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Here we are rocking our second-hand looks at a recent "fashion lovers" event she organized at Baggio Consignment (My ella moss shirt is via Pieces and Talbots jeans via Goodwill's Second Debut, both with daily deal vouchers. Cowboy boots not pictured are a yard sale find. More details about Sydney Page's outfit here).
I have a treat for you today! Q&A with Richmond's own Sydney Page Lester of the fashion blog Chic Stripes! I met her through social media and love seeing the looks she pulls together from local thrift and consignment store finds, so I was thrilled when she agreed to share some insight from her experience with RVA's second-hand style scene:
Alison: How did you get interested in fashion? How would you describe your style?
SPL: My interest in fashion really only began about six years ago. I had moved to Richmond in 2007 to start my graduate degree and couldn't help but notice Richmonders' eye-catching way of dressing: with a total sense of creativity and freedom. I had always loved thrifting and wearing things, I just wasn't very good at it nor did I have a sense of individual style. Shortly after moving to Richmond, I also stumbled onto fashion blogs and realized there was more to clothes than just wearing them: they could be an expression of self, of mood. And they had stories, histories, and often amazing ways of being made.
These "describe your style" questions are always so hard! I can tell you what styles I love and am drawn to… I love things that are structured, boxy. I like pairing different textures: silk, tweed, wool, linen, leather. When putting together outfits, I strive to include one slightly off-beat item, something that makes you take a second look. My styles often includes a mix of items that can be vintage, urban, edgy, bo-ho, preppy, or feminine. If I had to give it a description, I would say my style is classic with a touch of unexpected.
Alison: Why the emphasis on "2nd hand 1st"?
SPL: I started using the hash tag "2nd hand 1st" effort to shop second hand stores first, local stores second, and mass retail stores as a last resort. In high school, it was cool to go thrifting. We would find all sorts of crazy things no one should really be wearing, but thought we were pretty awesome (or indie, hipster, what have you). I eventually figured out that thrift stores actually had wearable items, you just had to hunt. Turns out, I love the hunt.
In 2013, I made a pledge to shop "2nd hand 1st" of clothing, I made/make a conscious effort to go to thrift and consignment stores first and only. And it's completely changed my outlook on shopping. I had always shopped thrift stores, but I would also pepper my shopping with Target clearance racks, J. Crew sales or the occasional Forever 21 piece (which would inevitably fall to pieces or be given away within a few months). When I shop now, I am usually not going with a specific item in mind since you never know what you will find. But I do keep a running list of items I know I need (example: tailored black blazer, which I found at Ashby recently; pencil skirts, belts, etc.) and when/if I find them, then I know I need it, and chances are it's a great vintage, one-of-a-kind piece, or a designer item with a great price tag.
Alison: What's your favorite bargain you've found? Top three if you can't pick just one
SPL: Hands down, a boy's maroon corduroy blazer. I found it in high school at my favorite thrift store and it's the perfect combinations of fitted, thin, and great color. I wear it constantly and I love it. I love it so much, in fact, that I once fell into near hysterics in college when I thought someone had stolen it. Turns out, it was under my laundry pile. But that's what a great find will do to you – it's irreplaceable!
Other favorites:
– A mustard yellow sweater I found at a thrift store. My mom says it's not my color, but I love it and wear it all the time come fall/winter.
– My husband's black Citizen watch. He bought it new, but since I've practically stolen it, it counts as second hand right?
Other good bargains on designer items: My Marni sandals from Clementine, $135 for an over $700 pair of sandal. My Jimmy Choos from Baggio, $85 and would originally retail for about $500. I've also found lots of great designer jeans (J. Brand, Citizen), each between the $20-$30 price point when they retail between $150-$250.
Alison: How about the weirdest item you've seen? (That you may or may not have bought)
SPL: Things with lots and lots of shoulder pads, sequins and fringe! I'm usually drawn to all of the really ugly things I find in thrift stores, thinking I'll wear them and make a statement. I've since learned to leave those in the store now. I once found this great, 70's chevron dress that I had plans to hem and slim, but it just wasn't working for me (as the picture clearly illustrates). This is the weirdest thing I've almost bought recently.
Alison: Do you have a "go-to" RVA source for secondhand steals?
SPL: This totally depends on what I am looking for – more every day casual clothes, jewelry, bags, or higher end items.
1. Everyday items: Finicky Fox (West End); The Clothes Rack on Cary Street.
2. Higher end items: Baggio Consignment (West End) for a fantastic amount of bags and shoes, also I always end up with a good deal there; Clementine.
3. Any old thrift store for great vintage jewelry – Fantastic Thrift, Family Thrift, Salvation Army (sometimes).
Alison: Thrift stores can be overwhelming. Do you have any strategies for sifting through junk to find the gems?
SPL: Of course! If you've never been thrifting before, decide on one thing you want to find, like a dress, or skirt. Then find that rack and go through it with a fine tooth comb. Pick up any item that looks remotely interesting and inspect it for quality: what's the fabric? Does it have any holes? Make sure stitches are not broken, buttons are there. If there is a fitting room, try on the piece. If there's no fitting room, try on the piece! (Tip: wear leggings and a long tunic when thrifting; makes trying on items over what you are already wearing a piece of cake). If you are time limited, hit the following areas in order: jewelry, bags, shoes and accessories. From there, just look for whatever you need or want. A quick tip for looking at jewelry: if it's missing stones, leave it, no matter how great the piece is. Be careful of earrings – depending on the quality, they can cause tender ears to become sore. Another tip: don't buy something cool or even designer if it's in poor condition. You will never wear/use it and it just takes up space. Save your dollars and closet space for those items you love!
Alison: For someone getting started with shopping secondhand, what are some easy wardrobe pieces to pick up at consignment or thrift stores?
SPL: At a thrift store I would start with accessories. It's hard to go wrong with jewelry or a fun scarf and they are super easy to find (not to mention very inexpensive). For consignment stores, really look for essential wardrobe items (if you aren't sure of what these are, consider working with a personal stylist to help establish your list) that will bring quality not quantity to your wardrobe. Consignment stores are a great place to find an investment bag, or a "big girl' bag. You may spend more at a consignment store than a thrift store, but more than likely you will be able to find items that are more on trend or contemporary and maybe even the occasional fun luxury piece. If all else fails, you can at least find a Christmas sweater for those annual tacky sweater parties.
When not writing about fashion, styling, and local events, Sydney Page Lester works as the Director of Development for a Richmond non-profit and lives with her husband and two cats.
I'm hoping to make RVASAVERS a regular feature, learning from local folks (business owners, savvy shoppers, bloggers, etc.) who have their own spin on saving money or living frugally in RVA! If you, or someone you know, has an area of bargain expertise and would be willing to participate in some Q&A, please let me know – richmondbargains at gmail dot com


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Jamie Lynn Photography
2825 Stockyard Rd Unit E3
Missoula, MT 59808
ph: 406-552-5718
Jessica Goulding owner of J.Willis Photography Is my studio mate/business partner in crime. She is not only an amazing artist but has one of the most wonderful souls there is. She is one who would do anything to help out anyone and has saved me more times than I can count. Her and her husband Troy were beyond a perfect couple. Two individuals that love the Lord, laughter, the open road, their dogs, and each other so much that not a single person could miss it.
Jessica's second love is photography. She is an amazing at showing the love she has for life in her work. Her love and passion for photography has driven her to be the person she is today, and she strives everyday to do better than the last. She is a person that could never hurt anyone and her heart is bigger than most. She puts so much thought into every shoot that she does, simply because she knows how important the moments she is capturing are. She wants to giver her clients the best, and a client getting emotional seeing an image she took of them or their child is the most gratifying thing to her. The look on her face when she gets an amazing shot is priceless, and the humbleness she shows when she gets a better shot that i do is ample.
