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Source: Date Stamp: 1984 Release Date: 1985 Carded Availability: Power of the Force Tri-Logo Assortment No. : 93760 Retail: $2.99 Weapons and Accessories: Point of Interest: This figure debuted in the United States on The Power Of The Force card, and in Europe on the Tri-Logo card. It was never packaged on a Canadian card. |
Comments: Though not usually the topic of many conversations, the Imperial Gunner figure is sculpted after the soldiers who worked the weapons of the second death Star and not the first. Eagle-eyed star Wars fans will note that the guys operating the big laser in A new Hope wore large padded chest plates, where the ones in Return Of The Jedi, just like this dude, did their evil in non-restrictive black jumpsuits. Major Variations: Though all vintage figures have minor variations, the Imperial Gunner action figure has no known major variations. Endor Blaster This weapon was moulded in many shades of gray and blue/gray, as well as black plastic using at least three slightly different sculpts. All the gray and blue/gray versions can be found with the AT-ST Driver, Princess Leia Organa (In Combat Poncho), and B-Wing Pilot action figures. The Black accessory was only included with the Imperial Gunner and A-Wing Pilot (both Power Of The Force and Droids versions). Text & Photography by D. Martin Myatt. |
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"I Tracked the Lindbergh Kidnapper"
[Editor's Update: March 1, 2017] 85 years ago, the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped. Here is the story of the amateur sleuth who cracked the case.
On April 2, 1932, one month after his infant son had been taken from his nursery bed, aviator Charles Lindbergh helped deliver $50,000 in ransom to a dark figure in a Manhattan cemetery. The man gave directions to where the child could be found, then stepped back into the darkness and disappeared.
Investigators had neither a suspect nor a trail to follow. The only evidence from the kidnapping were 13 ransom notes, a chisel found outside the Lindbergh home, and a homemade ladder the kidnapper had used to reach the second-story nursery window and take the infant.
Police couldn't even obtain evidence from the recovered child because the baby was not where the kidnapper indicated. In fact, Charles Lindbergh Jr. wasn't even alive. He'd been killed on the night of the kidnapping and found about two months later.
For the next 29 months, the police were no closer to arresting the man who had abducted the infant son of America's favorite hero. But one man was quietly pursuing his own investigation and making steady, slow progress toward finding the kidnapper. His story, which he told in his Post article, "Who Made That Ladder?" recounted his years of effort tracking down the man who abducted Charles Lindbergh Jr.
Arthur Koehler worked at the government's Forest Products Laboratory in Wisconsin, researching new commercial uses for wood. Two months after the kidnapping, investigators from the New Jersey State Police brought him wood samples from the ladder and asked him what he could learn from them.
He quickly identified the wood as North Carolina pine. Through a microscope, he could tell the ladder had been fashioned with a plane that had a dull, chipped blade.
He noticed that the vertical rails had been previously used for something else. Holes spaced 16 inches apart showed where a square-cut nail had been driven through the board, then later pulled out.
For months, Koehler studied these pieces, particularly the slight undulations in the wood produced when the board was made at the sawmill. He concluded that the board could only have been made with a certain configuration of cutting tools. So, for the next year, he visited dozens of lumber mills, looking for the one that made boards with that unique pattern.
He finally found it in a small town in South Carolina. The mill owners told him they had shipped wood that matched the ladder sample to 42 lumberyards. So Koehler began a new search. All through 1933, he traveled to scores of cities, ruling out lumberyards with wood that didn't match the ladder's North Carolina pine.
Finally, in December 1933, he came to the National Lumber & Millwork Company in the Bronx. Yes, the yard foreman told him, they had received a shipment of pine from the South Carolina mill, but that was years ago. It had all been sold long ago.
However, the foreman recalled using some wood from that shipment to build a storage bin. He pulled off a piece of wood from the bin and handed it to Koehler, who quickly pulled out his magnifying glass. "One look was enough!" he wrote. "This made me positive the ladder rails had been a part of a small shipment of 2,263 feet of one-by-four-inch lumber to this Bronx firm."
The next step was to find who had bought the wood. Unfortunately, all sales at the lumberyard were cash only. They had no receipts that might carry the name of the buyer.
So this was it, Koehler assumed. This was as far as he could go. He could trace the ladder's wood to a lumberyard but no farther.
While Koehler was learning this from the foreman, two men walked up to the lumberyard's sales counter. One held out a $10 bill to pay for a 40-cent piece of plywood. But when he saw Koehler, he suddenly changed his mind and left, leaving the wood behind. Thinking the men were acting suspiciously, the foreman went out into the street to get the license number of the car as the men drove away. He had recognized one of the two men, he told Koehler. It was a former employee of the lumberyard, Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
Nine months later, the FBI arrested Hauptmann after he passed some of the ransom money at a gas station. Investigators immediately searched his property and found a box of the ransom money in Hauptmann's garage.
When Koehler was called to the house, he found a wood plane that made the planing marks on the ladder. More important, he discovered that some flooring boards had been pulled from the joists in the attic. These boards had the same grain pattern and age as the ladder's wood. He then placed a section of the ladder over the nail holes in the joists: they matched perfectly.
Koehler's testimony proved invaluable the next year when Hauptmann was tried and convicted.
Reading through his testimony, we found an interesting point that Koehler didn't make in his article; he conducted his investigation—two years of inquiries, testing, and travel—using only his own time and money.


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Good morning America and good evening to World-Famous Freddie Roach because it is 11 PM in General Santos City in the Philippines. It is very gracious of him to join us – he has a 4:30 AM run with Manny Thursday morning.
We are just 10 days from Macau – Manny Pacquiao and Brandon Rios in a 12-round welterweight battle which will be headlining a live five-bout pay-per-view card on November 23 beginning at 9 PM ET / 6 PM PT. Also joining us on the call is Hall of Fame Promoter Bob Arum who is in Las Vegas.
BOB AUM: I just got up, but listen, I'm in better shape than Freddie because he is ready to go to bed – he has to get up early in the morning. So I am not going to waste any time – I'll give it back to you.
FREDDIE ROACH: Training camp has been going great. We have been sparring very well. We have six rounds to spar tomorrow and four rounds on Saturday then we are going to head to Macau Monday afternoon after training. We are 90% ready. We have the game plan down. We know how we are going to fight Brandon Rios. He's a taller guy and we have been watching the tapes of his last 10 fights. We have a great game plan and Manny knows how to fight this fighter and I believe it's going to be a great night for the Philippines.
Freddie, I understand you gave Manny the day off today, is he looking that good?
FREDDIE ROACH: He is doing really good. He had a great run in the morning. He did a lot of sprints and had a great run. When he came into the gym, he looked a little tired and I said, "you know Manny, you can take the day off. Go home and get some rest." I think what has happened here is weighing on his mind so I gave him the day off since he had the great run and we can pick it back up tomorrow.
Do you have heightened anticipation since Manny is coming off back-to-back losses?
FREDDIE ROACH: I think it is a situation where he has to look impressive in this fight and we are doing everything possible to do that. We have Manny's mind on the right path I believe. He knows he has to look impressive in the fight and he knows Brandon Rios is coming off of a loss also. We can't give into him at all in this fight.
After watching what Ruslan Provodnikov has done to his opponents, how do you feel about the rough sparring sessions Manny had with him?
FREDDIE ROACH: He always did real well and Manny handles Ruslan in the beginning of the sparring. But then Ruslan, of course, learned how to fight Manny. It was great work for both guys and I don't think it was too hard on Manny. We had two sparring partners, four actually, but two left. We have had tough guys because Rios is a tough kid. We cut the sparring down quite a bit – we average about 150 rounds but now we do 110 – we didn't need the wear and tear at this point in his career.
So the typhoon did not touch you guys. Has Manny been thinking about this great tragedy and has it affected training?
FREDDIE ROACH: Training has been going well and he's trying to keep his focus on boxing but I did talk to Manny today about it and on Sunday we took some trainers and other fighters down to visit the kids in Baguio, but for him to go down there now, it's way too close to the fight and he needs to buckle down and stay in the gym for the moment.
How do you feel Rios will be in the fight? Do you still feel he will charge forward?
FREDDIE ROACH: The more I see of Rios in the tapes the better I feel. He's just a tough guy and tough guys don't win fights. Manny can outbox him and he can do it with ease.
Have you seen anything in camp that would show you he has slipped a little bit? To put the knockout behind him?
FREDDIE ROACH: He has definitely put the knockout behind him. Manny Pacquiao knows that the knockout is part of the sport. He realizes that if you aren't able to handle the knockout you picked the wrong sport. He is totally recovered and is brave as ever in the ring. We had a good session on Tuesday – we went eight-rounds with two tough guys – one a little bit bigger and one a little bit stronger – and Manny's doing great.
