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New Home with Calm Colors
A young couple expecting their first child heads south to create a quiet family retreat
As newlyweds, Laurie and Oliver Lloyd lived in Manhattan, but they knew they didn't want to raise a family there. Oliver, who grew up in both Los Angeles and New York, craved a setting where he could grill outside, host dinners on a landscaped patio, and walk to a golf course. So when the couple learned they had a baby girl on the way, they looked to Laurie's roots in Greensboro, North Carolina, where her family had moved when she was a teenager.
Friends introduced them to local interior designer Bradshaw Orrell—who is also an artist and furniture designer—after the Lloyds admired some of the homes he'd decorated. "I knew immediately that Bradshaw was the only person I wanted to work with," Laurie says. The couple bought land about a seven-iron away from a private golf course, purchased plans from a local architect, and started to build.
Orrell designed all the interior architecture, ceilings, and woodwork, paying particular and intuitive attention to the quality of light and the way it moved through the home's spaces. "With most new construction, I feel like sometimes people plaster windows all over," he says. "We wanted to get the outside correct at the same time we had the inside right for furnishings and the use of light."
The house's clean, light, airy quality is established immediately in the entry, arguably the home's most compelling space. "I created the two-story foyer with paneling to create some grandeur," Orrell says. "They're a young couple, but with serious art and beautiful antiques. I wanted grandeur, but in a clean, relevant way." The designer played with circles and squares in the space with the Pearson table and a custom Urban Electric hanging lantern.
Photography: Emily Jenkins Followill
Interior design: Bradshaw Orrell, Bradshaw Orrell Interiors, 601 W. Smith St., Greensboro, NC 27401; 336/209-3524, orrellinteriors.com.
Builder: Wolfe Homes, 200-J Pomona Drive, Greensboro, NC 27407; 336/299-2969, wolfehomes.com.
Landscape design: Chip Calloway, Chip Calloway & Associates, 122 E. Fisher Ave., Greensboro, NC 27401; 336/274-8325, chipcalloway.com.
Center table (#9673 with travertine top #9902-06): Pearson, pearsonco.com.
Hanging lantern (custom, "Baxter" #RM-1104): Urban Electric Co., urbanelectricco.com.
Flowers: Randy McManus Designs, randymcmanusdesigns.com.
Lovely Living Room
The couple's art took center stage in their new home. Oliver's parents began collecting photography for him when he was a child, starting a tradition that he and Laurie plan to continue with daughter Elle. "When I walked into the house, they had all these fantastic photographs," Orrell says. "That's what excited me more than anything about the project." He began by choosing fabrics in a palette with Laurie's favorite sea-foam greens and blues that let the photography shine. "I like subtle layers of fabrics, textures, and finishes that at first glance you don't notice, but if you look closer, they begin to reveal themselves."
The bright, airy living room, adjacent to the outside pool and patio, is anchored by two of the Lloyds' favorite photographs: "Poolside Glamour" by Slim Aarons and "Four Trees" by Andrew Moore.
Sectional sofa (custom): Bradshaw Orrell Interiors, orrellinteriors.com.
Fabric on outside frame (#1642-93); cushion fabric (#1629-93): Pearson, pearsonco.com.
Blue-textured pillow fabric ("Hager Texture"/Aqua #63493): Schumacher, fschumacher.com.
Medallion print pillow fabric ("Zari"/Natural #F0374/01): Clarke & Clarke, clarke-clarke.com.
Botanical print pillow ("Jacobean"/Aqua #2554-LG): Groves Bros., grovesbros.com.
End tables ("Stumpy"): Bradley, bradley-usa.com.
Table lamps: Arteriors, arteriorshome.com.
Round cocktail table ("Cara"/Ivory): Made Goods. madegoods.com.
Settees (custom): Bradshaw Orrell Interiors, orrellinteriors.com.
Settee fabric (#1641-52): Pearson, pearsonco.com.
Back pillow fabric ("Zari"/Natural #F0374/01): Clarke & Clarke, clarke-clarke.com.
Botanical print pillow ("Jacobean"/Aqua #2554-LG): Groves Bros., grovesbros.com.
Floor lamps ("Figure Floor Lamp" #BBL1029SB-S, by Barbara Barry, discontinued): Circa Lighting, circalighting.com.
Drapery ("Pavillon Silk"/Celadon #8486.1303): Kravet, kravet.com.
Area rug: Mastour Galleries, mastourgalleries.com.
Poolside photo (by Slim Aarons): owner's collection.
Tree photo (Four Trees, Ferapontovo Monastery, by Andrew Moore): Andrew Moore Photography, andrewlmoore.com.
Back entrance seen through doorway—
Teak console (custom): Central Station Original Interiors, centralstationinteriors.com.
Garden stools ("Euclid Sage Garden Stool" #455027): Interlude Home, interludehome.com.
Hanging lantern ("Caged Lantern with Paper Shade" #SC5160): Circa Lighting, circalighting.com.
Sweet Settee
In addition to their collection of photography, the Lloyds own a number of antiques handed down from Oliver's parents. For Orrell, the combination of photography and antique furnishings created a wonderful mix of contemporary and classic. A former furniture designer for Niermann Weeks and Baker, Orrell enhanced that mix for the Lloyds with his own sleek custom-designed furniture.
"Bradshaw is an amazing artist and furniture designer," Laurie says. "Other than our antiques, all of the furniture is his. I loved that he has an appreciation for our pieces. Bradshaw was able to work them in and make the house feel young and fresh, with traditional flair."
"It's more fun to design furnishings and make up the size and scale yourself, without constraints with the space," Orrell says. "It also helped that I was involved in the floor plans, too."
Bradshaw Orrell designed the love seats and ottoman, which combine traditional and modern elements.
Settees (custom); ottoman (custom): Bradshaw Orrell Interiors, orrellinteriors.com.
Settee fabric (#1641-52): Pearson, pearsonco.com.
Back pillow fabric ("Zari"/Natural #F0374/01): Clarke & Clarke, clarke-clarke.com.
Botanical print pillow ("Jacobean"/Aqua #2554-LG): Groves Bros., grovesbros.com.
Ottoman fabric ("Hager Texture"/Aqua #63493): Schumacher, fschumacher.com.
Nesting tables ("Harlow"/Ivory): Made Goods, madegoods.com.
Floor lamps ("Figure Floor Lamp" #BBL1029SB-S, by Barbara Barry, discontinued): Circa Lighting, circalighting.com.
Drapery ("Pavillon Silk"/Celadon #8486.1303): Kravet, kravet.com.
Rug: Mastour Galleries, mastourgalleries.com.
Tree photo (Four Trees, Ferapontovo Monastery): Andrew Moore Photography, andrewlmoore.com.
Open Kitchen
The Lloyds entertain often, and the home's open floor plan allows them to usher guests directly from the entry to the kitchen for informal gatherings. Highlighted by a coffered ceiling, the kitchen's palette coincides with the light tones of the rest of the house. The spectacular pendant lights are in scale with the eye-catching ceiling, providing an energetic setting that suits a house for a young couple.
Pendant lights ("Large Hicks Pendant" #TOB5063, by Thomas O'Brien): Circa Lighting, circalighting.com.
Dining table (custom): Central Station Original Interiors, centralstationinteriors.com.