Troy had an infectious soul. He could make anyone laugh and did very often. He did everything he could for Jess. He was not always completely willing when we would have some crazy projects for him, but the did them non the less, and made sure to always comment about how crazy we were. We often blamed him for marrying an artist. He was a good sport when it came to getting his picture taken a million times and seemed to have a different face for each shot. Troy was the "man" of the studio for many years, moving, cleaning, painting, building.... whatever we needed. It wasn't until I got married and he had another guy on his side that he decided they were tough enough to threaten to charge us ;)
After 3 years of working full time and photographing part time jessica went full time photographer a little over a year ago. Like all business it takes time, but with the help of Troy supporting them she has been able to live her dream.
Troy was tragically killed in motorcycle accident on July 14th 2012. Jessica was on her bike behind him. Her loss has affected so many people and broke many hearts of the people that love them.
The photographer community of Missoula is doing what we can to let her keep her business. Please help us, help her to continue to share her soul through her work with the rest of the world, and to continue to keep the dream that Troy worked so hard to let her have.
Jamie Lynn Photography
2825 Stockyard Rd Unit E3
Missoula, MT 59808
ph: 406-552-5718

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Carroll County Illinois is located in Northwestern Illinois along the banks of the Mississippi River. With gentle rolling hills and lush countryside, Carroll County is a great escape from the concrete and asphalt of the big cities. According to the 2010 census, Carroll County has a population of 15,387. The county seat is Mount Carroll. Although this may seem like a strange fact, the county has only one stop light, which is located in Savanna at the intersection of Routes 64 and 84.
Carroll County has a total area of 466.36 square miles, of which 444.81 square miles (or 95.38%) is land and 21.55 square miles (or 4.62%) is water. Mississippi Palisades State Park is located in this county, just north of the city of Savanna. Additionally, the Savanna Army Depot is located partly in this county.
Adjacent Counties
Jo Daviess County – northwest
Stephenson County – northeast
Ogle County – east
Whiteside County – south
Clinton County, Iowa – southwest (across the Mississippi River)
jackson County, Iowa – west (across the Mississippi River)
National Protected Area
Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge
Major Highways
US Route 52
Illinois Route 40
Illinois Route 64
Illinois Route 72
Illinois Route 73
Illinois Route 78
Illinois Route 84
Carroll County includes these three cities:
Carroll County includes these four villages:
Carroll County is divided into these twelve townships:
Cherry Grove-Shannon
Elkhorn Grove
Mount Carroll
Rock Creek-Lima
School Districts
Chadwick-Milledgeville Community Unit School District 399
Eastland Community Unit School District 308
West Carroll Community Unit School District 314
Political Districts
Illinois 16th Congressional District
State House District 71
State House District 89
State Senate District 36
State Senate District 45
Climate and Weather
In recent years, average temperatures in the county seat of Mount Carroll have ranged from a low of 7 °F in January to a high of 85 °F in July. Although, a record low of −31 °F was recorded in January 1910 and a record high of 108 °F was recorded in July 1936. Average monthly precipitation ranged from 1.43 inches in January to 4.77 inches in June.
Notable People
- Willis J. Bailey – United States Representative from Kansas and the 16th Governor of Kansas, born in Carroll County and Mount Carroll High School.
- Samuel James Campbell – banker and philanthropist, born in Mount Carroll.
- Charles Carroll – wealthy landowner and politician from Maryland, who signed the Declaration of Independence. Carroll, who died in 1832, was the last signer to die and is the county's namesake.
- Isaac Chambers – the first settler in the county.
- Dale Gardner – former NASA astronaut, born in Savanna.
- Wayne King – "America's Waltz King", musician, songwriter, singer, and orchestra leader, born in Savanna.
- "Pete" Morris Elmer Lister – Major League Baseball first baseman, who played for the Cleveland Naps during the 1907 season, born in Savanna.
- Howard Kyle – (nee Vandergrift) noted actor, Union School class of 1879 valedictorian, grew up in Mount Carroll.
- Suzanna W. Miles – archaeologist, anthropologist, ethnohistorian and Mayanist, born in Mount Carroll.
- Ward Miller – outfielder for the five Major League Baseball teams, born in Mount Carroll.
- Edward Seyfarth – inventor of an early ear piercing gun patented in 1880.
- Neta Snook – pioneer woman aviator and aviation instructor, born in Mount Carroll.
- Emmert L. Wingert – Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, born in Mount Carroll.
- Billy Zoom – (Tyson Kindell) an American guitarist, best known as one of the founders of the punk rock band X, born in Savanna.
Notable Students of Shimer College in Mount Carroll
- Robert Keohane – political scientist and noted author, grew up in Mount Carroll before attending Shimer.
- Daniel Perlman – president of Suffolk University and president of Webster University.
- Phoebe Snow – singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for her chart-topping 1975 hit "Poetry Man".
- Laurie Spiegel – composer whose most recent accolades are her work in the movie 'The Hunger Games'.
- Mary Wings – writer, artist, and musician.
- Catherine "Cat" Yronwode – writer, editor, graphic designer, typesetter, publisher with an extensive career in the comic book industry.
Additional Resources:
Carroll County Fair
Official Website of Carroll County Government
National Register of Historic Places in Carroll County, Illinois


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"We have identified a group of women that is being paid to go to the Temple Mount and commit provocative acts. This group has been barred from the Old City."
That was the acting national police commissioner Bentzi Sau speaking at a special session of the Knesset Interior Committee on Tuesday.
Below, in its Hebrew original, is a letter sent to Jerusalem's then police commandant on June 20th. In the year 2013. Besides myself, it is also signed by Yehudah Glick, Aviad Visouli, Chaim Odem, Prof. Hillel Weiss and several others - all veteran Temple Mount activists.
The letter warns the police of the phenomenon of what I termed the Wicked Witches of the Waqf but who refer to themselves as the Mouribatat (the men are the Mouribatoun). We suggested several security entrenching steps including
a. strengthening the police/borderpolice unit at the Temple Mount;
b. additional checking measures at all the gates like those at the Mohgrabi Gate;
c. punishing miscreants by refusing them entry;
d. a clear message of warning to the Waqf;
e. proper security measures for all visitors.
Did the police take our suggestions into consideration? Perhaps. Did they apply them?
The letter:
We warned them.


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It has only been a short while since we revamped the SF Site. The list of reviews has grown
and our reviewers have each built something of a following. In order to help you out,
we've created a page where each one's reviews are grouped together along with
a brief note about them. For your convenience all their reviews are listed here.
In order to prevent swelled heads and hurt feelings, the list is alphabetical
with their latest at the top of each group.
For some of our reviewers, it has been awhile since their last review. For others, they have moved on to other endeavours. Because our Featured Reviews Sorted by Reviewer page has grown so large, their entries have been moved to this Reviewer Alumni Page.
Alex Anderson
Alex Anderson is a long-time SF reader just pompous enough to believe other people may want to read the meanderings he scribbles down between fits of extreme lethargy he calls contemplation.
Catherine Asaro
Catherine Asaro is a quantum physicist and the author of The Last Hawk and two other novels.
Don Bassingthwaite
Don Bassingthwaite is the author of Such Pain (HarperPrism), Breathe Deeply (White Wolf), and Pomegranates Full and Fine (White Wolf), tie-in novels to White Wolf's World of Darkness role-playing games. He can't remember when he started reading science fiction, but has been gaming since high school (and, boy, is his dice arm tired!).
Ann Benson
Novelist Ann Benson is the author of The Plague Tales (Delacorte, 1997).
Jeff Berkwits
Jeff Berkwits publishes ASTERISM: The Journal of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Space Music.
John Berlyne
John Berlyne is a book junkie with a serious habit. He is the long time UK editor of Sfrevu.com and is widely acknowledged to be the leading expert on the works of Tim Powers. John's extensive Powers Bibliography "Secret Histories" will be published in April 2009 by PS Publishing. When not consuming genre fiction, John owns and runs North Star Delicatessen, a gourmet food outlet in Chorlton, Manchester.
