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Bent after spinal surgery
Postby rangersac » Fri Oct 27, 2017 5:01 pm
Seeking a bit of information with regard to bent options for my partner, who's just had most of her L5/S1 disc removed. She's a regular commuter on a flat bar road bike, but given the advice from medicos and contacts who've had similar surgery, the recovery is likely to take 12 - 18 months. Has anyone had or know of someone who has had something similar and turned to a bent to ease pressure on their back? She has a pretty upright position at the moment, but it's really about reducing as much pressure as possible on the spine.
Thanks in advance
Edit: As pointed out in post 2
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Re: Bent after spinal surgery
Postby skyblot » Sun Oct 29, 2017 9:49 pm
If your wife can sit in a lounge chair/armchair without problem, then there is a very good chance a recumbent will be a viable option. My wife had a C4-C5 operation several years ago, and happily rides recumbent trikes around, with the proviso that the seat is not too reclined.
There are various styles of seat, from a foam seat base and mesh back, to a fibreglass hardshell molded seat and cover a range similar to an upright dining chair right through to a recliner/rocker.
The more reclined, the more the weight is spread over the whole back and jarring up the spine is greatly reduced, but it does get to a point where head angle (looking down towards toes) gets uncomfortable. My guess is a more upright seat will be better, but the only way to tell is to try.
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Re: Bent after spinal surgery
Postby Bartek » Mon Oct 30, 2017 12:15 am
I think you may have a typo in your post, you stated "my partner, who's just had most of her C5/S1 disc removed" I think you meant L5/S1, if so I had the same operation nearly ten years ago, I had my operation in January and was back doing light duties within 3 months and back fully operational as firefighter within 6 months. I got my first recumbent and was riding again within 4 months post-op, never looked back, couldn't believe how comfortable and how much more fun recumbents are. I have since progressed to a velomobile (enclosed recumbent) and was again surprised by how much faster and further I could ride compared to a road bike!
Both my surgeon and my physio told me that upright bikes shorten your hamstrings and weaken your back because of the position they put you in, both recommended that if I wanted to continue to cycle I should try a recumbent. I find it amazing that although cycling is marketed as a healthy exercise, few mention that road/racing bikes are actually bad for your back!
I hope this is of some use/encouragement,
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Re: Bent after spinal surgery
Postby TrikeTragic » Mon Oct 30, 2017 1:06 pm
I'm not a medico, and haven't had a back operation, they're my disclaimers for a start! I'm 63 and have a minor back ailment, I can still ride an "upright" without too much issue.
Back comfort was one of the reasons I moved to the Bent-side. Riding a roadie, more so than an MTB, I would get sore neck and lower back on a longer ride no matter how much I fiddled with bike fit. This just doesn't happen in my 10 years of riding lying down!
Not sure how far your partner's commute is, on the traffic conditions. Your bent options include two wheels or three: short wheel base or long wheel base bent bikes, delta or tadpole trikes (two wheels leading or single front wheel leading) just for a start. Trikes are not great for commuting in heavy CBD traffic - although if your location is Snug in Tassie then you're probably not going to suffer this!
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Re: Bent after spinal surgery
Postby rangersac » Mon Oct 30, 2017 8:05 pm
Bartek wrote:Hi Rangersac
I think you may have a typo in your post, you stated "my partner, who's just had most of her C5/S1 disc removed" I think you meant L5/S1....
Correct indeed sir. Thanks for pointing that out. As you have mentioned, I think it's more likely that a bent will be of greater comfort, and I'm also pretty tempted by one as well as I spend a fair bit of time on the commute. The main issue is we are not exactly spoilt for choice in terms of having dealers to try them out in Tassie. Also the commute has a fair bit of up and down, so I'd be leaning toward a bent bike rather than a trike. My brother has a Cruzbike which I've had a crack on, the front wheel drive on that took some getting used to!
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Re: Bent after spinal surgery
Postby John Lewis » Fri Nov 03, 2017 12:48 am
Wife and I have ridden in Tassi twice now. Had no trouble on the highways and riding in Hobart , Devonport, Launceston and between. In fact no problems anywhere. Trikes are great in hills because no matter how slow you go you can't fall off. A trike just may suit your wife better.
Test rides.