Dining chairs: owner's collection.
Chair fabric ("Sailcloth"/Salt #32000-0018): Sunbrella, sunbrella.com.
Valance fabric (#81-142): Baker, bakerfurniture.com.
Valance trim ("Pavillon Silk"/Celadon #8486.1303): Kravet, kravet.com.
Bar stools ("Vintage Toledo Barstool"/Polished Chrome): Restoration Hardware, rh.com.
Recycled sculptural vases with fresh orchids; blue cachepot with coconut: Randy McManus Designs, randymcmanusdesigns.com.
Breakfast Table and Chairs
A reclaimed teak dining table with custom white lacquer chairs offers a rustic gathering place for family dinners.
Light, Bright Kitchen
Bar stools from RH let friends participate in meal prep. Valances in a white Baker fabric pop with the addition of trim in the same fabric as the living room drapes. A blue cachepot with coconut from Randy McManus Designs adds color.
Shimmery Silver Dining Room
Shimmering in silver Schumacher wallpaper, with Orrell-designed chairs that invite lingering over dinner, the dining room offers comfortable glamour. Two of the Lloyds' inherited antique pieces—the chandelier and the large, round dining table—set the formal tone. Orrell designed the white-painted chairs trimmed in gold; the fabric on the back of the chairs is Calvin Klein, on the front is Baker fabric. Laura Letinsky's "Untitled #8," from her series The Fall, further heightens the serenity of the space, and is beautifully framed by windows draped in "Pavillon Silk" in celadon by Kravet.
Table; chandelier (antique); sconces (antique): owner's collection.
Chairs (custom): Bradshaw Orrell Interiors, orrellinteriors.com.
Dining chair fabric, back ("Quince"/Pool #29831.15, by Calvin Klein); drapery fabric ("Pavillon Silk"/Celadon #8486.1303): Kravet, kravet.com.
Dining chair fabric, front (#70-501): Baker, bakerfurniture.com.
Rug ("Intermode"/White): Stark Carpet, starkcarpet.com.
Wallpaper ("Moonpennies"/Silver #5003330): Schumacher, fschumacher.com.
Candlesticks: Mottahedeh, mottahedeh.com.
Flowers: Randy McManus Designs, randymcmanusdesigns.com.
Art (Untitled #8, from the series The Fall 2009, by Laura Letinsky): Yancey Richardson Gallery, yanceyrichardson.com.
Dining Room Console
Antique sconces balance the light and fresh furnishings in the dining room. Orrell affixed one of the sconces to an antique mirror for further elegance and play with light.
Console; bird sconces: antiques.
Mirror ("Rope Oval Mirror" #5462): Carvers' Guild, carversguild.com.
Wallpaper ("Moonpennies"/Silver #5003330): Schumacher, fschumacher.com.
Glassware: owner's collection.
Dining chair (custom): Bradshaw Orrell Interiors, orrellinteriors.com.
Chair fabric, front (#70-501): Baker, bakerfurniture.com.
Tidy Craft Room
Laurie, a former schoolteacher, envisions this space as a creative hub where she and Elle can craft, wrap gifts, and spend time together.
Quiet Master Bedroom
The first-floor master bedroom, which opens out to the pool, continues the silver accents used throughout the house. The bed, bench, and bed covers are all custom. Above the bed hangs Mitch Epstein's "Office Door."
King bed (custom); bench (custom); mirror; X ottomans by mirror (custom): Bradshaw Orrell Interiors, orrellinteriors.com.
Bed fabric ("Eeva"/Black Pearl #31799.11, by Windsor Smith); duvet and Euro shams ("New Direction"/Sterling #31202.11): Kravet, kravet.com.
Standard king shams and throw pillows ("Monferato" #2554-WG): Groves Bros., grovesbros.com.
Bench fabric ("Zuma Velvet"/Mineral #F0325-17); fabric on X ottomans and throw pillows ("Mandalay Velvet"/Mineral #F0338/17): Clarke & Clarke, clarke-clarke.com.
Bedside tables ("Alexander Console," discontinued): Studio A, studioa-home.com.
Murano glass lamps: Swank Lighting, swanklighting.com.
Carpet ("Ebb & Flow"/Silver): Stark Carpet, starkcarpet.com.
Chandelier ("Fiona"): Made Goods, madegoods.com.
Drapery (#891111-270, discontinued): Duralee, duralee.com.
Drapery hardware: Crowder Designs, crowderdesigns.com.
Oil painting seen through doorway: by Douglas Freeman, douglasfreemanartworks.com.
Photograph behind bed (Office Door 2000, from Family Business Collection, by Mitch Epstein): Sikkema Jenkins & Co., sikkemajenkinsco.com.
Custom Vanity
Laurie and Oliver's salad days in New York led to one important feature in their master suite: separate baths and dressing rooms. "Our apartment in New York had one tiny bathroom," she remembers. "We had to get ready at different times."
Laurie's bathroom vanity features her favorite photograph, Lillian Bassman's "Fantasy on the Dancefloor."
Sconces ("Bryant Sconce" #TOB2002, by Thomas O'Brien): Circa Lighting, circalighting.com.
Chandelier ("Meri Drum Chandelier"): Oly, olystudio.com.
Photograph on vanity (Fantasy on the Dance Floor, by Lillian Bassman): Jackson Fine Art, jacksonfineart.com.
Little Girl's Room
Elle's room is a happy haven of stuffed animals, family photos, and framed art.
Trundle daybed (custom): Bradshaw Orrell Interiors, orrellinteriors.com.
Wall and valance fabric (#2010129-10); medallion fabric on bolster pillow (#PF50278-3): Lee Jofa, leejofa.com.
Solid velvet fabric on throw pillows ("Exquisite Silk"/Quartz #29717.710); lalvender throw pillow ("Fishnet"#25379-110, colorway discontinued): Kravet, kravet.com.
Carpet ("Kubra"/Bay Pearl): Stark Carpet, starkcarpet.com.
Hanging lantern ("Lillibette" #V.2): Urban Electric Co., urbanelectricco.com.
Warm, Inviting Guest Room
One of two guest rooms offers inviting buttery colors with hints of metallic. Antiques mix artfully with new furnishings.
Bedside table; lamp; bench: antique.
Bench fabric ("Katsura Lampas"/Platinum #54072); coverlet and sham fabric ("Crystal Weave"/Alabaster #63671): Schumacher, fschumacher.com.
Headboard and bedskirt fabric ("Lorica"/Toast #190100H-14, by Highland Court): Duralee, duralee.com.
Drapery fabric: Kravet, kravet.com.
Drapery hardware: Crowder Designs, crowderdesigns.com.
Exterior Facade
For impact outside, they hired landscape designer Chip Calloway. "I like to get involved in everything," Orrell says, laughing. "But Chip is such a pro and has his own vision." Calloway created the gardens, which come to colorful life in spring and summer, and are punctuated by formal boxwoods.
Lighting: McLean Lighting Works, mcleanlighting.com.
Backyard Pool Area
A hedge on one side of the pool offers privacy, while climbing roses on the front gate offer a romantic welcome to a new home that includes everything these homeowners dreamed of when living in their cramped New York apartment.
