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OK, so I'm working on a budget-ish chick version of Boba Fett, with the goal that it be ready by Halloween. Limited time and cash will be a challenge, but my enthusiasm will hopefully make up for some of that. Plus, not having to make it screen perfect will make life a lot easier on me.
one of the ref pics: http://www.spectre-studios.com/104_4200.jpg (David Johnson)
So far/the plan:
- um, hoping to get an off-cast or less-loved version from one of you lot; being a girl I have a smaller head and smaller frame than the average Boba connoisseur, so I might lean toward a Rubies (and repaint it) even though they don't look so hot.
Today I went on a Value Village (do you guys have that in the US?) raid and actually found some great pants for the bottom. They fit well but will need the addition of extra pouches, weathering etc. The colour is a khaki green but I'll have to test out bleaching on a scrap portion from them. They could stay the same colour and I could adapt the costume around them, orI could use them to make a pattern, since the fit is superb. At 5.99 they were basically the same price as a pattern!
TOP (soft):
so, also at value village, I found a small wetsuit that fits like a dream. It has the right amount of structure, stretchiness, etc. and I though I know I can't paint that neoprene, I could use it as a pattern if I could get neoprene in that colour (plus, I can use the wetsuit for surfing anyway!). Neoprene fabric would be a nice stable base in case the chest plates are heavy, but I'm worried about doing the seams on a regular sewing machine, and I don't know if it would come in the right colour. If it doesn't work out, I'll just make the pattern from the suit in something stretchy but non-neopreney. It might look good in canvas, but the fit would have to be so perfectly tailored and I don't think I'm capable of that yet.
Aiming to have the long sleeves (with the short-sleeve overlay), tall neck cuff, and crop just at the base of my rib cage, potentially with a longer back panel.
probably won't do the red, but will go ROTJ stylz with a shelter half or other distressed green canvas fabric.
ARMOUR (hard):
all to be made of sintra/bondo/... or bought on the cheap from DH people; for the femm shapes, live casting would be ideal but I'm not set up for that. So instead, might use a female half-mannequin as others have done. Need all of:
- shoulder bells
- chest plates incl. gorget
- back plate
- cod?
- knee covers
will just use some brown curtain braid from the fabric store.
Can't afford a 99centtaco special, though they are gorgeous. There are some $50 ones from evolution and costumebase. Not sure if there are any sig diffs between the two. [Haha I almost typed 'sig figs.' = Geek!]
I've got the base for the boots, which are pretty similar to the reference pic though I'll have to add piping and spikes.
I found some white ones and cream ones, lady-specific, at VV. Gotta add some grey patches and other details to make them more boba-y, as they are distinctly feminine and not very "bounty hunter" at present.
These seem key, but they could look really bad if I tried to scratch build them. Probably another kit to purchase. That, or find someone who has ones they aren't pleased with, and convince them to let go of them :)
- I bought a cool "Bakugan" toy that I think could be made into a thermal detonator easily enough: http://www.kookerkids.com/features/i...era_closed.jpg
- have some toy guns that I'll mash together into a blaster, but I can't seem to get hold of a Rebel Blaster (Hasbro) for parts since those Ebay folks won't ship a toy 'gun' across the border to Canada. It would have been nice to have for the barrel but I'll just scratch build that.
this one could be a scratch build. probably would go with cardboard/bondo; i might leave it until last as it is not critical though would be an awesome addition.
overall, lots to buy, build, and paint; I'll be in the Cargo Hold WTB'ing tonnes of stuff I'm sure, in the near future. Any advice graciously welcomed!


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The Story Of Treasure Island (pt. 1) [45:01m]
I guess it goes without saying that we humans have done a great deal to change
the face of San Francisco since the first Europeans arrived almost 250 years
ago. But even though most of these changes are relatively recent, as a rule
we barely even notice them today. The Financial District and Embarcadero conceal
what were once open waters of the Bay. Golden Gate Park was once a dreary wasteland
of sand dunes. Rincon Hill is a shadow of its former self, its rocky heights
reduced to a mere stump with a bridge growing out of it. These alterations
are invisible to us now, and without a study of our history, it would be easy
to think that this is how things have always been.
But there is one earth-shaping venture -- just 70 years old -- that is unmistakably
the work of human hands. Its rectilinear shape makes it stand out from the
organic environment like a knife in the spoon drawer. This epic reshaping of
the natural landscape is hidden in plain sight, smack in the middle of San
Francisco Bay. I'm talking about Treasure Island.
It's easily visible from San Francisco's Embarcadero, a low-lying front porch
jutting out towards the Golden Gate Bridge from Yerba Buena Island. Palm trees
in a silhouetted row set off massive white buildings, dwarfed by the towering
silver Bay Bridge marching across the water towards Oakland. That bridge carries
over 130,000 people a day within yards of this artificial lily pad, most of
them whizzing by at 70 miles per hour without giving it a second thought.
This story gives Treasure Island that second thought. What is it? Why is it
there? And where is it going? The story of the island begins with an airport.
But to put that airport in context, let's step backwards.
"We Must Master Our Environment"
The transcontinental railroad was completed in the middle of the nineteenth
century. The driving of the final spike in 1869 served not only to physically
stitch the two halves of the North American continent together, compressing
space and time in a single stroke, but to summon an even larger vision into
the American imagination. The physical enormity of this engineering feat
marked a turning point after which nothing would seem impossible. By 1900
the United States had become the leading industrial nation on earth, completely
transformed from its early agrarian roots. As the second phase of the industrial
revolution provided ever larger and more powerful tools with which to mold
the environment for human convenience, the size of a project was limited
only by the human capacity to conceive it. This was particularly true in
the West, where the outsize and rugged scale of the environment offered challenges
that couldn't be ignored.
A flurry of Bay Area engineering projects were born in the boom following
the end of World War I, inspired by the earth-shaping success of the 1914 Panama
Canal. The Hetch-Hetchy Valley up in the Sierra Nevada was dammed to provide
San Francisco with a reliable water supply. The San Francisco Bay was spanned
for the first time by the Dumbarton bridge, and the Carquinez bridge, the "highest
in the world" followed right on its heels. The most impressive projects
of the 1920s, though, were without question our Golden Gate and San Francisco-Oakland
Bay Bridges. Though our self-anointed Emperor Norton had ordered that a bridge
to Oakland be built as early as 1872, such massive and technically difficult
structures still seemed audacious a half-century later. Then when the Great
Depression struck the country in 1929, it seemed as though this kind of colossal
undertaking would simply have to wait until prosperity returned.
But with the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, a do-or-die optimism
swept the country. America would build its way out of the Depression. Roosevelt's
notion was that the American economy could be jump-started by pouring federal
money into it, and under his "New Deal", public works projects were
among the favoured recipients. The immensity of the country's financial woes
seemed to influence the scale of these ventures, again bringing intense attention
to the West, where the Depression had come late but hit hard. The awesome Hoover
Dam on the Colorado River provides one of the most impressive examples of 1930s
governmental largesse, but the focus on large-scale construction extended to
private industry as well.
In this atmosphere, despite the fact that San Francisco millionaires were
compelled to sell apples on the corners of Market Street for survival, construction
of the Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay Bridge began in 1933 -- at the very depth
of the Depression. It's still amazing to me that either one of those bridges
ever made it off the drawing board. The fact that both of these marvels of
nature-defying engineering were constructed simultaneously gives you some idea
of the manic mixture of desperation and hubris bred by the times. Roosevelt
captured the mood in the West perfectly, saying, "We can no longer escape
into virgin territory; we must master our environment."
Because broad, flat, and open spaces are not exactly easy to come by on the
peninsula, the Junior Chamber of Commerce kept an open mind about potential
sites. One sketch from the period show an elaborate airfield built on fill
stretching eastward from China Basin, and this was not an anomaly. As you may
recall, San Francisco has a long established tradition of filling in the bay
to create land -- compare any map of the pre-1860's city to a modern plan and
it's easy to see how the land-mass has expanded. It's not clear exactly who
came up with the winning idea, but you've probably guessed what it was.
Treasure Island in its intended final incarnation as an airport. Clippers
circle overhead, and the terminal and two hangars are clearly visible at
the southern end. - artist's conception
But considering the tenor of the times and San Francisco's bay-filling history,
the concept of building out there must have seemed obvious -- you can almost
imagine someone slapping his forehead: "why didn't we think of this before?" The
shoals were a 735-acre sandbar, submerged between 2 and 26 feet beneath the
surface of the bay. They had long presented a navigational hazard for mariners,
and since they couldn't be built on or sailed over, were considered nothing
more than waste territory. Of course, the idea of planting a massive artificial
island in the middle of San Francisco Bay's fragile ecosystem is one that would
never get off the ground today, but remember, it's the thirties, we're thinking
big, and contemporary concepts of ecology or environmental protection lie a
long, long way in the future.
And so it was settled. The Junior Chamber began to lean on city officials
to have the state legislature transfer the underwater property to San Francisco.
And though that's what happened, it's just the beginning of the story. Factoring
in the speed of bureaucracy -- glacial then as it is now -- it would have taken
decades before work on the airport project would even begin.
The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge under construction in January of 1935.
Note Yerba Buena Island in foreground. - San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
A Celebration of Bridges
But then in 1933, a San Francisco real estate man named Joseph Dixon wrote
a letter to the editor of the San Francisco News. He pointed out that the
completion of our two gorgeous bridges, our pair of cutting-edge "wonders
of the world" was something to celebrate, and made a modest suggestion.