When we were over there there was a bike hire place that had recumbent trikes for hire. I can't recall the name but it was down near the water towards the memorial somewhere. If you can find it might give you a chance to try.
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Re: Bent after spinal surgery
Postby outnabike » Fri Nov 03, 2017 11:29 am
Any way as some have said, I have also had a bad back since I was 20 years old with slipped discs etc. So much so that a life insurance company refused me as a customer unless I left out my back as any future claim; all 20 years ago.
But I still ride my bike, and if any thing it frees my back and hamstrings relieving pain .
But we are all different.
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Re: Bent after spinal surgery
Postby zebee » Fri Nov 03, 2017 5:10 pm
I found the move from a mesh seat steel bike to a carbon hard shell carbon bike a bit of a shock. The carbon Encore is definitely harsher ride than the steel Giro, but it is faster.
Only ridden a mesh seat trike, the GT20 is a lovely thing... very adjustable and comfortable. I'd suggest a trike for the back injury and agree on a bike for commuting.
Bikes are harder to find in Oz ,I got the Schlitter Encore frameset from overseas which is seat, frame, forks, idler, bars. You supply wheels, drivetrain, brakes. You send them your measurements and your money and they send you the kit to assemble with your gear. Now Flying Furniture is no more and trisled don't seem to be into Fujin anymore an Encore might be your best bet.
If you can make it across to Melb I'm sure this forum and the OzHPV facebook page could scare up some bikes and trikes to try.
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Re: Bent after spinal surgery
Postby Joeblake » Sat Nov 04, 2017 10:31 am
apparently it is possible to join two or more together and form a "train".
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Re: Bent after spinal surgery
Postby zebee » Sat Nov 04, 2017 2:59 pm
IF you aren't after speed then an Anura might be worth a look. Met a lady on a Greenspeed Magnum the other day, she had it on the highest seat setting and it was quite high up. She had back surgery and was getting back into riding.
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Re: Bent after spinal surgery
Postby rangersac » Tue Nov 07, 2017 9:44 am
Joeblake wrote:Have you consider a Greenspeed Anura? It's much higher up than a tadpole, such as a GT20, and seems it would be much easier to mount and dismount because of this. Further, in reading through the literature apparently it is possible to join two or more together and form a "train".
I've actually done the train thing on a pair of Anura's towing my grandmother! She got one of these in her 70's and used it to toddle to the shops and church etc around East Melbourne. By the time she made it into her 80's the prospect of being towed by her grandson was quite appealing. I did find though that they weren't particularly stable at speed.
Thanks for the comments everyone, a Magnum did catch my eye due to its adjust ability and given Greenspeed are in Melbourne, getting there to try one out is not beyond the realms of possibility.
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Re: Bent after spinal surgery
Postby Joeblake » Tue Nov 07, 2017 9:52 am
rangersac wrote:
I've actually done the train thing on a pair of Anura's towing my grandmother! She got one of these in her 70's and used it to toddle to the shops and church etc around East Melbourne.
Cool!! Go, Granny, Go! Got any piccies?
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Re: Bent after spinal surgery
Postby rangersac » Tue Nov 07, 2017 9:58 am
Joeblake wrote: Cool!! Go, Granny, Go! Got any piccies?
Unfortunately not readily to hand. Pre-smart phone days (well at least for me, I was late to the party) and all that. I will say that we certainly got our share of 'wow, that's awesome' comments riding through Southbank!
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Re: Bent after spinal surgery
Postby zebee » Tue Nov 07, 2017 6:52 pm
The anura seat height is listed as
Seat Height 17 to 18" - 43 to 45 cm
the Magnum as
Seat Height 14 to 18" – 35 to 45 cm
the GT20 as
Seat Height 12 to 17" – 30 to 43 cm
so the Magnum might well be the go. You won't be able to test it at Greenspeed they don't have a showroom as such. But http://greenspeed-trikes.com/find-a-dealer.html says
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Prominent Tucson, Ariz., dealership Beaudry RV Co. has suspended operations as bankruptcy creditors say the company's recent sale has forced its real estate loans into default, the Arizona Daily Star reported.
All the company's employees have been laid off, with some saying they haven't been paid for their last two weeks of work.
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From December 15th through the 23rd, Simbang Gabi Masses will be celebrated for the 26th year in the Archdiocese of Chicago, in over 75 parishes. As in years past, Cardinal George will celebrate the ninth Mass, this year at the parish of St. Catherine Laboure in Glenview. Bishops Kane, Rassas and Rojas will celebrate likewise at designated parishes.