What do you say to the skeptics that say this is the end for Manny Pacquiao?
FREDDIE ROACH: Well, Manny was fighting one of the best fights he has fought in a long time. At the time he fell into the punch- those things happen. Whether it was a lucky punch, Marquez was throwing a lot of punches. The thing, in that fight, if Manny had waited one second more, Manny was going to win that fight by knockout. Nothing carried over. Manny has looked great in training. I know people are skeptical about him but knockouts are what they are. Manny Pacquiao is a realist. He understands it is part of the sport. He's been knocked out twice before – I remember him showing me the tapes when we first started working together and I said, "I don't want to see those knockouts. You know what happened." So he accepts that and I don't think it's going to affect him AT ALL. But we probably won't know until the fight.
Do you feel it is overblown? Everyone except the judges thought Manny beat Bradley then the one punch against Marquez. We could be sitting here saying Manny won his last two fights…
FREDDIE ROACH: Definitely. That's why I don't think it will bother him any. He does realize that it is part of the sport. To be honest with you, when I was knocked out for the first time, it changed my whole career, because I was never as brave as Manny. I loft my self confidence. But Manny is not like me. Manny is a realist and he accepts it. I know everybody doesn't think the same way, but since he accepts it, it doesn't bother him.
Can you talk about the time difference?
FREDDIE ROACH: Well, we get up early in the morning and we are running then we train in the afternoon and we are getting him used to having two meals before the fight and I think that's a big factor, as long as he gets those two meals in him it shouldn't be too much of a problem. We'll be ready to fight. We are in the same time zone as China, in the Philippines so we don't have to worry about that change. We do get up at 4 o'clock in the morning and we're on the road by 4:30. We get a meal in him in the morning then a small lunch before the afternoon workout and it's been working out really well.
As a Congressman, has the disaster distracted Manny even though it was not near, has he gotten calls? Meetings or conference calls?
FREDDIE ROACH: We have had a lot of calls about the tragedy of course. We talk about it in the gym a little bit with the other trainers and taking the people down like we did in Baguio. He told me he wanted to go down on Sunday but it's too close to the fight for him to take any time off and we talked about that. He is focused on the fight still but obviously it is a big distraction because it killed all of those people. We do talk about it in the gym – about how many people got killed in the storm and how many more have been affected. He is concerned about it yes, very much, but I think we have him pretty much on track on the fight. He knows it's a big fight and he knows it's a must-win situation and it's bigger than that because he has to win for the country also, not just his boxing career, he knows he has to win for the people and he told me that yesterday. They seem to be inspiring each other.
What was the weather in General Santos City during the storm?
FREDDIE ROACH: It was very unusual. It was sunny and hot. We got a little bit of rain that evening but that was it – no wind. It didn't come in our direction at all.
You had said there would be fewer distractions training in General Santos City, how as that worked out?
FREDDIE ROACH: We have a nice gym and we tried to close it down but there are a lot of people that try to slip in and we had a lot more relatives this week than we did last. The people still love to see Manny Pacquiao. We work out on the third floor of a building and they have big windows and a lot of people watch from the streets to get a glimpse of Manny moving around the ring and so forth. But as far as politics go, those people didn't come until the storm hit the other day. Of course that was tragic and Manny does care about people and he's been doing all he can from here but for the fight though, up until that point, we had a very good training camp and we probably haven't had as many people in the gym as we have in Hollywood, but there have been a lot of reporters but that comes with being a big-time boxer. We do the best we can and the closer the fight gets the more we have to work on that.
How difficult is it for you to be far away from your other fighters – Martirosyan and Provodnikov – who had recent fights?
FREDDIE ROACH: I tried as best that I could to work with my assistant and he did a great job with them. Both fighters are very close to Manny. Manny will be real happy to see them and they are both coming to the fight. For people that were saying I was washed up, I think we are going to have three wins in a row and I will be in contention for Trainer of the Year – and Fighter of the Year – again. The thing is, Manny is in great shape for this fight. I expect big things out of Manny in this fight.
Alvarado became more of a boxer in his second fight, a win, against Rios. Is that something you pick up on?
FREDDIE ROACH: Of course, I watch a lot of tapes. When you fight a taller guy you fight much different that when you fight a shorter guy and Manny is a bit shorter so I have to depend on how he fights us so he will throw more uppercuts against a shorter guy. The first fight obviously he looked great and he stopped him. In the second fight he got outboxed and I told Manny, "That's how you beat this guy, you outbox him. You don't trade with this guy. You just weave in and out and the fight will be easy.'" We have the game plan down perfectly. I know he is a tough guy but tough guys don't win fights. Good boxers win fights.
Do you know who the officials will be for this fight?
FREDDIE ROACH: I got the list from Mike Koncz the other day and I am familiar with all three, all four, and we have no problem with the judges. I don't remember the names but I am happy with all of them.
Does the fact that Alvarado beat Rios and Provodnikov beat up Alvarado and Provodnikov sparred with Manny bode well for Manny?
FREDDIE ROACH: Manny and Ruslan sparred together and are good friends. When they sparred it was great work for each other. Neither would get beat up and I would never let that happen. Manny got the best of Ruslan and obviously he's a tough kid and a very strong puncher but Manny has been sparring with bigger guys for this because Rios is going to be a little bit bigger but it's the first time he'll be fighting at 147 but he was a fat guy and did have to lose weight. He's moving up to 147 and still had to lose weight. That tells you what kind of discipline he has and I think we are going to take advantage of that.
How do you think the fight will go and how long do you think it will go?
FREDDIE ROACH: I think Manny is going to outbox him and knock him out inside six rounds.
Would you have the retirement discussion if he wins but struggles?
FREDDIE ROACH: I think Manny will outbox this guy and end the fight early – he has more speed and power but that all depends on how the fight goes. If Manny boxes a good fight and does well and he gets a bad decision then we'd have to sit down and talk about it. But it's really hard to say until we see the fight. If I see he is slowing down and slipping in the fight I will be the first one to tell him. We have an agreement that I will tell him that and he will retire. I don't see him slipping in the gym at this moment and he's doing really well. He's fired up and anxious to get back in the ring and I see good things. If things don't go well we will talk about retirement and going into politics full time or something like that.
FREDDIE ROACH: Rios was at 135 and had to lose weight. He went to 140 and had to lose weight and now he's at 147 and has to lose weight. But I am pretty much worried about getting my fighter ready for the fight. Obviously I see clips of Rios training and so forth and he's wearing clothes to create more sweat all the time and you wonder why he's wearing that, but that's not my job. That's his trainer's job so I don't worry about that.
What do you do next after a win?
FREDDIE ROACH: We wanted to fight Marquez but Marquez refused to fight us. We want Marquez one more time, yes. That's the fight we want. Mayweather too of course, but Marquez, he got lucky and we want to take that back.
In Closing…
FREDDIE ROACH: Manny is in great shape and we are ready to fight right now at this moment. Right now he is below weight by a little bit. He was on weight a month before the fight and Rios wasn't but we'll see him in the ring and see who the best boxer is.
Promoted by Top Rank® and Sands China Ltd., in association with MP Promotions, Tecate, Warner Bros. Pictures "Grudge Match," and Eva Airlines, Pacquiao vs. Rios will take place Saturday, November 23, at The Venetian® Macao's CotaiArena™. It will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View®, beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET / 6:00 p.m. PT.
For Pacquiao, this marks the pound-for-pound box office monarch's first fight outside the U.S. since his 12-round super featherweight unanimous decision victory over former world champion Oscar Larios in 2006, which took place in the Philippines. Rios, one of boxing's most exciting fighters, has only fought outside the U.S. twice, in México, winning a 10-round split decision over Ricardo Dominguez and knocking out Daniel Valenzuela in the second round in 2008 and 2009, respectively. .
HBO Sports' groundbreaking "24/7" reality franchise, which has captured 17 Sports Emmy® Awards, is providing an all-access pass to Pacquiao vs. Rios. Episodes two and three of "24/7 Pacquiao/Rios" premiere in prime time Saturday, Nov. 16 (9:30 p.m.) and Thursday, Nov. 21 (10:00 p.m.), just two days before the welterweight showdown.
For fight updates go to www.toprank.com or www.hbo.com/boxing, on Facebook at facebook.com/trboxing, facebook.com/trboxeo or facebook.com/hboboxing and on Twitter at twitter.com/trboxing, twitter.com/trboxeo, and twitter.com/hboboxing. Use the Hashtag #PacRios to join the conversation on Twitter.R
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Even before Mitt Romney tapped Rep. Paul Ryan to be his running mate Saturday, the congressman's aggressive, often controversial budget plans had made him a lightning rod in congressional races across the country.