Poolside Patio
On the portico-covered patio, light Sunbrella cushions contrast with the dark Dedon seating pieces. An electric fireplace allows poolside lingering on chilly nights.
Home Office
Laurie, baby Elle, Hattie on the ottoman, and Whiskey, the family's newest member and self-appointed protector, join Oliver in his office. Oliver sits on an antique desk in front of Jeffrey Milstein's "Air China."
Desk: antique.
Desk chair ("Eames Management Chair"): Herman Miller Store, store.hermanmiller.com.
Ottoman (custom): Bradshaw Orrell Interiors, orrellinteriors.com.
Suede fabric on ottoman and chair (#9168-93, discontinued): Pearson, pearsonco.com.
Sofa fabric ("Behold"/Dawn #29838-1116, by Calvin Klein): Kravet, kravet.com.
Throw pillow on sofa ("Marrakesh"/Silver #63370); throw pillows on chairs ("Hager Texture"/Pearl #63490): Schumacher, fschumacher.com.
Drapery ("Lorica"/Nickel #190100H-362, by Highland Court): Duralee, duralee.com.
Drapery hardware: Crowder Designs, crowderdesigns.com.
Rug ("Intermode"/White): Stark Carpet, starkcarpet.com.
Computer table (custom): Bradshaw Orrell Interiors, orrellinteriors.com.
Airplane photograph (Air China): Jeffrey Milstein Photography, jeffreymilstein.com.


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The 2011 Jetta compact sedan, which Volkswagen developed specifically to appeal to Americans, has the visual flair of a beige ceiling and the steering feel of a Novocain smoothie.
It's a far cry from the taut and responsive small cars VW usually builds. The roomy and practical Jetta does offer a long list of features, however.
The 2011 VW Jetta's base model includes a 115-horsepower 2.0-liter engine and five-speed manual transmission.
Volkswagen did not make a base Jetta available to test, but 115 horsepower divided by 3,000 pounds of curb weight sounds like another tranquilizer in the car's medicine cabinet.
Most buyers will probably upgrade to a 2.5-liter 170-horsepower five-cylinder engine.
VW also offers a powerful and fuel-efficient 2.0-liter turbodiesel with a six-speed manual or six-speed dual-clutch automatic. A sporty model with a 200-horsepower turbocharged, direct-injection 2.0-liter four-cylinder is to join the lineup in 2012.
I tested a well-equipped Jetta SEL with the 2.5-liter five-cylinder engine, automatic transmission, a sunroof and a $23,395 sticker price. Prices exclude destination charges.
The Americanized Jetta aims to compete with mainstream compact sedans like the Chevrolet Cruze, Ford Focus, Honda Civic, Hyundai Elantra, Mazda 3, Nissan Sentra and Toyota Corolla.
The Jetta's exterior styling is anonymous. Only the car-width grille and round badge connect with the appearance of other VWs.
The interior looks fine, but VW cut costs by replacing the soft and appealing trim it usually uses with hard surfaces. The fabric-covered seats are a high point, thanks to deep wings that hold occupants snug in eager maneuvers. Passenger space is terrific. The Jetta offers more passenger room than any competitor except the Chevy Cruze. At 15.5 cubic feet, the Jetta's trunk outdoes even the Cruze. It has as much luggage capacity as some midsize sedans.
The Jetta may lack excitement and character, but it offsets that with a long list of creature comforts. The Jetta I tested featured a sunroof, push-button start, a touch-screen navigation system and an excellent sound system. The voice recognition and audio quality of the Bluetooth system for hands-free phone calls were below average.
The 2.5-liter Jetta's fuel economy ranks in the middle of the compact set. The Civic and Cruze have higher EPA ratings, but the Jetta outdoes the Corolla and Mazda 3. The turbodiesel's fuel economy is outstanding. The EPA rates it at 30 mpg in the city, 42 on the highway and 34 in combined driving.
The 2.5-liter engine produces more power than the Jetta's competitors, but the car's performance is uninspired.
Oddly programmed engine controls create an uneven throttle response in standing starts. The car springs forward when you first depress the accelerator, then seems to hit a dead spot in the power band where it falters before resuming acceleration.
A lag before downshifts by the automatic transmission reduces performance at higher speeds.
The steering is similarly unsatisfying. It is over-assisted and provides little feedback or on-center feel. There was some torque steer when accelerating hard.
The 2011 Jetta surpasses previous VWs on cost, equipment and interior space, but it lacks the sporty character and German style that traditionally made VW special.
Volkswagen earned its American fan base with unique-looking vehicles that provided spirited performance at an affordable price. They weren't for everybody, but were unmistakably VWs.
The new Jetta, developed specifically to attract more American buyers, replaces those charms with a bigger interior, poorer materials and more features.
That's unlikely to please VW loyalists, but the company hopes it will win new buyers who want a car with a German-sounding name, but don't care much about German looks or driving feel.
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"Gay" Activists Mull "Organized Terrorism" Against Christians
Pro-Family Leaders Targets of Death Threat
Lynchburg, VA –In the wake of the horrific act of Islamic domestic terrorism at Fort Hood Texas, it has been learned that militant homosexual activists recently made similar online postings to those of Nidal Malik Hasan, threatening additional acts of terrorism against Christians.
In response to Maine's natural marriage victory last Tuesday, "gay" activists have directly threatened to retaliate with "terrorism" and the "killing" of Christians on the popular homosexual activist "JoeMyGod" Weblog. Liberty Counsel notified the FBI which is investigating the matter. As of this morning, the offending blog entry had been removed. (captured version of post will be available at www.americansfortruth.com).
Matt Barber, Liberty Counsel's Director of Cultural Affairs, issued a statement shortly after Maine's marriage victory (posted with additional commentary at AmericansForTruth.com). In reaction to that statement, blog poster "ColdCountry" wrote: "Will someone please give me a gun?" Poster "Fritz" warned: "What I fear is that once gay and lesbian people give up hope of achieving equality through nonviolent means, there will be radicals who will begin to hunt down haters… All it will take is a small group of radical zealots who are willing to kill for their cause."
In reply to Fritz, "tex" posted: "Fritz....you say this like it's a bad thing? Maybe a bit of well organized terrorism is just what we need."
"This happens in all cases where people are oppressed and lack representation," continued Fritz. "We will have gay and lesbian people strapping bombs to their chests and blowing up churches. All it will take is one or two more losses like this. If marriage equality is taken away in one of the landmark states, we will see domestic terrorism arise very quickly. … In 1991, I witnessed gay and lesbian activists setting fire to buildings and beating people with baseball bats in Los Angeles."
"tex" reiterated: "Still not seeing this as a bad thing Fritz ... [African gay activists] didn't gain their civil rights through being passive."
In addition to Barber, pro-family leaders Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth and Maggie Gallagher of the National Organization for Marriage were specifically named targets.
Meanwhile, Michael Heath, former director of the Christian Civic League of Maine, was targeted by a direct death threat shortly after the passage of Question 1 last week. An anonymous caller telephoned the League, warning: "I am calling about Mr. Mike Heath, the Executive of your Christian Civic League of Maine. He thinks that gay people should have our rights revoked that we already have. Well I can tell him this – I'm a gay guy who owns guns, and he's my next target." Law enforcement was immediately notified.