Why not hold a World's Fair to show them off?
This idea caught fire in San Francisco, particularly in political and business
circles. Mayor Angelo Rossi stuck a white carnation in his lapel and jumped
on board with both feet. The rest of the city, stirred by pride and local patriotism,
was right behind him. But there were other reasons to push the idea forward.
The bridges were certainly something to crow about, but at the depth of the
Depression, the thought of the money that would be attracted by an International
Exposition made the whole region salivate. And on top of that, a World's Fair
would give San Francisco a chance to proclaim itself the natural American gateway
to the Pacific, thereby staking a claim to leadership of this newly ascendant
cultural and economic region.
With the whole city whipped into an enthusiastic froth, the Bridge Celebration
Founding Committee was formed by business leaders to consider the vital question
of "Where?". A bevy of architects was engaged to review potential
locations. The government-owned military lands of the Presidio were considered,
as was the Lake Merced area in the south-east. Golden Gate Park seemed like
a natural site, with one plan even suggesting that the city acquire all the
land between the Park and City Hall, demolishing the existing structures and
rebuilding the whole swath. The bay-filled lands of China Basin and Hunters
Point were also discussed, but each of these sites had some major disadvantage.
Golden Gate Park? Too fragile! Lake Merced? Too foggy! China Basin? Too ugly!
But Yerba Buena Shoals.... hmm! A barge was dispatched to the spot, and a little
test drilling showed that the shoals could indeed support a man-made island.
As the World's Fair debate raged on, the Junior Chamber of Commerce was still
thinking airport. Citizens tend to doze off at the very mention of a public
works project, but the Junior Chamber quickly realized that World's Fair-fever
provided a wonderful opportunity to kick-start their airport dream. In fact,
if they could get, say, 400 acres of Yerba Buena Shoals filled for the Fair,
their airport could take over the artificial island the moment it was over...
and if one of the ventures lost money it could pay the expenses of the other!
The idea was a natural, though admittedly that term sounds a bit odd in reference
to a manufactured land-mass. The World's Fair site would be right in the middle
of the bay, more or less equally accessible from all parts of the Bay Area.
Legions of ferry boats already cut through these waters at an astonishing rate,
shuttling 250,000 people a day across the bay. The Bay Bridge had been designed
to use Yerba Buena Island as a stepping stone, and now that opportune placement
would provide a convenient link to the Fair from both sides of the Bay. Visitors
would even be able to take the train, since in those good old days, public
transportation in the form of rail -- part of the old "Key System" --
was planned to roll along the bridge's lower deck.
Endorsement of the new island wasn't to be that easy, of course. As soon as
the mid-bay plan for the Fair was revealed by the Bridge Celebration Committee,
objections began to fly. Many were concerned that a site outside of the city
might "bring a profit to Oakland at the expense of San Francisco"!
With some foresight, a member of the Junior Chamber retorted, "the time
has come for San Francisco to throw off the yoke of provincialism and smug
satisfaction and work in harmony with her sister cities ... to achieve her
desired greatness, now threatened by ... Southern California." The San
Francisco Board of Supervisors were hopelessly deadlocked. After days of conflict,
they abdicated the final decision, throwing up their hands and putting the
matter to a public vote. The conclusion? The good people of San Francisco were
in favour of building the new island -- but they didn't want to pay for it.
Prying Open the Checkbook
So. The proposed Fair now had an address, but not a cent available to raise
it from beneath the waters of the bay. Meanwhile, however, the exploratory
committee formed by Mayor Rossi had become a corporation, with insurance
man Leland Cutler at its head. As the representative of San Francisco Bay
Exposition, Inc., Cutler had immediately begun an assault on the coffers
of Washington DC. Even with a World's Fair in New York also in the works,
the Feds were receptive. The huge employment numbers promised by the project
were attractive, but it was the investment in infrastructure that really
got them to bite -- the airport. Cutler returned home with a verbal promise
from President Roosevelt himself for $3.8 million, to be delivered on condition
that matching funds of three-quarters of a million come from San Francisco.
For a little perspective, if we crank that sum into contemporary dollars,
even using a conservative metric it comes to well over $50 million. According
to Richard Reinhardt, local author and historian, the men of San Francisco's
Republican-dominated Exposition Corporation were at first reluctant to trust
a Democratic President, but Roosevelt was as good as his word; in 1935, his
administration formally approved the island-building project.
"And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto
one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so." That's how Genesis
1:9 reads, but God probably didn't mind having his place usurped by the Army
Corps of Engineers. The construction of the island had originally fallen to
the New Deal put-folks-to-work agency known as the WPA, the Works Progress
Administration. Now, I'm not sure if they'd imagined that the job could be
done by a bunch of guys with rubber boots and tin buckets, but after taking
a closer look, the WPA decided that the scope of the project was way out of
their league. Yerba Buena Island was still property of the United States government,
so it seemed logical that the Secretary of War authorize the Army Corps of
Engineers to take over. By the time it was finally begun, this artificial island
would represent one of the most complicated multi-agency projects ever attempted
in California, encompassing the WPA, the Exposition Corporation, the San Francisco
Public Utilities Commission, the Federal Public Works Administration, the Navy,
and of course the Army Engineers. It's incredible that any project of such
complexity could succeed with so many cooks in the kitchen, but the construction
of our little island stands out as a stellar example of choosing the right
group for the job and getting out of the way.
Treasure Island breaks the surface of the bay in the spring of 1936. Note
the floating pipe pointing at its center, and the unfinished eastern span
of the Bay Bridge in the background. - National Archives
Building the Island
The Army Engineers had at first hoped to contract much of the work out to
local dredging companies, but finding no takers for the risky venture, took
on the job themselves. Assembling the necessary array of large equipment was
easier said than done. The two bridges that the island was intended to celebrate
were still under construction, and much of the San Francisco Bay's maritime
building resources were already occupied. Not to worry; Colonel Fred Butler
issued a few well-chosen orders, and a fleet of government dredges and barges
began to converge on the shoals from up and down the West Coast.
On February 11, 1936, a day of pomp and circumstance was planned to accompany
the first load of fill onto the site. Mother Nature seemed to resent the gesture,
and the largest storm in over a decade drenched the Bay Area. Enthusiasm was
undampened on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle, however, which
shrieked "Fair Officially Started!" The reporter gushed:
"When pretty close to a hundred silk hats will get up before breakfast,
skid across town to a pier shed half submerged in water, grab a toehold on
a water taxi pointing towards heaven one second and a firehouse the next, go
out in the middle of the bay and take their morning shower outdoors for the
sake of saying the exposition is officially started, they must be one of two
things: they must be crazy, or they must be imbued with a lofty purpose."
That lofty purpose was the inauguration of the construction of the largest
artificial island on earth, and the "silk hats" were worn by Mayor
Rossi, Leland Cutler, and dozens of other San Francisco businessmen and politicos,
each determined to associate themselves with the popular project. The mayors
of cities from Oakland to San Jose made their perilous way out to the middle
of the bay as well, along with a phalanx of military brass hats representing
the Navy, the Army, and the Army Corps of Engineers.
A pumping dredge sucks up sand from the bay floor and blasts it onto the
emerging island. - San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
Though Mayor Rossi did manage to cut the pink ribbon symbolically draped over
the controls of the US Army dredge, his speech was cut short by the downpour.
The wisecracking Chronicle reporter noted that, "Mayor Rossi did start
to open his mouth, but when the third cubic foot of water and the second mackerel
passed his Adam's apple, he gave up."
That rainy February day marked the beginning of months of ceaseless labor.
Clamshell dredges scooped up bulging mouthfuls from nearby sandbars and dumped
them onto barges headed for the building site. Huge floating pipes snaked their
way across the bay, connected to a flotilla of pipeline dredges. These sucked
up staggering quantities of sand and sediment directly from the bay floor,
using massive pumps to disgorge the muck directly into the waters over Yerba
Buena Shoals.
When the first soggy lump of the nascent island broke the surface later that
spring, Leland Cutler, already in high promotional gear, was there in a rowboat
to plant the American flag in the virgin "soil" and smile for photographers.
The simple but ingenious design for the island called for the erection of
long stone seawalls, which would contain the fill in a kind of artificial atoll.
287,000 tons of rock quarried from Napa, Greenbrae, and McNear's Point were
delivered on barges and sunk in razor-straight lines, building up a rocky wall
to the height of 14 feet. The outline was simple; picture a rectangle with
three of the four corners snipped off. The southernmost corner, left unsnipped,
was linked to Yerba Buena Island by a sloping causeway. The narrow rectangular
slot delineated by the causeway and the two islands was designed to act as
a protected harbor. The whole, elongated stop-sign shape measured three-quarters
of a mile wide by one mile long. Admittedly, it does look like something designed
by an engineer. Though a curvier, more island-shaped island might have been
nice, that rectilinear shape lent itself to construction; straight lines are
easier than curved ones, and cheaper too.
As the enormous pipes vacuumed up the sea floor, they often performed a sort
of inadvertent archeology. Human bones were dumped onto the site, most likely
the remnants of early Native American tribes. Another find was a prehistoric
mammoth tusk, certified by scientists at UC Berkeley as having lived in the
late Pleistocene period -- around 250,000 years ago. Millions of pounds of
very modern fish were also caught in the flow. Countless seagulls already made
their living by scavenging ferryboat garbage, and a huge proportion of their
number -- attracted by this fishy windfall -- made the construction site their
new permanent cafeteria. The sheer quantity of food drove the big birds wild,
and attacks on workers who happened to be in the way were so fierce that they
were issued "seagull suits" for protection.
