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June's issue of Harper's Bazaar Spain features Dutch beauty Anna de Rejk looking anything but sweet in this killer punk-western inspired editorial. From studs and safety pins on ultra bleached out denim to worn in western leather, the best of both worlds come together for a what Harper's calls a new take of London punk style. All we have to say is that if Anna can rock a cropped denim jacket with fringe (which we're totally into, by the way) over a pair of leather pants with lace-up details and manage to give it a punk edge, then it's a definite ace look in our book!
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The World's Largest Knitting Needles and Crochet Hook are located inside The Yarn Studio in downtown Casey, Illinois. In order to make it in to the Guinness Book of World Records shop owner, Jeanette Huisinga, had to knit and crochet a 10X10 square with the largest tools. Knitting Needles are 13ft .75in and 25 pounds each. Crochet Hook measures at 6ft. 1.5in and weight is 9lbs.
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The 'Identity Thief' star's daughter has growing pains when it comes to fashion.
Melissa McCarthy's grifter romp Identity Thief stole the box office this weekend.
In the film, she's a master con artist who can weasel out of any situation.
At home, with hubby actor Ben Falcone, it's a very different situation.
"Who listens to me? I have a 2- and a 5-year-old. They don't care," says McCarthy of her two daughters.
Her oldest is developing her own sartorial direction, somewhat to her mother's dismay.
"If I tell her to do something, she'll debate the opposite. I'm like, 'You make a good point.' She was getting dressed and she's getting taller. Everything is getting really tight. Somehow Ben and I have a tall child," says McCarthy. "She was in leggings and a tank top. It was a little hoochie-mama-esque. She wanted to wear it to school."
So McCarthy tried to tell her that the outfit wasn't entirely appropriate. "And she said, 'Why can't I get to decide what I wear on my body?' Shouldn't we be doing this in 10 years and not now? The middle ground was that she put a tutu over it. And so it begins. Many more of those to follow," sighs McCarthy.


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The World of James Cameron
It's not easy to pick a favorite room in the Southampton, New York, house that Jenny Dyer shares with her boyfriend, Theory founder Andrew Rosen. There's the luxuriously tranquil bathroom with the round teak tub and deep-welled skylight, making summertime bathing al fresco an option. Around the corner is the master bedroom, whose zebra-skin rug and leafy terrace work to such exotic effect that, Dyer says, "it's like being on safari in an African tree house."
If pushed, however, she selects the glassed-in sunroom, with its low-slung chairs from Espasso and unfinished floorboards, and which is usually filled with fresh rambling roses from her cutting garden. It's a space that practically purrs lazy Sunday. "I call it the conservatory, but Andrew calls it the porch," she says with a laugh. "As with the whole house, you're so aware of the outside."
It wasn't always that way. In 2008, Rosen enlisted architect Ana Maria Torres, with whom he embarked on a dramatic overhaul of the 1920s house. They opted to preserve the ivy-covered facade but carved out chunks of wall to showcase the luscious expanse of greenery and natural light. Once the dust settled, Dyer assumed the task of redecorating. Fortunately, she and Rosen are aesthetic birds of a feather, sharing a penchant for midcentury-modern architecture, the casual cool of Peter Beard photographs, vintage Knoll settees, and nearly anything from American furniture designer Tyler Hays of BDDW. Despite Dyer's British roots, her childhood echoes that of the American Rosen, who grew up partly in the Neutra- and Lautner-populated environs of Palm Springs. "My parents immigrated to California in the '50s," she says. "My father is an architect, and as children, we always lived in these crazy modernist houses." Though perhaps "cozy modernist" is a more apt term here. And both are design perfectionists. "Literally, if a table's not right, I'd rather eat on the floor," she avows.
Dyer's eye was honed across many mediums. She started her career as a set decorator before going on to design a small collection of jewelry and then a successful line of shirtdresses, which sold at Browns and Selfridges from its first season out. "I was looking for an alternative to the wrap dress," Dyer says. She met Rosen when a friend suggested that she contact him for business advice, although she shuttered the label after the global financial crisis that claimed many a young designer. It's a résumé that makes her particularly well suited to her current project, reworking the interiors of Theory's stores, both existing and new. "We are looking at how the environment can be developed for the customer, with a view to creating something comfortable," she explains. "I suppose it's adding a residential atmosphere with vintage pieces and one-offs."
Theory artistic director Olivier Theyskens, for one, is grateful for Dyer's contributions. "I want people to have the feeling that the stores are welcoming," he says. "Jenny is able to enter an empty space and know what would be beautiful to bring in."
The pair are members of a card-carrying mutual admiration society: When asked about her favorite wardrobe staples, Dyer races upstairs and returns with a beatific smile and a long white garment bag. She opens it to reveal the long-sleeved Theyskens' Theory dress that she wore to last year's Costume Institute Gala.
Dramatic gowns notwithstanding, Dyer's personal style follows in the same understated, chic path as her interiors; her look, incidentally, draws heavily from Rosen's stable of designers. By day, she opts for Rag & Bone skinny jeans and sturdy high-heeled boots; for evening, a bit of Proenza Schouler and more Theyskens. Occasionally, she'll look outside the family, splurging on knits from non-Rosen labels like the Row. "I'm really into boyish sweaters at the moment," which go nicely with another recent obsession: pajama pants. But would she ever return professionally to the world of fashion? "I love a good environment," Dyer demurs. "There's something about it that just feeds the soul."
Pictured above: Green light. Dyer in front of her ivy-trellised manse. Stella McCartney top, $315, net-a-porter.com. Carolina Herrera skirt, $5,690. 212-249-6552. Vionnet cuff.
A 1960s Carlo Hauner sofa from Espasso and vintage Knoll settee in the sunroom.
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Airline Designator Code
The two or three letter or number code issued by IATA to each airline to identify that airline and its flights. Virgin Australia's Airline Designator Code is VA.
Authorised Agent
Duly licensed passenger sales agent who is authorised by Virgin Australia to represent Virgin Australia and sell Virgin Australia Services.
Australian Domestic Travel
Carriage wholly within Australia, which is not part of International Travel.
Checked baggage and carry-on baggage. Read our Checked Baggage and Carry-on Baggage policies.
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Any fee specified in the fare rules as payable by you for us to carry your checked baggage.
The booking entry made by you or on your behalf, and accepted by us for travel on a Virgin Australia flight – the itinerary, the boarding pass, the ticket the baggage check and/or any other document or message from us relating to the contract for carriage concerning your travel.