Lisa Brunetta
Slave to the written word that she is, Lisa makes it a point to fit in reading time between working, taking care of her infant daughter, and making weird and wonderful things with stained glass and clay. Science fiction and fantasy are her poisons of choice (heavy on the fantasy).
Kristen Chew
During the day, Kristen Chew is an editor with University of Toronto Press. The rest of the time, she tries to learn Japanese and wonders hopelessly why she doesn't have anywhere near as much time as she used to.
Thomas Cunningham
Thomas Cunningham is an independent corporate coach working in the software industry. Bad science fiction films give him a rash.
Alice Dechene
Alice taught Comparative Literature and French at the University of Illinois. Her time is taken up these days with her two children.
Lucy Dechene
Lucy Dechene is professor of Mathematics at Fitchburg State College, Mass.
Chris Donner
Chris Donner is a freelance writer and magazine editor living in Manhattan and working in Connecticut. He will read almost anything once, as it makes the train ride go faster. He is currently writing a screenplay, a novel, several short stories, a collection of poems, and a letter to his mother. The letter will probably be done first.
S. Kay Elmore
S. Kay Elmore is a graphic artist, writer and corporate wage slave. She edits The Orphic Chronicle, an online magazine, and tries to make ends meet by writing and developing corporate newsletters and web sites.
Glen Engel-Cox
Glen Engel-Cox is the creator of FIRST IMPRESSIONS, one of the first and most well-established SF review sites on the Web.
Kim Fawcett
Kim Fawcett works, reads, writes, and occasionally sleeps in Ottawa, Canada. A day job writing for the hi-tech industry hinders her creative efforts, but has no effect at all on her book-a-week reading habit. She dreams of (a) winning the lottery, (b) publishing a novel, © traveling the world, and (d) doing all of the above all at once.
Jonathan Fesmire
Jonathan Fesmire lives in sunny California, near the beach, but ironically prefers dusk to midday and cool weather to hot. He enjoys writing, art, and spending time with his family. He also enjoys traveling -- he has been to France, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Canada, and Poland -- and sometimes combines his love of travel with his love of speculative fiction by attending conventions. His fiction has been published in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine and elsewhere.
Robert Francis
Robert Francis is by profession a geologist, and, perhaps due to some hidden need for symmetry, spends his spare time looking at the stars. He is married, has a son, and is proud that the entire family would rather read anything remotely resembling literature than watch Jerry Springer.
Jennifer & Chris Goheen
Jennifer Goheen recently started middle school and her dad, Chris Goheen works in the field of on-line process optimization.
Sabrina Goldstein
Sabrina is an elementary school teacher in Anaheim, California.
Jim Greer
Jim Greer is free-lance journalist so he can spend more quality time chasing his 2 year old around.
Henry Harding
Henry Harding has been gaming since he was knee high to an elf. If only someone would pry the dice out of his hands he might get started on that sequel to War and Peace he's been thinking of writing.
Todd Jackson
Todd Jackson teaches a course in Science Fiction at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland, while writing the first of a series of African-American science fiction novels, titled The Lou Douglas Network.
Thomas Julian
Tom Julian is a teleplay and short story writer. Check out his web magazine, The Outpost
Harriet Klausner
Harriet was an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania and she wrote a monthly review column of recommended reads. She found she liked reviewing and went on to freelance, after her son was born. She has 2 dogs, a cairn and a pom, and four cats. And she has a 21 year old son and a husband who wants to, but is nowhere near retiring. She is a speed reader (a gift she was born with) and reads two books a day.
Tim Krauskopf
Tim Krauskopf was recently appointed Head of Information Services at the Field Museum of National History.
Steve Lazarowitz
Steve Lazarowitz reads and writes fantasy and SF. His work has been published in a number of online 'zines and he is the editor of the Dragonclaw Showcase. His short story anthology A Creative Edge: Tales of Speculation is due out from Domhan books in 1999.
Ernest Lilley
Ernest Lilley is the former Sr. Editor/Publisher of SFRevu (www.sfrevu.com) and former radio Co-Host of Sci-Fi Talk with Tony Tellado. He currently publishes TechRevu (www.techrevu.com), occasionally writes for science and technology publications, and is Interactive Strategist for a DC based association (NAESP). He likes station wagons, road trips, and digital photography and currently lives in the Gernsback Continuum with that classic trope of SF, a red headed heroine. He can be found here on Facebook.
Steven MacDonald
Steven MacDonald developed an abiding interest in the Fantasy/SF genre at the tender age of 14, when he chanced upon a copy of Analog.
Paul J. McAuley
Paul J. McAuley is the award-winning author of Four Hundred Billion Stars and Fairyland. He also produces a regular review column for Interzone and contributes reviews to Foundation. His latest novel, Child of the River, is available from Gollancz and Avon EOS. More information is available at his website.
Katharine Mills
Katharine Mills would like to read for a living, but those jobs are few and far between. She lives in Southern Ontario with her big hairy husband and three small hairy cats.
Thomas Myer
Thomas Myer takes great pleasure in editing TV commentators during crisis broadcasts, growing weeds in his garden, and waking at five a.m. to heap insults on his neighbor's cat.
Ken Newquist
Kenneth Newquist is a confessed science fiction/fantasy addict living in Easton, Pennsylvania, and working as a webmaster at a small university in New Jersey. He's regular contributor to Science Fiction Weekly and is the editor of the speculative fiction webzine Nuketown.
Lela Olszewski
Lela Olszewski is an avid reader of science fiction, fantasy, mystery and romance, as well as an eclectic mix of other fiction and non-fiction. She is also a librarian with an interest in readers' advisory, and believes fully in Rosenberg's Law: Never apologize for your reading tastes. She has no cats.
Leon Olszewski
Leon Olszewski is the Manager of Network Services at Spyglass, Inc. He goes to the occasional costume party, though he does not wear a mask on the street.
A. John O'Neill
John O'Neill is the Founder of the SF Site. He is a recovering biblioholic.
Rebecca Pausley
Rebecca Pausley is an avid reader of science fiction averaging 1-3 books a week depending on the length of the book and how her work week has gone. Recent treats include David Edding's Polgara the Sorceress, the entire Deryni series by Katherine Kurtz and Gregory Keyes two book series, The Waterborn and Blackgod. From time to time she'll re-read a number of books just to be sure she was right.
Todd Richmond
Todd is a plant molecular developmental biologist who has finally finished 23 years of formal education. He recently fled Madison, WI for the warmer but damper San Francisco Bay Area and likes bad movies, good science fiction, and role-playing games. He began reading science fiction at the age of eight, starting with Heinlein, Silverberg, and Tom Swift books, and has a great fondness for tongue-in-cheek fantasy �la Terry Pratchett, Craig Shaw Gardner and Robert Asprin.
Todd Ruthman
Todd Ruthman is the SF Site Poetry Editor.
Kim Seidman
Kim Seidman enjoys spending her rare moments of peace and quiet reading a good book.
Craig Shackleton
Craig Shackleton tries not to let real life interfere with his role-playing games or his historical sword-fighting any more than it has to.
Mark Shainblum
Mark Shainblum is the co-editor of Arrowdreams: An Anthology Of Alternate Canadas, the first anthology of Canadian alternate histories. A veteran of the comic book field, Mark co-created the 1980s Canadian superhero Northguard and currently writes the Canadian political parody series Angloman as a series of paperback books and for the daily Montreal Gazette. He lives in Montreal with his computer, his slippers and a motley collection of books.
Lucy Snyder
Lucy Snyder is a contributing editor for HMS Beagle, the managing editor of BioTech, and the editor/publisher of Dark Planet. A member of the '95 Clarionistas, she lives in Bloomington, IN with three plants and a monster named Lump who lives under her bed.