The island was completed on August 24, 1937 -- in just 18 and a half months.
All told twenty million cubic yards of sea bottom had been dredged, dug, dumped
and poured inside the rocky walls. The sea-soaked muck was too salty too support
any life but marsh grass, so engineers drilled 300 wells and pumped millions
of gallons of briny water from the bowels of the island. As a final step, the
surface was frosted like a chocolate cake with 50,000 cubic yards of topsoil
-- rich, earthy loam imported from the Sacramento Delta. And with that, the
Army Corps of Engineers were finished, having performed their task with jaw-dropping
efficiency, 15 days ahead of schedule and $4100 under budget.
Groundbreaking ceremony, August 1936. As evidenced by the Japanese and Nazi
flags, the United States is not yet formally involved with the wars in Europe
and Asia.
"Pacific Unity"
A formal ground-breaking was held on the new island with the surface still
damp. With the newly completed Bay Bridge serving as a dramatic backdrop
the ceremony was attended by mayors, businessmen and consular diplomats from
each of the countries preparing to participate in the Fair, whose theme had
by this time been officially designated as "Pacific Unity". I must
confess that I had something of a shock when I saw a photo of this event.
The Governor of California is there, Mayor Rossi, a brass band, a troop of
boy scouts... but what really grabs your attention are two of the dozen flags
flying in the background; the rising sun of Imperial Japan and the menacing
black and red swastika of Nazi Germany.
It's difficult to imagine a more inauspicious time to open an international
exposition: evidence that the world was dissolving into violence was all around.
As a flamboyantly gold-plated shovel broke the fresh ground of our idealized
island, Hitler was negotiating with Stalin over how to carve up Eastern Europe,
Italy and Spain were plunging into fascism, and the Japanese occupation of
China and the rape of Nanking made the concept of "Pacific Unity" sound
almost chilling.
The idea of celebrating brotherhood and peace on an island full of grand buildings,
commercial hucksterism and gay frivolity seems naive today, almost sweetly
optimistic. The country's capacity to be swept away by spectacle, pageantry
and grand themes was petering out in the face of a ruthlessly unsentimental
Modern Era -- this sliver of time between the Depression and World War II was
perhaps its last gasp. The day of the grand World's Fair was over, but somehow,
nobody knew it yet.
The 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in all its glory, with the "Tower
of the Sun" standing towards the near corner.
Naming the Island
As the island was taking shape, another group put the finishing touches on
its own plans, feverishly at work planning the Fair to end all fairs. Architects,
sculptors, horticulturalists, but most visibly, publicists put their shoulders
to the wheel. Clyde Vandeburg was the head of the publicity machine, and
it turns out that he was the man responsible for something I've always wondered
about; how the island got its name. There's a letter on file in the San Francisco
Library History Room in which Vandeburg points out that the official name
of his organization -- "The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridges Corporation
and Golden Gate International Exposition" -- was just too long to fit
on a letterhead!
But seriously, folks. Something a little punchier was needed for publicity
reasons. I've speculated that Treasure Island was named for Robert Louis Stevenson's
famous children's book about adventure and pirate gold. There is already a
real (if murky) history of treasure buried on Yerba Buena, treasure of the
very best kind: undiscovered! And since the whole affair was to be called "The
Pageant of the Pacific", Vandeburg was searching for a name redolent of
palm trees, sandy beaches, and warm tropical breezes -- as well as something
with a little spark and excitement. Did it matter that pirates never really
operated in the Pacific Ocean? Robert Louis Stevenson's brief stay in San Francisco
provided a tenuous link to a name that fit the criteria like a glove: "Treasure
A more practical reason was suggested after the fact by none other than ex-president
Herbert Hoover. As a California native and friend to the Bay Area -- as president
he'd made the Bay Bridge possible -- Hoover was invited to attend the ground-breaking
of the Mines and Minerals exhibition building. Hoover had once worked out West
as a mining engineer, and showed up in full gold miner's drag. It occurred
to him that the "Treasure Island" moniker was literally accurate;
the sand and earth used as fill for the island had been washed down from the
same gold-veined hills that spawned the 1849 gold rush. He examined the soil
and remarked "if a man worked hard 10 hours a day he could probably pan
about a dollar's worth of gold on Treasure Island!" Since he just happened
to have the right tool handy, he squatted down and panned a couple of specks
of genuine yellow on the spot. The official name of the Fair remained the "Golden
Gate International Exposition", but not a soul ever called it that. To
one and all its name would forever be synonymous with the island.
Treasure Island's official "Theme Girl" Zoe Dell Lantis flashes
some leg and her trademark sparkling smile.
Let the Hype Begin
The ballyhoo and hype surrounding the event flooded every conceivable media
outlet, and the whole city was infected. Theme songs were written, celebrities
showed up, and shop-owners changed the names of their operations to "Expo" this
and "World's Fair" that. Official visits were made separately by
both Roosevelts, Franklin and Eleanor. As a publicity man, Vandeburg knew
what would really sell, so he hired a perky young ballet dancer named Zoe
Dell Lantis to become "Treasure Island's Theme Girl". Wearing a
pirate hat, cuffed boots and short shorts, Zoe became the hardest working
buccaneer in show business, criss-crossing first the state and then the country.
She was the most-photographed person of 1939, happily hammering "Treasure
Island" into the consciousness of an entire population with long legs
and a big bright smile.
Planning and construction continued at a pace even more frenetic than the
publicity blitz. At the south end of the island, adjacent to the harbour, the
WPA had already begun the three buildings intended to outlive the Fair -- and
indeed they're still there. Timothy Pflueger's tall and elegantly semi-circular
Administration building would serve as the terminal for the post-Fair airport,
and you can still see the glass-windowed air traffic control tower at its top.
Behind this classic of "streamline moderne" stood two massive rectangular
buildings. These were intended to devolve into aircraft hangars, but first
served the Fair as the "Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts" and,
appropriately, the "Hall of Air Transportation". Since the north
end of the island was actually still sinking as construction began, that end
was relegated to use as a parking lot and carnival zone. In the acres between,
a temporary wonderland of lath and stucco was soon to arise.
A "Magic City"
The New York World's Fair, scheduled to open just two months after Treasure
Island, had already claimed the Future as its theme. Historian Reinhardt
recalls that "there was widespread indignation that New York had tried
to steal our thunder", but San Francisco had already staked its claim
to an imaginary multi-cultural past.
The architects charged with developing the visual style of the fair were the
cream of the San Francisco old school, George Kelham, Timothy Pflueger, Arthur
Brown and others. Many of them had worked on San Francisco's previous World's
Fair, the classically romantic Pan-Pacific Exhibition of 1915. Their task was
to reflect the Fair's theme by blending sources from all around the Pacific
Rim into a "new" architectural style: "Pacifica". There
wasn't a whiff of Frank Lloyd Wright in this bunch, and the result of their
labors was a kind of monumental orientalist fantasy, an art deco hallucination
of a walled imperial city.
The walls were in part a practical consideration. If you've ever been to Treasure
Island, you know that the afternoon wind roars across with startling ferocity
pretty much every day of the year. A wall of staggered baffles on the windward
side of the Fair was the result of careful experimentation with a cardboard
model and electric fan.
Once through the gates, romantic vistas of pools, fountains and gardens would
reveal themselves to the visitor through a series of courtyards and grand avenues,
all organized around a huge cylindrical bell tower reminiscent of an art-deco
rocket -- the 400 foot high "Tower of the Sun". A pair of mammoth
ziggurats topped with cubist elephants would flank the Tower, creating an awe-inspiring
centerpiece. The island's nomenclature -- the Court of the Moon and Stars,
the Enchanted Garden, the Avenue of the Seven Seas -- revealed something of
the island's retro-romantic flavour. Chunky, stylized sculptures by Bay Area
artists were to be generously distributed throughout the magic city, trumped
by the gigantic stone "Pacifica". This 40-foot Polynesian goddess
played the role of the island's muse, the physical embodiment of the "Pan-Pacific" theme.
The overall aesthetic was evocative of Cecil B. deMille's 1927 Technicolor
movie epic "The Ten Commandments", becoming a fantasy island that
historian Harold Gilliam would later compare to Coleridge's "Pleasure
Dome of Kubla Khan".
The 40-foot "Tower of the Sun" looms over the "Court of Reflections" - Courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley
Some observers have seen overtones of fascist architecture in the inhumanly
clean lines and awe-inspiring imperial scale of the place. To my mind, the
veneer of fanciful eastern-inspired decoration, shallow or even kitschy though
it may seem to our jaded eyes, rescues it from that sordid company. I mean,
what self-respecting fascist builds a ziggurat with an elephant perched on
top? The populist art and architecture of the Fair were universally despised
or dismissed by its contemporary critics, but all the same, the "Magic
City" was to be beloved by fairgoers.
The Future did manage to sneak into the Fair's design through innovative lighting
and a vivid color scheme -- this involving nineteen tints of sparkling spray-on
Zonolite, ranging from "Santa Clara Apricot" to "Death Valley
Mauve". A WPA sponsored writing project reported:
"The island's colors, stimulating, unforgettable, represent the first
extensive application of chromotherapy—the science of health treatment
by color usage. In the daytime the effects are gained with flowers and tinted
walls; at night, with fluorescent tubes, with the new "black light," with
ultra-violet floods, underwater lamps, translucent glass fabric pillars, and
cylindrical lanterns 75 feet high. The $1,000,000 illumination program presents
at nightfall the illusion of a magic city of light, floating on the waters
of San Francisco Bay."