Simbang Gabi ("Masses of the Night") is a novena of Marian Votive Masses that are celebrated on nine days immediately preceding the Liturgy of the Nativity on December 25. The Masses are said in place of Masses for the ferial days and the Sunday within the nine days. The vestments are white, not purple, and the Gloria is sung. This Philippine Christmas tradition has roots similar to the Posadas of Mexico, when both countries were colonies of Spain. This is a multicultural celebration that is shared with the whole archdiocesan community.
The novena is a catalyst for evangelization and a continuing call to mission. In solidarity with the whole Church and the larger faith community, the overall theme of the novena focuses on The Year of Teens and Young Adults, this year's priority for the strategic pastoral plan, Reflect Christ's Light. Each host parish will, in a specific way, include the youth and young adults in planning and preparing for their Eucharistic Celebration.
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Simbang Gabi is a special part of Filipino spiritual life. Because of the close liturgical connection of Simbang Gabi to the Divine Office of Advent, the novena reinforces the invitation of the Advent season to live a life that is attached to the liturgical year of the Church. This nine-day Marian preparation for Christmas can be the personal witness that each Christian can offer not only to each other but to the secular community at large that it is the time of Emmanuel, God with us.
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Sure. Next time you are sitting and have an itch on your nose. You can watch your intention to scratch it, though you do not have to act on the intention and you can watch your intention not to act on scratching your nose, or you can scratch your nose, moving very slowly catching as much of the intentional/volitional aspects of the action as you can.retrofuturist wrote:Greetings Mike,
Thanks for sharing the above quotes.
Further to the explanation above about why this interests me, I think it's because when I falsely identify "myself", I associate it in terms of volition or will.
Therefore, for me at least, the ti-lakkhana aspects of volition are arguably more worth penetrating than the ti-lakkhana aspects of the feeling or body aggregates.
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"Why does your baby look like a Who?"
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"Oh," I said. "As in, Horton Hears a..."
"A Who." My brother pointed at my baby's butt.
I looked at Oskar and realized what my brother was trying to say in his typically colorful way. Oskar did look somewhat like a Who, one of the tiny, cheerful, and vaguely pear-shaped inhabitants of Whoville, with his one-piece romper stretched over his little body and his especially rotund bottom. That's because Oskar was sporting our pocket diaper of choice, a Smartipants, double-stuffed for the long car ride, and was looking extra-fluffy that evening.
Since he was about a month old, Oskar has been in cloth. We never planned on cloth; it never even occurred to us. We figured we would have enough on our plates with a whole new person living in our house, leaving a trail of soiled laundry in his wake. But a few things happened right after Oskar was born. We became tired of the constant trips to the baby store for diapers and wipes, just in the few weeks our baby lived in disposables.
We were appalled by the sheer volume of garbage we were tossing into our trash can several times a day -- made even more embarrassing by the fact we were tossing said garbage into the can directly next to the recycling bin we proudly frequent, the one right behind our hybrid car. We educated ourselves and I spent lots of time over at educated; I spent lots of time on Kim's website, Dirty Diaper Laundry.
I was shocked at how different cloth diapers are from how I'd imagined (in other words, they didn't necessarily involve giant safety pins and a backbreaking laundry routine). We became sentimental; how could we possibly have been prepared for just how much we could love this new little person, for just how fervently we would want to give him the very best we could?
And so I explained to my brother that Oskar looked like a Who that night -- and in fact always looked like a Who -- because he wore cloth diapers. I waited for the standard response.
"Poop? In your washing machine?" He raised an eyebrow.
And, as I always do, I resisted the urge to reply, "Chemicals? Against your baby's skin?" or "Trash the planet your baby will inherit?"
Instead, I simply smiled and said, "You bet."
By Patti W-C.
Dr. Seuss photo courtesy of PBS
13 comments:
- Kayla said...
I laughed so hard at the "Chemicals? Against your baby's skin?" thought. Love it!
- March 3, 2010 at 9:00 AM
- T Rex Mom said...
That's a great story. Thanks for sharing. We chose to cloth diaper for financial and health reasons but I guess I never reflected on the condition we are leaving our planet in and passing along to our children. Thank you for the reminder.