Mark Sumner
Mark Sumner is the author of two fantasy novels of the Wild West, Devil's Tower (a 1996 World Fantasy Award nominee) and Devil's Engine, both from Del Rey. He also writes about Savannah Skye, a journalist of strange events, in her adventures News From the Edge: The Monster of Minnesota News From the Edge: Insanity, Illinois from Ace.
Duane Swierczynski
Duane Swierczynski is an editor at Details magazine who lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife and three clinically insane cats. He writes a monthly book review column for Spicy Green Iguana, and has contributed fiction to GothicNet, Dark Planet, FrightNet, and Planet Magazine. In college, he loved Shakespeare's "Henry IV" so much that he spent months looking for parts I, II, and III.
Jean-Louis Trudel
Jean-Louis Trudel is a busy, bilingual writer from Canada, with two novels and fourteen young adult books to his credit in French. He's also a moderately prolific reviewer and short story writer.
David A. Truesdale
Dave Truesdale has edited Tangent and now Tangent Online since 1993. It has been nominated for the Hugo Award four times, and the World Fantasy Award once. A former editor of the Bulletin of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, he also served as a World Fantasy Award judge in 1998, and currently writes an original online column for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
Alexander von Thorn
Alexander von Thorn is actively involved in many aspects of science fiction fandom. He is deputy head of programming for Torcon III, the 61st World Science Fiction Convention, and vice-chair of the Seattle in '05 bid for the North American Science Fiction Convention. He is nominated for the 2002 Aurora Award, the Canadian science fiction awards, for fan writing. In his day job he is a manager of technical support at WorldCom, a global data communications organization. He is also a member of the Ink*Specs writing circle in Toronto and is an avid watcher of (digitally enhanced) bad television.
Jeri Wright
Jeri is a voracious reader who believes that paradise could well be a quiet afternoon, unlimited chocolate, and a novel to lose herself in. She reads and reviews all types of fiction, and enjoys sharing her life long passion for books with like-minded readers.
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Today, I am not writing about my stuff (though, I will be later this week). I am writing about a new knitting release called Kung Fu Knits by Elizabeth Green Musselman published by Cooperative Press. Now, being that my knitting nickname and business name is Ninja8tofu Designs, you would have to figure that I would be interested in something called Kung Fu Knits.
Kung Fu Knits is unlike any other knitting book that I've ever seen. It combines knitting patterns and a story. I really enjoyed how this was put together. The illustrations and story are just perfect. The photography is also fabulous. The book is aimed at a demographic often ignored in knitting: boys, but its not only for boys. I would have enjoyed everything in this book when I was a kid.
What kid wouldn't love this? I can say that I have very little knitting time that I get to knit other people's things, but I am definitely going to be knitting myself some nunchuks and throwing stars! Yes, I am knitting them for me! You don't need to be a kid to enjoy this. In fact, those pants look pretty enticing, too.
So, really…if you have a kid who would enjoy anything Kung Fu related or a neat story…or if you might be a little bit of a kid at heart (like me) I would recommend checking out Kung Fu Knits. I can guarantee you that it's unlike anything you have seen before.
I also just want to put in a word here about Cooperative Press, the publisher. If you haven't checked out their knitting books, do so immediately. They are really great and quite unique. The themes are all wonderful and there is literally something for everyone.


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Fortinet is an innovative leader in high-performance network security solutions with easy integration in the most complex IT infrastructures.It presents a comprehensive line of Security Appliances with UTM mechanisms - Unified Thread Management and Next Generation Firewall architecture. The development of dedicated ASICs to perform the the different functions of the security control flow, allows to obtain excellent performance metrics in various environments and traffic patterns. The FortiGuard service of Threat Analysis and Security Signatures development , are the guarantee of constant updating of the protection mechanisms into the Fortinet security platforms.
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Jimmy Savile NHS abuse victims aged five to 75
Ex-BBC DJ Jimmy Savile sexually assaulted victims aged five to 75 in NHS hospitals over decades of unrestricted access, investigators say.
He assaulted patients in bed, and claimed to have abused corpses, reviews into his conduct on NHS premises found.
The reports cover 28 hospitals including Leeds General Infirmary and Broadmoor psychiatric hospital.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt apologised to victims, saying Savile's actions "will shake our country to the core".
Savile, a Radio 1 DJ who also presented the BBC's Top Of The Pops and Jim'll Fix It, died aged 84 in October 2011 - a year before allegations that he had sexually abused children were broadcast in an ITV documentary.
The reports on Leeds General Infirmary and Broadmoor are detailed and, at times, graphic.
They explain how Savile was allowed unsupervised access to vulnerable patients, with a failure to question the risks of his unconventional and promiscuous lifestyle.
The Leeds investigation found:
- Sixty people came forward to say they had been abused between the ages of five and 75, including staff
- The offences ranged from lewd remarks to sexual assault and three cases of rape and took place between 1962 and 2009
- Only nine victims told members of staff. There were a further eight female victims who met Savile at the hospital, but were not patients
- Savile had a well-known fixation with the dead and the report contains allegations he posed for photographs and performed sex acts on corpses in the hospital mortuary
- While there is no way to verify the claim, Dr Sue Proctor - who led the Leeds inquiry - said there is no doubt controls on access to the mortuary were "lax"
- Patients, including teenagers recovering from surgery, were abused in their beds
- A 10-year-old boy was sexually assaulted while he waited on a trolley for an x-ray on his broken arm
- A number of organisational failures over the years enabled Savile to continue unchallenged
- The situation allowed someone "as manipulative as Savile to thrive and continue his abusive behaviour unchecked for years"
Mr Hunt told the Commons one victim being treated at Leeds General Infirmary feared she was pregnant after being abused.
There were also reports that Savile made jewellery out of glass eyes taken from dead bodies from the hospital mortuary, he told MPs.
A victim's story
Sixty people have recounted how they were abused by Savile at Leeds General Infirmary, many were young people and teenagers.
One victim "Jane" - who was 16 when she was assaulted - told the BBC Savile took her to a local shop to buy sweets and magazine, but soon afterwards sexually assaulted her in a hospital basement.
"He pulled me in immediately and started to kiss me with his tongue", she said.
"At the same time his left hand went on to my right thigh under my dress."
"There was no conversation up until that point. I couldn't have said anything even if I'd wanted to, because he had his tongue in my mouth, which wasn't pleasant".
After the assault she said she felt "dirty and ridiculously stupid". She said she began to tell nurses about the incident but when they laughed felt she couldn't finish.
"All the staff accepted it, patients accepted it, clearly the porters accepted it as well."
Mr Hunt apologised on behalf of the government and the NHS, saying of the victims: "We let them down badly."
The health secretary said there was a "deep sense of revulsion" over the findings.
He added: "As a nation, at that time we held Savile in our affection as a somewhat eccentric national treasure with a strong commitment to charitable causes.
"Today's report shows that in reality he was a sickening and prolific sexual abuser who repeatedly exploited the trust of a nation for his own vile purposes."
Mr Hunt is writing to all NHS trusts asking them to ensure they are confident about patient safety.
A spokesman for Prime Minister David Cameron said he was "deeply shocked", adding it was "important lessons are learned".
'Worst nightmare'
The Leeds report was clear that no one person is to blame for what happened at the hospital other than Savile. But it did describe a lack of curiosity about his activities.
Lesley McLean, Victim Support manager for West Yorkshire, said: "The parents of the children [Savile] abused in Leeds hospitals were already anxious about their child's health.
"What they thought was a treat for their loved one was actually their worst nightmare."
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust issued a statement apologising to "each and every one of Savile's victims".
"There should have been far more scrutiny of him and what he was doing at our hospitals over the years, and more robust safeguards and internal controls in place to protect our staff and patients in our care," chief executive Julian Hartley said.
In 1988, Savile was appointed by the Department of Health as the head of a taskforce overseeing Broadmoor.