The dazzling light and color were reinforced by hundreds of thousands of plants
from all around the globe -- orchids, hibiscus, palm trees and countless more.
Twenty-five acres on the San Francisco side of the island were covered by multi-colored
iceplant, a fairgoer-favourite known as the Magic Carpet. This plant was so
exotic to 1930s eyes that countless people were moved to take cuttings home,
which may explain the ubiquity of the plant in California today. Some of that
original stock can still be seen along the seawall, along with a number of
surviving trees from the "Avenue of Palms". Most of the more exotic
species had been carefully nurtured in nurseries all around Northern California
just for the occasion, but many trees and shrubs were actually donated by public-spirited
citizens from their own front yards.
Opening Day, 1939
The night before the long-anticipated opening day, the Pacific theme was
given a final polish. At precisely 10:30 pm on February 18, 1939, a photoelectric
cell in Bombay caught the rays of the sun and hurled a radio signal across
the Pacific. On Treasure Island, the darkened fairyland was suddenly bathed
in brilliant light, and the carillon atop the Tower of the Sun began to ring.
This 44-bell carillon would retire to its final home in the bell-tower of
Grace Cathedral at the Fair's end, and as it pealed "The Bells of Treasure
Island", San Francisco held its breath in anticipation.
The next morning Governor Culbert Olson thrust a $35,000 jeweled key into
the lock of a gilded miniature Golden Gate Bridge, and the Fair was officially
underway. Publicist Leland Cutler had been terrified that his months of relentless
hype were going to be too successful. A radio announcement warned of tremendous
traffic jams and advised people to stay away or prepare for the worst. The
warnings worked so well that the ticket booth -- located beneath a streetcar-sized
cash register -- received just a little over half of the 200,000 visitors expected
to arrive that day. Though this disappointing turnout foreshadowed financial
disaster, few of the millions of visitors, clad in hats, ties, and their Sunday
best, would regret forking over their fifty cents admission -- each one had
experienced something that they would remember forever.
The Kaleidoscopic Fair
Just what that "something" turned out to be was as various as the
individuals who passed through the gates. The sights, sounds and smells of
the Treasure Island Fair presented such a kaleidoscope of experience that hundreds
of pages could be written without exhausting the subject -- and in fact, they
have. It wasn't just about architecture and a half-baked dream of Pacific unity
-- the whole point of a World's Fair is to show off new technology and entertain
the masses. The island was packed with a myriad of shows and attractions both
highbrow and low, as well as exhibits from 36 foreign countries and a motley
assembly of commercial enterprises. Let me give you just a taste of the bizarre
variety offered on those 400 acres:
A working dairy. A Lucite Packard. An art gallery with both Botticelli's "Birth
of Venus" and Salvador Dali's "Construction with Soft Beans" on
display. The Sally Rand "Nude Ranch", featuring scantily clad beauties
twirling lariats and riding burros. A socialist mural by Diego Rivera, painted
as the fairgoers watched (it's now on display at San Francisco City College).
An attempt to break the world record for catching a baseball -- dropped 800
feet from the Goodyear blimp (the would-be recipient, Seals catcher Joe Sprinz,
lost the ball in the sun and got his cheek smashed in). The "Gayway",
40 acres of chaotic, disorganized fun complete with thrill rides, freak shows
and teeth-rotting candy. An earnestly polite Japanese pavilion, attempting
diplomacy as armies marched. A cigarette-smoking robot. A marionette rodeo.
Premature babies in glass incubators. Bing Crosby, Count Basie, and Benny Goodman.
Tourists ferried from court to court by rickshaw or brightly painted Elephant
Train. Billy Rose's water drenched Aquacade, featuring future movie starlet
Esther Williams cavorting with Tarzan himself, Johnny Weissmuller. A thousand-pound
fruitcake. Ford's 27 millionth motorcar. The Queen of the Nudists, failing
a bid to swim the bay on account of imminent frostbite. Live concerts. Daily
parades. Live kangaroos. And oh so much more....
An extra dimension of entertainment was offered by the presence of five new
Boeing 314 Flying Clippers at the "Port of the Trade Winds". Cross-Pacific
air travel was strictly a luxury item, partaken of by millionaires and movie
stars, but these beautiful streamlined flying boats foreshadowed Treasure Island's
planned future as an airport and, crossing the Pacific to Hawaii, the Philippines,
and Hong Kong, provided concrete evidence that the "Pacific Unity" theme
could be more than just words.
World's Fair, v2: 1940
Unfortunately, the one thing apparently not available at the Exposition was
profit. The 1939 Fair closed six weeks early and over four million dollars
in debt. The primary balm to disappointed investors was a certain schadenfreude
in knowing that the New York Fair was in even worse shape.
Still, the same desperate optimism that had launched the project in the first
place resulted in taking another shot. Major changes were required, of course
-- bright new paint, fresh new acts and crazier gimmicks all around. The dismal
progress of the war in Europe and Asia meant that Latin America became the
primary Pacific Rim focus. But though so many exhibits and shows were replaced
that there was almost no continuity between the two fairs, in the memories
of most of its 16 million visitors, the two merged into one. The Golden Gate
International Exposition, 1940 Edition, opened in June and ran for just four
more months.
The high point may have been an enormous live concert in the Fair's final
week, featuring many of the greatest stars of the day. Judy Garland, Johnny
Mercer, Jerome Kern, and WC Handy were among the performers, but the climax
was delivered by the frail Irving Berlin. He performed "God Bless America",
a song he'd written just two years earlier as an American hymn of peace. In
the face of a world filled with conflict, the United States had already adopted
it as a new national anthem. A very young Herb Caen was on hand as well, reviewing
the concerts for the San Francisco Chronicle and capturing the power of the
moment: "Hundreds started to sing with him. Then thousands. And when he
came to the end of his song, 15,000 Americans were on their feet singing with
him. Then it was all over."
And with that, so was the Fair. Though the California Chamber of Commerce
would put a brave face on it, citing all manner of positive by-products for
the state, by almost any financial standard the $50 million event was a flop.
The End of an Idealistic Era
It's hard to know what to say about the Golden Gate International Exposition
-- it was a sprawling, messy affair, not amenable to a neat summing-up. On
the one hand, it was a parochial dinosaur and a terrific commercial failure;
on the other, the "Magic City" was one of the most gorgeous, evocative,
and seductive events the city had ever seen. As it fades into history, the
'39 Fair has become one of the most beloved moments in San Francisco's story,
inspiring volumes of nostalgia, fanatical collections of memorabilia, and
a celebration of the event as the symbolic end of an era. And of course,
thousands of people were kept off of bread lines by either the WPA or by
employment in one of the Fair's hundreds of exhibits and attractions. But
for the purposes of our story, the ultimate consequence of that ephemeral
Fair is still floating in the middle of the bay -- Treasure Island.
On September 29, 1940, the lights of the Golden Gate International Exposition
went out forever. As the merchants and exhibitors packed their bags and glumly
counted their receipts, Nazi Germany had begun a terror bombing campaign from
the skies above London. And across the Pacific, Imperial Japan was planning
a surprise attack on a United States naval base in Hawaii, turning the concept
of "Pacific Unity" into a hollow joke.
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Richard Miller delights in San Francisco stories: digging them up, researching the bejeezus out of them, and retelling them. A California native with two decades of San Francisco under his belt, Miller launched his popular Sparkletack podcast to share his love for the fun, fascinating and occasionally bizarre tales of the city. Delivered with enthusiasm and a dash of wry humor, they've attracted a rapidly expanding collection of expats and San Franciscophiles from around the world."

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The Dumbarton Oaks Conversations
In the late summer and early fall of 1944, at the height of the Second World War, a series of important diplomatic meetings took place at Dumbarton Oaks. Their outcome was the United Nations charter that was adopted in San Francisco in 1945. At these meetings, officially known as the Washington Conversations on International Organization, Dumbarton Oaks, delegations from China, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States deliberated over proposals for the establishment of an organization to maintain peace and security in the world. Among the representatives were Soviet Ambassador to the United States, Andrei Gromyko (1909–1989); US Secretary of State Cordell Hull (1871–1955); Wellington Koo (1887–1985), Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom; and Edward Wood (the Earl of Halifax) (1872–1959), British Ambassador to the United States, each of whom chaired his respective delegation.
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Having worked alongside founding winemaker and Master of Wine, David Lake, Kerry Norton now oversees the Columbia Winery winemaking, handcrafting Riesling, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah sourced from the Columbia and Yakima Valleys. View all Columbia Winery Wines
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Washington's first appellation, Yakima Valley has over one third of the state's vineyards. The rolling foothills of the Cascades give the vines a good sun angle, so grapes are well-ripened come harvest time. Merlot dominates the plantings here, creating elegant wines with complex fruit, herbs & structure. Syrah continues to grow in popularity, creating blanced wines with spicy black fruit.A few smaller, but notable appellations that lie within or just outside of Yakima Valley include:
Rattlesnake Hills, which gained AVA status in 2006, lies in the north with 17 wineries.
Horse Heaven Hills, another recent sub-appellation hugs the south end of Yakima and is known for its outstanding vineyard sites that create incredible and collectible red wines.
