the AMPHORA Project: Joining Forces to Support Alcohol Policy
A special issue of the Addiction Journal (www.addictionjournal.org) was dedicated to the AMPHORA project. The papers were prepared and submitted for peer review during the year 2010. The final version of the supplement was available in electronic (open access) and printed format in March 2011.
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Glassware, any decorative article made of glass, often designed for everyday use. From very early times glass has been used for various kinds of vessels, and in all countries where the industry has been developed glass has been produced in a great variety of forms and kinds of decoration, much of it of great beauty. For the composition and properties of glass and the manufacture of various glass products such as glass containers, window glass, plate glass, optical glass, and glass fibres, see industrial glass.
Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Early glass
It is not certain in which of the civilizations of the ancient Near East glass was first made. The earliest wholly glass objects from Egypt are beads dating from some time after c. 2500 bc. A green glass rod found at Eshnunna in Babylonia may go back earlier, possibly to 2600 bc. A small piece of blue glass found at Eridu dates from before 2200 bc. The manufacture of glass vessels, which may have begun slightly earlier in Mesopotamia, was carried to a high point of excellence in Egypt during the 18th dynasty (c. 1490 onwards). These vessels are distinguished by a peculiar technique: the shape required was first formed of clay (probably mixed with dung) fixed to a metal rod. On this core the body of the vessel was built up, usually of opaque blue glass, on which, in turn, were coiled threads of glass of contrasting colour. The threads were pulled alternately up and down by a comb-like instrument to form feather, zigzag, or arcade patterns (see photograph). The threads—usually yellow, white, or green in colour, and sometimes sealing-wax red—were rolled in (marvered) flush with the surface of the vessel. Finally, if desired, handles—often of translucent glass and sometimes of patterned "canes"—were added. The vessels were nearly always small, mainly for unguents and the like. Occasionally glass was decorated on the lapidary's wheel. Glass is known to have been made on the palace site of Tell el-Amarna, the residence of Akhenaton (reigned c. 1379–62 bc), and the number of fragments found in and near the palace of Amenhotep III (reigned c. 1417–1379 bc) at Thebes suggests that it was made there also. This palace activity seems then to have died down and after the 21st dynasty (1085–945 bc) to have ceased altogether.
In Mesopotamia the Nineveh tablets of the reign of Ashurbanipal (668–c. 626 bc) and the remains of glass in various forms excavated at Nimrūd (ancient Calah, Assyria) indicate that glassmaking was carried on there during the 8th to the 6th centuries bc. It is probable that certain vessels of palish-green or deep blue glass, cut from a solid mass as if from stone, are Mesopotamian and date from as early as the 8th century bc, as a dish from controlled excavations in Phrygia proves. A vase of this type, contrasting completely with the core-wound glass of Egypt, bears the cartouche (panel enclosing the name) of the Assyrian king Sargon II (reigned 721–705 bc), and it is probable that glass treated in this way was manufactured over a long period in Mesopotamia.
Glass was made in Greece in Mycenaean times (c. 1400–1200 bc) usually in the form of small molded architectural details. A few pieces suggest, however, that perhaps some vessel glass also was made by the Egyptian technique, though not in Egyptian forms. Other Aegean-area glass of this period may have been imported from Egypt.
In general, glass of the earlier half of the 1st millennium bc is scarce and displays little homogeneity. From the 6th century bc, however, glass begins to appear in great quantities once again, particularly on the Greek-inhabited islands of the Aegean, in Greece itself, in Italy and Sicily, and even farther west. This contrasts with the meagre contemporary finds on Egyptian soil. The later glasses in the old Egyptian core-wound technique were probably made in Syria or some part of the Greek world. Such vessels were still small but differ in shape from the earlier Egyptian dynastic work. They were usually decorated with light-coloured threads on a dark, usually blue, ground (familiar from the Egyptian 18th dynasty), but a notable variation was displayed in pieces decorated with dark purple threads on a white ground. In the Hellenistic period (roughly from the 4th century bc) the shapes of glass degenerated. The technique of decoration, however, remained the same; new colour combinations were used, and indeed these combinations continued into the era of blown glass.