Now that he's on the ticket with Romney, Ryan and his trail of budget blueprints will play an outsize role in races down the ballot and across the country. Republicans say Ryan is the smartest numbers guy in the business, and they're ready for what they call "a knife fight" over Medicare, while Democrats are not so silently asking themselves what they ever did right to deserve Ryan as the GOP's vice-presidential nominee.
"Is this what Christmas morning feels like?" said Jesse Ferguson, communications director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, describing how he reacted to the news of the Ryan pick. "We wanted a national debate on this, and Romney just gave us one."
"This" is the Ryan budget, a catch-all phrase for a series of budget proposals the Wisconsin congressman has introduced over the last three years, all of which have as key components tax cuts, major cuts in government spending, and a proposal to move Medicare from an entitlement to a "premium-support" program, with the government giving seniors who are 55 now money to buy their own insurance but no pocket change to pay for things like copays and deductibles.
Ryan's latest budget would make the Medicare switch optional for seniors, but the details of the ambitious agenda have been lost in the sprint to define Ryan and his plans for America's grannies.
Doug Thornell, a former top aide to the DCCC and Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), said that with the Ryan pick, Romney has given Democrats in House and Senate races a chance to run on the one issue they have always believed could be an Achilles' heel for Republicans.
"We know this budget as well as any piece of policy out there. It's been digested, it's been tested. These are ideas that have tested poorly for years," Thornell said.
While the Ryan budget is not particularly well known outside Washington, when voters are asked about the changes to Medicare that Ryan has proposed, "It's not just a negative," said Thornell. "It's the top negative, it's through the roof even in GOP districts. No matter how you slice it, it's just unpopular with voters. It sinks like a lead balloon."
But Republicans counter that Democrats would have tried to tie Romney to the Ryan plan anyway, and in the affable congressman the GOP is putting its best budget spokesman forward in an election cycle when the economy already dominates voters' minds.
"House Republicans have been engaged in a debate on President Obama's record of debt and deficit spending for nearly four years now," said Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), who is running campaign strategy for House GOP hopefuls. "Our historic victories in 2010 were a rebuke of the Democrats' failures to put the economy back on track. There is no better surrogate to again help us lead this debate than our House colleague and friend, Chairman Paul Ryan."
But the devil has always been in the details of the Ryan budget, and hours after Romney announced his pick, the effects were already rippling across down-ticket races in Democratic territory and toss-up contests.
In swing districts like Virginia's 2nd, the DCCC immediately shot out press releases seeking to tie GOP candidates to Ryan and his budget. "Congressman Scott Rigell (VA-02) has a new running mate: Congressman Paul Ryan's Republican budget that ends Medicare," Democrats wrote.
In Connecticut, where Linda McMahon is fighting for the GOP nod to replace retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut Mirror's front page led with the headline "Ryan Pick Brings Trouble for Connecticut Republicans."
McMahon's campaign told the paper, "Linda McMahon will never support a budget that cuts Medicare," while a spokesman for Republican Andrew Roraback, who is running in the Fifth District House race, said the Ryan budget "had parts [Roraback] likes and parts he doesn't like."
A slew of polls show that Ryan's budget could be quicksand for Republican candidates if voters believe he would end Medicare or change retirees' benefits. All but four current House members voted to approve the details of the Ryan budget, while Democrats will make sure the rest of the GOP hopefuls take a stand on it one way or another.
The latest Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that 79 percent of registered voters oppose reducing Medicare benefits. A Democracy Corps battle ground poll called the Ryan budget "the last straw" for swing voters in Republican congressional districts, with 72 percent of seniors and 60 percent of independents saying they have very serious or serious doubts about a Ryan plan that would put more of the cost of Medicare on seniors.
Democrats point to special elections in New York and Arizona as examples where the Medicare issue worked powerfully for their candidates, including in New York's Republican-leaning 26th District, where Democrats Kathy Hochul won a three-way race in which the Ryan budget popped up as a key issue, and in Arizona's 8th District, where Ron Barber, a former aide to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, hammered his Republican opponent's position on phasing out Medicare.
But the Democracy Corps poll also showed that if voters are told that Republicans are trying to "save Medicare" from the bankruptcy that all agree is looming for the bloated program, 52 percent support the changes.
At the House and Senate level, Republican campaign aides acknowledge privately there's no use avoiding the details of the Ryan budget. Instead they are urging their candidates to take the Medicare issue head on so that they can move onto better ground on jobs and the economy.
"You have a knife fight on Medicare and we're ready to do that," a top GOP aide said. "We know what the attacks are going to be, and we'll have a strategy of attacking and inoculating."
Specifically, Republicans are already attacking Democrats on the $500 billion in cuts to the growth of Medicare included in the president's health care reform bill, while telling their candidates to frame the Ryan budget as saving Medicare for future generations.
That's how Republican Rep. Mark Amodei framed his position the latest special election for Nevada's Second District—attacking his Democratic opponent for supporting health-care reform and releasing an ad that featured his own mother saying Amodei would fight to protect Medicare benefits for seniors.
But the one person who does not seem ready for a knife fight on Medicare or a battle over the Ryan budget is Ryan's new boss. At a stop in St. Augustine, Fla., on Monday, Romney assured a capacity crowd that he and Ryan "want to make sure that we preserve and protect Medicare."
And during their first joint interview with CBS's Bob Schieffer, Romney shut down any talk about his new running mate's old budget proposals, though he did attack the Affordable Care Act's cuts to Medicare.
"Well, I have my budget plan as you know that I've put out," Romney said. "And that's the budget plan that we're going to run on."


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The Brotherband Chronicles #6: The Ghostfaces
The thrilling sixth installment of the bestselling Brotherband series from John Flanagan, author of the worldwide phenomenon Ranger's Apprentice
When the Brotherband crew are caught in a massive storm at sea, they're blown far off course and wash up on the shores of a land so far west that Hal can't recognize it from any of his maps. Eerily, the locals are nowhere in sight, yet the Herons have a creeping feeling they are being watched. Suddenly the silence is broken when a massive, marauding bear appears, advancing on two children. The crew springs into action and rescues the children from the bear's clutches, which earns them the gratitude and friendship of the local Mawagansett tribe, who finally reveal themselves. But the peace is short-lived. The Ghostfaces, a ruthless, warlike tribe who shave their heads and paint their faces white, are on the warpath once more. It's been ten years since they raided the Mawagansett village, but they're coming back to pillage and reap destruction. As the enemy approaches, the Herons gear up to help their new friends repel an invasion.


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Ancestral Territory
Wiyot ancestral territory extended from Little River near Trinidad to Bear River Ridge near Scotia, and east to Berry Summit and Chalk Mountain. The region supported in a pre contact Wiyot population estimated at between 1500 and 2000. However this population declined to approximately 200 after 1860, the 100 by 1910, the result of disease, resource depletion, slavery, displacement, and genocide.
The first recorded "discovery" of Humboldt Bay by Europeans was in 1806 by Captain Jonathan Winship. Sustained contact began in 1849 when Josiah Gregg journeyed overland to Humboldt Bay. His party of expolorers was met by Wiyot headman Ki-we-lat-tah on the day following their arrival at Humboldt Bay. According to L. K. Wood, Ki-we-lat-tah and his family rowed across the bay to greet the party of explorers, welcoming them with a feast of clams and providing them with "every means of comfort in his power."
It was the discovery of gold in 1849 that brought white settlement to the Bay, and resulted in the destruction of Wiyot people and culture. The ensuing, "Indian troubles" culminated in a series of massacres February 26, 1860, the most infamous at Tuluwat on Indian Island in Humboldt Bay.
Annual World Renewal Ceremony Massacre
The Wiyot people had gathered at the traditional site for the annual World Renewal Ceremony, which lasted seven to ten days. At night, the men would replenish supplies, leaving the elders, women and children sleeping and resting. Under cover of darkness, local men armed with hatchets and knives rowed to the Island and brutally murdered nearly all the sleeping Wiyot. Estimates of the dead ranged from 80 to 250 in that night's series of orchestrated massacres.
Jerry James, a known survivor of the 1860 massacre
Although the white men involved were locally known, no charges were ever filed. Remaining Wiyot temporarily took refuge at Fort Humboldt (where nearly one half died of exposure and starvation), and later were forcibly relocated to reservations at Klamath, then after a devastating flood in 1862, to Hoopa, Smith River, and Round Valley.
Walking in Two Worlds
The Wiyot people did not disappear, and attempted to return to their homeland. Often, they found their homes destroyed and lands taken. Wiyot cultural practices and language were discouraged by official policies of "acculturation." Wiyot people learned to work and live within the white community, effectively "walking in two worlds." Wiyot people often went to white schools, married European immigrants, and helped to build the timber, fishing and agricultural industries.