Carry-on Baggage
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A service which has a VA flight number, but is not operated by an airline in the Virgin Australia Group.
The Conditions of Carriage of Virgin Australia. Read our Conditions of Carriage.
The Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air (1929) ("Warsaw Convention"); the Warsaw Convention as amended at The Hague (1955); the Warsaw Convention as amended by Additional Protocol No. 1 of Montreal (1975); the Warsaw Convention as amended at The Hague and by Additional Protocol No. 2 of Montreal (1975); the Warsaw Convention as amended at The Hague and by Additional Protocol No. 4 of Montreal (1975); the Guadalajara Convention (1961); and the Montreal Convention (1999) ("Montreal Convention").
The last destination shown on your Itinerary. When not capitalised, destination refers to a generic point of arrival.
Flights operated by Virgin Australia Airlines within Australia.
Domestic Travel
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Electronic Ticket
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Electronic Coupon
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Event Beyond Our Control
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The applicable Fare set by Virgin Australia for travel contemplated in a Booking (at the time of payment for the Booking), along with applicable fees and surcharges, and any taxes imposed by governments on the travel to which the Booking relates.
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That portion of the Ticket that bears the notation "good for passage", or in the case of an Electronic Ticket, the Electronic Coupon, and indicates the particular places between which you are entitled to be carried.
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Global Distribution System
Computerised travel reservation platform, used as a single point of access by travel agents world-wide, for airline and associated travel products, enabling such purchases to be made.
A person who has purchased a Fare and who travels with Virgin Australia.
Guest Contact Centre
Our Booking and Guest services call centre. Telephone numbers for the Guest Contact Centre are published on our website.
Guest Compensation Policy
Our Compensation Policy as amended from time to time and published on our Website.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA). IATA is the global trade organisation that develops the commercial standards that service the global member airlines.
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA). IATA is the global trade organisation that develops the commercial standards that service the global member airlines.
Travel using more than one airline during a single journey.
International Long Haul
Flights operated by Virgin Australia International or flights operated by a Codeshare Partner on behalf of Virgin Australia between two countries .
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Flights operated or marketed by Virgin Australia (NZ), Virgin Australia (SE Asia) or Virgin Samoa or flights marketed by Virgin Australia but operated by Air New Zealand between Australia and New Zealand.
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The document that identifies the Guest's routing information, including departure / arrival cities, flight numbers, dates and times.
(a) The document we or our Authorised Agents provide to you which details your flights with Virgin Australia; and
(b) May be combined with an Electronic Ticket when travelling on a flight operated by Virgin Australia International or a Codeshare Partner.
The laws of any nation that apply to your travel with Virgin Australia.
Any loss, damage, cost or expense, including consequential or indirect loss, loss of savings, business opportunities, revenue, profit and/or damage to goodwill.
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Medical Clearance Form
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Migrated Booking
A Booking made before 12 January 2013, with a DJ Designator Code. From 12 January 2013 all DJ Designator Codes will change to VA; and all Virgin Australia flight numbers will start with VA.
Other Airlines
Refers to Virgin Australia partner carriers, engaged through Interline and Codeshare agreements.
Paper Ticket
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Piece Limit
Piece limit for your Checked Baggage, which is determined by your Fare type and frequent flyer status and is specified in the Fare Rules and on our Website.
Virgin Australia's policies in relation to various aspects of travel, including Baggage, Medical Clearance Guidelines and Guests requiring special assistance. Policies are published on our Website.
Privacy Policy
Virgin Australia's policy for the collection and handling of Guests' personal information, as published on our Website and amended by us from time to time. Read our Privacy Policy.
The name of the company providing integrated technology solutions for Virgin Australia.
Special Drawing Right of the International Monetary Fund.
Single Designator
From 12 January 2013 all Virgin Australia flight numbers will start with VA. The DJ flight code will no longer exist.
The published Fares, charges and/or related Conditions of Carriage of an airline filed with the governments of Canada or the United States of America.
Tarmac Delay Plan
A contingency plan created by a carrier to manage a delay to a flight, where the carrier is required by Law to have a plan.
A document which validly entitles you travel on flights operated or marketed by Virgin Australia International, and includes an Electronic Ticket and a Paper Ticket.
Ticketing Time Limit
The time limit set by Virgin Australia International within which you must pay the Fare for a Booking.
Travel Bank
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Us, we, our, the airline, Virgin Australia
Us, we, our, the airline, Virgin Australia
Virgin Australia Airlines Pty Ltd (Virgin Australia Airlines), Virgin Samoa Ltd (Virgin Samoa), Virgin Australia Airlines (SE Asia) Pty Ltd (Virgin Australia (SE Asia)), Virgin Australia Airlines (NZ) Ltd (Virgin Australia (NZ)) or Virgin Australia International Airlines Pty Ltd (Virgin Australia International) or any other carrier that accepts the Booking and all carriers that provide transport and services the subject of the Booking to you and any of that carrier's agents, crew, representatives, contractors, subsidiaries or related bodies corporate. Where it has been necessary to distinguish between the individual carriers in the Conditions of Carriage, reference will be made to that individual carrier by name.
Weight Limit
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You, your
You, a guest who is specified as receiving transport and other services from us in the Booking and any infant carried with you without a separate Booking.
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Hockey Prospectus 11/12: The New Normal
Robert Cleave
October 13 2011 11:22AM
(Full disclosure: A few weeks ago, Timo Seppa asked me if I was interested in reviewing the latest iteration of Hockey Prospectus' annual for the Nations' audience. I accepted a free PDF copy of the book for review purposes, with no other compensation offered. I'm not trying to make myself out as particularly noble, though. Had Timo offered me a giant vat of cash in exchange, I'm fairly certain that I would have accepted it - RC)
When does the revolutionary assimilate into the mainstream? That's the question that I've been asking myself over the last few years as the statistical analysis movement occurring in hockey blogging circles has become increasingly accepted by the game's insider cohort. We've gotten a few signs this summer that the pace of acceptance is quickening, with Calgary's hiring of Chris Snow and the amusing series of deflections Doug WIlson felt compelled to resort to when he was interviewed by Fear the Fin amongst them.
That noted, most season previews still are infused by a sense of the traditional, so a book like Hockey Prospectus' 11/12 annual that grounds itself in the modern approach is operating in a space that remains somewhat uncluttered. This year's edition, nearly 500 pages in length, is HP's third attempt to create a season preview imbued with the modern sensibilites of the hockeysphere.