- March 3, 2010 at 11:58 AM
- Arizona Girl said...
My sister looked like Cindy Lou Who, we called her Kristy Lou Who and after years we call her Lou.
- March 3, 2010 at 1:56 PM
- Krista said...
I have a "who" baby too...and also love the Smartipants OS pockets :)
- March 3, 2010 at 2:24 PM
- James, Andrea, and Clara Smith said...
Cute! I love this writing style--so lyrical. Adorable Baby too. :) I wish I could somehow be a cloth diaper cupid and infect everyone with the same Cloth Diaper Love Bug. My mother just doesn't get it. I will probably always be the only one in my family "crazy enough" to cloth diaper. But it brings me joy! Who would've thought?
- March 3, 2010 at 4:14 PM
- Cari said...
I love your answer to the "poop in your washer" question. :). We started cloth with our second child and I always say, can't be worse than potty training accidents (and it never has been) :).
- March 3, 2010 at 8:00 PM
- Rose said...
This is a great story! I am always amazed at how little faith people have in the ability of their washing machines to WASH things. A new mom friend of mine, who uses disposables but knows I use cloth, recently exclaimed to me how surprised she was that her machine got the poo out of her baby's clothes with just one wash, after one of their frequent "blow-out" experiences. Uh, yeah, how did she think we wash diapers? :)
- March 3, 2010 at 8:47 PM
- Katie said...
That's such a cute story! I love hearing stories from other mom's who cloth diaper. Your sentimental comment hit home for me! Thanks for sharing :)
- March 4, 2010 at 10:53 AM
- Beccalynn said...
That was well put! I love it!!!
- March 5, 2010 at 11:02 AM
- Hannah said...
You're a funny writer! And your brother sounds like a funny guy too. Way to go for traveling with your cloth diapers!
- March 5, 2010 at 5:17 PM
- Jill said...
That is so funny!
- March 5, 2010 at 10:25 PM
- thelion said...
first time i put smartipants on my 2 week old, i thought the same thing...it was a much needed laugh at a 2am diaper change
- March 6, 2010 at 1:05 AM
- Wade&Sarah said...
LOL this is funny!!! I too love that my babys bum looks big cloth diapers are so cute!!!
- March 6, 2010 at 12:39 PM


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Powered by a game-high 21 points from senior forward Kevin Tiggs (Flint, Mich.) and another 20 from junior guard Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.), the Buccaneers dropped the Mercer Bears 81-61 Friday evening at the University Center. With the win, ETSU improves to 5-3 overall, 1-0 in A-Sun play, while Mercer dropped to 6-3, 1-1.
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The Bucs came out strong in the first half for the second straight game, building an early seven point lead when a Courtney Pigram (Memphis) layup found the bottom of the net and made it 18-11 with 11:36 remaining in the half. The ETSU lead would grow to as many as nine points at 32-23 with 3:34 left, and it would remain nine thanks to a defensive stop by the Bucs with just five seconds left in the half. A subsequent tip-in score by Smith made it 37-28 as time expired.
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- AnonymousOctober 29, 2013 at 7:14 AM
I notice that no one has written a reply to this post.ReplyDelete
Funny it is, maybe, on the right day, one of those really good ones. But on the wrong one, too early, or too triggered, it could cut too deep to the bone.
My mom has been my great counselor. She is a shoulder for many people. She has been for me since the moment I was born, always there for the tough discussions and the brutal honesty.
A couple of months before I was hit my (or "our" when I include all the pain that my mother has taken on for me) DD day, my mother was aware of an acquaintance who's two daughters were each facing their own dilemma – within a couple of months one had swiftly and tragically lost her husband to death and the other had been faced with her husband leaving her for another woman. This mother is there for her two daughters, watching them and trying to be a shoulder for them. Seeing each in their individual turmoil this was a question for her – which situation in life was easier, which was harder, how could she help each in a distinctive way – a mother struggling to support her daughters under the weight of their remarkable pain.
I had this discussion with my mother, very early on and on a bad day. On that day I thought death would be easier. I said to her "It would keep all of the memories intact." I could be sad but everything, every little corner of our life together, would still be precious. I wouldn't interrogate moments which were precious to me and re-frame them, I would reinforce them and put them on a pedestal. I could wax lyrical and storytell of events for my children forever to come. It is harder to do that in the state of greyness after betrayal.