The report describes an inappropriate culture at Broadmoor that allowed sexual liaisons between staff and patients and discouraged reporting of concerns.
The Broadmoor report found:
- Savile watched and made inappropriate comments when female patients stripped and showered naked in front of staff, a practice which was common in the late 1980s
- The late DJ was "narcissistic, arrogant and lacking in any empathy"
- He was also very manipulative and staff were convinced he had close connections in high places
- There was "no evidence that those responsible knew anything of the very much darker side" to Savile that was later revealed
- Eleven allegations of sexual abuse were reported to the review. Six of them involved patients, two staff and three children
The report said the numbers were very likely to be an underestimate of the true picture because so many former patients simply wished to forget their time at Broadmoor.
'Feared sacking'
Noami Stanley, a psychiatric nurse who treated patients who told her they had been abused by Savile at Broadmoor, said police and senior medical staff dismissed her concerns as an "irritation".
She told BBC Radio 4's World at One: "I explained what I heard and what I believed was going on in Broadmoor.
"There was a pair of police officers who appeared surprised and looked immediately to my superiors as if to say 'do something about this woman, she's nuts'."
She said of the senior nursing officer present: "He gave me quite a severe ticking office and said if I ever ever spoke out of turn like that again I would receive a disciplinary and might get sacked."
Marjorie Wallace - now chief executive of the charity Sane - also visited the hospital regularly in the 1980s when she was researching a book.
She said there was "obviously something sinister" about the DJ and attempted to raise the alarm after witnessing his treatment of two female patients: "I went to the Department of Health and said 'What is Jimmy Savile doing here?"
But she says she was told Savile was bringing Broadmoor out of the "dark ages" and that he was a "good person, liberating this closed institution".
Labour's Andy Burnham said giving Savile "gold-plated keys" to the hospital was "one of the greatest failures in public protection and patient safety we've ever seen".
The shadow health secretary called for an over-arching, independent inquiry into the scandal.
"It would appear Savile was appointed to this role without any background checks at all," he told the BBC. "There needs to be more independent scrutiny of how the government of the day handled this."
Reports have been issued on: St Catherine's Hospital (Birkenhead); Saxondale Mental Health Hospital; Portsmouth Royal Hospital; Dewsbury and District Hospital (including Pinderfields Hospital); High Royds Psychiatric Hospital; Cardiff Royal Infirmary; Great Ormond Street Hospital; Exeter Hospital; Ashworth Hospital; Barnet General Hospital; Booth Hall; De La Pole Hospital; Dryburn Hospital; Hammersmith Hospital; Leavesden Secure Mental Health Hospital; Marsden Hospital; Maudsley Hospital; Odstock Hospital; Prestwich Psychiatric Hospital; Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead; Royal Victoria Infirmary; Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton; Whitby Memorial Hospital; Wythenshawe Hospital, and Woodhouse Eaves Children's Convalescent Homes in Leicester.
A report about Wheatfield's Hospice, which is run by the Sue Ryder charity, has also been released.
Leicestershire Police has launched an investigation after one victim of Savile, who was abused as a young boy at a children's convalescent home in Woodhouse Eaves, told an enquiry team the entertainer was involved in the death of another child.
However, no reference to a child's death could be found in the records of the home, Roecliffe Manor, which closed in 1969.
Analysis by Nick Triggle, health correspondent, BBC News
Since the allegations about Jimmy Savile came to light, the police have looked into how many victims there may have been. A review of why he was never prosecuted has also been carried out.
But this is the most comprehensive account of how he was able to offend and get away with it for so long.
Reviews into his behaviour at the BBC and care homes are expected later this year - and will no doubt shed even more light on the scandal.
But for now the failings of the NHS - an institution that is there to care for the vulnerable - are in the spotlight.
He enjoyed unsupervised access, particularly at two sites, Leeds General Infirmary and Broadmoor psychiatric hospital, and was able to use his fame to intimidate junior staff.
What is more, senior management were too unquestioning.
The reports are loathe to blame individuals.
But with cases of abuse and improper conduct being reported up until 2009 - albeit much less frequently than in the 1960s and 1970s - the NHS has a lot of soul-searching to do.
Hospital bedroom
A key report into Savile's activities at Stoke Mandeville Hospital has been delayed after new information recently came to light.
Savile had a bedroom at Stoke Mandeville, where his now-defunct charitable trust was based, as well as an office and living quarters at Broadmoor.
Reports concerning two other hospitals - Rampton and Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust - have also been delayed.
There are also new investigations at Springfield Hospital and Crawley Hospital.
It is understood investigations at two hospitals - the Royal Free Hospital in London and Pennine Acute NHS hospitals Trust - found nothing to report.
The revelations made in a 2012 ITV documentary about Savile prompted more than 100 people to come forward, giving accounts of how they were sexually assaulted by Savile on NHS premises and in other places.
A report by the NSPCC said Savile abused at least 500 victims, including some as young as two.
BBC health reporter Pippa Stephens said there have been many significant changes in the law since the time Savile committed abuse.
|Hospitals' Savile reports
|Number of allegations
|Leeds General Infirmary(inc St James and Seacroft Hospital)
|33 of the 60 alleged victims were patients of whom 19 were children. A further 19 were staff. Encounters ranged from lewd remarks and inappropriate touching to sexual assault and rape.
|Broadmoor Hospital
|10 victims of assault, two were repeatedly abused. Six patients, two children and two staff. One indecent exposure to child. Report found "clear, repeated failure of safeguarding standards" at Broadmoor at the time.
|St Catherine's Hospital, Birkenhead
|Savile allegedly groped a 14-year-old female patient. Report found the victim credible and convincing. Metropolitan police have recorded it as a crime of sexual touching.
|Saxondale Mental Health Hospital
|Woman who was then 14 alleges that Savile lifted her skirt when she was at a disco at the hospital. She was a local resident rather than a patient. Savile had a fundraising association with Saxondale Hospital from 1972 to the early 1980s.
|Portsmouth Royal Hospital
|A man alleges being told by a cleaner that he was assaulted by Savile while unconscious. The report concludes that it is "highly unlikely" the incident took place.
|Dewsbury and District Hospital (inc Pinderfields Hospital)
|Woman says that when she was a 15-year-old inpatient in 1969 Savile French kissed her without permission. A second allegation relates to lewd comments overheard by a nurse.
|High Royds Psychiatric Hospital
|Patient and member of staff say they were groped by Savile at a hospital fun day. Victim accounts described as "very compelling and certainly plausible".
|Wheatfield's Hospice, (non-NHS – Sue Ryder)
|At an opening ceremony before patients were admitted, a woman who was then 16 alleges that Savile touched her leg and made lewd comments. The report found her account credible but there was no evidence to substantiate it.
|Cardiff Royal Infirmary
|Patient alleged that Savile forcefully kissed her while she was lying in bed. The investigators were "unable to reach a conclusion about whether the incident took place".
|Great Ormond Street
|One allegation of sexual abuse of a patient in 1971. Report found no evidence that Savile was at the hospital at the time.
|Digby Hospital, Exeter
|Former patient alleges that she was raped by Savile in a caravan in the hospital grounds. The report "no reason to doubt the veracity" of her account.
|Ashworth / Moss Side Hospital
|Two female ex-patients said Savile abused them. One male ex-patient said he witnessed groping. One ex-staff member speculated about abuse which may have happened. Information was found to be credible.
|Barnet General Hospital
|Patient had conversation with nurses who said they had seen Savile having sex with dead body at a different hospital. Investigators concluded incident did not happen at Barnet although conversation did take place.
|Booth Hall Children's Hospital
|Woman who was 7 or 8 at time says she was abused by her father and Savile. Man says Savile touched him when he was 10. Investigators cannot say conclusively whether the incidents took place.