Old Reservation
In the early 1900s, a church group purchased twenty acres in the Eel River estuary for homeless Wiyot people. The Federal Government later transferred this land into trust status in 1908. This land became known as the Table Bluff Rancheria of Wiyot Indians, now referred to as the "Old Reservation."
Tribe Status
In 1961, the California Rancheria Act terminated the legal status of the tribe, and the Wiyot effectively became non-Indians Indians. In 1975, the Tribe filed suit against the Federal Government for unlawful termination, and in 1981 federal recognition and trust status was reinstated in Table Bluff Indians versus Lujan (United States). In 1991, during another lawsuit regarding drinking water contamination and other sanitation issues on the Old Reservation, the court mandated new land be purchased and the Tribe moved to the present 88 acre Table Bluff Reservation. The original twenty acres were put into fee simple ownership under individual families, but still are under the Tribe's jurisdiction as long as held in Indian hands. The two resrvations are within one mile of each other.
The Tribe Today
The Tribe is now 600 members strong and growing. Wiyot people are actively recovering the old ways, including language, ceremony, and lifeways. At the same time, they acquire new trades and skills, graduate from college, become artists, doctors, lawyers, teachers, and professionals in a variety of fields. The Tribe is also dedicated to preserving native history and the cultural material of their ancestors. This includes the ancient village sites and shell middens that surround Humboldt Bay, occupy terraces above the waterways, and are being discovered along the ridge lines used for seasonal camps, travel, and trade. Pieces of long forgotten native history are emerging, both from professional and archaelogical investigation and from family memories and records. Much has been lost or destroyed, however there is also much that is "coming home."


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SAN JOSE (AP) — The San Jose Sharks are close to being a complete team again even without a couple of stars still over at the Olympics.
The Sharks returned to practice Wednesday for the first time since the Olympic break with a couple of key players back in the fold.
Star forward Logan Couture was back on the ice along with previously injured forwards Raffi Torres, Tyler Kennedy and Matt Nieto as San Jose hopes to field a mostly healthy team for the final 23 games of the regular season.
Despite a litany of injuries, the Sharks are still fifth in the league in points with 80 and are seven points behind first-place Anaheim in the Pacific Division with one game in hand.
"We could be putting a group of players on the ice together for the first time this season," coach Todd McLellan said. "That can be a real good thing. It will also have to be a patient thing for our group. They are going to experience that level that they haven't been at yet. But we do have about six weeks to put it all together before we get to the real time of the year."
San Jose was without a few key cogs with forwards Patrick Marleau and Joe Pavelski, defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic and starting goalie Antti Niemi still in Sochi for the Olympics. Those players won't rejoin the team until next Wednesday in Philadelphia when the team holds its final practice before beginning the stretch run the following night against the Flyers.
The one key player the Sharks will be missing then as they try to catch Anaheim is rookie forward Tomas Hertl, who may not be back this season from a knee injury.
But the return of Couture and Torres especially should give the Sharks three dangerous lines that will be necessary if they are to make a long playoff run.
"I think with the exception of Hertl I think we're going to have the healthiest lineup we've had since the start of the year," said defenseman Dan Boyle, who used the time off to help heal his injured thumb. "That's good for us. This is going to be the team that's going to be taking us to the next level down the stretch."
Couture, fourth on the team with 35 points, missed the final 16 games before the break with a hand injury. While San Jose managed to win 10 games without one of its top forwards, the offense was severely impacted. The Sharks scored just 1.94 goals per game in Couture's absence, compared to 3.14 in the first 43 games, as the team lacked scoring depth.
Pavelski scored 11 of the 31 goals in Couture's absence but now may be able to move back to being a third-line center, which creates major mismatches for opposing teams.
"It was nice to see guys step up," Couture said. "When Pav was going real well there, it was unbelievable to watch, night in and night out. Even as a fan I felt just to see him play that well was pretty cool. A lot of guys stepped up and helped the team win games when we weren't necessarily playing our best. We found ways and it's good to see."
Torres, who provided a major spark when he was acquired at last season's trade deadline, has been out all season with a torn ACL in his right knee.
Kennedy missed the final five games before the break with a lower-body injury, while Nieto sat the last two with an injured foot.
The Sharks got fourth-line forward Adam Burish back from a season-long back injury for the final two games before the break as the team is starting to get a look at what kind of roster it has before the trade deadline March 5.
Couture back on ice for Sharks


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A few hours after the Israeli military assassinated Hamas's spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, I entered the classroom in order to teach my politics of human rights course. Everyone had already heard about the extra-judicial execution, so I asked my students whether they felt safer. The response was unanimous: they all felt more vulnerable.
A day later, Ephraim Halevy, former director of Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, stated on Israeli television that in the near future the terrorist threat would certainly increase. It would take a while, he argued, before the situation would return to the level it had been prior to the assassination and that in the long run the threat was unlikely to decrease as a result of the execution.
Considering that Yassin's assassination will exacerbate the violence in the region and thus further endanger Israeli citizens, one might ask why the government authorized the operation.
Israeli commentator Oded Granot seems to have an answer.
A day following the assassination, he noted that the Hamas and Fatah (the largest party within the Palestinian Authority) were on the verge of reaching a cooperation agreement regarding the distribution of authority in the Gaza Strip. The two major political factions in the Strip wanted to ensure that there would be no internal strife and that joint control would be assumed over the region if Prime Minister Sharon went ahead with his plan to dismantle the Jewish settlements and withdraw Israel's troops. Israeli officials, Granot added, feared that if such an agreement was signed then the Bush Administration would veto all Hamas assassinations. Israel consequently decided not to take any chances and killed Yassin.
Even if Granot is right, the question regarding the Israeli government's objective still stands.
One explanation is based on the assumption that Sharon actually intends to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and that he killed Yassin in order to advance this end. This view is informed by three major hypotheses.
First, "Sharon does not want to replicate his predecessor's mistake." Unlike Israel's rapid withdrawal from southern Lebanon, which many conceived as an act of defeat and cowardice, Sharon wants to create the impression that Israel's withdrawal from Gaza is in no way a result of pressure applied by the Hamas. Accordingly, the assassination is both a symbolic act and an attempt to weaken Hamas's infrastructure. One may accordingly expect that in the coming months the Israeli military will accelerate its operations in the Gaza Strip.
Second, Sharon hopes that Yassin's assassination will help him garner support within his own Likud party, both because his popularity is waning and because many of allies are against any withdrawal from Gaza. The execution of the Hamas leader, whose group is responsible for hundreds of Israeli deaths, demonstrates to Sharon's political partners that he is still "attuned to Israel's security needs and will not hesitate to use all the means necessary to ensure it." The new Sharon is still the old Sharon.
Finally, according to this explanation the attack's objective was to create chaos in the Gaza Strip so that following the withdrawal internal strife between the Palestinian factions would erupt.
Those who think that Sharon authorized Yassin's assassination in order to abandon his withdrawal proposal also employ this last point. Sharon, according to this explanation, hopes to use the chaos he has engendered and the violent reaction that will surely follow as a pretence for keeping Israeli troops and settlements in the Strip.
While only the future will tell which explanation is more accurate, Yassin's assassination has a number of direct effects.
It will certainly lead to a series of bloody attacks against targets within Israel and perhaps even abroad. While the Hamas's ability to strike against Israelis has in no way been jeopardized, the perpetrators' will to carry out attacks is surely much greater than it was before the execution.
In addition, the assassination has widely broadened the frontiers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by accentuating its religious dimension. Muslims from Jakarta to Cairo have vowed to avenge the cleric's death.
While these two effects have been mentioned in the media, commentators have ignored that the Israeli attack will likely deal a harsh blow to the recent emergence of a Palestinian non-violent resistance movement. The three-and-a-half year-old Palestinian uprising, known as the Intifada, began changing its character about two months ago: from a struggle based on violent resistance led by relatively small groups of militants to a massive non-violent grassroots movement.
The impetus for this mobilization is the rapid erection of the separation wall. The protesters use the same techniques developed by Ghandi and Martin Luther King, with hundreds of demonstrators standing or lying in front of bulldozers, chanting songs and waving flags. Although the military has been ordered to disperse the protesters, using tear gas, clubs, and, at times, even bullets, every day in the past weeks more and more Palestinians (alongside a few Israelis and internationals) have joined the ranks. For a moment it appeared that the Palestinians had adopted a tenable strategy which could actually threaten Israel's occupation.
Yassin's assassination will probably weaken the non-violent resistance and empower those who favor violent retaliation against Israel. Thus, ironically, Israel's operation has actually strengthened the legitimacy of Hamas's military wing.