It has taken a little time, but I am slowly (very slowly) getting to the point where I realize that I don't have to re-frame. Those moments were precious to me. Those moments were precious to my children. It is a shame that we were not all in on them together. So if we are to do what I want to do - and that is move forward and try to find our collective path again – we have to make more memories to pile on those old memories and hopefully we can all be in on them.
On a good day I see this as my luck, my children's luck, our luck. We have not been hit with a great and huge tragedy. We are a bit broken and cut, but with some care, the right medicine and time, it will heal, scar and fade into our skin.
A great big grey cloud was over us, but some of us were dancing in the rain together. Hopefully in the future we will all be dancing together and smiling and laughing with each other. So, today (a really much better day) my answer is very different than it was on that day in conversation with my mother. She is glad to hear it.
I wish the same for you all – a really good day – today and tomorrow and onwards.
- AnonymousOctober 30, 2013 at 4:15 PM
Thanks. It took many days and many mini good moments to compose that. If you knew which were my other posts you might think I was schizophrenic, but as we all are, getting there through the ups and downs. Thank you for this website and for your always kind responses.


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In response to Jeff, presumably the above poster, topsiders are the shoes the man is wearing. They can be referred to as boat shoes and they are either leather or canvas and feature a rubber sole. And, as far as I know, they must also have laces fed through 2 (maybe three) eyelets, for this is what distinguishes them from bulky car shoes. Hope that helps.
I am not sure he is perfection? Niot bad at all though. Slim shorts are in. Baggy are dated now. Liek the rest of fashion. Still though men please no sandals, we don't want to see your feet – anytime, anywhere
Perfect length for him.. you get a little peek at the quads (very nice ones, btw) but you're not getting the entire thigh. It helps that he has slim, but very athletic legs.
This is definitely inspiring me to ditch some of my longer cargo shorts next spring. I have plenty of khakis that could undergo a little chop job.
Topsiders are a casual shoe made for sailing. The shoe the gentleman is wearing are indeed topsiders. I love his shorts and the belt but that shirt looks comical. I think it is infact his girlfriends shirt.
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Isn't that Romain Duris, the french actor? He sure looks uncannily like him…
I don't think he cut these off himself. I beleive they are Michael Bastian.
Hmmm. I think Romain Duris is too hirsute and malin to be that guy. And would a French guy really know how to work top-siders? I'm not crazy about the gf's outfit, but great hair and makeup!
in response to "city slicker"'s comment that "we don't want to see your feet" . . . who is the "we" . . . lol ? Are there several hundred people with you at your computer with you that you are speaking for ? . . OR are you simply stating YOUR personal opinion ?
Hot, cranky, and barefoot (lol) in SF,
Personally, am not fond of topsider(sounds like a cut of beef to us Down Under)/boat/deckshoes; but love love love the shirt and vest combo, not to mention the belt as point of interest. Sandals? As long as they're not the hideous ones with velcro straps that so many tourists wear … Have you seen Dries Van Noten's latest? They're scrumptious!
Dull, Dull, Dull …. So American, so boring!
Love those Top-SIders, I think it is the Louis Vuitton americas cup shoes! Bought them myself last august, and loved them but now that they'ven been roughed up a year they look even better. His look in total is so cool. A prep turned surfer.
I'm pretty sure he's wearing the "cotton twill" short from Club Monaco. They have a whole line of slimmish-cut shorts with that freshly-cut-pant-leg look. They've also got slimmish-cut shorts in seer sucker, available in either a light greyish-mint stripe, dark navy stripe, or taupe stripe.
'A prep turned surfer' ? I live in Malibu & sure as hell never witnessed anyone on the beach dressed like that …. He's dressed so boring & shows no individuality – I mean, 1/2 of N.Y is walking around dressed like that … the outfits pictured are in no way interesting …
The problem with topsiders without socks is that they make your feet stink to high heaven.
His pants are great. I'm a five seven female and I've had to resort to cutting my pants. I'm glad you've found someone else who has to (and looks good doing it).
I also love what she's wearing. I'm inspired all the way around.