|De La Pole Hospital
|Nurse alleged Savile groped a 14-16-year-old female patient but she denies the incident. Investigators found no evidence of the alleged assault but did find Savile had visited the hospital.
|Dryburn Hospital
|Allegations of potential procuring of children for Savile. No evidence was found to support this.
|Hammersmith Hospital
|One allegation related to a friend of Savile rather than Savile himself. A second allegation was of an inappropriate comment to a 13-year-old girl. No evidence of an association between the hospital and Savile.
|Leavesden Secure Mental Health Hospital
|Person thought Savile may have visited the hospital in the 1970s but report finds this unlikely.
|Royal Marsden Hospital
|Person said colleague had alleged Savile had made sexual advances to her at either the Royal Marsden or Stoke Mandeville hospitals. No evidence was found of Savile's association with Royal Marsden.
|Maudsley Hospital
|Person thought Savile may have visited in 1964/5. Report found no evidence of wrongdoing.
|Odstock Hospital, Salisbury
|Person said Savile used to visit the hospital in the 1980s. Report found no allegation of wrongdoing by Savile.
|Prestwich Psychiatric Hospital
|Woman alleges that when she was a young girl she was taken onto the hospital site by Savile and another man and abused. Report found that the alleged incident had probably occurred despite not being possible to verify her account.
|Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead
|Female patient alleged she was groped as she recovered from an operation. Investigators did not doubt that the attack happened but thought Savile was not involved.
|Royal Victoria Infirmary
|People flagged up that Savile had visited the hospital in 1987 and 1991. No allegation of wrongdoing made.
|Queen Mary's Hospital
|Anonymous allegation that a junior nurse denied Savile access to a ward and was threatened that a BBC outside broadcast would be cancelled as a result. Investigators found it was not possible to conclude whether the incident occurred.
|Whitby Memorial Hospital
|Staff member said Savile had touched her inappropriately. Investigators found that the incident did take place.
|Wythenshawe Hospital
|Patient said that a fellow patient alleged that Savile was a "dirty old man" who had parties in his home with young girls. No evidence that Savile was present on the hospital site.
|Woodhouse Eaves / Roecliffe Manor
|Allegation of abuse against a boy aged 5-7. Investigators found that it was likely that abuse had happened at the location but it was not possible to conclude it was carried out by Savile.


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German special prosecutors have recommended that 30 former Auschwitz death camp guards be tried on charges of accessory to murder during World War II.
Kurt Schrimm, head of the federal prosecutors' office in Ludwigsburg, said that an investigation of 49 guards had resulted in 30 of them being referred to state prosecutors for their roles at the biggest Nazi death camp.
The 30 accused live in Germany. A further seven who live outside the country are still being investigated. Those living abroad are in Austria, Brazil, Croatia, the US, Poland and even one in Israel. They are said to be aged between 87 and 97.
The cases are being delivered to the state prosecutors' offices in 11 of Germany's 16 states who . will decide whether the suspects are fit to stand trial.
"The biggest enemy is time," Schrimm told reporters.
The murder charges can be filed under the same legal framework used by Munich prosecutors against Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk, who served as a guard at Sorbibor and Majdanek. Demjanjuk, who died in a Bavarian nursing home in 2012, was convicted solely on the basis that he was a camp guard. There was no evidence that he was involved in inmates' deaths.
Top Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff at the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem said the decision to prosecute 30 suspected former guards could pave the way for more cases.
"We commend the [prosecutors]) for seeking to apply the precedent as widely as possible and hope that they will be able to find as many perpetrators as possible," he said.
"It's only a shame that this kind of legal reasoning was not applied previously because it would have led to many more cases of people who deserved to be brought to justice."
The Nazis built six main death camps, all in occupied Poland: Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka.
More than 1.3 million people were gassed and murdered at Auschwitz alone. Ninety percent of them were Jewish.
Nine of the 49 suspected Auschwitz guards have died. More than 7,000 SS personnel served at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp complex in 1940-45, but only a few hundred were ever prosecuted.


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Guide to the Palm-leaf manuscripts, ca. 1853-1862 | MC094
Table of Contents
Summary Information
- Repository
- Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library
- Creator
- Smith, Benjamin Burleigh, 1820-1873
- Title
- Palm-leaf manuscripts
- Date
- ca. 1853-1862
- Extent
- 5.0 Items
- Language
- English
- Abstract
- Five manuscripts of Shastras, sacred Hindu texts, inscribed on palm leaves which were collected by Benjamin Burleigh Smith, a Free Will Baptist missionary who lived in India during the mid 19th century.
Preferred Citation
Palm-leaf manuscripts, Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, Bates College.
Historical Note
The Freewill Baptist missionary Rev. Benjamin Burleigh Smith was born in Sandwich, New Hampshire on March 20, 1820 to John and Elizabeth (Webster) Smith. Before becoming a foreign missionary, Smith completed theological studies at Whitestown Seminary in Oneida County, New York. In the summer of 1851 or 1852, he married Dorcas Folsom and the couple sailed for India shortly thereafter, arriving in Calcutta six months later.
Smith established a church in Balasore, on the east coast of India in the Orissa state, building the structure from bricks he made himself. The couple and their son, Edwin Augustus Smith, remained in India for nearly a decade before returning to the United States in 1862. During this sabbatical, Smith traveled around New England giving lectures on behalf of the "Christian Society" and helped his parents on the family farm in New Hampshire. He returned twice to India, serving three more years as a foreign missionary. He died in Balasore on November 22, 1873.
Scope and Content Note
The collection is composed of five full or partial palm leaf manuscripts of Shastras, sacred Hindu scriptures usually written in a declarative style to prescribe proper behavioral norms for social life. The manuscripts were presumably collected by Benjamin Burleigh Smith, and are drawn with a steel stylus on palm leafs, most with black ink rubbed over them to highlight the letters. They are in the Oriya script, and probably in either the Sanskrit or Oriya language.
Some or all of the manuscripts were copied by Smith's Brahmin pundit, or philosopher-teacher, between 1853 and 1862. In the Hindu cast system, a Brahmin is the highest ranking of the four varnas, responsible for performing priestly functions, studying and teaching the Vedas, and acting as an advisor to rulers. According to Smith's granddaughter, the pundit was so devoted to Smith that despite releasing him from his duties before Smith left India on his sabbatical, the pundit was still waiting for Smith on the porch upon his return eight years later.
One of the manuscripts (#4) may be of the Ramayana, a literary text that was considered to be a shastra (a guide for proper conduct) in 19th century India.
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: I wish to thank Steven M. Vose, Ph.D. candidate in South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania for his assistance in identifying the manuscirpts.
Organization and Arrangement
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library70 Campus Avenue
Lewiston, Maine, 04240
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions
The collection is the physical property of Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library. Bates College holds literary rights only for material created by College personnel working on official behalf of the College, or for material which was given to the College with such rights specifically assigned. For all other material, literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. Researchers are responsible for obtaining permission from rights holders for publication or other purposes that exceed fair use.
Acquisition and Custody Information
Gift of Benjamin Burleigh Smith. Accession No.: xx-064.
Processing Information
Additional descriptive information provided by Steven M. Vose, Ph.D. candidate in South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, 2009.
Controlled Access Headings
Corporate Name(s)
- Free Will Baptists (1780?-1911)--Missions--India
Personal Name(s)
- Smith, Benjamin Burleigh, 1820-1873
- Hindu literature, Oriya--Archival resources
- Hinduism--Sacred books
- Palm-leaf manuscripts
Collection Inventory
Unidentified manuscript. The manuscript is complete and intact, although the nature of the text and the language (whether it is Oriya or Sanskrit in Oriya script) is unidentified.
Unidentified partial manuscript. This is a large fragment of an unidentified text. Some of the leaves are out of order, although all are numbered.
Unidentified manuscript fragments, containing some of the missing leaves from MC094-02. The leaves of this manuscript are out of order.