Matt Barber commented: "All potential threats of terrorism and murder are very serious business. As we learned just last week, there are ideologically driven terrorists who walk among us. After passage of Proposition 8 in California we saw that many homosexual activists are capable of threats, vandalism and even violence. Those who either threaten or attempt to incite terrorism must be immediately brought to justice. Churches and Christian leaders around the country need to be on high alert. These threats of homosexual activist terrorism must be taken very seriously."


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Fire Safe Council closing … for now
The Nevada Fire Safe Council will close its doors Monday but will keep its status as a nonprofit group until it learns its fate, board members announced Thursday.
"We will be closing our doors at the end of this month because there are no funds to pay the rent," said Joan Presley, chairwoman of the council's board and fire marshal for the city of Reno. "I guess we'll just be dormant awaiting the outcome of all this, but we'll still remain an active 501(c)3."
The council, established in 1999 to reduce the risk of catastrophic fires through creating defensible space at the neighborhood level, was taken to task in a February report released by the Inspector General's Office for the U.S. Department of Agriculture for mishandling funds and commingling accounts. The report condemned lax oversight and internal controls by the group.
Grant funds to the nonprofit group from the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management and the Nevada Division of Forestry have since been frozen, leaving the council without money to operate or assist the 135 communities it serves throughout the state.
Vice chairman Larry Burton said he remains concerned about paying the council's bills.
"We don't want contractors or the public to worry, because we're working on an update and trying to reach a resolution on outstanding invoices," Burton said. "We were hoping up until this morning that our congressional representatives would intervene on our behalf, but we're not walking away from our membership or our obligations."
Ed Smith, natural-resource specialist for the Carson City/Storey County Cooperative Extension, said it might be feasible for the extension office to play a part in preserving the council.
"We might be willing to provide the space," Smith said. "There's some logic to support this. With 135 chapters and 5,000 members, I'd be derelict not to keep that resource open. We've managed volunteers for 100 years."
Cheva Heck, public affairs officer for the U.S. Forest Service's Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit said the documentation required from the council for her agency's audit was received in mid-March and still is under review.
"They asked for an extension and received it," she said, "but it was a very large amount of documentation, and is still being reviewed by our Albuquerque service center. We set a completion date of May 31, and it looks like we are right on target for that date."
Heck said her agency remains committed to doing fuels reduction, as well as helping communities with that task.
"We're looking for other ways of doing this – it's our number one priority," she said.
"We understand (the fire safe council's) frustration, but we have an obligation to make sure taxpayer dollars are handled properly, and we want to reassure the public that we're moving forward without waiting for the outcome of this audit," Heck said.
Representatives form the NDF and BLM were not available for comment Thursday.
Federal auditors began investigating the fire council after a hotline caller complained in July 2011 that competitive bidding wasn't used to hire contractors.
During that review, auditors questioned the council's ability to account for $3.6 million in federal stimulus grants received through the U.S. Forest Service, as well as $6.2 million in other grants.
It also criticized the practice of allowing the council's former executive director, Andrew List, to handle "all aspects of transactions involving the grants," despite federal regulations that require those duties to be segregated "to reduce the risk of error and fraud."
Auditors said in their report that there was nothing to indicate fraud had occurred, but they recommended that funds be frozen.
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It had been months since I last sewed, and I wasn't even sure I was going to remember how.
I lift the machine cover and stare at the buttons, trying to recall what they all mean. My face is splotchy from crying and my eyes are swollen and hot. I run my finger along the right side of the sewing machine and they remember instinctively where the power switch is. The lights flash on but I sit paralyzed.
Because it's all a mess.
The whole thing.
I can't hear him anymore and he can't hear me. I'll just sew…I think. And then I'll feel like myself again. I wind white thread into the bobbin and I'm a little surprised at how easy it comes back to me.
I thought it would be harder.
Now that I have it threaded, I reach for the pieces of fabric I left sitting months ago.
Or was it more?
They still smell laundry-fresh and I wonder how that happens. I hold them up tentatively, trying to remember which is the front and which is the back. I slip three pins out and separate the material, but it's not coming back to me. I should remember. I'm so sad I don't.
It would have been beautiful if I had just paid attention when it was new, and now I'm left with the pieces.
I am like that, and I know it. I start things ambitiously and I believe I will finish them, but I usually don't. I love the fresh journal, the creases in a new pattern, the way a book looks on my shelf. But then the pieces pile up and my heart breaks and I feel it all over again.
You're a failure.
I reach for the pattern because I'm not going to leave it, along with all the other half-finished skirts and dresses in the third drawer down. It can still be right. She hasn't grown out of it just yet, and if I concentrate she will have it before the summer sun comes up again.
There's a knock at the door and I know why.
Because he is splotchy-red too and we're both holding pieces.
"Can I come in?"
I nod, but don't dare to speak because I don't know what will fall out. My hands are busy and I like it better that way. I look down at what they are doing and I pretend to be indifferent. I'm not, and he knows it.
"Working on her dress?"
I nod again.
I can't help but think it looks like a movie scene, with me fumbling my way and him fumbling his.
"I just felt like I needed to sew again." It means more than needles, and he sees through my small talk.
There is silence while I unfold the paper carefully. It bends this way and that and if it isn't done just right the whole thing will tear apart and then where will we be?
I realize I'm missing a piece, and I say so.
"So what do we do?" He asks.
And the naked truth is this.
I have no idea.
I tell him I have to cut a new one and he tells me he wants to help. It's easier to do it myself, but that's the problem. I'm stitching and mending and thinking I can do it all and I can't. He doesn't wait for an answer, but reaches for the fabric and takes it from me.
"It smells like laundry soap." He whispers.
I don't say a word, but I reach past him for the scissors, and show him what needs to be done. He smiles because he loves me when I create, and he wants to remember what it's like to be in my world. It's been a long time since I opened the door.
He learns quickly, and I smile because he is a grown man with a three day old beard and flannel pajamas, but he looks like a boy while he cuts.
Out of nowhere, I feel the sting of sadness.
"Have we made a mess of it?"
He doesn't answer before the tears come. My hands go to my face to cover the hurt before he fully sees me, but I can't. I never could.
I just wanted to sew, I think to myself.
But it wasn't the fabric I loved.
It wasn't even the finished product.
It was watching the needle and knowing that it was working all the time to mend, even as it pierced.
It looks like it's dangerous, and as if it's wounding. It tears through layers and even through skin. I'm convinced it will come away flawed and torn, and then I see the beauty of it all.
And the hum of the sewing machine reminds me again what it looks like to allow yourself to be wounded because you believe in what will one day come of it all.
And while the tears come fresh, he holds me, even with the scissors still in his hand, and he tells me he loves me and will fight for it to be beautiful again. I believe him and I cry because there aren't words that say what I want them to.
There are only patterns and dreams, and the way he came to knock on the door because he loved me more than his own pride.
We stay up late. Too late, actually. And we laugh because we have all these babies that won't wait for us to sleep in tomorrow, and it will be time to stitch some more.
The dial spins around and the motor is warm to the touch when we leave.
It's good to remember.
I still haven't finished the dress, because there was too much sadness in the memory of her. I had thought it might be good to give it to her sister, but the truth was it was better left undone.
I folded it neatly and slipped it into her drawer, even as it was.