NEVE GORDON teaches politics at Ben-Gurion University and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
A different version of this article appeared in In These Times.


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May 3, 2011
Where to Buy Dress Forms and How To Alter Them
87 comments:
Oh my gosh this is wonderful,, I love this,,thankyou for sharing,,
- May 3, 2011 at 11:11 PM
- Lori @ Katies Rose Cottage Designs said...
Carol ~
I love your dress forms ~
Thank you for sharing your ideas and also where you got them ~
Lori - May 3, 2011 at 11:22 PM
- Gypsea Nurse said...
Girl~ you need to start selling these beauties you create!
GORGEOUS I say!!!
Cat - May 3, 2011 at 11:29 PM
- Libby@LightoftheHome said...
Wow, I didn't know you could purchase those. I love the way you transform them! Thanks for the post! Found you through Wow Us Wednesdays!
- May 3, 2011 at 11:43 PM
- Linda @ Itsy Bits And Pieces said...
Carol, these are SO fun! Thanks for the info and tutorial, too!
- May 3, 2011 at 11:57 PM
- E said...
This is a great idea! Thanks for sharing all the info, I like your idea of printing those great graphics onto the sheet music. The whole thing is just wonderful. E in TN
- May 4, 2011 at 12:12 AM
- Sherrie said...
Gorgeousness! oh! ah! Love it!
- May 4, 2011 at 12:45 AM
- Mary said...
Oh my gosh Carol, I have been wanting one of these which seems like forever.....Thank you so much for sharing! I am heading over there now! I love your idea with the sheet music and graphics...I so enjoy coming to your blog, you have the most wonderful creations!!! Have a wonderful week and thank you for sharing! Mary
- May 4, 2011 at 2:45 AM
- Unknown said...
I'm going for sure! I love the printing graphics on the old music.
Thanks! - May 4, 2011 at 5:04 AM
- Ricki Treleaven said...
These are so cool, Carol. I think it would be fun to have one to display costume jewelry. :D
- May 4, 2011 at 7:06 AM
- Ruffles n Raspberries said...
Good morning Carol, thanks so much for sharing your little secret! I'll have to check it out. I've only seen the wire ones at Hobby Lobby.. and I refuse to pay $50+. Thanks again, Sherri
- May 4, 2011 at 7:07 AM
- PAINTORDIG.blogspot.com said...
What a great idea, yours are so pretty. I like the ones with the sheetmusic.
- May 4, 2011 at 7:18 AM
- Sissie's Shabby Cottage said...
Hi Carol!
Were you reading my mind?? I have been wanting to buy one of these forms forever and couldn't find one at a reasonable price. I love how you've embellished yours, especially the sheet music paper. Oh, you are so talented girl!
I'm gettin on it right now.
Sissie - May 4, 2011 at 7:30 AM
- Marguerite (Tina) Smith Hart said...
Wow Carol you just keep out-doing yourself with wonderful ideas! I love to visit here and see what you are devising, your creativity knows no bounds. Thanks for another fabulous idea!
Tina xo - May 4, 2011 at 8:45 AM
- laxsupermom said...
Love your dress forms! Thanks for the step by step. Love the idea of printing out vintage style graphics on the sheet music! I had no idea dress forms could be so affordable. Thanks for sharing.
- May 4, 2011 at 9:29 AM
- GARAGE SALE GAL said...
Hi Carol,
You are just a wealth of creativeness...she is darling!
Got your comment about the trip up here and looking forward to it!!
deb - May 4, 2011 at 9:29 AM
- Unknown said...
Carol, how terrific that looks. I would be the one to paint the roses on it, although I don't think it would look as good as yours. thanks for the source information.
- May 4, 2011 at 9:49 AM
- Jacalyn @ rmebathproducts.com said...
Ah Carol I have been looking for a reasonably priced dress form forever!!!!!! You are just full of tips and tricks! Love what you've done with the dressforms too.
Jacalyn - May 4, 2011 at 10:01 AM
- Lisalulu said...
thank you, you are Miss Popular aren't you, as well you should be with all your fun creations!!!
- May 4, 2011 at 12:19 PM
- Unknown said...
These are gorgeous! I love them!
- May 4, 2011 at 5:04 PM
- Stevie said...
These are beautiful!!! I have some mini ones I want to alter. They're so fun. Have a lovely day! xo
- May 4, 2011 at 5:16 PM
- KimMalk said...
You come up with the most original ideas, Carol. I wouldn't have thought to order a new dress form nor would I thought of printing Graphics Fairy images right on the music. Nice!
- May 4, 2011 at 5:46 PM
- Unknown said...
I love all of them. TU soooo much for giving away another tip. I am heading to that online catalog tonite!
I am like you...love but mostly hate mod podge. Ugh!
Roselle - May 4, 2011 at 7:52 PM
- MJ said...
Carol....great minds think alike! Im still waiting to score my vintage one. But because Im doing a launch party for my jewelry line I need forms for my necklaces. I bought forms for $6...they dont have stands but hooks on the back and I covered it in dictionary pages. She is now loving known as my Book Worm Muse.
I love the different ways you altered them, I hope you will stop by and check out mine as well.
Lucky 7 Design - May 4, 2011 at 10:05 PM
- Bring Pretty Back said...
Carol, Are you sick of me telling me how incredibally ... spelled right?? hmmm...
talented you are!!!
I hope not!
Have a pretty day!
Kristin - May 4, 2011 at 10:34 PM
- Glenda @ Magnolia Bend Drive said...
I want one! She is a beauty!
- May 4, 2011 at 10:55 PM
- Stampindamour said...
You must had read my mind! I had recently bought a plastic dress form with the plans of doing this for my booth! I think I saw a photo in Mary Jane's Farm magazine? Love it! :)
-pamela - May 4, 2011 at 11:20 PM
- d e l i g h t said...
These are just wonderful! Love the one with sheet music! Thanks for sharing where to purchase them. Found you at Savvy Southern Style. I am a new follower. I invite you to visit my blog.
- May 4, 2011 at 11:35 PM
- ArtfullyJune said...
Very nice. I love the tip about the walnut ink while wet to avoid beading.
I found a shirt form that I'm going to be working on soon. Since it is clear I think I'll use kraft paper and maybe pattern on top of the paper. - May 5, 2011 at 12:47 AM
- Jacque said...
Thanks for sharing this info! I have plans for a full dress form and I'm over to their store to check them out.
Have a great productive week! - May 5, 2011 at 7:36 AM
- Rosemary@villabarnes said...
Hi Carol,
Love what you did with the dress form. Your blog is adorable. Thanks for visiting me and becoming a follower. Thanks for all the compliments. I am about to join you as well.
Rosemary - May 5, 2011 at 8:21 AM
- the old white house said...
This is brilliant!! You are so sweet to pass on all of the info. about the store... I bet they look great in your booth Carol, I love the one with the music paper. Thank you for sharing all of the inside scoop! xoxoxo
- May 5, 2011 at 8:57 AM
- Etcetorize said...
Sooooo pretty! I love the idea of printing graphics onto sheet music, just adds that extra touch of character to the form. Great project~
- May 5, 2011 at 9:58 AM
- Rebecca Nelson said...
Fabulous girlyfriend...FABULOUS! I have a weakness for dress forms and mannequins. I almost can't pass one up. It's starting to feel like a department store in my home...EEEK!
xoRebecca - May 5, 2011 at 11:23 AM
- Our Hopeful Home said...
I can't wait to do this! Thanks for such detailed instructions!
- May 5, 2011 at 11:32 AM
- Tara said...
Oh my gosh Carol, these are so beautiful! Especially the sheet music form. I am definitely going to have to follow the link and check this out. They would be fun my booth too, probably to sell or possibly use to display scarves. Thanks!
- May 5, 2011 at 8:09 PM
- Stephanie ~ Angelic Accents said...
Your dressforms are gorgeous! I didn't see how it could get any better than the music sheeted one, but then you went and showed the starched roses one....sigh....DOUBLE Sigh....
I fabric-ed a full size dressform using spray adhesive for my mother a few Christmases ago and it was TONS of work, but she loves it. I have never tackled doing another one for myself but I do have a small collection of premade ones. You should look on my Past Blog Party tab under my blog header picture to go to the DressForm Party that I participated in to see mine!
Big TX Hugs,
Angelic Accents - May 5, 2011 at 8:27 PM
- Vicki said...
Carol this is AMAZING. Great job and thank you so much for sharing with all of us.
- May 5, 2011 at 8:44 PM
- JaninaCakes said...
This is awesome, and is on my "wish list". Thank you for sharing your transformation.
- May 5, 2011 at 10:55 PM
- Debbie said...