"he's dressed so boring & shows no individuality – I mean, 1/2 of N.Y is walking around dressed like that … the outfits pictured are in no way interesting …"
I have to agree with this comment. There seems to be such a love fest on this site that the act of actually being critical has often been lost. This couple, while cute together, is not distinct in any way in terms of fashion. This is cookie cutter fashion at its best.
p.s. I should have been more succinct. They look like a Gap/Old Navy advertisement.
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two things
first, this site is about style not the newest fashion but since you bring up fashion when you see the buyer of Collette at the Juyna Watanabe show dressed just like this guy then maybe this guy is more fashionable that you realize.
second, if you read the post I was mentioning that this went back to an earlier post and discussion of slim shorts and how to buy and or alter shorts to get a slimmer line.
What too many people do is look at a whole outfit and say "yes" or "no" instead of looking at the items and what they can pull from it.
finally I have to disagree that half of New York looks like this – if they did my blog would be a lot bigger
I had a dream last night that this guy was my boyfriend. That is how influential a fashion blog can be!
I agree that he looks cute but, as a Sydney-sider, topsiders/"boat shoes" (as we tend to call them) have a very specific association for me: they are worn by boring, conservative boys from two geographical areas in the city, and they often go hand-in-hand with polo shirts (collars turned up) and chinos. Unfortunately the boring and arrogant persona of a lot of those men has influenced me to the point where I assume this cute gentleman must be tarred with the same brush, simply by wearing similar shoes.
Would have preferred his vibe if he was wearing Converse. But that's just me.
that guy's HOT! unfortunately, his girlfriend is really pretty :/
i know him. he works in fashion. djs too.
The girl's outfit is very "American Eagle." B-o-r-i-n-g. Unintresting and uninspired. Cute shoes though… and she's pretty!
Really interesting discussion, but hardly a mention of height. I'm over 6'2″ and slim and if I cut my shorts above the knee like that I'll look like a bean pole. Maybe it works on him because he's just cute. Fashion is so much about finding what looks good with your body type, height, skin color, character – that's why I like your blog – there is a lot of variety in types, styles, moments. Like the kid with the feather in its hair… Fashion is all about the stories it creates in the flash of a second. There are no rules.
Disagree with most of you: since when is it a good idea to cut out clothes and still be caught in public?! It's not coo cos you can tell! Slim shorts definitely, think that's an awesome look, especially if they are plaid.And as for the shoes-oyi!!
love the green belt and the shorts!
At least he's not wearing flip-flops, but boat shoes are my second pet peeve. Ugly, and lazy. I always want to go up and ask, "So, what kind of boat do you have?"
What I find odd is that both of them are wearing undershirts. This is summer. It must be hot? Why layer up?


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The 150-year sentence handed down to Bernard Madoff – mastermind of the largest Ponzi scheme in modern history – is the third-largest in the annals of US financial fraud.
Mr. Madoff's sentence, delivered by a federal court in New York, is six times longer than what was meted out to the top executives of WorldCom and Enron Corp. – two of the notable recent financial scandals.
Some lawyers praise Judge Denny Chin's decision Monday as an important symbolic show of justice. Others criticize it as "absurd" given Madoff's advanced age. But many of his victims simply welcomed it as a relief.
"I cried when I heard it, I felt justice had been done," says Karen Audet, a retired school teacher from Ft. Lauderdale,Fla., who lost her $225,000 pension in an investment fund organized by a member of her church, who had invested it with Madoff's company.
In March, the New York and Palm Beach-based swindler pleaded guilty to a laundry list of fraud charges in what could amount to a $65 billion swindle of wealthy friends and associates, other investment firms, and some internationally-known philanthropies.
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After the sentencing, his wife Ruth issued a statement saying, "I am embarrassed and ashamed. Like everyone else, I feel betrayed and confused. The man who committed this horrible fraud is not the man whom I have known for all these years."
Some lawyers say the judge went too far with the 150-year sentence, as Madoff is already 71.
"It's absurd. On several levels, 150 years is well deserved, if you measure the effect on so many people, including charitable institutions," says James Cohen, a criminal law professor at Fordham Law School in New York. "But this guy isn't going to live 150 years. So what is the point? Give him 30 years if you want to make a point that you'll die in jail if you're going to engage in this kind of conduct."
The criminal justice system should not be used for "symbolism," he added. But other lawyers applaud the judge's decision, saying a "symbolic message" was warranted.