Not in this life, love…
Maybe one day I will take it out again and marvel at how it still smells like fresh life, even though it has been years since I saw it last.
Oh, how I miss her.
But there in front of me is the rest of it, and I so long to love it well.
I won't forget the way we welcomed that midnight hour, crumpled on the floor in pajamas, laughing and crying because we didn't know what else to do.
I have stopped resenting the third drawer down, because I believe that one day-
Well, I hope you know.
He's going to make it beautiful again.


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Nearly 1,000 AJ100 employees were asked to nominate one person they thought should be recognised for his or her services to architecture - most named Richard Rogers
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Christine Murray caught up with him at the Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners studios in west London:
A riot of colour, Richard Rogers is opposite me in his bright orange sweater, sitting among models of historic and current projects, from the new Leadenhall building in the City of London, which tops out this summer, to the project that changed architecture, Paris's Centre Pompidou.
'We've been lucky,' he says, smiling, speaking over the clamour of the upstairs office canteen, where staff eat subsidised food prepared by a former River Café chef - the restaurant owned by Rogers' wife, Ruth. 'A number of times I thought I would never make it.'
Rogers has just been named as this year's recipient of the AJ100 Contribution to the Profession award - 550 architects employed by AJ100 practices nominated him - a gong he will pick up at the AJ100 awards dinner.
It's another accolade in what is turning out to be quite a year for Rogers: he turns 80 this summer, and will celebrate with the opening of a major exhibition at London's Royal Academy. But this is by no means a retirement party - Rogers is still in practice, cycling into work on his Brompton, participating in design crits, even playing on the company softball team.
'When we finished the Pompidou, Renzo and I had no work for about two years,' Rogers continues. 'I started teaching in the states, then won Lloyd's of London, which had lots to do with Lloyd's and much to do with Gordon Graham, who at that time was the president of the RIBA and advised Lloyd's. So there's a lot of luck in this game.'
I ask Rogers what he thinks has been his greatest contribution to the profession, and he pauses. 'Doing the exhibition for the Royal Academy makes one think about these things,' he says. Looking back, he mentions 'the enjoyment of working with amazing partners. Starting with Team Four, Norman and Wendy Foster, Sue Rogers, then with Sue, then with Renzo Piano, and then with my partners starting here. Teamwork. I love teamwork.'
As for his individual contribution, he says: 'I suppose things like the questioning of the brief - the democratisation of the brief; the social responsibility of the brief. Taking Pompidou, the idea of thinking outside of the box, questioning what is a cultural building. Is it a monument, or is it something people participate in? I'm very interested in public space, which is, in a way, cities.'
Since the Pompidou and Lloyd's, Rogers' work has been varied and prolific, from pre-fab affordable housing at Oxley Woods to luxury flats for Candy & Candy at One Hyde Park (right), from Barajas airport in Madrid (far right) to London's Millennium Dome. Rogers won the Pritzker Prize in 2007 and the RIBA Gold Medal in 1985.
Knighted in 1991, Rogers has also been engaged in political life, first as a Labour Peer - appointed in 1996 - then as chair of the UK Urban Task Force, as appointed by the Deputy Prime Minister in 1998. Rogers was also former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone's architecture and urban adviser, and is design adviser to current mayor Boris Johnson. Rogers claims he still has a strong relationship with Prime Minister David Cameron and Lord Heseltine, and is undoubtedly Britain's most politically connected architect. His work is characterised by support for densification of cities, the creation of public space, affordable housing and the use of brownfield sites.
Political life perhaps comes naturally to Rogers, who is a product of architecture's social past. 'In my generation, everybody who left the AA at the end of the 1950s, as I did, went to work for schools, hospitals, councils,' he says. 'That was part of the social responsibility of architects. We were trying to build houses for the heroes who were coming back from the war. There was a search for a better quality of life.'
'We had a mission then, and that has gone. Making money has become much more important. That has driven a wedge between those who still have a social responsibility and others who go with the flow and think "as long as I'm making money and it pays well, I'm going to do it".'
But having a social conscience in architecture can prove frustrating. While Rogers has tried to infuse a social generosity into his luxury projects, he has come under fire for what seems an inherent contradiction between his views on social responsibility, climate change and affordable housing and his work on luxury flats, City towers and airports.
Rogers admits that there are limits to what architects can influence. He believes it's better to question the brief and try to create a generous piece of city than turn down the job.
'You have to run a business,' he says. But he also asserts that social and commercial practice are not in contradiction. 'I have created my own small civil society here,' he says, referring to Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. 'We have a constitution; the partners have no ownership of the company and we are structured as a charitable trust. All of us give some aspect of our profits to charity after two years. You can do those things, once you are making some money.
'Our constitution states certain things like: "We will not get involved in military buildings". But we have not said that we will only do affordable housing. There must be questions about airports - I keep defending our involvement in airports by saying the problem is not the gas station; there should be a carbon tax.
'And in a sense, the problem is not luxury housing: there should be less disparity between the poor and the rich. We as architects can do very little about it but, as citizens, we have a responsibility. Everybody plays a little part.'
His advice to young architects is to travel and 'use your mind and your eyes', to learn what kind of architecture you like. He adds: 'People know what kind of music they like, what kind of cars they like. In the same way, you need to learn about the qualities of architecture.'
As for the future of the profession, Rogers believes architectural education should become more specialised.
In his characteristic, quick-fire style, a barrage of ideas, he says: 'We as architects - and by architects, I mean architects, planners, landscape, urban regeneration specialists, I'm putting them all together - you can question whether our education does that; that's another hole. I have been talking for years to ministers about how [architecture] should be more like medicine. We should do three years general architecture and then specialise into landscape or urban regeneration. I don't think you should split three-dimensional planning from three-dimensional architecture, nor do I think you can split [it from] climate change, which often has to do with mechanical services.
'If we do, the architect ends up isolated and seen as an artist and, although art is a critical part of architecture, it's not the only part by a long way.'
Rogers also believes that architects, as individuals, must decide what matters most to them in life. He concludes: 'You have a duty, whether to your family, or your children. Ask me what's most important, and I would say family. But architecture is my profession.'
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The progress is marked by their lives, their actions, their artistic products and by songs.
Created by Phyl Lobl, the production shows just what 'grand dames and daredevils' they were. They took us from the Hat Box to the Ballot Box and then helped women in England and America get there too. They were daring, resilient, intelligent and compassionate yet very few Australians know their names.
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HIGH-TECH CAREER opportunities await you at: the first 5-digit prime of Fibonacci sequence.com.
Yes, this is so difficult that it's cryptic to many of us, and it's meant to be. Portland State advertising students are using this on signs, posters, and handbills in a campaign to recruit IT applicants for the FBI. It is based on a successful Google recruitment campaign.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation asked students in Prof. Don Dickinson's advertising campaigns class to help in its recruitment efforts. Nationally, the FBI is in need of 3,000 employees in specialized fields such as IT (information technology), engineering, intelligence, and languages. The local Bureau office sent agents to talk with the students about its needs and set a campaign budget at an underwhelming $2,500.
But the students were up for the challenge. They created a 94-page guidebook that can be used anyplace in the country. "Their campaign is off-campus oriented, grassroots, and very guerilla," says Dickinson with obvious pride. "It is not even specific to Portland. We call it our plug-and-play plan."