Red Mountain, known for its intense and delicious reds, is located on the eastern side of Yakima Valley.
About Washington
So how does a state known for rain and coffee produce high quality wines? They plant their grapes on the east side of the Cascade mountains, away from that ever-present rain cloud that sits along the coast. Perhaps wine grapes do well since the sandy loam soils east of the Cascade range give way to an almost desert-like land, saved from drought only by the helpful rivers that run through the area – and the good irrigation systems.
Thinking that the state would do best with typical northern growing grapes like Riesling and Gewurtztraminer, turns out the apple state is well-suited for reds, namely Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and, more recently, Syrah. Of course, whites have not been forgotten - Washington State Rieslings range from bone-dry to sweet, are well-structured and high quality, and Chardonnay dominates most of the other white plantings, making a range of wines. But the reds of the region, Merlot in particular, have made Washington State a quality force to be reckoned with.


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Donald Miller: A Story Worth Telling
When Thursday March 21, 2013 @ 7:00 PM (1560 days ago)
Where JMU Memorial Hall
Duration 1 hour 30 minutes
What if there was more to your story than driving to work or walking to class? What if there was more to your story than simply going through the motions day in and day out? What if your story was about something bigger than yourself? Your story is a powerful one and it is worth telling. … Join RISE and others on March 21 as bestselling author, Donald Miller, talks about the power of story.
Admission is FREE but seating is limited.
Meet at 6 p.m. in front of the University Commons main entrance to carpool.
Donald Miller is best known for "saying what we are all feeling,†especially in the realm of Christian spirituality. His candid, disarming style has increased the talkability of our common spiritual longings while decreasing what was a hyper-religious culture. He has had numerous books on the New York Times Bestsellers List including his first hit, Blue Like Jazz that stayed on the list for more than forty weeks.
The concepts in his bestselling book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years have evolved into a life-planning system that has helped thousands organize their lives using the elements of story. Don hosts a conference called Storyline several times a year in various cities where he emphasizes a meaningful life alongside productivity. Corporations have sought Don to help improve the quality of their workplaces and the inter-connectedness of their teams.
In 2012, Don launched an online software package allowing people to go through the Storyline process online, resulting in a shareable, interactive report depicting each participants values, roles, ambitions, anticipated conflict and envisioned climactic scenes.
Don is the founder of Generation One, a national effort to strengthen American families by providing a vision for first-generation patriarchs and matriarchs through a common agreement to become the families we wish we'd grown up in.
Don is the founder of The Mentoring Project, a national organization that provides mentors for children growing up in fatherless homes.
Don served on The Presidential Task Force on Fatherhood and Healthy Families and advised the White House on policy decisions regarding American families.
Donald Miller lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
Intended Audience General Public
Contact Information
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Aw, c'mon! Eleven minutes in and 'steel' is already gone? ;_;
sugarpearls wrote:Aw, c'mon! Eleven minutes in and 'steel' is already gone? ;_;
Yeah, we had very limited quantities of that color. Looks like it was just remaining stock.
The other colors look nice too!
Anyone have these? Are they soft and thick?
Been waiting for these to come back since I bought my 1st set in November, only "Chocolate" was left by the time I got around to ordering. I finally was able to grab the "bamboo" color I originally wanted! These towels are AMAZING!
Gtaz19 wrote:Anyone have these? Are they soft and thick?
Yes to both of your questions.
I always get excited when I see these on Woot, but there's never a bath sheet, so I go away sad. I like 'em big.
You know, I bought a great set of towels from Woot a few months ago. I thought they were the same but mine say Aertex, not Homesource. Specs look the same but I'm not getting out a tape measure. Has the name been changed? They're nice and soft and thick.
I looked up my order for last July and the Order says Homesource but what I received was Aertex. Mods , are these the same towels?
These towels look precisely like the ones I bought back in 2005. The pattern is identical. The tag on mine say, "Exclusively for Fortunoff" (which is where I bought them). Mine are also made in India.
If they are indeed the same, I own the Bamboo collection. I love these towels. Plush, absorbent and the bath towel is plenty big (I'm 5'10") to dry me off. No complaints at all, even 7 1/2 years later and they're still going strong.
robio wrote:I always get excited when I see these on Woot, but there's never a bath sheet, so I go away sad. I like 'em big.
I got these towels via Woot in December 2011. Despite the many (very) good reviews people have posted, I was unfortunately quite disappointed with them. They're better than the 'Grand Patrician' towels I've had for over a decade, but if you're looking for something a fair bit above average, I can't recommend these. They're not nearly as plush or soft as they appear in the pictures and, more importantly, they don't do a very good job drying.
Now I just keep these towels as back-ups, and I've returned to the Calvin Klein towels I've had for about 7 years which are superior to these in virtually every respect. (I think the ones I have are these.)
The difference in the 'pile' of the towels makes the difference (the pile is the small loops of fabric that form the 'hairy' towel surface). The pile in the HomeSource towels is spaced out much further and is shorter such that you can easily see the base of the towel in between the pile. My CK towels have a much denser and longer pile, which seems to give them better absorbancy and plushness.
Also, here's the thread from Nov 2012, and here's the thread from July 2012 when these were also being sold.
mamala53 wrote:You know, I bought a great set of towels from Woot a few months ago. I thought they were the same but mine say Aertex, not Homesource. Specs look the same but I'm not getting out a tape measure. Has the name been changed? They're nice and soft and thick.
I looked up my order for last July and the Order says Homesource but what I received was Aertex. Mods , are these the same towels?
Just took a look at the ones I ordered in 2011. The front of the tag says Aertex but the back says Home Source Intl. I'm guessing "Aertex" is just a branding thing.
I also got out my tape measure...they measure 29"x52", though they're advertised as 30"x54". If I hold them stretched I could make them that big, but when I lay them down flat they're not quite.
I looked these up on Amazon and two bath towels are $90. This is a great deal!
Get your color quick! These always go fast. Love these towels
InterStella wrote:Likewise!
Me, three!
I bought 3 of these towel sets when they were on Woot a few months back. The set is very soft and quite thick! I bought 2 white & 1 gold color set to put up in my wedding gifts closet. I have had 1 of the white sets monogrammed (cost of $10.00) to give to a couple at a Bridal Shower & they turned out absolutely beautiful! They really are very soft, thick & have a high quality luxurious feel to them. Obviously, I've not washed them or used them yet but hopefully they wash up well. I'm actually considering buying 3 more sets to put in my own linen closet as my existing towels are starting to look a bit worn. :-)
Bought 2 sets last time; once I got them, I wished I had bought a set of the Sea Ice. In for 1 set of Sea Ice this time! Very nice quality towels, and a bargain!
bought them last summer or whenever it was and they're mediocre at best.
- not as plush as I had anticipated, just slightly more so than the $12+ department store towels
- more absorbent than those $12 towels
- stitching has started coming apart / fraying in a few small places
Verdict? Overhyped
I bought a set on the last sale and enjoy them, they have a decent thickness to them and have held up well. They're moderately soft, nothing incredibly luxurious, but they're great for what you pay. I'm in for another set this go.
b4tehpwn wrote:I bought a set on the last sale and enjoy them, they have a decent thickness to them and have held up well. They're moderately soft, nothing incredibly luxurious, but they're great for what you pay. I'm in for another set this go.
Ditto! Just had to add that I'm back for another set because my husband and I fight over who gets to use these since one of the two inevitably ends up in the wash. And the bath towels are plenty big,IMHO.
I have a set of these towels at home (and man did I pay a lot more for them than this!) and I love them to death. So soft and absorbent! The only problem is they make my bathrobe that I used to love feel like sandpaper. Treat yourself - you won't be sorry.
I got these in Nov 2012 and think this is a good description of them. They are not "spa quality" but are nice and more absorbent than I thought they would be. I think they are definitely higher quality than what you can find in a local store for anything close to the price. I have a set of thicker microcotton towels from BB&B that I got on clearance (+ a 20% discount) that are larger and thicker, but they were still more expensive than these and these compare well to those towels.
Really soft and comfy, however I am not allowed to have nice things such as this, as I would end up using them to clean up a spill or something.
I ordered these a few months ago when they were last on woot. I have not had the same experience as some of the other posters here who say the towels are "high quality". They are soft, sure, but after the very first wash the pile had started to pull out leaving bald spots on the towel and a bunch of hanging threads. They already look like hell and they've barely been used. Would not recommend.
I LOVE these towels, and they're a great deal compared to regular price. Highly, highly recommend that you snap 'em up now while they're on sale. No issues with deterioration after washing. Soft and lovely. Buy them.
That said, WHYYYYYYY do you never have red, Woot?
Wear red to work!
Wear red at the Olympics!
Wear red to impress your date!
I want to feel like a powerful, sexy, gold-medal-winning high-earner in my towel, Woot! Get on it!
I have these and the bath towels are actually pretty big. None of this barely-covering-your-hoohah nonsense.
I bought a few sets of these a couple months ago and they are great! They are soft and thick and the "bamboo" and "maize" colors are true to the picture. I washed them before using them and didn't have any problems with extra fuzz as some other people. Buy them! They are excellent quality!
There warehouse is located here in Atlanta and they have a warehouse sale every year. Pricing is the same as on Woot so these are a good deal. I love these towels personally and hope that Woot gets their bamboo sheets too!
jlc40 wrote:I have these and the bath towels are actually pretty big. None of this barely-covering-your-hoohah nonsense.