"[A]ny sentence would effectively amount to a life sentence for him, so it doesn't matter if the judge imposed 20 years or 200 years" says Robert Mintz, former state prosecutor and a partner at McCarter & English in Newark, N.J. The sentence was "a symbolic gesture to put the crime into context – to make sure that the sentence reflected the judge's sense that this was a crime of unprecedented proportions, and thus didn't warrant a sentence similar to other financial frauds."
The sentence reflects the court's function as "teacher," not just an arbiter of law, say others. The symbolism of the punishment "is an attempt to create proportionality … with the extraordinary depths of the economic hardship that he's done to so many people," says Robert Muldoon, a partner with Sherin & Lodgen in Boston. "Judges often use this kind of thing as an educational tool. It wasn't just vengeance."
Ms. Audet, the retired school teacher, is helping to raise one of her grandchildren and has a son with a serious medical condition who needs help. As a result of her loss, her husband has had to put off retirement.
But she says she will do her best to forgive Madoff, despite the anguish she feels "each time I have to write a check."
"I can forgive, I will have to forgive because of my faith," she says. "I can't keep holding on to this thing. I have very strong faith that God will provide."
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Can anybody share with me (jggimi you come first to my mind) your experience in creating LiveUSB image of the OpenBSD. I Google little bit and I saw how to on OpenBSD wiki pages. Without careful inspection I am concern that the described process doesn't take into account that USB stick is writable media unlike LIveCD. In another words 8Gb LiveUSB should be nothing else but removable SCSI hard drive. I want to be able
to add and remove packages and have 2GB of home space.
I also saw that Jacek Artymiak is selling LiveUSB images of OpenBSD for something like 50 euros. Since he is very credible person I would imagine that LiveUSB image is not that difficult to create.
Would a simple installation on the machine to which USB is attached before the boot work as long as I select SCSI drive instead regular HDD?
I saw howtos for NetBSD and FreeBSD on line. OpenBSD should not be to different than NetBSD.
Jggimi can you tell me little bit about those kernel changes in OpenBSD 4.5 which are making creating LiveCD easier?
Finally, it looks also that I could use BoulFish
script can be used. Any thoughts on that one?
USB mass storage is managed through sd(4). It is a virtual SCSI device, no matter if the device is flash memory or hard drive.
You can do a standard installation to any USB device, as long as it has sufficient capacity. Since it is treated as a hard drive, use an MBR on architectures that require them, as well as a standard disklabel.
If your BIOS permits booting from USB, nothing else is needed.
If your BIOS does not permit booting from USB, you just need a boot loader on some other media, such as: diskette, optical disc, or network.
The only changes I've made to LiveCD kernels are to point the root partition to cd0a. This is no longer necessary with 4.5, and is entirely unnecessary with sd devices. The major changes for read-only (live) media are not kernel. The changes, instead, are to /etc/rc. In general, one mounts a set of MFS filesystems for read/write.
Modern flash media is supposed to have good write lifespan, therefore, with modern BIOS and modern USB devices, the general recommendation is to treat your stick like a disk drive, and not worry.
Since most modern sticks are much larger than the storage used in tiny embedded systems, I don't think bowlfish is necessary. It's hard to find USB sticks with less than 1/2 GB of storage these days, and a complete i386 or amd64 system will fit in that with room to spare.
Adding to jggimi's informative post, one problem you might encounter is geometry related.
When a system boots from USB, the BIOS will emulate a hard drive temporarily for real mode disk access.. this allows the MBR and the PBR code to read and write from/to the USB mass storage device.
Sometimes this emulated device will have geometry that's different from what was determined via the umass/sd(4) probing, the side effect is the second stage loader cannot find /boot on some systems. (..you'll likely see "ERR M" if this is the case).
I've only witnessed this on some older systems, but you might scratch your head wondering why the device boots on some systems.. but not others.
Hope that helps.
FWIW, i386 & macppc platforms don't have this additional requirement. Copying from wd(4) to sd(4) works fine. Cylinder alignment is simply specific to Sun hardware done to improve performance.
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Rock Solid First Round for the Lightning
Hard to argue with what the Lightning accomplished tonight at the draft. I think the two players they got are definitely going to be NHLers and their athleticism is bullet-proof. For the second year in a row, they got the perfect fit getting Victor Hedman. He's exactly what the Lightning needed, and he has the ability to make the entire defensive corps better. In a perfect world, the Lightning would've been able to get one of those pure offensive defensemen to pair with him that they could just turn loose, but it wasn't in the cards.