The Roman Empire
In Egypt during the Ptolemaic period (330–305 bc) Alexandria came to the fore in glassmaking. By about the 1st century bc, which saw the beginnings of glass as known today, it had become preeminent in certain glass techniques. Alexandria inherited and perfected the manipulation of coloured glass rods to make composite canes, which, when cut across, revealed a design (mosaic glass). Slices from such canes could be arranged side by side to produce repetitive patterns. When, as often happens, the cane slices show starry or flowerlike designs, the resultant glass is called millefiori ("thousand flowers"). An Alexandrian technical speciality more important for the future, however, was molding, glass being pressed into, or powdered glass melted in, a mold. A combination of this process with the millefiori technique produced bowls with variegated designs in infinite variety. Sometimes glass of various colours was irregularly compounded to give the effect of a natural veined stone; occasionally enclosures of gold leaf in the glass simulated the glitter of natural pyrites (aventurine glass). Bowls were often finished around the rim with a cordon made of a clear glass thread twisted with one of opaque white. Sometimes such cable threads were themselves coiled round and round from a centre to make a bowl of lacy appearance, with the opaque white glass threads apparently set in a clear colourless matrix.
All these pieces might be finished with a fire polish by returning them to the furnace, but many mold-pressed glasses were, in fact, given a rotary polish, either by means of a spinning wheel fed with abrasives or by a process similar to lathe turning, in which the object spins and the tool is stationary. Similar equipment probably produced the numerous pieces that give every appearance of having been cut from a solid block of glass or at least from a thick, mold-pressed blank. Such pieces (usually flat dishes or two-handled cups) follow the contemporary forms of pottery and metalwork. Wheel engraving appears to have become an Alexandrian specialty around the 1st century bc and probably continued so throughout the two succeeding centuries. Alexandrian wheel engravers produced not only massive cut shapes, but also intaglio (incised) and relief surface decoration, the latter by laboriously grinding back the surface of the glass to form a background for the design. Simple motifs such as lotus buds or lotus flowers were produced in this way and occasionally more elaborate figural compositions were also done. Other specialties attributed to Alexandria were enamel painting (pigments mixed with a glassy flux were fused to the surface of the glass vessel by a separate firing) and an extraordinary technique of sandwiching a gold leaf etched with a design between two layers of clear glass.
The most important innovation in the whole history of glass manufacture was blowing. Perhaps by a stroke of pure inventive genius it was perceived that glass on the end of a hollow metal tube could be blown into a mold as easily as it had theretofore been pressed in. The next stage was to use molds for forms, such as flasks, that could not be made by pressing. Finally, it was realized that the glass bulb on the end of the blowpipe could be shaped freehand to any form desired, and handles, feet, and decorative elements could be added at will. This liberating discovery, probably made during the 1st century bc, gave rise to the astonishing growth of the glass industry in Roman imperial times. In addition to the luxury vessels of types already described, which were produced with an elaboration of skill that astonishes and often baffles the modern technician, commercial containers in great variety were mass-produced in common greenish glass on a scale that was not matched until the 19th century.
The discovery of glass blowing may well be credited to the Syrian glassworkers, since the first mold-blown glasses bear the signatures of Syrian masters and since the readily ductile Syrian soda glass was especially apt for this purpose. Syrian glassworkers, however, seem to have migrated wherever demand promised a ready market, and some masters of mold blowing appear to have moved to Italy early in the 1st century ad; in the course of that century Italy became an important glass-producing area. Glass engraving especially seems to have flourished there and particularly one form of the art—grinding through an opaque white layer to a darker ground (cameo glass). The most famous example of this exacting technique is the Portland vase, in the British Museum, London. The capacity of the Italian glass craftsman to surpass all earlier masters in work of the most complex character is seen in the so-called cage cups (diatreta), on which the design—usually a mesh of circles that touch one another, with or without a convivial inscription—is so undercut that it stands completely free of the body of the vessel, except for an occasional supporting strut. These cups were made perhaps at Aquileia and date from the 3rd and 4th centuries.