What if one has a tallywacker instead of a hoohah?
craigthom wrote:What if one has a tallywacker instead of a hoohah?
I assume that depends on the length of said tallywacker
Can someone tell me the order of the colors as you scroll through the photos. I don't know which ones are cameo, maize, linen, bamboo. Yes I am colorblind.
Exact same towels. Same manufacturer.
aelness wrote:Can someone tell me the order of the colors as you scroll through the photos. I don't know which ones are cameo, maize, linen, bamboo. Yes I am colorblind.
Each photo is captioned at the bottom with the color.
Not sure what you want in terms of help. Each photo lists its color in the lower left corner.
Wait am I responding to a fake post?
Bought these last time and they are great. Just note that you get two (2) of each towel, washcloth, etc., with each order. I got more than I bargained for last time due to my quick read of the description!
I think some of the previous posters are confusing this towel set with other towel sets that Woot has sold previously.
These towels are THICK, SOFT, and PLUSH! I originally bought a set of these from a dept. store about 7 years ago. I fell in love with them! They are still holding up strong! I would have bought more, but they are so darn expensive in the Dept. store and I had been holding out for a good sale, to no avail.
I was thrilled to see Woot offer them and so I bought several more sets this last summer. They have also held up beautifully and they have maintained their softness, thickness, and plush touch.
I just orders some as gifts.
Do not hesitate to buy these- they are fabulous towels and at a great price!
DO BE AWARE that you CANNOT bleach these- the color will bleach out and bleach will eat through the cotton.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE these.
I now have an overabundance of hand and wash clothes from the Woot sales, but it's totally worth it for the bath towels.
Any chance of offering just bath towels in the future?
Since no one else answered and in case you wanted a description and I have time to waste....
1. Bamboo - Looks like a mossy green color, for lumberjacks and Canadiens I assume, vurry nice
2. Cameo - Handsome warm ivory color. I think this one is for fallen angels and newborn babies. Vurry nice
3. Maize - Corny, harvest color. My favorite, it will match well with the rust on my towel rack. Vurry nice
4. Sea Glass - Soft understated blue with just a whisper of green. Like a shard of a Rolling Rock bottle that was shattered, battered, and bleached by the sea and then picked up by your girlfriend who swears its Tourmaline. Vurry nice
5. White - The absence of color. Make sure you wash your netherregions well because if you don't, it's gonna show up on this towel. Better purchased by virgins and those "I-use-white-towels-because-it-makes-me-feel-like-I'm-in-a-hotel-while-on-vacation" type of people. Vurry nice.
6. Chocolate - darker than milk, but lighter than those bitter dark chocolate bars. Remember what I said about white towels? If you hastily scrub the dark side of your moons, reach for this towel, no one will know your true filth. Vurry nice.
7. Linen - Like Maize and White are married but Maize is cheating on White with Cameo because he's Latin and Maize gets pregnant and has Linen but tells White it's his and he can't really tell and so accepts it his own but never really treats Linen with the deep love and support it deserved - but at least he knows it's not Chocolate's baby! Vurry nice.
8. Steel - Sold out, you're not getting it anyway unless you're a thief or internet ninja but if you were you probably already have this color towels since they look smokey. I don't trust these towels. But still vurry nice.
9. Comparison picture - to show us how fluffy these towels are compared to those who have not these towels. We will from now on call them "normies" Don't be a normie
I wasn't sold at first, but the more I use them they better they get. Had to wash and dry them (without fabric softener) about 5 times before they started to get really absorbent and soft, but now I love em!
jearly0000 wrote:Since no one else answered and in case you wanted a description and I have time to waste....
LOL. Great color descriptions!
And for those who were confused.... The color names don't display when you're on a mobile device -- or at least they don't on my iPhone, so I assume the original questioner has the same problem.
I'm adding a vote for bath sheets! I would really love a nice deep mediterranean blue/teal (Amazon had this gorgeous color until they discontinued their 800-gram towels), but I could also use chocolate, white, sage, or yellow (not all in the same bathroom).


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Before I commit to any materials for a scratch build i wanted to get some overall input and reviews of my plan. I want to do a RotJ Fett. For my first setup, as long as this isn't a futile endevor (I'd like it to be 501st material if possible with scratch stuff) I want to avoid buying completed stuff but I would like to still retain some accuracy. Painting doesn't worry me, neither does the actual fabrication. I do plan to upgrade to a decent set of armor (probably from BobaMaker) in time when money allows.
I plan to start with some WoF templates which I've already downloaded.
Then do AFettFulloDollars Trash Can armor. I can't seem to find anyone selling molds (I can find anyway) for Sintra body armor and shaping by hand seems a bit too unreasonable so trash can Fett seems to be the way for the budget minded.
This can cover all the armor pieces save the knees which I can't seem to find a decent scratch build for but with WoF temps I could splurge for some sintra and go crazy. Maybe do something like what Ronin677 did.
Helmet, I'd like to do something like what Digifett did here...
Does anyone have any suggestions on integrating possibly a rangefinder LED circuit in a scratch helm or is that even worth my time?
Boots I will probably do similar to Silver Fett's here...
Gloves will involve some simple sewing which I think I can manage.
I slow down at this point because I can't seem to find an easy way to cheat with the jumpsuit and flak vest, atleast without a lot of stitching. I also can't seem to find too much information on good scratch builds for the gaultlets. I'm thinking plastic sheets and some tedious bit by bit modeling might be the only answer.
Jet Pack and the EE-3 I'll do after I get all this done, same with the detail bits like the tools, scalps, and cape.


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Social Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics of Aging (R01)
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) issues this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) with special review to stimulate interdisciplinary aging-relevant research in the social, affective and economic neurosciences. The NIA invites applications examining social, emotional and economic behaviors of relevance to aging, using approaches that examine mechanisms and processes at both (a) the social, behavioral or psychological (emotional, cognitive, motivational) level, and (b) the neurobiological or genetic level. Proposals are encouraged that have an overriding emphasis on economic, social or emotional processes and associated genetic or neurobiological processes. Applications should demonstrate either relevance for aging or for age differences or age-related changes in these processes. Aging-relevant applications can address issues of importance to the well-being and health of either mid-life or older adults, and can include data spanning the entire life course.
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Gregorio Associate, Equity Capital Markets Investment Banking Division, São Paulo
I really like what I do at the moment and it would not surprise me if I kept doing this for the next ten to fifteen years or so.
I studied business management in college, and when I had to choose among different areas of focus, I chose finance, both corporate and financial markets. This helped me get my first job, at the equity research department of another American investment bank.
Soon, I realized I wanted a more active and dynamic day-to-day job in this same area of interest (capital markets). I thought that investment banking could provide me with this, because it puts you in touch with multiple sectors covering a large range of different corporate clients. I knew from some friends in college that the internship program at Goldman Sachs was very interesting therefore, it was definitely one of my first choices.
Getting Started at Goldman Sachs
I was nervous, like any other intern on his first day, but I was lucky to start in the middle of a very calm (and atypical) week. My boss had a lot of time to explain everything I needed know about the company and my day-to-day job, and was able to introduce me to everybody.
Working in Investment Banking
Our business is basically to study the client and the market and to propose, from a wide range of alternatives, the best one to solve a specific issue or take advantage of an opportunity. One must be creative to outline the potential alternatives, and even more creative to pick the best of them. In Equity Capital Markets, we propose equity-linked alternatives for companies, to help them finance growth, improve their capital structures, allow shareholders to sell their stakes, etc.
It's exciting for me to see how the work I'm doing is having an impact on the financial markets and the local economy. For example, we worked on the largest equity offering ever, a follow-on issue of a large Brazilian oil and gas company. The proceeds from this large offering were used to finance the exploration of large oil blocks in the Brazilian coast, creating lots of direct jobs and helping the country's economy as a whole to grow.
I really like what I do at the moment (basically trying to originate and execute equity offerings for Brazilian companies), and it would not surprise me if I kept doing this for the next ten to fifteen years or so.
Teamwork is very important in the Investment Banking Division, where you have teams built for every different project that comes up. It is important that you know how to deal with this kind of dynamic environment, and that you realize that this can be a very important opportunity to learn with senior and more experienced people at the firm. It is also a very good opportunity for you to show your best skills and improve them.


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New W.Va. High School Opens its Doors
On Wednesday, parents and officials gathered to dedicate the new educational institution.
The future of many families and students will be at the new
"This is a pretty unique situation for them. It's going to be down the road. We should be expecting that now, but it's a pretty unique situation to go to a newer school, state of the art facility, that tax payers have funded, and it's a beautiful facility," said Mark Barney, a Berkeley County Resident.
"It's really nice to have a new facility, where kids can go, not be so crowded and a new place to be proud of, to represent the county well, so that's really nice," said Katelyn Barney, a Berkeley County Resident.
Many parents who live in the area have the same sentiments. Wednesday was the official opening of the new
"It's a complete green building, energy efficient, more than that it's a great place. Students will going here, to a great education. You can see the pride in the peoples' faces, and how proud they are to have this new school," said Governor Earl Ray Tomblin.
"The thing that excites me the most about this building is the instructional opportunity with the technology. The collaborative stages we have set through out this building, fine arts, athletics, great academics, it has it all," said Manny Arvon, Superintendent of Berkeley County schools.
For many parents, they will no longer have to drive to Martinsburg or
"This is incredible opportunity for both of my children, coming in for the first year of the school. We are extremely excited that we don't have to be driving 20 minutes to go pick them up from practice. It was just constantly running last year," said Ginger Wolford, a Berkeley County Resident.