This is the first year the FBI has received a student plan that reaches into professional and cultural communities. That's not to say that the PSU students didn't include the University in their recruitment materials. In fact, they wore FBI shirts and talked up the Bureau at a campus career fair.
The Fibonacci sequence? It is being used for recruitment near the high-tech companies west of Portland. If you're familiar with its 5-digit prime, then maybe you are FBI material.


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A late recovery on Wall Street wiped out most of the stock market's losses, leaving the Dow Jones industrial average down just 25 points.
The Dow had been down as much as 177 points Thursday but came back sharply in the last 20 minutes of trading. It closed at 12,602, a loss of just 0.2 percent.
Other indexes also cut their losses. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell three points to end at 1,329 and the Nasdaq composite fell 26 points to 2,849.
Bank stocks erased much of their losses in late trading. JPMorgan cut its loss in half.
Hospital stocks rose after the Supreme Court upheld most of President Obama's health care law.
Rising stocks outnumbered falling ones three to two. Volume was average at 3.8 billion shares.


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Inspirational Essays
- I've Come Here to Be
- The Things We Leave Behind
- The Longest Day of the Year
- A Stranger in a Land of Promise
- Hope Tempered With Tears
- Speaking Truth To Power
- 8 Questions: Why Spiritual Self-Examination Matters (sermon audio)
- The Bloom of Winter
- In Defense of Feel-Good Movies, Cheesy Melodramas, and Happy Endings
- This Is My Father's World
- The Last Homely House
- Kindness Is Leadership
- My Head Is Bowed
- Engage
- Stop in the Name of Love!
- The Ring Of Truth
- Embrace What Matters – The Book Is Here!
- Between Keith And The Nuns
- Recreational Vehicles
- What's Your Working Relationship?
- Growing Up Again
- Social Networking & The Golden Rule
- A Bittersweet Season
- Minding Your Ps…
- The Pain Now Is Part Of The Happiness Then
- Three Questions To Ask Yourself Before Speaking
- Life Is Relationship
- Character and Wonder
- Humility and Gratitude
- Awakening From The American Dream
- The Greatest Of These
- Throwing In The Towel
- Fingal's Cave
- Freedom In Relationship
- Vengeance Is Mine: An analysis of the spiritual origins of violence and murder
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Polo loco: A fun Friday alternative
Shhhh... there's an alternative to Friday's After 5! Instead of big crowds and big noise, it involves big sticks, big animals, and big fun. It's a small gathering flying just under the radar down Old Lynchburg Road. With open skies and a gorgeous setting, the Charlottesville Polo Club is one of the nicest local places to spend a summer evening.
On Friday nights, big matches happen between the UVA team and other local teams. Like a miniature Foxfield, fans bring picnics and beverages to help them enjoy the fresh air and the excitement. But it's not snobby or debauched. Families and retirees are plentiful. Nevertheless, it's fun for all ages and a great way to relax.
Arena polo is like a hockey match on horseback. Two teams of three riders battle it out over four chuckers (periods). Points are scored when a rider smacks the ball into colored sections on opposite ends of the arena wall. With no goalies, teammates maneuver to block the ball. It takes a lot of strategy and teamwork. The action gets intense during breakaways as riders blast down the field at full speed, slowing down just in time to avoid the barrier.
Before the season ends on Labor Day, head down Old Lynchburg Road– no problem parking, no need for those pesky armbands, and it's only $4 to get in.
South River's Robert Lynkeechow and UVA's Lou Lopez gallop up the field.
The action is intense during the pile-ups.
If you make it out, don't forget to bring the couch.
Polo matches use two teams of three riders.
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House Approps Strips TSA of Strip‐Search Funds
The fiscal 2012 Department of Homeland Security spending bill is starting to make its way through the process, and the House Appropriations Committee said in a release today that "the bill does not provide $76 million requested by the President for 275 additional advanced inspection technology (AIT) scanners nor the 535 staff requested to operate them."
If the House committee's approach carries the day, there won't be 275 more strip‐search machines in our nation's airports. No word on whether the committee will defund the operations of existing strip‐search machines.
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John Kemp (USA) from from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Pictured on the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise before departing for the Fram Strait.Greenpeace is campaigning for a global sanctuary to be declared around the uninhabited area of the North Pole. Arctic sea ice has already disappeared by 75% in the last 30 years, and scientists on board the Arctic Sunrise will be working with 3D scanning experts and engineers to capture the true shape of Arctic sea ice for the first time.07/10/2012
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Face of Defense: Brothers Provide Support From Above
By Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Samuel Nasso, Special to American Forces Press Service
CAMP BASTION, Afghanistan, July 29, 2009 – Marine Corps Maj. Richard "Bart" Bartolomea says he feels at home serving with his brother, Bill, in an operational environment.
The officer in charge of the Scan Eagle detachment from Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 2, Marine Aircraft Group 40, Marine Expeditionary Brigade Afghanistan, Bart was commissioned as a Marine officer after earning a bachelor's degree at Pennsylvania State University in 1994.
Bill, known as "Chakka," is the director of the department of safety standardization for Marine Light/Attack Helicopter Squadron 169. He also earned a degree from Penn State, graduating in 1995.
As many boys do, the brothers aspired to be professional athletes. But
"When I was in high school, "Top Gun" came out, and I imagined what it would be like to be a pilot," he said.
The military already had a prominent role in the Bartolomea family. Their father, Richard Bartolomea, and their uncle, James Craft, joined the Marine Corps in 1967. Even though Craft wasn't related to the family at the time, he was a significant influence in why the boys joined the Marine Corps.
"Uncle Jim went to college with our father and encouraged him to join the Corps with him," said Bart, whose father was an infantry officer in Vietnam. "Twenty-six years later, our father retired as a lieutenant colonel, and here we are now in Afghanistan."
So when the time came, the decision to join wasn't too difficult.
"After growing up in Quantico and observing my dad and his friends when I was younger, it was an easy decision when I actually thought about it," Bill said.
"Bill actually knew what he wanted to do," Bart noted. "He didn't join because I did; he was enrolled in the ROTC at Penn State for a while."
With their father working at Penn State as the director of sports camp and managing the ROTC program, it seemed military service was inevitable.
"After I got my degree I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, so I went and talked to my father," Bart said. "I told him I didn't really want to pursue journalism and I wanted to go to law school. He told me that I would have to pay for it, so that was out of the question. Then he asked me if I ever thought about the Marine Corps."
Both brothers not only were commissioned as Marine Corps officers, but also became pilots. Bill started flying AH-1W Super Cobras in 1997, and Bart started flying CH-53Ds in the same year. Bart eventually transitioned into flying Cobras 10 years later and transitioned again to fly unmanned aerial vehicles.
"Flying UAVs is neat, but after flying a Cobra, there's nothing really like it," Bart said. With different billets but the same line of work, it was just a matter of time until the brothers encountered each other in the fleet.
"It is really cool," Bart said. "One day I was watching a few Cobras complete a mission with our UAVs, and later that day I asked my brother if he was flying. He said he was, and I told him I watched him with our UAVs. Even though I am not flying Cobras at the moment, I still get to operate with my UAVs and watch my brother fly his Cobra."