Parallel to the pottery industry, glassmaking spread from Italy to northern Gaul, in particular to the valleys of the Rhône and the Rhine. In Britain the industry was probably not of great importance. The Rhineland, however, became one of the great glassmaking areas of the Roman world (partly, it is thought, because of successive migrations of Near Eastern workers) and, although Rhenish glass is always recognizably Roman, several types of decorated glass were specialities of the district. Glasses decorated in serpentine patterns by threads trailed on and then pressed flat and notched are perhaps the most important and typical (Schlangenfadengläser). A considerable school of glass engraving also seems to have flourished, probably around Cologne. Although some engraving shows an impoverished linear style eked out by lines scratched with a hard stone point, some is executed by means of wheels sufficiently thick to permit rounded cuts corresponding to the modelling of the human figure, and simulating it when the piece is seen against the light. Both types of decoration flourished in the 3rd and 4th centuries.
In Egypt in the later centuries of the Roman epoch glass was in frequent use for tableware, but artistic standards were not high. Plain dishes, cups, bowls, and lamps are characteristic; the glass of such tablewares ranges from an almost colourless "metal" (basic glass) of good quality to a greenish brownish substance full of bubbles and impurities. Decoration in this late period is mainly restricted to a few rough-cut lines, an occasional group of coloured glass blobs on the lamps, or a zigzag trail of glass thread running between the lip and the shoulder of a vase. In Syria during the same period, however, this trailing technique, which was particularly suitable to the ductile Syrian material, was carried to extreme lengths—threads circling the body or neck of a vessel, a profusion of zigzags, and fantastically worked handles.
With the breakdown of the Roman Empire, glassmaking fared differently in different parts of the world. In the East, urban life continued relatively undisturbed, and glassmaking evolved in an unbroken progress into Islāmic times. In the northern provinces, however, glassmaking became an affair of small, often isolated, glasshouses working in the forests that supplied them with fuel. Relatively simple shapes were made of an impure greenish or yellowish material, and decoration was restricted to simple trails of thread. Considerable virtuosity, however, was displayed from c. 500 onward in the manufacture of the elaborate and fantastic Rüsselbecher ("elephant's trunk, or claw beaker") on which two superimposed rows of hollow, trunklike protrusions curve down to rejoin the wall of the vessel above a small button foot.
In the East, Syria appears to have continued its predilection for trailed and applied ornamentation. In Egypt the art of glass suffered a catastrophic decline; only small rough vessels of impure green or blue material were manufactured.
In Byzantium itself the position of glassmaking is obscure. A distinction was made between vitrarii ("glassmakers") and diatretarii ("glass cutters") in edicts of Constantine the Great, Theodosius, and Justinian—suggesting that cutting played an important part in Byzantine glass decoration. This is borne out by the fact that cut glass made up the greater part of the glass that was brought back from the sack of Constantinople by the crusaders and placed in the treasury of St. Mark's in Venice. Apart from a few pieces of obviously Roman glass, presumably kept as heirlooms in Byzantium, these glasses are decorated either with tessellated (mosaic) patterns of overlapping round or oval facets or with round bosses in relief. These same two forms of cutting are observable in glass of the 5th century excavated at Kish in Mesopotamia; it is a fair assumption that Byzantine taste in glass, as in some of the other arts, was strongly influenced by the East. It is probable, however, that some enamelled and gilt glass also was made in the Byzantine provinces (e.g., in Corinth), if not in Byzantium itself.