School officials said they will be offering tours to the public next Monday from to 8 p.m. The following Monday will be the first day of classes.
According to school officials, 950 students from 9th to 11th grade will be attending the high school this school year. In 2014, the student body population will increase by 350 with the addition of that freshman class.
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Merry Christmas to you. Enjoy the new weapon. It sounds like you are well on your way to a very satisfying shooting experiance.
Congrats many happy years of shooting!
This is my 2nd post on this forum. I am glad I have found such community.
I will tell you about my 1st trip to the range (indoor) with this Bersa Thunder9 Pro (full size) that I just got from Academy this Sunday. Price paid: $370 (I am sure it could be had for cheaper on the net but it was such an easy way to purchase from Academy).
The gun does not come with a nice box, but it comes fairly clean (some oil on it, as expected for a new gun), with two 17 rounds mags, a lock and a short documentation (also available on the net at www.bersa.com.ar).
Note that the weight of this model is about 30 ounces, a little bit heavier than what the doc says about the Thunder 9 (there is no available specific doc for the Pro model that I know of).
I did not have any expectation for the 1st session, I went just to get the gun some break in. So I shot 90 rounds of local 115 gr (cheapest rounds sold by 50 at the range, can't tell the brand, never heard of before), 50 Winchester NATO (124 gr, +10% pressure, still lower than +P), 10 hollow points (better quality brand, 115 grain HPs) ... started mainly with the local stuff, some NATO, the cheap stuff again, 5 hollow rounds and so on ... to see how between the 3 kind of ammo I would do.
No problem with feeding, shooting or extracting ... in fact no issue of any kind with the cheapest and cheap ammo I had available. This is very nice especially compared to some other pistols I had the opportunity to shoot or to be trained with.
The HPs were my concern, but no issue here. I will have to experiment more with them as 10 rounds is not enough to say much about them.
I have my routine that I acquired and got used to at the French Air Force during my service:
1. Shoot 5 rounds then check and refill a mag (that way I use both and they both worked flawlessly today).
2. Shoot 5 more with a mag with 10 rounds, use the safety mechanisms on the gun, taking my time to get used to all of it (decocking with the safety (never the trigger!), removing the mag, emptying the chamber, put the round back in the mag, ...).
On the safety topic, the T9 Pro is a very simple no non-sense gun, with every feature working smoothly, and everything easy to see or feel, like the "round in the chamber" indicator on the top and so on ...
it took me about 1 hour to shoot my 150 rounds. I did not go slow - just the pace that is right for me to shoot right with a brand new gun that I need to get used to.
I shot my 1st 5 rounds at ... 7 yards. everything was grouped in a 3" diameter circle so I moved to 15 yards for the rest of the session.
A nice Bersa T9 pro feature that I have to work on is the double action. It takes some time to get used to the trigger and feel the shot as I would like. It will come with the time. Every 5 rounds I shot, I started with DA. In that mode the trigger course is ... long ... and it will take some training to avoid stoping too early, or go too fast ... I need to develop the feel for this mode.
In Single Action, despite the fact the gun is new, I felt that the trigger was just right and almost light but not too much (I had 1 round that went and surprised me but that is it). It probably is the reason why my shots were fairly grouped; even with the HPs, it was right where I wanted them to be.
I could not say that the kind of ammo I used had much influence on the grouping due to such short distance. I constantly put all my 5 rounds in a 6" or smaller circle. To me, for a 1st time, after a very long period (years) without shooting, it is very good. Next time I will try to shoot at 30 yards, which is the longest distance I was trained to shoot at with a pistol.
What was very satisfying was the recoil. Very easy to manage with the 115gr, easy to manage with the NATO loads. I shot without having any kind of fatigue or pain at any moment.
Very satisfying as well, the BANG - not super loud like to the guns of 2 guys shooting next to me - louder with the NATO, then the HPs, then the cheapest ammo.
The grip is nice, maybe just a little bit smaller would have been perfect for my hand, but I believe it is the price to pay for the 17 rounds mags. I am too old to grow bigger hands at this point of my life anyway.
Maybe I can find some way to get a smaller handle for this gun. But it is absolutely not a problem, so I will not look for it.
About the ammo I used, I have to admit I trust the well known USA production. I like Winchester, however I will not get the NATO loads anymore (unless it is the only best available rounds at that time). Regular load 115 gr. is more than enough for target shooting. On my way back, I stopped by Walmart and grabbed 100 Winchester 9mm 115gr regular rounds for $20 that I will use for my next hour at the range. It is the cheapest known brand I could find so far.
Sorry for the long post - Bottom line is that for what I have paid for this gun, it is a fantastic one. I am very happy with my acquisition. I believe I have found a dependable gun that I will enjoy (time will tell) for some good time. If I don't shoot right, it is probably the Indian, not the arrow with such a nice pistol.
Thanks for reading - If anyone on this forum has any recommendation of any kind, please let me know.
Merry Christmas to you all.
Merry Christmas to you. Enjoy the new weapon. It sounds like you are well on your way to a very satisfying shooting experiance.
Congrats many happy years of shooting!
Vincent, thanks for the detailed analysis. I had never considered a Bersa until I started reading some of the posts. The price is definitely right and I think the quality is good, especially after reading your post. I hope you have a Merry Christmas as well.
vlasfarg, welcome to the forum.
I am on my third Bersa pistol. Started with the Bersa Thunder 380 but wanted a 9mm so I sold the 380 and got the Firestorm/Bersa Mini9mm same gun as the Bersa Thunder UC9.
Was very happy with it but my sister asked me to sell it to her because the slide spring on it was light enough that she could work it without any troubles, so I sold it to her and bought a Bersa 9mm Pro. And like you have been 100% happy with it. Your price was about 70.00 less than I paid but I still think it was worth the price.
Bersas are great guns, they just get no advertising here in the US and that is (IMHO) why hardly anyone knows about them.
Which is good for us because if more people did know the prices would probably go up quite a bit.
Have fun with your new pistol and Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Just wait untill you get 4-5 hundred rounds through it!! It gets better yet I am sure you will enjoy this weapon more every time you use it. Good shooting and keep us informed.
I have now shot 575 rounds with this gun, and it definitely is better now.
It eats without issue every brass cased ammo I feed it with, and I did not use anything else.
Now my grouping improved too - I put every rounds in a 4" circle. This gun is a keeper for me.
one more good thing about the Bersa 9mm, they are ready to go right out of the box...no break-in required.
I find it hard to believe any machine does not require some sort of breaking in.
I could not strap a Bersa on after I took it out of the box and loaded a mag but never shot it......no matter what the recomended break in time is. I guess I'm just silly that way.
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Romney to walk into the lion's den; plans trip, speeches abroad
posted at 12:33 pm on July 21, 2012 by Howard Portnoy
In July of 2008, Barack Obama gave a speech at the Victory Column in Berlin to establish his bona fides as a prospective world leader and diplomat, a man at ease among kings and counselors.
At the time, the decision by an American presidential candidate to hold what was essentially a campaign rally on foreign soil struck some people as odd. None was more nonplussed than German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was perhaps still reeling from the initial planned site of the speech, the Brandenburg Gate, which had provided a backdrop for Ronald Reagan's historic 1987 "tear down this wall" speech.
That was four years ago. The question now is how Mitt Romney will fare during and following his own speeches abroad.
You read right. The Associated Press reports that the GOP candidate plans on lifting a chapter out of candidate Obama's playbook next week, when he "travels to England, Israel and Poland looking to establish credibility as a potential commander in chief":
For the Republican presidential hopeful—a former private equity executive and Massachusetts governor with little formal experience overseas—it's a chance to demonstrate competence in settings often occupied by presidents. He'll hold formal meetings with foreign leaders, give public speeches and visit historic sites.
Aides say it's a chance for the candidate to forge links with strong U.S. allies and show that he'll stand up for shared values.
There's also risk: Romney, sometimes prone to misstatements, faces higher stakes wading into delicate diplomatic disputes than he does on the more familiar campaign trail at home. And executing a complicated trip through three countries over a weeklong span presents the most difficult logistical challenge Romney's campaign has yet faced.
As a past corporate executive, Romney should know better. He should be aware that the best place to acquire foreign policy credentials is not out in the "field" but inside the "boardroom," where the only audience for any missteps will be his advisers.
It is true that foreign policy is one area in which Romney is still viewed as lagging behind the president. A CBS/New York Times poll this week found Obama ahead by 7 percentage points, 47% to Romney's 40%. But the same poll also showed Romney ahead for the first time, if by a hair, in the more important question of who the respondent supports in the upcoming election.
The AP article notes that "Romney plans to outline his foreign policy vision in a speech Tuesday to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Reno, Nev., before flying to London and the Olympic Games. He goes to Israel from there and finishes in Poland. While abroad, he plans major speeches in Jerusalem and Warsaw, though advisers say he'll steer clear of outlining specific policy proposals in those addresses."
Smart money dictates that the trip should not only begin with the Reno speech but end with it. If Romney does go ahead with his plans to speak on the world stage, one can only hope he will resists bowing to his peers abroad.
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So much fun! Took only a short time to feel confident again even tho not having been kite surfing for 2y.
Seriously, if you have the opportunity to try this as you summer sports, try! So much fun to glide over the water, feel the wind, the force of the kite... yay!
yay! Wind! The colorful water ballet has startet
So much fun! Took only a short time to feel confident again even tho not having been kite surfing for 2y.