In general terms, it manages that trick fairly well. Tom Awad opens the book with a brief explainer of GVT and VUKOTA, which act as the two primary tools of performance measurement that HP has chosen to employ. As someone that uses shot and scoring chance based metrics, I'm still not entirely on board with the way GVT, to my mind, overvalues goaltender performance to a slight degree while struggling to account for the true value of defensive defencemen, although fairness compels me to note that Awad's up front about those shortcomings as well. GVT isn't a bad shorthand measure, though, and as with virtually every other advanced stat, it's likely still in the Alpha stage of development.
The core of the book is the solidly written and extremely thorough set of team profiles, with using a compliation of individual player GVT values to arrive at a team value and ranking. The previews have been written by a group of the usual suspects, including our own Kent Wilson amd Jonathan Willis, and as mentioned, they leave nothing unexamined. Rob Vollman's utter demolition of the Ducks might be worth the price alone.
The primary value, at least to me, of this approach is that the teams are assessed in a consistent manner. Anyone with a bit of hockey sense can watch their own team's games and assess player value more or less accurately. What virtually no one is capable of is watching every team's games with that same focus. This is really the strength of advanced metrics, of course, since it can account for a great deal of context or circumstance or plain old luck, and then normailze results across teams. In my view, using these metrics gives HP a leg up on your average preview for that reason alone.
My only quibble about the profiles is a formatting one, in that players that were traded or moved on via free agency in the summer are still listed under their old clubs. I know there are deadline issues for physical products that have to exist out there in meatspace, but seeing Robyn Regher and Daymond Langkow listed in Calgary's profile seemed off. Maybe it's just my sense of doom without them around ;-)
Beyond the team profiles lie a series of essays, ranging from a nostalgic take on Winnipeg's return to the bigs by Iain Fyffe to a discussion of what might be the next thing in hockey metrics, as Gabe Desjardins reviews his passing chart experiment from last season. Again, the content is solidly written, but for those that are regular readers around these parts, there's nothing particularly surprising.
Maybe, though, that's what really struck me upon completeing the book. It seems to me that the advanced numbers that HP uses and that we use are at the point where even some of hockey's willfully innumerate have begun to accept that maybe, just maybe, using a more modern approach to player assessment could have its merits.
With that in mind, HP's tone throughout the book is very matter-of-fact, and correctly so. There isn't any hand wringing or apologia for the fact that they're increasingly comfortable with their status as early adopters of advanced metrics. The entire tone of the book is that the numbers they're using and the approach they're taking will be the new normal in very short order, and that those that are inclined to open-mindedness are welcome to come along for the journey as those metrics move into the heart of hockey analysis.
I don't doubt that for those looking for stories about grit, heart and leadership in their annuals, this book will leave them wanting, and there are still plenty of places for people of that mind to get their fix, but if you have an interest in where the new forms of analysis are headed, Hockey Prospectus' 11/12 is a worthy starting point.
October 13 2011, 11:29AM
Yeah, the player profiles issue is one we discussed while writing the book. The difficulty lies in assembling a book of that length over the course of the summer while guys are getting traded and re-signed at different intervals.
Leaving them on their original teams is less than ideal, but it's the best process we have currently.
October 13 2011, 11:45AM
Now there's a FAIL of monumental proportions. As for the article, interesting review, where would an apprentice layman such as myself find said tome? I have a masochistic fascination in tracking down all the non-local media's opinion on the Oilers, and where the teams headed.
October 13 2011, 11:55AM
Now there's a FAIL of monumental proportions. As for the article, interesting review, where would an apprentice layman such as myself find said tome? I have a masochistic fascination in tracking down all the non-local media's opinion on the Oilers, and where the teams headed.
My question exactly - I've heard tell that there's an electronic copy you can purchase...


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Massachusetts and Springfield officials broke ground today (Wednesday) on a new middle school, two years after a tornado heavily damaged the original building.. The Elias Brookings Magnet Middle School, located in the city's Six Corners neighborhood, took a direct hit from the June, 2011 tornado that tore though the region, rendering it unusable. Since then, students have been housed in portable classrooms behind the original 88 year-old building. Now a new, larger school is going to be built across the street on about 3 acres of land donated by Springfield College. Jack McCarthy, Executive Director of the Massachusetts School Building Authority, says the nearly $30 million project has been on the fast track since the legislature allowed for the state to fully reimburse the costs of a building a new school.
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Gloucester outscored Leicester three tries to two at Kingsholm to claim a crucial 27-21 Premiership victory on Saturday.
Gloucester outscored Leicester three tries to two at Kingsholm to claim a crucial 27-21 Premiership victory on Saturday.
Gloucester edged a classic encounter, overcoming a double sin-binning in the second-half to hang on for the win.
Both teams headed into the match on the back of victories in European competition and went on to play their part in a thrilling contest on their return to Aviva Premiership action.
The hosts got off to the best possible start, with Charlie Sharples getting on the end of Freddie Burns' grubber to cross. Burns added the conversion and knocked over a penalty on nine minutes, after Toby Flood had got Leicester off the mark with the boot.
The visitors then narrowed Gloucester's advantage to two when the TMO ruled that Scott Hamilton's dive for the right corner was a try, but Flood's conversion miss preserved the hosts' lead.
There was little between the sides at this early stage, and it took an excellent piece of improvisation from Burns to increase the gap between the two teams.
He snapped up his own chip over the Leicester defence to score, before converting, to make it 17-8 to Gloucester with a quarter of the match played.
Flood's penalty just moments from half-time put the Tigers within a converted try and it was to remain close for the majority of the second half.
Burns and Flood exchanged penalties seven and nine minutes after the restart, before James Simpson-Daniel broke to lay the platform for Akapusi Qera to score a vital try.
But then, following a double Gloucester sin-binning for Jimmy Cowan and Robert Cook, Leicester found a way back into the match courtesy of a penalty try awarded at scrum.
Flood's conversion made it 27-21 but, despite the numerical advantage, the Tigers were unable to strike again. And with a full compliment back on the field, Gloucester were able to hold on during a frantic final 15 minutes to secure a thrilling win.