This is Bart's first deployment and Bill's fifth. When it comes down to it, the brothers are here to complete their duties as Marines.
"The reason why I am here is to provide air support for the grounds guys," Bill said. "Whether you're a grunt or with [the combat logistics battalion] or whatever, our mission is the same: to provide air support for all of our Marines."
The brothers are happy to be deployed at the same time, and their families fully support them.
"Our mother was a Marine Corps wife for a while, and she helps my wife and Bart's wife when they need anything," Bill said.
Although they may not be working side by side, the "Bart Brothers" patrol the skies over Afghanistan's Helmand province, flying top cover for servicemembers helping to free the local population from the intimidation and aggression of insurgents.
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Ocana del Valle was given an interesting brief that pushed the design of Casa Mediterraneo's headquarters beyond a typical tenant improvement for an existing building. The brief emphasized the importance of preserving the building appropriately for the program, but in a way that honored the heritage of the building. Therefore, Ocana del Valle decided against any large modernist intervention, and he went for a straightforward and sophisticated renovation that emphasized the bold lines of the old train station.
The design team separated the spaces within the 3100 square meter railway station's shell into individual smaller pavilions surrounding a larger 1500 square meter hall. The large hall was once dark and dank, however it has been changed into a multicolored, ever-changing stage for events, parties, and exhibits. As the architect describes it, "a Klein-blue, translucent roof filters the incoming sunlight which, after reverberating through a vibrant, circular-patterned aluminum lattice, dyes and excites the old walls and floor, flooding the space and turning it into a sea of blue shadows".
The improvements made to the Benalua railway station lie at the intersection of modern design and cultural preservation. The pavilions within the railway station are daylit, naturally ventilated, and surrounded by vegetation, which grows in ceramic pots. In an era that is pushing towards all new construction interventions being designed in a sustainable fashion, the new Casa Mediterraneo is a fresh perspective on reusing abandon buildings for new purposes.
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greenplus necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 20 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
Less than one second! With so little time to make a positive first impression on a visitor, we need help with our new Green Printing company home page...Can you help? (no coding needed - but let me know if you can)
Green Plus Printing is an online source for your printing needs - but is Eco-Friendly. We offer a wide range of recycled papers & Eco-friendly inks to provide a "Greener" product but with Fast Turnaround. Extremely high quality and affordable.
The site is considering new designs & layouts, and the most important elements are:
- Positive First Impression – present a clean, professional, easy-to-use commerce website
- Offer Layout - enables consumers to quickly pick which product they need
- Clear Call to Action – Click Your Product to Get Started with order
For Logo Images, please click on this link and see green images added below masthead, etc. :http://www.lawtonprinters.com/servicecenter/products_services.html?products_services_item=98089&db_item=listitem
Key components of the design are below:
- Use the colors from our logo, but also experiment with complimentary colors.
- Web 2.0 style, but with a professional feel.
- Utilize icons in the design (Main Text Area).
- A small area for an introduction for our company, an area about green printing, an area that describes our services to link to other pages - but mostly how to Get started. We're open to suggestions for other items on the homepage, so please experiment!
- somewhere say: 3 easy steps to order: Pick your template, Enter your information & add image, Place your order
- Layout the top products (business cards, postcards, brochures, sell sheets,etc.) on the page that will link to ordering template
- We are most concerned with the overall graphical and package layout/presentation - the top buttons we need will be Get Started, Product Catalog, Resources, About Us
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Spiritual training talk to take place March 24
The Christian Science Church of Durango will host two free events by speaker Josh Niles of Boise, Idaho, on March 24 in the Eolus Room of the Durango Community Recreation Center, 2700 Main Ave.:
A talk, Spiritual Training: Learning to Listen, will be held from 2 to 3 p.m. Child care will be provided.
A youth walk and talk called Waking up to Spiritual Reality will take place from 4 to 5 p.m. Refreshments will be served.
For more information, call 247-5443 or 247-8652.
Pine Valley Church adds worship service
Beginning Sunday, Pine Valley Church, 1328 County Road 501 in Bayfield, will grow to two worship services, at 8:30 and 10:30 a.m.
Each service will include child care and Kids Church. The services include expressive worship, Gods Word and offer individual prayer time. Also, the youth group is raising funds for a mission trip by offering breakfast items.
For more information, visit www.pinevalleychurch.com or call 884-7196.
Passion of Christ to be screened
The Catholic parishes of Archuleta County will sponsor a free screening of The Passion of the Christ at 7 p.m. March 27 at the Liberty Theater, 418 Pagosa St. in Pagosa Springs.
Service-schedule information requested
The Durango Herald will run schedules for Holy Week and Easter church services.
The first schedule will run March 23 and will include services taking place from Palm Sunday through Good Friday.
The second schedule will run March 30 and will include Easter-weekend services.
Information should be submitted by Thursday for the schedule to run March 23 and by March 28 for the schedule to run March 30.
Send information to firstname.lastname@example.com. Please include contact information with all items.
Call Ann Butler at 375-4584 with any questions.
Har Shalom to host Passover Seder
Congregation Har Shalom will host a community Passover Seder led by Rabbi Eliot Baskin on March 25 in the Durango Elks Lodge ballroom, 901 East Second Ave.
Appetizers will be served at 5:30 p.m. The seder will begin at 6 p.m. Appetizers, a buffet-style dinner, dessert and beverages will be catered.
The cost for members who make reservations through Thursday is $45 for adults and $15 for children. The cost for non-members who make reservations through Thursday is $53 for adults and $17 for children and $25 for college students. People may pay by Paypal at www.harshalomdurango.org or mail a check to Congregation Har Shalom, P.O. Box 9199, Durango, CO 81302.
For more information, call 382-8300 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
St. Pauls to host family Sunday school
St. Pauls Lutheran Church, 2611 Junction St., will host the monthly Family Sunday School at 9:15 a.m. March 24.
The theme will be Welcoming Jesus! Parents are encouraged to stay with their children for the lesson, songs and activities.
For more information, call Jo Ann Beegles at 259-2493.
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Basically we need an uncoded design for this website.
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We need a home page design, along with a profile design, and some basic subpages.
The idea is simple , a social network for people who are looking to improve their health . Where they can connect with personl trainers / health experts . This site has to have an iconic web2.0 look, and must be very clean and professional looking. Overall we are open to ideas, and concept but perhaps a colour scheme or red, white, and black. For the profile page, we are usually a facebook style feel , so its not going to be cluttered or full of customizations.
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Part One: 1932-1974
Part Three: 2001-
1976-77 (India)
After heavy defeat by Australia and West Indies, the popular and charismatic Tony Greig led England to victory in India for the first time since the Second World War. England won 3-1, and the extent of their superiority was convincing - an innings and 25 runs, ten wickets and 200 runs. They were undefeated in the eight other first-class matches on the tour although only one of them was won. England won the first three Tests before India finally rallied. At Delhi, England were 125 for 5 before Dennis Amiss (179) turned the innings and John Lever took 10 for 70 on debut - his tour was to be marred by the Vaseline controversy; at Calcutta, Greig's hundred was decisive as India were twice bowled out for under 200; and at Madras it was worse as they were skittled for 164 and 83. India at last showed fight at Bangalore where Bishan Bedi and Chandrasekhar bowled them to a 140-run win, and at Bombay the series ended with an exciting draw as Karsan Ghavri grabbed 5 for 33 to put the skids under England's run chase. This was the last tour where England abroad were known as MCC.