Seriously, if you have the opportunity to try this as you summer sports, try! So much fun to glide over the water, feel the wind, the force of the kite... yay!
Next try... been a while since we last let a kite fly. Soooo back to start and back to the mtn lake with reliable thermic.
The long drive there whith its passes is already scenic
winding roads up n down
highest point reached, now down to the lake
sweet spot to put ones tent - some snowfields still remaining from last winter in the background
Pristine water comming directly from the melting snow - yep, it's as cold as it looks
and... waiting for the wind which is supposed to chime in at 2pm...
Last two days, the wind was only mellow, too hot to have proper thermic. Only the ones with hydrofoil boards were able to surf - looks so funny when they rise and "hoover" on the air. Ha, gonna take some years till I'll be able to try such a wobbly thingy.
Let's hope, today will be a good one. Can't wait to get back on a board
Does look fun but think ill stick to the snow haha
They don't do much kite boarding here but they do quite a bit of
kite buggying.
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Of those two videos you posted, that is some scary air time the guy in second video is getting, all in all it looks great fun, I might have to give it a try one day.
Will def. try snowkiting next season. Got some good spots here for it. And I read about an operator at spots close to Anchorage and Valdez so if I ever get an answer from them, I might add this to the trip next April.
|Of those two videos you posted, that is some scary air time the guy in second video is getting, all in all it looks great fun, I might have to give it a try one day.
So... got my 4th day lessons in water with board with stable winds and today managed to not only stay stable on the board but also to run hight and play with the edges. Funniest thing: I'm better riding switch than regular . So I'm officially low intermediate kisurfer (got the VDWS level 4 stamp). As happy as I'm with this fast advancement (allows me to rent material and go by my own without having to hire an instructor), I'm also a bit uhm... worried. Without this orange west marking me as noob and allowing to mess around in the noob area, I'll have to ride at the same spot as ALL the others outside the "protected" area, and there are MANY of them others
And not all of them actually know, what their doing... kite control is key if you have literally hundreds of people in the same spot. Well, together with the promotion came a nice new scar, cos one of these out of control kites crashed and hit me with one of the leashes in the face. Nice... got many scars from sports but managed somehow to get the face out of it till today.
Anyway, very happy, the feeling of trashing over the water is so great! it's rather effortless for the arms compared to windsurfing or wakeboarding. The kite and the harness are doing most of the work. You only got some grams in your fingers. Actually, you can steer the kite with two fingers. Big advantage of being a girl and being light is that you can use smaller kites for the same amount of wind as a heavier guy. And smaller kites are much livelier, react faster. A very woman-friendly sport to all the girls here: try it! But get proper lessons and learn the basics. Kite control! An out of control kite hitting people is no fun.
|SOOOOOOOO beautiful
Today I love...
... waking up, crawling out of the tent and being welcomed by this sight
Bank holiday, fled the insane heat in the flatlands. Up here at 1800m its only 26°C and the advantage of the stable high pressure weather are stable thermic winds.
4hrs drive to the end of the world and then no wind. gosh... the hardest thing with learning to kitesurf is learning to be patient!
Another weekend, another 5hrs drive to this mountain surf lake and finally lucky with the weather The school there is very professional, we finally get a proper introduction. Lessons started with a lot of theory about wind windows and cryptic sailing language. I can't even distinguish left from right, how am I supposed to ever get this new definitions...
Anyway... as soon as I had the kite actually in my hands, it gets better. Steering works fine. So much fun to try to direct this huge powerful sail with tiny movements of the fingers. Ok, after proofing that one has the kite under control, allowed to enter the water (without board) and go crazy. Aim: Pull the kite into the power zone (where it has the most wind pressure) and find out what happens unbelievable, how much force even a small schooling kite has. It pulled me completely out of the water and some seconds it was like flying. Then flat on the watersurface and lots of gulps. If you ever try this, remember to keep your mouth closed and don't yell!
Next day: now with a board! Yea! Instructions: let yourself drag 1.5 leash lengths into the lake and then try to get on the board, direction further into the lake. Uhm... that's the WRONG direction... that's switch! I'm the most untalented person on earth if it comes to riding the WRONG direction . Well, you can't change wind direction and geographic location.
Ok... control the kite, drag, check kite, don't get disturbed by the hundreds (ok, I'm exaggerating. About 70) other kiters rushing past, check kite again, grab the board, oooooh... don't forget to control the kite. Swallow the water, grab board again WHILE controling the kite. Enter the bindings, last suspicious look at the duck stances and the direction, hell, it will work somehow. last deep breath and pull the kite into the power zone
Now comes the part where the emotions went from yeeeeea (2m riding ON the water, SWITCH) to brrrrlp (submarine). Do not ever pull the bar to your body and forget to let go. And don't think a kiteboard rides like a snowboard. Well, at some point they do: catching edges is an issue again. Scorpioned flat several times
Advantage of mountain lake: sweet water. I swallowed huge amounts of water that day. Disadvantage: unpredictable weather. A thunder storm lead to an abrupt end of the fun. We'll be there again in two weeks!
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February 4, 2013
You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
Daily, from 02/04/2013 to 02/05/2013, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
BC Theatre's Sunday, February 3 presentation of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" has been canceled due to inclement weather. Additional performances have been scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, February 4-5 at 7:30 p.m. in Harman Chapel.
BC theatre students presented the Broadway hit musical Thursday through Saturday, January 31 through February 2, despite deteriorating weather conditions, but for the sake of safety and as a result of declining attendance, organizers decided to cancel the Sunday matinee, originally scheduled for 2 p.m., and offer two additional opportunities for audiences to view the play on Monday, February 4 and Tuesday, February 5 at 7:30 p.m. in Harman Chapel.
Based on the legendary comic strip "Peanuts" by Charles Schulz, BC's performances of "Charlie Brown" will take place at 7:30 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, January 31 through February 2, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, February 3.
All shows will take place inside BC's Harman Chapel Auditorium. Admission for each performance will be $10 for adults and $5 for non-BC students and senior citizens.
With music, lyrics and script written by composer and lyricist Carl Gesner, "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown!" presents an average day in the life of Charlie Brown and his childhood friends, including Lucy's infatuation with Schroeder and her perverse joy at tormenting Charlie Brown; Linus' love of his blanket; Snoopy's rich world of imagination; and, of course, Charlie Brown's hopeless pursuit of love and happiness.
The Bluefield College rendition of the production will feature a small, select cast of BC music and theatre majors. Senior music major Josh King of Fredericksburg, Virginia, will play CharlieBrown, the kind and generous five-year-old who lacks self-confidence and succeeds at very little, despite his can-do attitude. King's other BC stage appearances include Curly in "Oklahoma," Paul Bratter in "Barefoot in the Park," and the King in "Big River." King will also serve as music director for "Charlie Brown."
Senior theatre major Katherine Santschi, also of Fredericksburg, will play the crabby, cynical eight-year-old bully, Lucy. Santschi has appeared as Ado Annie in BC Theatre's "Oklahoma," Corrie in "Barefoot in the Park," and an American frontier daughter in "Quilters." In addition to her role in the cast, Santschi will serve as choreographer for "Charlie Brown."
Mindy Blume of Forest Hill, West Virginia, a double major in theatre and music, will play the role of Charlie Brown's dog, Snoopy, who demonstrates more wisdom and human qualities than the people around him. BC audiences have enjoyed Blume in past productions as Laurie in "Oklahoma" and Miss Watson in "Big River."
Music major Jonathan Penn of Martinsville, Virginia, will play Lucy's brother, Linus, the mild mannered child who always carries a blanket as his security and comfort. Penn's previous roles with BC Theatre have included "Judd" in Oklahoma and Jim in "Big River."
Theatre major Bobby Hall of Princeton, West Virginia, will play Schroeder, a virtuoso toy-piano-playing, Beethoven-obsessed blond boy. While Lucy is infatuated with him, he sees her mainly as a nuisance. Hall's previous work on the BC stage includes Huck in "Big River," George in "Our Town," and Motel in "Fiddler on the Roof."
Music student Kara O'Neal of Tannersville, Virginia, will play Sally, the laid-back, philosophical younger sister of Charlie Brown. O'Neal made her first appearance with BC Theatre last fall in "Big River."
BC's presentation of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" will be directed by theatre professors Charles Reese and Rebecca McCoy-Reese, who say the production is "warm" and "glowing."
"This will be a very different kind of show for our musical audiences," said Reese. "Unlike our other musicals, like 'Oklahoma' or 'Big River,' this is a small, intimate show, but that's what makes it so special. It's like the cast is singing right to you. It makes you feel good -- all warm and glowing on the inside. And, in a winter in Bluefield, warm and glowing is a very good thing.
For more information about "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" or other BC Theatre productions this winter or spring, contact the Theatre Department by e-mail at or by phone at 276-326-4244 or 276-326-4213.


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I've been a Fett addict since I can remember. I tried building a Beskar'gam a few years back and opted for the Rubies. Alas, it was a waste of money. I'm looking at building one partly from scratch while attempting to use some of the Rubie peices. I'm wanting to incorporate my job and some of my adventurous hobbies into the suit. Thanks to my job I'm bouncing around the world, but alas I believe I can end up with a pretty suit Beskar'gam.
I haven't seen a lot of electronics work beyond lights or an RF servo. Anyone know of any other electrical set ups they've seen?