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Tries: Sharples, Burns, Qera
Cons: Burns 3
Pens: Burns 2
Yellow cards: Cook, Cowan
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Tries: Hamilton, Penalty try
Cons: Flood
Pens: Flood
Gloucester: 15 Rob Cook, 14 Charlie Sharples, 13 Mike Tindall (c), 12 Billy Twelvetrees, 11 James Simpson-Daniel, 10 Freddie Burns, 9 Jimmy Cowan, 8 Ben Morgan 7 Akapusi Qera, 6 Sione Kalamafoni, 5 Will James, 4 Tom Savage, 3 Rupert Harden, 2 Huia Edmonds, 1 Nick Wood.
Replacements: 16 Koree Britton, 17 Dan Murphy, 18 Shaun Knight, 19 Peter Buxton, 20 Matt Cox, 21 Dan Robson, 22 Martyn Thomas, 23 Shane Monahan.
Leicester: 15 Geordan Murphy (c), 14 Scott Hamilton, 13 Manusamoa Tuilagi, 12 Anthony Allen, 11 Vereniki Goneva, 10 Toby Flood, 9 Ben Youngs, 8 Jordan Crane, 7 Thomas Waldrom, 6 Steve Mafi, 5 Geoff Parling, 4 Louis Deacon, 3 Dan Cole, 2 Tom Youngs, 1 Logovi'i Mulipola.
Replacements: 16 George Chuter, 17 Marcos Ayerza, 18 Martin Castrogiovanni, 19 Ed Slater, 20 Graham Kitchener, 21 Sam Harrison, 22 George Ford, 23 Matt Smith.
Venue: Kingsholm
Referee: JP Doyle
Assistant referees: Andrew Pearce, Kevin Stewart
Television match official: David Grashoff
Timekeeper: Anthony Turner
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Currency Right Hand Desk & Return
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At A Glance:
The Currency Desk and Return is simple, professional, and effective. This is a desk you won't mind coming home to - or leaving home to go to. Simplicity is expressed through the flat plane of the 72" desktop, the straight line bar handles that attach to the two drawers, and the use of few materials. Elegance comes with the light-colored finish on the desk itself, the platinum finished accents, and the way they fit together. Effectiveness stems from the extra workspace on the return, and the two amply sized file drawers. This desk has a black belt in get-it-done.
What's To Like:
The desk itself is beautiful, well made, and will serve very well at work or in a home office. The dual worksurfaces might spoil you. As far as putting it together goes, the desk section comes fully assembled; you only have to drill holes in the return and attach the legs. Not difficult, but it does require a power drill.
What's Not to Like:
If you're a pack rat, then this desk alone might not be your choice. It has two drawers for storage and organization, and that's about it. If you're the type who needs cubby holes, drawers, and shelves, you'll want to add some storage accessories to the desktop (we can help with that).
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An attractive desk that values simplicity and workspace. It forgets about looking fancy and focuses on sturdiness and durability.
This dynamic desk and return solution from Turnstone's Currency line fits right in to any home or office. Setting includes a 72" wide desk with two drawers that feature elegant platinum bar pulls. An additional 48" wide return/worksurface is attached to the desk to give you ample room for anything from a laptop, papers, files or even dual-monitor displays. This setting is sure to impress.
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- Desk dimensions: 28.5" h x 72" w x 30" d
- Return dimensions: 28.5" h x 48" w x 24" d
- Work surface thickness: 1.25"
- Available in left-handed or right-handed configurations ( view Left Hand Desk & Return here )
- 72" wide laminate desk with 18" wide storage pedestal
- Lock included on bottom drawer of pedestal
- 48" wide laminate corner return
- Laminate finish in a variety of colors over a durable, long-lasting MDF core
- Platinum finish on table legs and drawer pulls
The Currency Desk and Return is also known by the following manufacturer item numbers: TS5TLDR3072, TS5TLTD2448, TS5LMSQL272, LOCK9201FR, TSATPL14.
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MDF core with laminate finish. Steel legs with platinum finish on desk return.
Overall Dimensions: 28.5" h x 72" w x 78" d
Desk Dimensions: 28.5" h x 72" w x 30" d
Return Dimensions: 28.5" h x 48" w
Work surface thickness: 1.25"
Lock Included: Yes
Hardware: Metal tie plate to connect desk and return is provided
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Pedestal Desk: 185 lb
Return: 39 lb
Return Legs: 21 lb
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Some assembly is required for the Home Habitat Desk Package. The pedestal desk ships fully assembled. Assembly requirements include attaching the two metal legs to the return, attaching the return to the pedestal desk, and installing the lock into the file drawer. We offer assembly service for a fee, so please check out this option if you are not interested in putting the Package together yourself.
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Q:What is the depth of the return... ?"d x 48"w x 28.5"h. Also how wide are the drawers?Asked on 4/13/2012 by Anonymous
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I was recently asked to give a simple answer on how to taste chocolate. There is no simple answer. I have been working with chocolate for 35 years and have found there is no right or wrong way to eat chocolate. The most important thing is to use all of your senses.
The first part of the "eating experience" is the "nose." Smell the chocolate. I am always disappointed when I walk into a chocolate shop and don't smell the wonderful aroma of melted chocolate wafting throughout the store.
The next thing is the "look." If the chocolate looks amazing you can pretty well count on it tasting special. It's as if you're looking into the soul of the chocolatier. If a chocolatier takes the time to make his or her chocolate look beautiful you can pretty well be assured that the flavor will be as amazing. That's not to say that the chocolate will necessarily agree with your tastes, but the quality will reflect the combined body of the chocolatier's work.
What do you "hear" when you bite into a beautiful truffle or bonbon? Do you hear the snap of well-tempered dark chocolate? If the couverture doesn't have the right break or snap, the chocolate may have been poorly tempered, heat distressed or of lesser quality.
What is the "texture" like? It is smooth and unctuous? Is it creamy and velvety? If the answer is "yes," you've discovered the hallmark of good/great chocolate. That means the chocolate has been properly conched—where all of the ingredients (hopefully a limited number of ingredients) are intermingled and completely merged. Conching is like blending but a lot more thorough. It is the marriage of the molecules of the chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, sugar and vanilla (and milk, in the case of milk chocolate). Choclatique chocolate is conched for 72 hours. It will always be smooth on the tongue.
And finally, what does it "taste" like? Do you taste fresh rain-foresty flavors or are the cocoa notes dull and over-roasted? Does the milk chocolate give off burnt, overly caramelized dairy notes or is there the flavor of fresh cream and/or milk? How does the chocolate make you feel as you are tasting it? Are you satisfied with just one taste or is your mind coaxing you to eat more.