I don't even have nice things to display on it, and I would still want one just for me. I have to send this link to a lady I know who sells jewelry. Fabulous.
- May 6, 2011 at 6:51 AM
- Jane said...
Hi Carol,
Great post!! Barr Display won't know what hit them :)
The dress form turned out awesome, I love the old sheet music. Thanks for all of the tips and for the information about where to purchase.
Have a great weekend.
Jane - May 6, 2011 at 8:46 AM
- Susan @ Second Chances by Susan said...
You did a beautiful job! So many possibilities! I was in the market for a dress form a while ago and couldn't find one. I ended up making one from a floor lamp and various metal baskets. You can check it out if you want.
http://secondchancesbysusan.blogspot.com/2011/01/homemade-dress-form.html - May 6, 2011 at 2:36 PM
- Debbiedoos said...
Those are so cool Carol. I missed this the other day. Lucy and I have been busy visiting pets and newbies this week. I really love this idea...I wonder if the hubs would mind this in our bedroom LOL...I think my boys would freak!
- May 6, 2011 at 3:21 PM
- Sara's Sweet Surprise said...
Hello Carol~It's soo nice catching up with you. Looks like I've timed it perfectly to get a peek at your latest creations. what an amazing transformation...both beautiful with their own personalities. I would love one with the acrylic base, but didn't find that style at the website. I just purchased a small muslin jewelery form from ETSY...it was $60. This is definitely a more frugal option with a lovely outcome.
Sweet wishes,
Sara - May 6, 2011 at 6:47 PM
Hey Carol, Yep...planning a wedding party on top of everything else and will be making and using vintage for a lot of the party decor. Love this form with that base! Thanks for sharing where you get them. How tall are they. I covered an old shelf mannequin with very vintage pattern pieces and put it in my booth. Thought it would sell right away but it hasn't yet. Funny about what you think will sell but doesn't. Happy Mother's Day.
- May 6, 2011 at 9:56 PM
Love what you did to both dress forms - really look vintage-y! Wish I was in Orlando, I would visit your booth instead of going to Disney World ;) priorities, right?! Thanks for sharing with us at Between Naps -
Redo 101 - May 8, 2011 at 10:26 PM
- Phyllis said...
You have just given me the inspiration that I need to climb into my attic this week and bring down my husband's grandmother's dress form. It is ancient but not in the best of shape and really needs a makeover. The iron stand it is on has claw feet on rollers. THANK you for showing me how gorgeous it can be, hopefully!! I adore yours!!
- May 8, 2011 at 11:35 PM
- Terry @ La Bella Vie said...
Oh my goodness I just love, love,love these...I wish they were in my house!!
I am now a Follower, I love this blog too:)
Terry - May 9, 2011 at 1:19 AM
- Scarlett said...
These are just fabulous!! You're so clever! Scarlett x
- May 9, 2011 at 8:29 AM
Simply beautiful - I love this idea : D
- May 10, 2011 at 8:08 AM
Carol would you mind if I snagged one of your photos for the dress form to show it off to my readers at WynnieBee.com? I started a new category called Check IT Out to give my readers links to new ideas on the web. Here's my email - thanks : D
wynniebee (at) gmail.com - May 10, 2011 at 8:41 AM
- abeachcottage said...
That is such a great idea. Love that you used sheet music, looks really nice. Thanks for sharing
- May 11, 2011 at 7:17 AM
I LOVE these, I went on the site you suggested and put in the number, but nothing came up. Any suggestions?
Thanks - May 11, 2011 at 3:57 PM
- Daniele Valois said...
Wow, this is just sooo sooo sooo beautiful!
- May 11, 2011 at 5:05 PM
MsJoyceG AKA sassyb95atyahoodotcom
Thought your price was reasonable .. until I looked around on the net .. Yikes $!29 was the cheapest and not as desireable as yours. Gonna think IF I HAVE SPACE for one. Yours are both WONDERFUL. Thanks for sharing with us.
MsJoyceG - May 11, 2011 at 5:56 PM
- PEACHES said...
It never would have occurred to me to print on top of vintage paper. Genius!! And what is your source for $20 busts? That's crazy cheap. I need to look into that!
Great project :) - May 11, 2011 at 6:17 PM
- Angie said...
I just found your stunning dress form on the Graphics Fairy site. I love the flowered one and the beautiful dress (wedding dress?). I wish I lived close so I could buy one without the shipping.
Thanks so much for sharing. I had to become a Follower!
Angie - May 17, 2011 at 12:03 PM
- Anita said...
This is amazing! And yes I am always on the lookout for vintage dress forms...(they go for a small fortune on Ebay) THank-you I am going to dress a few up because I know people are going to want to buy my display!
- May 17, 2011 at 12:33 PM
- Meadowlark said...
Done. Mine will look nowhere NEAR as wonderful as yours, but I'm trying it anyway. Plus, I told them they could thank you and sent the link.
Peace out - May 17, 2011 at 12:34 PM
How very generous of you to share your info on this dress form. You mention your love/hate relationship with ModPodge. I have a suggestion--try Liquitex Gloss/Varnish. Here's how you use it: 1. wet paper in a saucer/flat bowl of water 'til it relaxes 2. Remove to gluing area and paint back of paper with Liquitex 3. apply to object being decoupaged 4. coat outside of image with Liquitex 4. smooth out air bubbles 5. Let dry. If you want to darken the paper being used, add walnut dye or antiquing medium to the Liquitex. (Your hands will get coated with the Liquitex, but it peels off. If dirty hands really distress you, work with close fitting latex gloves.) I don't like ModPodge because of it's consistency. This technique takes some practice, but the results are far superior. Another glue you can use is Elmer's school glue. The Elmer's has the advantage of being water soluble and being easy to clean off of your hands. However, it must then be coated with polyurethane.
- May 17, 2011 at 10:59 PM
- smokeysmom said...
I LOVE the dress form with the vintage sheet music! And, thanks for sharing your source for the dress forms and stand (great prices!) - you are such a talented lady!
- May 18, 2011 at 12:24 AM
- The Beach Lady said...
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful idea! Love it and can't wait to give it a try! Your blog is amazing and my head is spinning with ideas.
- June 7, 2011 at 1:57 AM
- Shabby Jen said...
I love it. Gonna do it. Wait until you see what comes out of my head!! oh la la!! But I can't find the base on their site, do you have a part number for it?
- July 4, 2011 at 6:11 PM
- Judy (Distressed, But Not Forsaken) said...
I showed your altered dress form to a friend last night (she makes jewelry) so we are going to make several for her jewelry displays. We shared a booth at an arts/crafts fair last fall and she mentioned needing something to hang necklaces on. This is perfect! I'm a pianist so have lots of sheet music lying around. And I love Graphics Fairy. What a great idea! Thanks again.
- August 31, 2011 at 10:18 AM
- joann said...
Enjoyed your blog.Thanks for sharing.I will stop in when I come down.
- September 1, 2011 at 11:23 PM
Thank you SO much for this article!! I've been looking for hours to find an affordable dress form for a display and I do NOT want to pay $100-$200 that I've been finding. This is PERFECT!!! Also, thanks for providing the part number, you were right, I couldn't find it the traditional way. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
- October 22, 2011 at 10:07 PM
- Leslie Todd said...
Really cool way to make a dress form! Thanks for the tutorial.
- December 4, 2011 at 8:21 PM
I just received my dress form and am curious as to whether or not you did any prep work on the form before applying papers. I am anxious to get stared on it, but must get Christmas put away first! Now there's a goal to get crackin' for. - January 7, 2012 at 11:58 AM
- The Polka Dot Closet said...
Anonymous, Nope no prep work, just get crackin, slap the mod podge onto the form and then lay the sheet music on and give another coat of mod podge on top, good luck!
Carol - January 7, 2012 at 12:06 PM
- VINTAGE & COUNTRY said...
I love your dress forms, and better yet the awesome price! I'm glad you were generous and shared your step by step tut on how to create it. You're so talented, these are GORGEOUS!!!! I don't know how you could think that no one would show up to your link party??? You have sooo many followers who love your work and creativity! Too bad I don't even know how to blog/link or else I'd join the link party! :( - January 12, 2012 at 11:14 AM
- Donna said...
Hello -
This is my first visit and I love your site! I have been looking for dress forms for forever! Thank you for giving us a site to purchase one and how inexpensive it really is! Many I know have spent a lot more, much more than I was willing to pay for them!
I can't wait to come back when I have more time to come back again!
Donna - January 18, 2012 at 5:09 PM
One word....
ciao bella
Creative Carmelina - February 7, 2012 at 1:14 PM
- Old Time Cindy said...
All your work is fantabulous!
- February 7, 2012 at 1:58 PM
- Toni Elaine Tuck said...