In the 7th century the whole Near East was overrun by the Arabs, and a number of rival dynasties were established in different parts of the conquered territory. An Islāmic civilization developed comparable to the preceding area of Greco-Roman culture, and a distinctively Islāmic glass style evolved. Although often it is not possible to say where a particular glass was made, different parts of the Islāmic world seem to have shown predilections for one or another type of glassmaking. In Syria, pieces more or less heavily decorated with trailed threads or applied blobs and pieces blown in molds, patterned with ribs or other allover designs, were still made. In Mesopotamia, glassmaking and, in particular, engraving flourished, especially during the ʿAbbāsid dynasty (750–1258), and attracted many of the best artists in the Islāmic world. Not only were the earlier modes of facet and boss cutting continued, but (perhaps deriving from them) two splendid new styles were created, one of linear intaglio, the other of relief cutting (outlines were left in relief by cutting back the ground and were then enlivened by crosshatching). Bowls, bottles, and ewers of remarkable sumptuousness were decorated with forms of running animals and plant scrolls. The quantity of engraved glass of these types found in Persia suggests that such work was done there also.
In Egypt there was both innovation and, after the post-Roman period, a notable revival of earlier techniques. Among the innovations was the stamping of glass by means of tongs, one jaw of which was patterned. The technique also is found in other lands. One extension of it, by which a bottle's upper and lower halves, made separately in contrasting colours, were decorated by the tongs and then joined together, was probably a Syrian innovation. More important was the Egyptian invention of lustre painting. In its simplest form it consisted of painting with a pigment containing silver that when fired in a smoky atmosphere (i.e., without oxygen) produced on the glass a thin, metallic film that varied in colour from pale yellow to brown. Intact bowls and a bottle decorated by this technique exist, but whole classes of much more elaborate lustre-painted glass are represented only by fragments. A very wide variety of sumptuous polychrome effects are represented, although many were probably not produced by lustre properly so-called. The technical processes by which these effects were achieved are not yet understood.
Egyptian Islāmic revivals in glass included millefiori effects, found mainly in plaques for wall decoration, and white fern and feather patterns that were produced on dark glass vessels by combed and imbedded glass threads. Glass cutting was also practiced in Egypt, primarily for the production of deeply incised small perfume bottles of square sections, the bases of which were often cut into four tapering feet ("molar tooth" bottles). It seems probable that in Egypt was also perfected the techniques of gilding, decisive for the next phase in Islāmic glassmaking. In gilding, gold leaf is applied to an object that is then fired to fix the glass.
Glassworkers migrating from Egypt to Syria after the fall of the Egyptian Fāṭmid dynasty in 1171 may have laid the foundation of the Syrian art of enamelled and gilt glass. Although earlier phases of this art are incompletely understood, the first group of enamelled and gilt glasses seems to be one in which thick enamels are used (particularly white and turquoise blue), often in series of beadlike drops; this group is tentatively associated with the town of Raqqah in Syria. A similar doubt surrounds the origins of two broad families into which Syrian glass of the 13th century is divided. One, characterized by the use of thick, jewellike enamels, is connected with the town of Aleppo; the other, notable for its exquisitely painted small-scale figural decoration, is attributed to Damascus.
Both cities were famous for their glass at this time, but it is uncertain what each produced. Wherever made, these two types of glass represent one of the highlights in the history of the art, whether one considers the rich green, red, yellow, white, and turquoise-blue enamels of the "Aleppo" group or the masterly red outline drawing of the "Damascus" group.
Toward 1300, Chinese influence, infiltrating by way of the Mongols and Tatars, makes itself felt in the decoration of these glasses, as is apparent in the series of great mosque lamps that then began to be inscribed with the names of rulers and great officers of state in Egypt. From a peak of excellence at the beginning of the 14th century a decline set in, greatly precipitated by the Mongol conqueror Timur's sacking of the chief Syrian cities at the end of the century.
Damascus fell finally in 1400, and it is recorded that the glassworkers of that city were carried into captivity in Samarkand. Nevertheless, some enamelled glass of inferior quality continued to be made in the 15th century, perhaps in Egypt. By the end of that century, however, there is evidence that mosque lamps were being made in Venice for the oriental market and the great Near Eastern tradition of enamelled and gilt glass was clearly moribund.


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Dress Up: Sewing Supplies Double as Decor
A dedicated sewing room is the dream of any serious sewer, but until that extra room materializes many of us (and our significant others) will just have to deal with the fact that the sewing supplies live in the living room. Luckily, a lot of our accoutrements are really pretty. Check out these sewing supplies that do double-duty as decor elements.