Unidentified manuscript. Unlike the other manuscripts in the collection, this one does not have ink rubed over the leaves. The text appears to be written in verse, indicated by consecutive numbers in the lines of the text that seem to be counting verses. It may be the Ramayana (possibly in Old Oriya, probably not Sanskrit), a literary text that was considered to be a shastra (a guide for proper conduct) in 19th century India.
Unidentified manuscript fragment.


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Before hitting Colorado's roads on your motorcycle, it's important to know all of the rules and regulations required in order to ride. You may be a seasoned motorcyclist, but do you remember all those little laws you had to learn for your Colorado motorcycle endorsement? Even seasoned drivers forget Colorado's driving laws because our actions become second-nature. Maybe you need a little refresher in Colorado motorcycle laws.
Why don't you grab a few biker friends and ask them the following questions. I'll reveal the answers later in this article.
- Are motorcyclists required to wear eye protection on Colorado's roads?
- Are motorcyclists required to use their headlights while riding during the day?
- Are Colorado motorcyclists required to have side-view mirrors on their bikes?
- Does the state of Colorado require mufflers on motorcycles?
- Does the state of Colorado require motorcycle riders to wear helmets?
- If I'm licensed to drive in Colorado and I'm over 18, do I need a special license to ride a motorcycle?
- If I'm under 18 and I have a motorcycle permit, can I ride on my own?
- Is lane splitting legal for Colorado motorcyclists?
- Can two motorcyclists ride side-by-side in a traffic lane?
- Are there special requirements for carrying a passenger on a motorcycle?
- Can a police officer legally pull me over just to inspect the road-readiness of my bike?
- Can I take my five-year-old daughter on a motorcycle ride with me?
Here are a few Colorado motorcycle laws regarding proper equipment usage, licensing, noise limits and riding requirements that you might not be aware of.
While it's legal to ride without a helmet if you're over 18 years old, we highly recommended that riders wear one.
Colorado Motorcycle Equipment Laws
- Eye Protection: When riding a motorcycle on an interstate, highway or other "main road," the rider is required by law to wear some sort of eye protection—whether it's in the form of a visor that goes onto the helmet or goggles.
- Headlights and Taillights: Riders are allowed to use their headlights during the day, but they don't have to. However, they are required to be turned on at night, and it has to be a white light that projects 500 feet in front of the bike. Taillights are also required after sunset.
- Mirrors: When driving on main roads, it's required to have at least one side-view mirror on the bike—one on the left side, the right side, or both.
- Mufflers: Mufflers are required on your bike if you're planning on riding it on interstates, highways or other main thoroughfares in Colorado.
- Helmets: While it's not illegal to ride without a helmet if you're over 18 years old, it's still highly recommended that riders wear one that has a hard outer shell, vent, comfort liner, an impact-absorbing liner, a retention system and a visor.
Finally, it is legal for police officers to perform periodic safety inspections at random on your motorcycle. Make sure you always keep your bike in proper working order.
Colorado Motorcycle Licenses
If you're over 18, have a registered driver's license and are planning on riding a motorcycle, you still need a motorcycle endorsement to legally ride in Colorado. There are two ways to obtain a motorcycle endorsement on your license:
- Pass a written motorcycle test
- Purchase a motorcycle instruction permit
- Schedule and pass a motorcycle drive skills test
- Purchase a new driver's licence to add the motorcycle endorsement at a driver's license office
- Complete a Motorcycle Operator Safety Training (MOST) course
- Present your MOST license waiver card in a driver's license office and purchase a new driver's license to add the motorcycle endorsement
If you're under the age of 18, there are a few more requirements you must complete before receiving a permit, in addition to the requirements above:
- Your parent or guardian must sign an "Affidavit of Liability and Guardianship."
- You must have your permit for an entire year before becoming eligible for a motorcycle endorsement (the "M" on your driver's license)
- If you are between 15 and 16 years old, you must complete a Motorcycle Operator Skills Training (MOST) program
In addition to those requirements, motorcycle riders under 18 years of age can only ride under the supervision of an adult who is at least 21 years old and has a motorcycle-endorsed driver's license—and that adult has to have permission from the minor's parent or guardian. If you're younger than 16 years old, you can only ride under the supervision of a Motorcycle Safety Foundation motorcycle instructor.
Colorado Motorcycle Noise Limits
If you're planning on cruising on your bike while blasting your favorite tunes, there are a few rules and regulations that must be considered before doing so, and it depends on when your motorcycle was made. According to AAA, Colorado law states that any motorcycle manufactured on or after July 1, 1971, and before January 1, 1973 may not exceed a noise level of 88 dBA at 50 feet. Any motorcycle manufactured on or after January 1, 1973 may not exceed 86 dBA. And again, remember that mufflers are required.
Colorado Motorcycle Road Laws
Most automobile driving laws are similar for motorcyclists; however, there are a few exceptions that pertain only to motorcycles, as cars couldn't physically perform these actions due to size.
- Traffic Lane Use: Lane splitting is illegal in Colorado. The rule states that motorcyclists "shall not overtake or pass in the same lane occupied by the vehicle overtaken." In other words, riders cannot ride in the middle of two lanes on highways or other roadways—such as in between other vehicles when trying to pass them. However, if two riders want to cruise in the same lane side-by-side, they can do so because they are "entitled to full use of a traffic lane."
- Passengers: If you have a passenger cruising with you, you must have them ride in a sidecar or an enclosed cab, or have a proper seat and footrests for them on the back of the bike. This ensures they're stable when holding on tight while riding. There are no age restrictions for passengers riding on the motorcycle, however.
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|Another Flair for Buttons piece. Keep an eye out: I've been talking to Shelley the owner and we're having a giveaway very soon.
|Here I've used some cuttings from a Plundered Pages pack made for me by Julie Kirk
|Another Flair for Buttons piece. Keep an eye out: I've been talking to Shelley the owner and we're having a giveaway very soon.
|Here I've used some cuttings from a Plundered Pages pack made for me by Julie Kirk
I have to admit to be just about the only person in the world who hasn't been to one.....phew! I feel cleansed now I have admitted that:) Still like to ponder the catalogue though, I'm a real catalogue junkie, dreaming of what our house would look like if we had money and a husband who liked DIY....
love that you used an IKEA tapemeasure on the page. great idea for a LO - I can imagine taking the trip with the trailer and all the orders. I still get a thrill from browsing the catalogue
We can never understand people who dismiss IKEA / act like it's below them! Our house owes a lot to it - but doesn't look like it's full of flat pack furniture ... even though it is [I imagine yours doesn't either]! When we first moved in and were planning *everything* I used to know the catalogue like the back of my hand.
p.s: ours is an 80mile round trip.
p.p.s: so glad the pack was useful! Gorgeous page. xx
I love Ikea. I wish we had the money to mix our Ikea furniture with a few old pieces but when we moved last year Ikea was a lifesaver with a new desk that fit perfectly into the tiny nook I was allocated (I still miss my humongous Ikea desk from the old house but it lives on - in Craig's office!) And new beds for the girls including a adjustable one that will 'grow' with Ruby. How clever?
Plus I love that we can have breakfast when we go in and then a tasty hotdog and cuppa at the other end :D
Living in Kent we have to travel to Essex to visit our nearest one ;)
I feel there will be an Ikea trip when we go to Newcastle next weekend!
Oh Ikea! It is a bit of a love hate relationship in our house. My mum and me love it but my Dad can't bear it. I think it's something to do with not knowing where you are in the shop and there being no windows! Great for stocking up on uni essentials!
We are fortunate. We've always had an Ikea close to us. My very first bookcase came from Ikea and I've since added three more. I may soon be passing them on though because I read more on my Kindle Fire than real books.
Our nearest IKEA is a 2 hour journey....and we don't go very often as OH hates it....but I always find something I love when we do go....and I'm still using the cardboard storage boxes that I bought there 15 years ago.