Tests: India 1 England 3 Drawn 1
1979 (England)
India made a poor start to a four-Test series following the World Cup but gradually found their feet and ended by coming agonisingly close to leveling in the final Test. Big hundreds from Geoff Boycott (155) and David Gower (200) followed by good seam bowling gave England an innings win at Edgbaston. At Lord's, Ian Botham (5 for 35) bowled India out for 96 but rain and hundreds from Gundappa Viswanath and Dilip Vengsarkar earned them a draw. The third Test was also ruined by the weather, but in late-summer sunshine at The Oval a glorious 221 from Sunil Gavaskar took India within nine runs of scoring 438 to win the match in a thrilling draw.
Tests: England 1 India 0 Drawn 3
1980 (India)
England stopped off on their way back from Australia to play a one-off Test in Bombay to mark the Golden Jubilee of the Indian board. The match itself was unusual in that the rest day was after the first day because there was an eclipse due and the board did not want the risk of 90,000 spectators damaging their eyesight trying to view it. The game was dominated by Ian Botham, who took 6 for 58 and 7 for 48 and chipped in with 114. Bob Taylor also entered the record books with 10 catches - seven in India's first innings - as England won by 10 wickets.
Test: India 0 England 1
1981-82 (India)
This series was in doubt until the last minute because some of England's squad had played in South Africa. There was a certain irony that one - Boycott - did not finish the tour, returning home early after passing Garry Sobers's record haul of Test runs ostensibly because of fatigue. It later emerged he was helping to organise a rebel tour of South Africa. The six-Test series started well with India gaining a dramatic win in a low-scoring match at Bombay, Madan Lal and Kapil Dev sharing ten wickets as England were bowled out for 102 chasing 241. But thereafter, it was fairly poor entertainment on lifeless pitches, with India content to defend their lead and England lacking the firepower to do much about it. Only at Calcutta, where an estimated 394,000 watched, was there an even balance between bat and ball. That crowd typified the massive interest in the series, but they were sold short by dull cricket and a dismal over rate.
Tests: India 1 England 0 Drawn 5
ODIs: India 2 England 1
1982 (England)
The two sides met again straight away, allowing England to avenge Test and ODI defeats. In contrast to India, the matches were poorly attended. At Lord's, Bob Willis and Botham bowled England to a seven-wicket win despite Vengsarkar's brilliant 157. Poor weather meant a draw at Old Trafford, while the bat dominated at The Oval where Botham struck a career-best 208. It was Botham's jousts with Kapil Dev that were the memory of the series.
Tests: England 1 India 0 Drawn 2
ODIs: England 2 India 0
1984-85 (India)
The tour, where England became the first country to come from behind to win a series in India, was overshadowed by the assassination of Indira Gandhi and the murder of the British High Commissioner weeks later. For a time following Gandhi's death the tour was in doubt, and England spent nine days in Colombo while the tension eased. But the itinerary was amended to avoid the least safe areas and the tour went ahead. India won the first Test at Bombay by eight wickets despite Mike Gatting's long-awaited maiden Test hundred, with Laxman Sivaramakrishnan taking 12 wickets. But at Delhi, Phil Edmonds and Pat Pocock spun England to an unexpected eight-wicket win on the final afternoon. After a weather-marred draw at Calcutta, England won by nine wickets at Madras thanks to 11 for 163 from Neil Foster and double hundreds from gatting and Graeme Fowler. India were not a happy unit and Gavaskar's own form was poor. And for the first time, the crowds did not flock to the grounds, with only the ODIs and the Calcutta Test sold out.
Tests: India 1 England 2 Drawn 2
ODIs: India 1 England 4
1986 (England)
India toured early in the summer - at the request of their board who wanted them fresh for the following season - and so suffered from bad weather for much of the tour. But it didn't affect them on the field as they won the one-day Texaco Trophy and beat England convincingly in the Tests. India started the three-Test series with their first win at Lord's, Vengsarkar scoring a hundred there for the third successive time. Any thoughts that had been a one-off were dispelled by India's crushing 279-run win at Leeds where England only managed 102 and 128. The third Test at Edgbaston was the only close one, and even then India ended in the stronger position.
Tests: England 0 India 2 Drawn 1
ODIs: England 1 India 1
1988-89 (India)
The five-Test tour never happened after India refused to grant visas to two of the England side - Graham Gooch, the captain, and Rob Bailey - and the selectors would not replace them. Peter May, the chairman of selectors, said that England did "not pick teams for political reasons" but India were angry that Gooch had never apologised for going on a rebel tour in 1981-82.
1990 (England)
India came into the first Test at Lord's in sparkling form with a string of wins, including a 2-0 sweep in the ODI series. But they came up against Gooch, and his 333 and 123 guided England to a 247-run win. That was enough to secure the series 1-0. A batting paradise at Manchester produced a great game, India finishing on 343 for 6 chasing 408, Sachin Tendulkar making 119 and Mohammad Azharuddin his second successive hundred. At The Oval, India made England follow on, but David Gower, playing for his place on that winter's Ashes tour, made a brilliant 157 to save the match. The series was entertaining from the off, and was played in sublime weather than necessitated a hosepipe ban. There was nothing to separate the teams, except the toss at Lord's.
Tests: England 1 India 0 Drawn 2
ODIs: England 0 India 2
1992-93 (India)
Rarely have their been more dismal tours than this one led by Graham Gooch. The selection was slammed, all four Tests (including one in Sri Lanka) were lost, and nothing went right. A lengthy meeting at Lord's about what went wrong concluded little except that the players looked a shambles. "At least now we know we didn't lose because we played terribly," one of the squad sniped. But they did and were totally outclassed by India from the off. At Calcutta, England's brains trust picked four seamers on a pitch expected to turn and left out their two specialist spinners in favour of Ian Salisbury, who was not in the original squad. They were thrashed by eight wickets. At Madras, England were spun to an innings defeat, and it was much the same story at Bombay. Anil Kumble took 21 wickets in the three Tests, while England's nine bowlers managed 28 between them. At the start of the series Keith Fletcher, England's manager, said of Kumble: "I didn't see him turn a single ball from leg to off. I don't believe we will have much problem with him." It summed up an utter shambles.
Tests: India 3 England 0
ODIs: India 3 England 3
1996 (England)
India were comprehensively outclassed in the one-day internationals, beaten in the Test series and failed to win a single first-class match on the 13th tour of England. The side was far from happy, and Mohammad Azharuddin was under a constant cloud as a leader over personal and leadership issues - it was no surprise he scored just 42 runs in five Test innings. The bitter cold in the early weeks was an added downer. India lost the first Test at Birmingham by eight wickets after their batting, with the exception of Tendulkar (122) failed to fire. But they bounced back at Lord's where they had the better of a draw, and a high-scoring draw at Nottingham was notable for hundreds from Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly on one side and Nasser Hussain and Mike Atherton on the other.
Tests: England 1 India 0 Drawn 2
ODIs: England 2 India 0