Try to articulate the flavors you're tasting, i.e., big chocolate, roasted coffee notes, wine, berry, cherry, tropical-banana, nutty cashew, etc. When comparing different chocolate varieties or flavors back-to-back, you should drink a little room temperature water with a touch lemon to clear the palate. Then swish that water out of your mouth with just plain room temperature water and go on to the next piece. Keep your tasting down to about 4 flavors/varieties at a time. You can always go back for more when you are being less critical and just want to eat chocolate.
All that said, here is how we taste chocolate at Choclatique. When tasting different types of chocolate, we start with low fat varieties and work our way through to higher fat varieties. In other words, start with the dark chocolate, then milk chocolate and then white chocolate. Fat coats the surface of your mouth and can mask some of the more subtle flavors found in good dark chocolate, so if you start with milk or white, you may miss the subtleties of the dark.
We begin by looking at the chocolate to see if it is clean, clear of blemishes, air bubbles and bloom; when chocolate is heat distressed it has a tendency to turn grey-white as the fats separate from the rest of the ingredients. We then rub the chocolate with our fingers to bring it to a warmer surface temperature; this brings out the full value of the chocolate aroma as we inhale. By the way, you should smell the warmed chocolate, not your fingers.
Some of our tasters are "bite and chewers"; I am a "melt-in-your-mouth" kind of guy who enjoys "savoring the flavor." Chocolate should always be smooth on the tongue and coat the inside of your mouth thoroughly. You want to be sure that it covers all of the sensory taste buds throughout your mouth to get the full impact of the chocolate flavor. Then swallow… it is a waste to spit out good chocolate.
Chocolate is food from the gods. It is a mood elevator and, some believe, an aphrodisiac. Treat it as the gift that it is and enjoy it thoroughly. As we have discovered at Choclatique, chocolate is a lot like sex. It's never really bad; some is just much better than others.
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For the first time in the College of Eastern Utah's history, its athletic department is hosting the Scenic West Athletic Tournament in the Bunnell-Dmitrich Athletic Center March 4-6. It is projected to bring in 500 people into the community that weekend spending $500,000, said Athletic Director Dave Paur.
We are excited to showcase our community, our school and our athletic department, Paur said. "Our men's basketball program is one of the top in the conference and has been nationally ranked this season. "Our community will have the opportunity to see some of the most talented basketball teams in our conference and the nation."
"Salt Lake Community College is the defending national champions and College of Southern Idaho and North Idaho are traditionally nationally ranked. It will be the best basketball week that our residents will have the opportunity to see. Remember our conference always features some of the best two-year college basketball players in the nation."
"Besides the coaches and teams, we will have parents, alumni, media, booster clubs and recruiters in Price that weekend following the teams in the tournament."
Hosting the SWAC Tournament in Price will be one of the largest activities held in Carbon County. The largest conferences to date have been Sen. Bob Bennett's business conference which posts approximately 1,500 people for the two-day conference followed by 4-H Leader meet with 750 and Taste of Home with 650, according to Carbon County Fairgrounds and Event Center statistics.
In a phone interview with Joel Bate, CSI athletic director, he said hosting the tournament is great for CEU's campus and community. "It's amazing for your community to have this caliber of athletic talent on your campus for three days of incredible basketball. It's like an economic stimulus surge with hotels, restaurants and shopping seeing lots of revenue."
He thinks it costs between $35,000 and $38,000 to run the tournament. "Your community should have substantial money brought into it by the tournament attendees. An added plus for CEU is with the local college hosting the tournament; the men's and women's teams will each save $5,000 in travel costs from their budgets."
The point he stressed was the importance of having the community support for the tournament. "Your community has to be behind the college in the sponsorship of this tournament for it to be successful. At CSI, our community bought 90 percent of the ticket sales. They supported all three days of the tournament."
Concerning questions, he said that most people who attend the tournament want to know where to stay, eat and what the game schedule is. "A lot of people stay all day and watch all the games. The last time CSI played SLCC in the championship game, we had 3,700 people in our gym, way over maximum capacity."
CEU's Robert Potts is the director of the three-day SWAC tournament. "It's the first time we have hosted the tournament so there's a lot of work to do to make this the best tournament the SWAC has participated in."
He designed much of the information for the tournament to be accessed online including ticket sales. This keeps the personnel cost down to manage the tournament, he said. A lot of people are donating their time from the community and the college so we can keep CEU's cost to a minimum. He added, the CEU alumni board and students are providing much of the volunteer workforce for the tournament.
Tickets for the three-day tournament can be ordered online at www.ceu.edu/athletics/swac. Tickets for each game are $6 for general admission and $8 for reserved seats. A three-day pass to all games is $20. The championship games are March 6 with the women playing at 5 p.m. and men playing at 7:30 p.m.
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It could be some Wind Jutsu or Chakra Shielding (...you know something similar Hyuga Clan....)or Pain is just using his chakra to push Kakashi away like how Naruto did Kabuto on the bridge.Spoiler!Spoiler!
Of course Pain version of all these possibilities are unique.....Remember he's carrying the Bloodline of the Shinobi who supposedly gave birth to Ninjutsu. So, alot of his styles are similar to existing jutsu performed by different people, and Clans.


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What Do Non-Disclosure Agreements Entail?
If you�ve never signed an NDA, or non-disclosure agreement, before, you might feel some trepidations about the prospect of signing one. After all, you have a right to free speech! Why should you sign anything that says you can�t go blabber about certain things you know?
Well, that agreement exists in order to protect privileged information � and if you don�t sign one, there�s a chance you could miss out on some sort of work or employment. Many companies, especially in artistic or intellectual fields, will require that their employees sign non-disclosure agreements because intellectual property helps keep them competitive. If you were to disclose information to rivals of a company, for example, it could mean a lot of lost business.
That�s why non-disclosure agreements can be a normal part of life as an employee. But if you want to sign one without any further trepidations, it will help if you know a little more about these agreements and what they entail. Here�s a brief synopsis of what you can expect from most NDAs.
The most essential part of the NDA relates to the sharing of information you learn as a result of the access you�re entitled to after the signing. Confused? Let�s imagine you were recently hired by an IT company. You will likely sign an NDA that says you can�t share confidential information you learn as a result of working at that company. The clause in the agreement that makes this explicitly clear is what we�re talking about here.
If there are additional terms to this part of the NDA, be sure to read them carefully, because there�s a good chance they might be unique to the company you�re signing up for. Understanding exactly what you can and cannot say is a crucial part of enforcing the NDA you�ve signed and avoiding any potential legal action against you down the line.