Credit to Brian Lawton for being aggressive trying to move up. From about pick #10 or #11, the Lightning were trying to move back into the first round to acquire another prospect. This is the first time in team history they've been this aggressive, and they got a good payoff for it. I was worried that the ownership squabbles were such a distraction that Lawton would sit on his hands tonight, but that wasn't the case. They had the resources to make moves, and they tried to do so.
I have no problem moving a pick outside of the top-60 to move up a few picks to get a player you believe is going to be an NHLer, and Carter Ashton was very good value at pick 29. He should have gone around pick 20 and there are several forwards who were taken ahead of him that simply aren't better players than he is. The Lightning got a guy who's going to be that Modin type player who does the board work for you and drives the slot and bangs 25-30 goals home for you. They've desperately needed a player like that since Modin was dealt. Even Ryan Malone, as good as he is around the opposing crease, could be stronger along the wall. Ashton's great along the wall, with the added dimension of being a good fighter if you provoke him. He might end up being a good protector for Stamkos down the road. A simple meat and potatoes game like he has translates well on any line you put him on. I thought the Lightning might take a player like Ashton like Budish, for instance, with the pick at 32. I never though Ashton would slide down as low as 29 to be a possibility for the Lightning. Definitely a rock solid pick.
The only downside from the first night of the draft is that because the Lightning don't pick again until 52, I don't know if they'll be able to grab a righty shot offensive defenseman. There are some players still on the board they could use: Charles Olivier Roussel of Shawinigan and Stefan Elliott of Saskatoon are still out there. Eric Gelinas of Lewiston is a lefty shot defenseman with a lot of offensive upside who is still out there as well. I doubt they'll make it to 52, though, and I doubt the Lightning have the resources left to move up from 52 to get one.
Chad and Tim from our staff made a good point to me: now that you have Ashton to go along with a prospect like Johan Harju, you need a playmaker to set these big snipers up because they're not the type of players who make their own offense on the rush. But, other than Alex Hutchings of Barrie, there's not many playmakers left. There are some snipers like Jeremy Morin of the USNTDP, Toni Rajala from the Ilves program, Landon Ferraro of Red Deer, and Ben Hanowski of Little Falls High School. There's also a wild card like Zach Budish, who's a power forward who can do it all, but was hurt all year. So, there's a lot of talent still hanging around. I just wish the Lightning could be at about 42 rather than 52 to know they're going to get a player like that.
Another thought is that Rick Tocchet tweeted that there's a scary enforcer who the Lightning should take a look at. Defenseman Brayden McNabb, who is rated at 66 by Red Line and 54 by THN is one of the toughest players in this draft, apparently bit someone somewhere along the way this season. Cannibalism qualifies as scary.
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Posting vague, self pitying status updates on Facebook in an obvious bid for attention and emotional support.
by Johnwilkie March 16, 2011
The phenomenon whereby an intentional and impossibly obscure Facebook status causes numerous friends to respond.
After declaring in his status that "Rich has big news" - he was accused of facebaiting.
by Mace in AZ February 14, 2009
Posting to Facebook only to get a specific reaction from a specific person. Causes nearly all Friends to say, "Huh?", but one particular Friend to say, "Oo. I know what that's about." Not always negative. Not always positive.
Did you see that come across your News Feed?
Something's definitely up. He/she's Facebaiting somebody.
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The act of posting on an acquaintance's wall after seeing them go idle in your friend list in order to bait them into getting back online. Usually targeted at women with whom the FaceBaiter is only loosely acquainted with the ultimate goal of starting a chat conversation without the appearance of trying.
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FaceBaiting - where you constantly invite a person to be a friend on FaceBook when you KNOW their circumstance demands they can't accept...
I knew he was gay and in the closet and accepting my friend request would tip off his overly inquisitive and (rightfully so) insecure-about-his-sexuality girlfriend, but I kept FaceBaiting him anyway figuring when he'd finally accepted who he was, he'd simultaneously accept me as a "friend"
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i.e.: I would hate to have a sister who throws herself at every guy she meets.
i.e.: I would hate to have a sister who throws herself at every guy she meets.
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