I just love these....
- February 7, 2012 at 5:01 PM
- Tire Swing Mom said...
I LOVE this sheet music form. Love it, love it, love it.
- February 7, 2012 at 11:38 PM
- deb said...
Beautiful! Love the trim around the bottom
*hugs*deb - February 9, 2012 at 3:49 PM
- debi said...
Carol, your dressforms are gorgeous! I love the sheet music, AND the roses. Both are beautiful!
- February 10, 2012 at 1:06 AM
- Bose said...
Wonderful and wobbly! this is called creative excellence!Purchase Forms
- March 16, 2012 at 6:16 AM
- Baubles by Pam said...
thanks for the groovy idea. love it.
pam searles
www.baublesbypam.com - April 2, 2012 at 11:50 PM
wowza Carol! This is awesome! You even gave us the links... you rock!
Hugs and Happy New Year!
Beth P - December 29, 2012 at 4:34 PM
- Pallas said...
I found you through Pinterest, and just love the dress form you antiqued. It is beautiful! Thank you for posting your source, and part #. I am going to order one and see what I can do with it. I sure hope I can make one as beautiful as yours.
- December 31, 2012 at 3:36 AM
- PJH Designs said...
Carol you are just the sweetest thing to share your source for these wonderful dress forms. Yours are totally gorgeous.
Peggy~PJH Designs - April 22, 2013 at 10:59 PM
- PJH Designs said...
Do you have a stock number for these. The cheapest one I see is like $65. Have they discontinued the ones you bought?
Thanks so much.
Peggy~PJH Designs - April 22, 2013 at 11:22 PM
- Unknown said...
Thank you for the tip on where to buy the reasonably priced form and stand.
I appreciate the generosity! - December 22, 2013 at 11:26 PM
Very nice! How did you finish the back? Is it still open?
- September 1, 2014 at 11:42 PM
- Unknown said...
Hello! This is beautiful! Thank you for this tutorial. I have a question, How many layers of modge pog do you have to applied for got that finished? I'm doing a dress form with the tape technique, but I can't get this finished look yet. Thank for your answer
- October 29, 2014 at 8:58 PM
- Gypsea Nurse said...
This is absolutely fabulous!!!!
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Lapdancing nuns, 'lifestyle irregularities' uncovered
A controversial monastery in Rome – the scene of performances by lap-dancing nuns and "lifestyles that were probably not in keeping with that of a monk" – has been closed down on the orders of the Pope.
The Santa Croce in Gerusalemme basilica, home to nuns and monks of the Cistercian order, is one of the oldest and most prestigious complexes of the Catholic Church and dates from the 4th century. It is thought to house important relics from the Holy Land. However in modern times it had been allowed to fall into disrepair.
That all changed some years ago when a new and flamboyant abbot, former Milan fashion designer Father Simone Fioraso, took charge. He renovated the buildings and opened a luxury hotel at the site, which reportedly became a popular haunt for celebrities and Italian aristocrats, and held high-profile events including regular concerts and a televised Bible-reading marathon.
A major attraction of the basilica was apparently the "holy dances" performed by the nun Sister Anna Nobili, a former lap-dancer, and other nuns taught by her. Nobili's routines reportedly featured her lying spread-eagled before an altar clutching a crucifix, or undulating passionately in the fashion of a pole dancer.
The saucy Sister has reportedly performed for many high-ranking church dignitaries including Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Vatican cultural department. Other patrons of Santa Croce have included Madonna, who prayed there in 2008.
The monks of Santa Croce have been in trouble with the Supreme Pontiff since 2009, when Father Fioraso was busted from his position as abbot (and presumably despatched to a hardship posting on a remote island off the Irish coast). Investigators from the Vatican's Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life moved in, and delivered their sealed report in March – one so sizzling that it will never be released to the public.
The Vatican has now confirmed that the monks and nuns will all be transferred to other posts and that Santa Croce will now operate solely as an ordinary church, not a monastery.
The enquiry "found evidence of liturgical and financial irregularities as well as lifestyles that were probably not in keeping with that of a monk," Father Ciro Benedettini told the Guardian. There's also BBC coverage here. ®


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Dew Tour's Third Stop In OC Underway
OCEAN CITY – Every year the Dew Tour has something up their sleeves to add a new spark to the returning event, and this time around elements have been added to incorporate more interaction between the public and professional athletes, showcasing the culture and lifestyle of the skate world.
On Wednesday morning, both Dew Tour and city officials met at the Dew Tour Experience that is centered in the event's site between Dorchester and Somerset streets on the beach to kick off the Dew Tour Beach Championships in Ocean City. The event is being held through June 23.
Following the opening ceremony, athletes filed in to sign-in and begin practice. From there, the Dew Tour experience opened with activated, free merchandise giveaways and athlete signings that will go on throughout the weekend.
"I can't tell you how excited we are to have Dew Tour back here in Ocean City," Mayor Rick Meehan said. "It has become a featured event here in Ocean City and I can't think of a better location to have the Dew Tour other than here on the wide beach of Ocean City."
This is the third summer the Dew Tour has returned to Ocean City, each year becoming bigger and better and more interactive.
"We have a much larger presence of interactive areas for young kids to come in and skate and ride BMX," Dew Tour General Manager Kenny Mitchell said.
Mitchell pointed out the Mongoose BMX pump track in the center of the Dew Tour Experience and the new Street Session section.
"We are bringing street skating and BMX to the beach," he said.
The Street Session section will be featured on Saturday afternoon when the Battle at the Beach Session kicks off with a BMX contest and on Saturday night with a skate contest for both the public and professional athletes to participate, including Ryan Decenzo, Greg Lutzka and Manny Santiago. The Battle at the Beach Session's skate contest will be lit up with a live set from DJ Stimulus where the energy will spill over into the concert that night.
Live entertainment will begin on Friday with New Politics who combine everything from breakdancing to guitar solos for a punk-pop-dance rock party. Columbia Records electro-punk trio Krewella will headline.
Talib Kweli, who recently released his fifth solo album Prisoner of Conscious, will hit the Dew Tour stage on Saturday with the socially aware lyrics and dramatic beats that made him one of hip-hop's most successful underground acts of the last 20 years.
"Another new piece this year is we are looking to showcase lifestyle and culture," Mitchell said. "Here in Ocean City we are going to do the Recognize Art event where we have an art gallery down the road recognizing action sport inspired art. Dew Tour is more than the really cool tricks. It is the lifestyle, the culture, and the fashion, and we want to showcase that."
Dew Tour Recognize is a series of events that will celebrate the lifestyle and cultural elements of action sports, including art, photography and film. On Saturday, Dew Tour Recognize will celebrate progressive and transcendent artwork from industry legends and local artists including Steve Caballero, Neil Blender, Christian Hosoi, Chris Markovich and Matt Dove. Dew Tour Recognize will take place in Berlin and is open to the public. More information is available at www.DewTour.com.
"This is our largest event at an attendance standpoint," Mitchell said. "Last year we had well over 90,000 people, which is a Dew Tour record, and we are crossing our fingers we will continue that trend. With so many people coming through, we want to make sure we have available access and make sure people have a good time."


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Dhokra Craft Curio (Large) - Horse
Dhokra Craft Curio (Large) - Horse. An elegant and unique curio with a raw, rustic appeal to enhance your decor. Dhokra is a beautiful, ancient craft and amongst the oldest traditional techniques of metal casting in India, practiced for over 4,000 years. The lost wax technique, cire perdue is the medium of metalworkers in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa and West Bengal. This craft dates back to pre-historic times of the Harappa and Mohenjodaro Civilizations. Entirely handcrafted, the unique 13 stage process of Dhokra/ Bell metal making is an outcome of the original craft instinct handed down through the centuries. Dhokra/ Bell metal is an alloy of brass, nickel and zinc that gives an antique effect to the castings.
- Material : Brass
- Craft : Dhokra Metal Craft
- State : Madhya Pradesh
- Colour : Dull Gold
- Measurements : Height - 7" ; Width - 2" ; Length - 7"
- Product weight : 710 grams
- Special Attention : Handcrafted Village Craft. Rustic, Dull / Antique Finish. Please Allow For Minor Crafting Defects
- Shipping Info : Dispatched in a maximum of 18-21 business days. Returns accepted within 12 days of delivery
- UOM : Piece
Wipe with soft wet cloth. Brass cleaning agent / polish may be used if required
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Free shipping within India on orders valued above INR 4999. Shipping out of India is as per weight calculation at checkout.
Country of Origin - India
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Okhai Apparels - 30 Days Free Return. On SALE - No Return Refund. Please Note - Custom Made Handicrafts - No Returns No Refund as mentioned in the product description.