There will be more to most NDAs, such as definitions as to which parties are involved, as well as terms under which the NDA will be governed. For example, if you�re taking a remote work project from a different state, you might find out that the NDA you�re signing actually applies to the laws of the home state of those making you sign it. In this case, it�s a good idea to brush up on those local laws, because there�s a good chance they may be different from the laws in your home state.
Aside from that, you should be on the lookout for any other parts of the NDA that seem overly protective to you. In most cases, a standard NDA won�t have any of these provisions � and a good human resources representative should be able to make these terms clear. But it�s still important that you read every document that you sign, because you�ll likely be bound by these rules after having signed said document.
The more you know about NDAs, the better � and the better you�ll feel about signing them. It�s all a part of protecting each respective party and keeping your professional life professional.


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By PAULA WELLNITZ
I have been reading one of the pop psychology books prevalent today. This one would explain a lot of a woman's problems on the way she is trained to be, and continues to want to be, dependent. She may expect that her husband will be the decision maker, the disciplinarian of the family. She may expect that he will fulfill her emotionally, keep her secure financially.
All the while I am reading, my mind is saying, "Yes, but...". The "but" is for the many men I find who have grown up being dependent and who still do not want to take responsibility after they are married. There are a variety of ways this is lived out.
As I have observed it, many parents have trained both their girls and their boys to be dependent. The male side, not given in the aforementioned book's analysis, is that, the married man often does not contribute of his person to his newly forming family. He may expect his wife to take all responsibility for his needs, home and family. He may work at a good job but want his wife to take care of family finances. Then he may insist that he have what he wants, to buy�even if they will not have the money to pay for family needs.
Wanting to be seen as head of the family, the man who rejects responsibility may refuse in any way to do anything for or with the children. He will see himself as the supreme lawgiver and decision maker and depend on his wife to carry it out. Rules and decisions may be very capricious. Or, he may play with the children and give in to whatever they want in order to assure himself of their affection.
Both men and women then, need to look at themselves and see how they can act interdependently and take responsibility. They need to see how they can share this in a marriage and family so that neither is over-expecting care from the other. Rather each gives to and receives from the other.


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Yes, we're on a tie-dye kick. And here's one more good reason to jump on the bandwagon! Cook & Gates makes vibrant, beautifully designed tie-dye bags in denim, from classic blue and white to purple & deep navy, and they're the perfect size for toting your stuff to the beach this summer. The line is a collaboration between artists Ethan Cook and Sara Gates, with Brooklyn-based designer Mary Meyer, who releases collections of geometrically printed knits. They range at around $20—$150, so there's something for you, even if you're pulling purse strings at the moment. But jump on it, they're limited!
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When Melissa Ennen decided to open The Commons, a community and educational center in Boerum Hill, she didn't just want to host classes and workshops. She wanted to find a way to bring good, sustainably-produced local food into the neighborhood. But she didn't want to just sell food – she wanted to find a way for locals to meet the people growing and making that food, to learn about how they produce it, and to encourage discussion about the complexities and challenges of trying to create a new local and people-based food system.
What better way to do that than by opening a farmers market? Melissa and her crew launched The Foodshed Market, at weekly market featuring local farmers and makers, at The Commons in September. We sat down with Melissa to talk about the short history of her market, the long history of her building, and her twenty year love affair with the borough of Brooklyn.
So Melissa, what inspired you to open the market?
Well, I own the building. I had rented all three floors out to commercial tenants for the last ten years. A year and a half ago, when the leases were all up, I had a choice. I could either renew them or do what I'd always hoped to do with the building at some point in my life – create a community center to serve and support community-oriented groups and individuals here in Boerum Hill. I wasn't quite ready for the change, but I did it anyway. I didn't renew the commercial leases. I took the building back over and opened The Commons.
Now we rent out office space to several community groups: The Brooklyn Young Mothers Collective; Changer, which works with people who are fighting foreclosures; and the Brooklyn Food Coalition, which is a consortium of neighborhood food groups. They're all on the third floor.
I let community-oriented groups use the first floor, where we hold the market every Sunday, for various events. If it's not being used during the week I'll let people use it for meetings and that sort of thing. We also do lots of classes on things like gardening, rooftop gardening, DIY solar power, permaculture, beekeeping…things like that.
The problem that arose was that we needed to find a way to cover our expenses without charging normal commercial rents. We needed to find a way to sustain the building and The Commons.
So we started thinking about having something once a week that would bring in people and revenue while leaving the space open for other uses during the week. So what to do? We had a lot of events that help people get to know each other. More face to face time is what I'm after here. Everybody knows that food creates community… Ah! A farmers market! Perfect! So that's how Foodshed came to be.
Tell me a little more about the market itself. What types of vendors and producers do you seek out?
We really want to bring local, sustainable farmers and artisanal producers in – to introduce them to our community here in Boerum Hill, and to give our community better access to good, sustainably and locally produced foods. We try to find as many organic or NOFA certified (that's Northeastern Organic Farming Association – they call it the grassroots alternative to certified organic) producers as we can.
We don't require that all of our artisanal makers use organic ingredients, but we ask them what is and isn't organic so we can tell the customers. One of our main themes at Foodshed is honesty and transparency about food and the food system. It's so complex. We post signs for each of our vendors telling customers who they are, where they're from, and how they grow or make their food. We let everyone know what's organic or what's not, and encourage our customers to get to know our farmers and vendors and to talk about it with them.
Downstairs on the first floor we have our farmers and artisanal makers. Do Re Mi, and Healthway Farms, Orwashers Bakery, Hudson Valley Duck, Hoosic Farm brings all kinds of great meats, Mosefund Farm has very special pork. We have Joseph Fisheries from Montauk – extremely fresh fish. I'm a lady angler and I fish a lot, and I can tell you that their fish is very good. We have Brooklyn Cured's wonderful cured meats, The Stand NY's naturally-produced syrups and preserves, several cheesemakers…lots of wonderful stuff.
We recently expanded the market to the second floor, where we have prepared foods. Luke's Lobster is here with their Lobster Rolls. National Crab with their crabcakes and crab soup. Meredith Farms – an organic quickbreads and muffins. And it continues to grow and change.