• Dress Forms — How often do you look through a house tour and see an exquisite old dress form and think, "Man, I could put that thing to good use!" Good-quality dress forms are almost indestructible, so don't balk from a vintage one from companies like Wolf and Global. New forms like that can be seriously pricey, but stalk craigslist long enough and you're almost certain to find one. Sewers in New York are especially lucky: Stalk craigslist in the spring and fall, when design students and fashion companies sell off their old ones, and you're pretty much guaranteed to find a deal on whatever size you want.
• Thread — Is it modern art? No! It's a thread board. Spools of thread seem to move in with every project, and yet you almost never have precisely the color you're looking for. Arrange them by color and mount them upright on the wall, or frame them so your storage solution doubles as a work of art, like blogger Grey Luster Girl did. Note: Spool shapes and sizes vary from company to company, so you'll get a more uniform look if you pick a favorite brand of thread and stick with it.
• Sewing Machines — Vintage machines may not have all the functions we're used to, but if you can deal with a straight stitch that only goes forward, there's nothing prettier.
• Sewing Basket — Plenty of people keep wood boxes and wicker baskets around for decor, yours just happens to be in use. Ditch the pillow-topped granny basket for something shiny and modern; the metal boxes makeup artists use are fantastic for sewing supplies. Or go vintage with a sleek accordion-style sewing basket. If you're into DIY and want something really unique, you can always paint your own.
• Old Irons — The lead fluting iron above was used to pleat fabric in the 1860s. It'll still work, too. Just heat up the bottom piece in the oven and roll your fabric through. When it's not in use, just imagine how cool it will look in an alcove on your bookcase. (I can see it now, in a cube in an Ikea Expedit). People have been sewing forever, and that means history is littered with cool old sewing tools like this one. If you find something you love, snap it up. Even if you never use it, it'll still look cool.
Images: (1. Nikki & Christo's Urban Farmhouse, 2. Grey Luster Girl, 3. Wallchatter, 4. Ebay, 5. Ebay)


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This isn't the usual stuff we blog about in "Health Exchange," but we're making an exception here....
We've found another blog, courtesy of Business Insider, authored by advertising executive Mike Hughes. President of the Martin Agency that is part of the Interpublic Group of Companies , Hughes is a lung-cancer patient who first was diagnosed nearly two decades ago of his illness -- and told four months ago that he had two weeks to live. He's still alive, and his wife, Ginny, also is a cancer patient, though she was just told she's in remission.
Hughes has been jotting down his thoughts in a diary-like blog called "Unfinished Thinking" that is both touching and illuminating about the inevitable. You can check it out for yourself, but here are some passages from late last month that are hard to forget:
"I don't usually feel sorry for myself. I think that's because I have an active imagination that doesn't often focus on the cancer. To me the cancer is boring. The pills, the treatments, the routines, the scans, the numbers -- I can't concentrate on them any more than I can concentrate on the details of a legal contract or an insurance form. To me this is uninteresting stuff that's best left to the technicians," Hughes writes.
"Dying, on the other hand, is endlessly interesting. Partly because it's scary and mysterious, of course, but it's more than that. If nothing else, we are the heroes of our own lives, and we want our lives to have meaning. We want to know how the story turns out. De Gaulle is credited with saying that the cemeteries are full of irreplaceable men. There's supposed to be irony in that thought, but I don't think there should be. Men and women -- you and I -- are literally irreplaceable. Future generations may succeed us, but they won't leave the same footprints. If Shakespeare had died young, would someone else have written 'Hamlet' or 'Lear'? Would the world be different today if there had been no Washington, Jefferson, Adams and Franklin?"
He goes on to say: "Most of our personal contributions to the world are played out on much smaller stages, but if we can imagine that the flap of a butterfly's wing in Brazil can give birth to a tornado in Texas, who knows what differences we make when we raise our voices, wave our arms and make our impact. For most of us, a tally of our arm-waving will be taken at our death."
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