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Okhai Apparel - 4-6 Working Days. Custom Handicrafts - 15 to 30 days as artisans make it after they receive the order.
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Ding dong, the Ping is dead! Apple brings in Facebook for iTunes
Apple has quietly done away with Ping, its music-based social network in iTunes. The move came as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage at the iPhone 5 launch last night, and announced all the ways his website will integrate with the latest version of Apple's music'n'vids software.
It's an admission that Apple hasn't done particularly well on the social side of things - but that it needs the help, primarily to flog iThings.
Facebook has been embedded deep in the new iTunes - rolling out in October - bringing in the option to "Like" and "Share" every item in the store. Facebook logins to iTunes will be sought and saved and each album, song, app and book can be sent out to your lucky social network. So if you've forgotten to sign out of the social platform, with a mere slip of a mouse-click, you can quickly become the laughing stock among all your "Friends" when your Barry Manilow habit is exposed.
Ping is dead
For Apple, the Facebook integration is a step towards solving the app tsunami problem - where only several of the store's 700,000 apps can be showcased on iTunes front page at any given time. For app developers, it brings much needed new publicity avenues, avoiding a permanent half-life in the shadows of iTunes.
And for Facebook? Well it brings a little more content into the social network. And Zuck popping up on the stage with the iPhone 5 seems to have improved Facebook's share prices, at least.
Apple's previous attempt at social was iTunes-based Ping. Launched by Steve Jobs in September 2010, it will be permanently taken offline on 30 September. The music-based social network allowed you to see what music your Ping friends were listening to and commenting on, and generously allowed you the opportunity to buy that music. It was widely considered a failure.
Apple has also tarted up the user interface in iTunes, stripping back the design to make products stand out more.
Another Facebook integration move is allowing users to update their Facebook status using voice assistant Siri – which is bound to result in disastrous mishearings and ludicrous nonsensical rambles. Prepare for Tumblr blogs dedicated to the form.
Automatic content pushing will ramp up traffic through iCloud
Other changes to iTunes announced yesterday will channel much heavier traffic through iCloud. We can expect that new data centre in Maiden will be churning its eco-friendly wind turbines harder from trying to keep up with the new amounts of data being pumped backwards and forwards.
Content syncing, which used to be manual, is now automatic. Songs, apps and eBooks you buy on one iDevice will now automatically download to every iDevice you own.
And it's not just the item – it's also your interaction history with it – a song paused on one device can be picked up on another at the same point you stopped it. Books downloaded and read on iBooks on iPad will open at the right page on iPhone.
And then every photo you take your iPhone will be automatically pushed to your iPad and MacBook - careful with that one if you have a family iPad. Safari bookmarks and "read later" tabs can be synced between devices, and iDevices will also automatically sync mail, calendar and notes changes.
By default, most of this content hoiking will be done when the devices are in Wi-Fi range, though you can set music to push out over cellular networks. All of these push-content options that can be turned off. As before iCloud offers users a free 5GB of iCloud storage while asking them to stump up for extra to but purchases of music, movies, apps, books, and TV shows as well as Photo Stream are all excluded from that 5GB.
Changes to the way iCloud interacts with iTunes may seem like insignificant e-shop tweaks, but in some ways this is Apple's attempt to grab some market share from Amazon, one of its doughtiest potential rivals. A space worth watching. ®


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Home Care Services Tips for Caregivers in the Sandwich Generation
Family caregivers who take care of children while handling the needs of aging parents are members of the "sandwich generation." They are caught in the middle. With seniors living longer, it is not uncommon for adult children to be managing both ends of the caregiving spectrum.
As caregivers ourselves, we've gathered together some home care service suggestions that may help you through these challenging times.
Any family caregiver can feel "sandwiched," whether or not they have children. The demands of a career, managing more than one household, and any number of commitments can stress even the most easy-going person.
If you're providing care for a loved one, it changes the dynamic of the parent-child relationship. You become the one who is figuratively (and often literally) in the driver's seat, transitioning from crisis to crisis while trying to keep everyone's life on an even keel.
Here are some sanity-inducing solutions:
1. Get Organized
Organization is your strongest ally. Whether you maintain a stack of file folders or save everything to a cloud service provider, keep copies of blood work, reports/tests, hospital discharge instructions, and medication lists where you can easily find them.
Keep documents like living wills and power of attorney credentials close at hand. There's nothing worse than compounding an emergency situation with the stress of not being able to locate critical paperwork.
Take advantage of online tools to keep track of your loved one's medications. Whatever you can do to organize everything from doctors' office locations to pharmacy details, do it. Keep your documentation processes simple, yet effective.
2. Ask for Assistance
You may not be good about asking for help, but you must get better at it. Caregiver burnout is a legitimate diagnosis. Getting at least some of the home care service assistance you need can help you avoid burnout and feel better both physically and emotionally. If you are constantly worried about your loved one's care, it may be time to start identifying resources that can help you.
Depending on what you do for a living and your company's culture, perhaps you can approach your boss about working a day or two from home. While that may not be the right solution for you, it's ok to get a little creative when you have a multitude of responsibilities.
Turning to a professional home care agency, like Visiting Angels, is another way to get the help you need. Our caregivers can provide respite care assistance as well as daily assistance depending on your needs.
3. Self-care
Ideally, self-care should be the number one thing on your list, but if you are like most people, it is always the first thing to get pushed aside. You have a long list of obligations, which may include managing your loved one's finances as well as their shopping and other errands. During the day you are focused on getting through your list, and at night you are likely losing sleep over what's on tomorrow's list.
The irony is, NOT applying self-care is counterproductive. When you burn out, that's when the real stress sets in and you become physically and emotionally unable to manage what you must. If you are the primary home care service provider for a loved one, be sure to focus on these self-care tips.
- Exercise
If it's not in your calendar, it probably won't happen. Try to schedule at least 150 minutes of moderately intensive exercise every week. - Productive sleep
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says that sleep deprivation hinders clear thinking and causes irritability. Even worse, this deficiency contributes to chronic diseases like diabetes and cardiac problems. - Healthy eating
Fast food along with high fat/high sugar foods won't support your immune system and will really slow you down. To function at top speed, you need healthy fuel that gets the job done. - Breathe.
Yoga or meditation will work wonders. A half hour of yoga (you can find videos on YouTube) and/or two 15-minute meditation sessions a day will help replenish your body, mind, and soul.
If you are a stressed-out home care service provider for your family, you must put yourself first. It's the only way you can continue to be there for everyone.
For information on our home care services, and how we can help you find balance, contact your nearest Visiting Angels office today.


text: The first evening of the year 2017 gave a magical sight: the sharp sickle of the waxing moon's crescent aligned with Venus and Mars at around 7 pm. In addition one could see structures on the dark side of the moon, which are usually merge with the dark night sky and are not visible. Perhaps the sky was brighter tonight due to light being reflected by dust particles in the air from last night's fireworks. The photos were taken at around 7 pm in Dresden Dölzschen.


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I had the day off so in between doing my taxes and whining about doing my taxes, I did a little wet-felting.
I thought that maybe, just maybe, if I started laying flowers on top of the lingering bits of snow, I'd chase winter on out of here. Time will tell, but I'd bet that in a couple of weeks, I'll see if it worked.
True to form, my pal Charlie tried his best to help.
And by help, I mean get himself in the picture somehow.
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Everyone likes getting attaboys, including me. So I was thrilled that Wahab & Mednica's Bizmedia Law Blog reviewed Dealfatigue in a recent post.
I've been out of pocket of late but I will be posting soon. Until then, please check out the Best of Dealfatigue in the upper right of this blog.
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Sister Carol F. McConkie served as first counselor in the Young Women General Presidency from April 2013 to March 2018. She was born in Spokane, Washington, USA. During her youth and childhood she lived in Delaware, New York, and Arizona, USA. She graduated from Arizona State University in English Education where she met her husband, Oscar W. McConkie III. They were married in the Mesa Arizona Temple and now have seven children and 33 grandchildren.
Prior to her call as first counselor in the Young Women general presidency, Sister McConkie was a member of the Young Women general board. From 2005–2008, she served with her husband when he was mission president of the California San Jose Mission. She has also served in ward Primary and Relief Society presidencies and as ward Young Women president. Sister McConkie rejoices in the beauty and nobility of virtuous young women who radiate the light of the gospel. She loves the scriptures and believes "the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever" (Isaiah 32:17).


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Cinema Today reports that the new film Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods fell to eighth place in its fifth weekend in theaters. The film has reached a cumulative total of 2,181,328 in attendance and ¥2,668,081,600 in gross revenue.
Detective Conan maintained its lock on first place for its second weekend with over a million in attendance and ¥1.5 billion in gross revenue.