Food is a really good way to get people to talk about things. A market like this is definitely in line with the idea of creating more community and promoting transparency and debate about all those ethical questions that come up when trying to create a new food system. So we hope that it won't just be a place for buying good healthy food, and for giving local vendors a chance to market their products, but that it will also be a place where you can keep up with all the challenges and controversies inherent in the food system. It's tricky. Some people consider all that too much information, but if you want to learn about it and talk about it, we want this to be a place where you can do that. If you just want to shop for good food, we want you to be able to do that too.
How did you come up with the name of the market? 'Foodshed' What does it mean?
The term Foodshed was proposed as a concept back in 1929. Later, in the 50's, someone wrote an essay about it that pushed it further into the public consciousness. It's not a well defined term – the idea behind it is to think of the flow of food into and out of urban centers the same way we think of water flowing. Watershed is a very clear ecological concept. The idea of transposing that onto a food system is one that has a lot of appeal to people trying to envision a new type of food system.
It just helps you to think of the flow of food. Where is it coming from? How is it consumed? What are all the nodal points in between? It definitely makes you focus on people and place in the context of food, unlike the well-established global food system which is totally divorced from the idea of the producer and consumer having any relationship whatsoever.
Like I said, the concept of a foodshed is not well defined, and we welcome that. It means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. We welcome the discussion. What is local? What is sustainable? What's the relationship between this and that?
To me, foodshed is a concept, based on watershed, that's useful in helping us to think about how to build a new regional food system that's based on a better understanding of the role of people and places…the personal and economic relationships between food producers and consumers. We want to help people to better understand where their food is coming from, how it's produced, who's producing it, and to have a chance to get to know those producers personally.
Elizabeth Knafo, who has helped with the creation of the market, came up with the term, and it seemed like a perfect fit!
So did you have any past experience setting up a market like this? How have things gone to date? What have you learned?
I have shopped at farmers markets many times, but I knew absolutely nothing about running one! We came up with the idea in July and launched it in September. I had no idea what I was in for.
When we first started I hired Linda McGrath, who had helped found Rick's Picks. I asked her to help me find some vendors since I knew nothing about the food business. We went out to other markets to try to find people who were already coming into the city on Sundays – we assumed it would be more financially viable for them if they were already going to be in Brooklyn. And we got a few very quickly. That part wasn't hard. The hard part was getting the word out and bringing in customers. We did a lot of old-fashioned publicity like printing up postcards and putting them in mailboxes. Word is getting out and people in the community are happy we're here.
We don't yet know what's all going to happen here. The market is open every Sunday. We're hoping we can find a way to make it viable financially. We're working out the model by the seat of our pants! So far it seems to be OK, but we do have to find a way to cover our expenses some day!
I've certainly learned a lot. I would not have even guessed the degree of complexity around all these ethical questions about sustainable food. We learned a really unfortunate lesson a few weeks ago about the tradeoffs you have to make to make a market like this work.
When we first started, the very first week, we had a farmer come out who had this amazing spread of vegetables. Unbelievable spread. But I realized pretty quickly that it was not all organic. Lots of pesticides had been used on the produce, and I didn't want that. I want all our produce and dairy to be organic or NOFA certified.
So I quickly found another farmer. A wonderful farmer named Cheryl Rogowski, who uses a totally 100% natural approach. We visited her farm and it was absolutely wonderful. She didn't have a lot of produce, but everything she did have was perfectly seasonal and sustainably grown. Couldn't be healthier stuff. But once we got deeper into the fall, she had a dwindling supply each week. That's what naturally happens in the Northeast if you're growing totally naturally as the weather starts to get cold. She doesn't use any fossil fuels to heat her greenhouses or hoops, so she didn't have broccoli or cauliflower or carrots as it started getting colder.
I certainly didn't have a problem with it, but I started getting a lot of complaints from the customers that we didn't have enough produce. From their perspective, it's a farmers market and a farmers market is expected to have produce, and lots of it. So I made the decision to bring another farmer, Do Re Mi Farms into the market. They are organic, but they do use fossil fuels to heat their greenhouses and hoops. And the customers loved it! He had this big panoply of beautiful produce each week. The sad part of the story is that Cheryl Rogowski left the market as a result. She couldn't compete. It wasn't worth her while to come down when everyone was buying the beautiful stuff from the heated greenhouses.
That's a really tough tradeoff for me. Of course I'd like to do whatever I can to support a farmer like Cheryl who grows her produce in the most sustainable way possible. But if I don't provide what the customers want, the market won't survive!
I don't know enough yet…I don't know if anyone knows enough yet…to envision the transition whereby in winter in New York we could have a sustainable array of vegetables that would satisfy your New York consumer enough that they'd support a market that had limited choices reflecting the natural local supply at that time of year. I don't think a market could survive right now with that approach, but I hope that day will come!
There was a great article in Edible Brooklyn recently about how hard it is to be a food entrepreneur. There are all these new small vendors who lots of people know about who are barely making it. It's not all lovey-dovey or glamorous by any means. But the idea that so many of us have decided that we don't want a boss, and that we want the ability to be more creative about what we do, and we want to contribute to this new system and approach to food is wonderful. But it doesn't mean it's easy or even fun even half the time! It's really hard work.
The idea that Brooklyn is the new hot spot in New York when it comes to food is only one part of it. The Brooklyn Food Coalition here has a lot of groups in food desert neighborhoods trying to improve their access to good food. So we're kind of at the forefront of good food on the glamorous side of things, and in terms of movement towards food sovereignty and justice and accessibility. Detroit is really the leader, but we're doing a good job here in Brooklyn too.
The fact that we're in Boerum Hill – in the 11217 zip code, makes the market project even more interesting. The latest census data reports that this neighborhood has the greatest income disparity of all census tracts in the entire United States. I didn't find that all that surprising. I live here. We have a lot of very wealthy people and a lot of people with very very little disposable income. So we're trying to create a market to serve this really diverse community. We have to make good healthy food available to people with really limited resources, and we have to have really snazzy cheeses and that sort of thing too. This neighborhood is a sort of microcosm of the city, and not just the city, but the whole planet at this point because there's such a disparity of income.
I'm curious to know more about the building? What's your history with it? When did you come to own it?
I came to Brooklyn 20 years ago to settle. I moved around a lot for most of my life. My family moved back and forth between the North and South. I lived in Charlotte, Nashville, Detroit, Cleveland. I came up North to go to college. I lived in China for nine years. I was sick of bouncing around and I decided that I wanted to put down roots and I really meant it.