What a wonderful idea for a lay-out. Just love all the bits and pieces and plundered papers extras. The lengths to which you went for your Ikea fix, all warranted.
I remember coming back from HK on leave sometime in the 1980's and everyone in Manchester was talking about the new furniture store. We had to wait until the 1990's for it to get to Hong Kong.
I remember when IKEA was new and exciting too :lol: We hired a friend with a van to drive us to buy a specific item - and bought the last (damaged) one in the shop.
These days, IKEA is still big in our house for storage and flat packs, but is part of our regular monthly shop. Meatballs are a regular feature here!
oh yes ikea, takes me over an hour to get there and about an hour to do my list,
jo xxxx
Oh Sian this post was so much fun to read!! An adventure for sure. What is it about Ikea? I have yet to find my turquoise cart but DH just checked the website and they are finally in at the store. Guess where I am going today? Long live Ikea even though DH is often heard saying, "IKEA... Swedish for crap!" hee hee
you can make a great page out of any idea, sian! IKEA is a fun place to visit although i certainly don't ever need any more "stuff"!
we have one about 10 mins drive. we pop in occassionally for meatballs and chips lol! I love how you have turned Ikea into a gorgeously layered layout and put their paper tape measure to good use xx
Great layout, Sian :) I'm due a trip to Ikea - the trouble is, lots of little bits and pieces of loveliness jump into my trolley to join the flatpacks that were actually on my list...
Oh I absolutely adore this page! So clean and colourful!
That's a great page, Sian. I am amazed how much effort you had to make to visit Ikea back then. But well worth it. Luckily my visits are not so difficult and I am due for one soon!
Yes I DO remember my first Ikea! We always thought it was furniture that was too modern and too cheap and not sturdy. When we relented and visited, we came home squished into the car with multiple packages ready to fit together for our new baby. That day changed us. Since then we've been forever Ikea...
I do remember my first trip to IKEA - it was out of town too, which kept me from making many impulse purchases - thankfully. And just this week an oversized Restoration Hardware catalog hit our mailbox - I'm looking forward to browsing tomorrow afternoon while the laundry runs.
I've never been to Ikea either---or seen a catalog. I furnished my scrapbook room at Pottery Barn. I did a quick search on the Ikea website for a "flatpack" but came up empty. What is it? And more importantly, do I need one?
My first memory of IKEA is the children's play area and the pit of coloured balls. IKEA is pretty close to us, but I don't go there often - because, despite liking some of their produce - I cannot stand the actual shop - makes me dizzy!
We have lots of Ikea furniture in our house! Our nearest one is about three hours away, but there are rumours of one opening on our side of Alicante..fingers are crossed!
Alison xx
That is indeed some dedicated Ikea shopping! And completely worthy of your lovely scrapbook page. We do not have to go to such extremes to get to our Ikea, but sadly I've never been there. Gasp, I know. I think my husband is afraid to take me. :)
What a fun memory and it reflects very well in your page. Love the contrasting colors and all the fun bits to look at!
I do remember my first IKEA moment :) We have one nearby and don't shop there very often because it is so big! When I shop - I prefer to shop quickly; go in and get out!
Great story! I really don't remember my first IKEA trip but I remember the last one - a couple of weekends ago! We went to get a small storage item - and came back with boxes and then some :-)
Really love the layout and the colours
Have a great day!
Before Ikea arrived in the wild north (Scotland) lol I remember mounting an expedition or two via the caravan to the one in Gateshead and coming home with two small children in the car with us all sitting on various flat packs etc. Great layout too and a good idea to show The Tall One the way as you never know when he will need to go
I have no idea what a flatpack is but then again I have never been to Ikea. I am not fond of shopping at all so have yet to make the 3 hr trip to the only one in North Carolina. Your Plundered Pages worked great and I love the journaling.
LOL. Didn't we all ? We made many trips to Nottingham, then when the MK one opened, that was closer. All that time, can you believe it, Ikea's HQ is a mere 13 miles away. Sadly they couldn't get planning permission to open a store in Peterborough.
Great story. I made my first visit to IKEA just a few years ago when Sarah was living in Atlanta. The nearest IKEA to us is actually in Canada on the way to Toronto. We've been there only once. I do love IKEA and can always find things I need to bring home.
loving the colours and style of this, and how you've incorporated so much journalling. i love ikea!!
I also remember the excitement of IKEA opening in the Bay Ara - we were all quite taken by the cafe (Swedish meatballs!).
I bought Henry a flat pack or two the summer before he started high school, and we redid his room. He did a great job helping with the assembly.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I used to be able to claim I'd been to every Ikea in the country but not any longer. It's not quite so much fun now we have one in Southampton. Off there next week actually ... I need more craft storage. Love your page Sian.
Sue x
What a wonderful story! Your words are so descriptive that I can almost see the bunch of you, trailer in tow, on your way to your Ikea adventure. It sounds like it was a fun day!
What a great story! How exciting it must have felt. And yes, I do remember my first trip to IKEA and feeling as if I would never get out of it! However, I love it and we now live a lot closer to one too. I want an IKEA kitchen next year - keep drooling over the cabinets lol!
I remember how excited I was about our first visit to IKEA to buy bits and pieces for our first flat. It was all so new and different to what we were used to. Thanks for bringing back happy memories through your own story.


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Everywhere I look lately, more and more people are acting out in negative ways. They are only willing to see their side of things and lack compassion for others and their situations.
Recently I was driving to get my son to football practice when I noticed a car was riding my bumper.
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I grasped the wheel a little bit harder and did my best to ignore him, but remained aware of his presence.
We approached an area where the road split in two and the guy revved his engine, speeding past me.
It took a few minutes, but eventually I relaxed and went on my way.
Further down the road we approached a red light. Low and behold, there was the guy who had been aggressively riding up on my vehicle.
I won't lie, I definitely smirked.
Despite his attempts to intimidate me into driving faster, we both ended up at the same traffic light.
Everywhere I look lately, more and more people are acting out in negative ways. They are only willing to see their side of things and lack compassion for others and their situations.
During a recent stop at a popular retail store, I witnessed a customer yelling at an employee. I was about to step in when a manager appeared and shared with the customer that the employee was deaf and doing her best to understand her.
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It's unclear why this shift is happening, why we as a society appear to have lost our compassion for others and replaced it with a sense of entitlement.
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Next time you feel slighted, take a breath. Pretend you are driving behind your mother, or talking to your child. I optimistically assume most folks don't treat their family members that way.
Or you could try applying the golden rule and treat others the way you want to be treated. I'm guessing most people don't want to be intimidated or disrespected.
Remember, the world doesn't revolve around you and no matter how fast you go, we're all going to end up at the same red light.
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Buffy and the Heroine's Journey. A new book examining the Heroine's journey as represented in BTVS. More good scholarship!
It's a play on words, electricspacegirl. The Hero's Journey is gender neutral, so I imagine the book will examine it from an overtly feminine perspective.
Interesting in seeing this if I can find an affordable copy. Insufficiently familiar with goddess resurrection myths but Buffy often seems to me the reverse or at least inverse of mythic significance.
"The author of four recent books on popular culture and more than 100 stories and essays, she lives in Sunnyvale, California."
Any closer and she might have to go on her own heroic journey!
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Designing Instruction Activities to Guide Students through the Research Lifecycle: A Science Librarian Approach
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A set of PowerPoint slides (part1-part3) presented by Ye Li at the 246th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Indianapolis, IN. The presentation highlighted the importance of going beyond traditional information literacy scope and expanding science librarians' role in instructions to guide students throughout the research lifecyle. A three levels (first/second-year undergraduates,junior/senior undergraduates and graduate students) curriculum design is depicted and described in the presentation.
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Design instructions beyond the traditional information literacy scope.
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Identify relevant key skills throughout the research lifecycle science librarians can help students and researchers with.
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