When I came to New York, I lived in Manhattan briefly but there was no way I would have stayed there. I had to have a garden. I've always been a gardener despite moving around all the time. So I needed a place for a garden, and of course one day I discovered Brooklyn…like Columbus discovered America! I found a place right here by the Gowanus Canal where I could have a big garden. I've stayed ever since and I'm so happy to have been here all these years.
I never really had one career. I taught for many years. In China I studied and taught international economics. I had thought I'd end up teaching about the transition from planned to market economics, but I ended up not liking the academic world. So I decided in 1992 to start a magazine. It was called Brooklyn Bridge Magazine, and I sustained it, barely, until 2000. It was a lot of fun and it made me love Brooklyn even more. We did our best and we did quite well, actually. Our readers liked us but we had to close it down in 2000. We had big parties for three weekends. We invited our readers to say goodbye and that was it. We shut down the office here in this building and I started renting it out for commercial space.
Anyway, I got the building for the magazine. We ran Brooklyn Bridge Magazine from right here.
This building used to be a factory. It was the Cast Iron Coin Counting Machine factory from 1917 to 1988. They left their safe behind, so I have all of their accounting books from the beginning. All these little bank records, handwritten…they made machines for counting currencies all over the world – in the British Emprire, the French Empire, all of Latin America, almost all of the United States. When digital technology hit and made them obsolete, they went out of business almost overnight in 1988. I got the building at a bankruptcy auction.
It's so sad! But it does mean that we have a very very strong building. These were very heavy machines. That allows us to do a lot of rooftop gardening here. The roof is strong enough to support all our kiddie pools full of vegetables up there, and our bee hives and everything.
Who does your beekeeping? Do you do it yourselves?
Yes, I'm the beekeeper. Supposedly. I have a mentor, Michael Hegedus, of the Brooklyn Beekeepers Club. I'm a true novice. It's my first year. I have a hive here and a hive at home and I'm just looking to learn more.
They just legalized beekeeping in the city, you know, last St. Patricks Day. We had a big party here to celebrate.
Beekeeping is just fascinating. The division of labor in the hive just makes you kind of rethink your own humanness in some way!
As someone who's been here for twenty years, what are your thoughts about the whole revitalization of the food world in Brooklyn?
It's amazing what's happened to food in Brooklyn. I live on Douglass near the canal. When I moved in, 20 years ago, when we finished unloading the Ryder truck, we went out – we were exhausted and wanted to get something to eat. We went up and down Smith Street and there was not even a takeout joint. There was one Spanish food place. There wasn't a single other place. Even ten years ago there was very little. Patois opened on Smith Street in '98 and that was the start of it. Now it's not just restaurants- there's that whole additional factor of young people and people of all sorts opening all kinds of food businesses.
There's always been tremendous entrepreneurship in Brooklyn. Not just because of the immigrant population – there's just a resourcefulness here. It's always been true of this borough, even before it was a borough. Many many people come here and start businesses, many of which are food-related. So this new thing isn't really that new- it's that we're all paying attention to it.
I recall seeing an article in New York magazine last year, and other articles in lots of places, all giving the impression that the entire food thing that's happening in Brooklyn is driven by these young hipsters. And it's wonderful that those young hipsters are getting attention, but there are a lot of other people who have been doing this for quite some time.
There are community gardens that have been around Brooklyn for decades. Since the 60s or even earlier in some cases. And all of a sudden it's being portrayed as though urban agriculture is this totally new thing. It's great that it's growing, but let us give some credit to the elders who've been around for a while!
There's always been a tension in Brooklyn. There was too much nostalgia for too many years. Everyone wanted to look back to the 'golden age' of the 50s and there was just heavy heavy nostalgia for the Dodgers and the Brooklyn Eagle and all that. Now we've gone to the other extreme and we're focused only on what's new. We're forgetting the history. There's a difference between nostalgia and history and we have a very rich history. I just hope that there'll be some acknowledgement that there's a lot to be learned from people who've been growing food and making food here for a really long time!
Foodshed Market is open every Sunday from 11am to 5pm at The Commons – 388 Atlantic Ave., between Hoyt and Bond.


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I've been knitting furiously in preparation for Christmas. How do I end up rushing every year? I knew last spring and summer that I'd need gifts for people by the end of December, but I never seem to get serious until football season begins, and I'm guaranteed four consecutive hours on the couch each week.You can see how simple these mittens are. They're made from the same pattern, and the embellishments are basic. They're warm, they're cozy, they're cute, and I'm happy with them until I see something like this, and begin to feel inadequate. My mittens, with their accidental holes and lumps and ill-conceived colorwork, look so sloppy in comparison.
I would love to have the time, focus, and patience to make intricate Scandinavian mittens. It's a dream of mine, but it's not going to happen. Knitting gauge swatches, counting rows, and following patterns makes me cranky. I knit on autopilot, so my hands have something to do while I watch a movie. I enjoy the nearly instant gratification of knitting hats and mittens with thick yarn (the teal pair only took me three days), and lose interest in projects that drag on longer than a week.
This month at school, I'm reading folk tales to the kindergarten and first grade. The other day we read the story of the Three Little Pigs, which encourages us to plan ahead and work carefully, like the pig who builds his house with bricks. If you rush, like the pig who builds his house out of straw, your crummy house will blow over, and if you get eaten you probably deserve it for being such a slob.
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Brigit Brown produced a wild horse documentary for a National History Day project.
Hi my name is Brigit Brown. I am a 12 year old student from Moriarty, New Mexico. I live on a farm called Sagging Acres where we have two old, retired horses, one donkey, six chickens, three ducks, three cats, and two dogs.
I made this documentary for a National History Day project. My documentary is ten minutes long and describes the debate about mustangs. National History Day requires year long College Level research. This project gave me to opportunity to talk to experts in my area and around the country!
My project started with Velma Johnston but as I learned about the history behind her work I also began to see how the debate continues today. After the 1971 law was passed a lot of things started to change including attitudes about horses.
My research showed me that the BLM's work is very important in keeping the wild mustang herds healthy. I think what a lot of people don't understand is that unless these horses are managed they will overpopulate, starve, inbreed, and spread sicknesses. When this happens it affects the horses, the land, and even humans. I've seen a starving horse and it is very sad.
Because of the good work of the Wild Horse and Burro program mustangs are living longer and that means the cost of the program keeps rising. I think a way to help resolve this problem would be if more people would adopt mustangs. They are very trainable and the adoption fees are low. I think adoptions through the BLM is good for the horses, good for new horse owners and good for our country.
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